PLAINVIEW, NY - NeuLion, the digital video services company based on Long Island, New York, with offices in Canada, China and the U.K. has been selected by China's main national broadcaster, CNTV, to stream over 5600 hours of live and on-demand video of the London 2012 Olympics. This is the first time that HD quality, premium video has been widely streamed [...]

LONDON -   Dublin-based Storyful, a new  sort of "wire service" which authenticates and curates "crowd-sourced" journalism for big media customers including The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters and YouTube, quickly identified authoritative "citizen" journalists and local news sources in the aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Last month in London at our journalism summit, we spoke the Mark Little, Storyful [...]

LONDON - State-supported, English-language  Russia Today (RT) and Iran's Press TV are building a "loyal following" via the live news aggregator Livestation, says the company's CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this segement from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times. The London-based company takes the satellite feeds of several international broadcasters and delivers them globally via a Web site [...]

Dailymotion, the giant Paris-based Web video portal has launched a "white label" product, offering publishers a custom platform to distibute and monetize video on the Web and across multiple digital devices. Roland Hamilton, head of Dailymotion in the United States, says in this interview that the product, Dailymotion Cloud, is aimed to the "95 percent" of Web publishers who need a [...]

LONDON -- Seeking more commercial opportunities and an audience not necessarily driven by breaking news, CNN has been producing a range of Web original programming from branded, advertiser-centric content to editorial projects, says Pete Bale, GM of CNN Digital International, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the headquarters of the Financial Times. Andy Plesser    

As automated buying of digital video advertising becomes more widely adopted, it will eventually disrupt the conventional structure of the television marketplace, says analyst Ashley Swartz, former head of the interactive television practice at Digitas, now principal of the New York-based consultancy Furious Minds. Swartz referenced a new Forrester report commissioned by TubeMogul on Real-Time Bidding (RTB) which was published today. Editor's [...]

EMMERYVILLE, CA -- (via Skype Video) Media buyers and brands are turning to real-time bidding (RTB) more often for video, says Forrester Research in a new report on the real-time market, releasing today. Beet.TV spoke to Keith Eadie, VP of Marketing at online video ad platform TubeMogul, which commissioned the study, about the growth in this marketplace. RTB for video has been growing [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (via Skye Video) - Adobe Systems  has created an app for the NBC Olympics coverage of the London Olympics to stream thousands of hours of live programming onto tablets and mobile devices of U.S. broadband subscribers. In an industry milestone for the so-called TV Everywhere initiative, some subscribers will be able to sign onto the app automatically, without entering [...]

LONDON - The Guardian has been serviing 5-10 million monthly video views, says Stephen Folwell Director, Business Development and Brand Extensions for Guardian News & Media, in this segment from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times. The paper's Facebook presence, which hosts the Guardian video player, has driven as much as 50 percent of the video views. [...]

LONDON - Today, the BBC Worldwide announced that net profits were up 13 percent over last year up to 155GBP.  Digital sales has risen to from to 13 percent of net sales, up from 8 percent the year before, the company said in a separate announcement about its digital business. One of the big drivers of consumption of the BBC's digital [...]

The concept of "platform agnosticism," the notion that legacy media companies must have their content on all digital outlets is "completely wrong," says NBC News Chief Digital Officer Vivian Schiller in this session excerpt from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat. The former General Manager of the NYTimes.com and CEO of NPR says that legacy media companies need to craft an experience around [...]

LONDON -- As brands are increasingly becoming publishers, the marketplace for video news on corporate sites is growing quickly, says Greg Beitchman, Head of Multimedia for Thomson Reuters , in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at headquarters of the Financial Times. Beitchman speaks about the necessity of Reuters and other news agencies to develop new syndication strategies. Andy Plesser

LONDON -- YouTube has become a "seven figure" business for the Associated Press says Sandy MacIntyre, Vice President and Director of International Video News, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the headquarters of the Financial Times. The AP channel on YouTube, launched in 2006, recently crossed over the 1 billion views, making it the most popular video [...]

LONDON - Demand from advertisers to run pre-roll ads on BBC News online video far outpaces editorial inventory by a four-to-one ratio, says Andrew Roy, Head of News, BBC World News, in this segment from our recent video journalism event at the headquarters of the Financial Times. This demand for video content has lead to the news organization to "actively putting [...]

PARIS -- Brazil is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with heavy television consumption, but digital video delivered via the Internet is limited due to lack of bandwidth, smart phones and and a dearth of IP-connected devices says Roberto Schmidt, head of digital for Globo TV, Brazil's biggest broadcaster. We caught up with him last month in Paris [...]

LONDON -- Facebook has proven to be an effective mechanism for discovering video especially as the social service has become a VOD-like destination, says Luke Gaydon, VP Operations, EMEA at Brightcove during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit at the BBC Worldwide.  The BBC in particular has pursued interesting Facebook strategies, such as offering full-length episodes of "Dr. Who" to be puchased [...]

LONDON -- The Android platform will likely be the dominant viewing platform for mobile video in the future, Sean Knapp, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at online video technology firm Ooyala, says during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit at the BBC Worldwide. That's important for developers and programmers to keep in mind, especially given the heavy focus on Apple's iPhone [...]

Media industry consultant/publisher/authorJack Myers says that the VC-funded runway for most of 12,000 digital media start-ups is running out and there will be major consolidation over the next 36 months, in this inteview with Beet.TV He says that as  few as 10 percent of the current crop will survive following a buying binge by the big media conglomerates. Today, in what could [...]

LONDON -- Connected TVs and the Xbox in particular are driving a significant number of views for video-sharing site Dailymotion, says Daniel Adams, VP International Content, during the recent Beet.TV Global Video Summit at the BBC Worldwide.  The Xbox syndication deal to deliver Dailymotion content via an app kicked in late last year and is already paying off for the video giant. "With the [...]

BOSTON -- The presence of tags and transcripts in and accompanying video on the Web can drive engagement rates by anywhere from 40% to 300%, says Tom Wilde, CEO of content optimization platform RAMP. Beet.TV caught up with Wilde for a discussion of the growth of metadata in video and how it's driving ad opportunities. In addition to engagement rates, rich [...]