LONDON - Mainstream news broadcasters are airing user generated content from Bambuser's live video service to bring audiences breaking news from areas of conflict that has restricted media access, says its Executive Chairman, Hans Eriksson. Speaking of the Syrian conflict, Eriksson adds that the service gives activists a voice, while allowing larger news publishers to have up-to-date coverage for audiences at [...]

LONDON - The Financial Times video offering is a sort of a "shop stall" for audiences who are less savy about the paper and a way to bring them into the fold, says Global Video Editor, Josh de la Mare, in this interview with Beet.TV In keeping with the paper's niche coverage, the site's videos analyze business, finance and politics, in [...]

PARIS - Ooyala, the U.S. based provider of digital video services, has raised $35 million in a new investment round, the company's biggest single raise.   For an explanation of the proceeds of the round, which was lead by Australia's Telstra, we spoke with co-founder and CTO Sean Knapp at the UbiQ conference earlier today in Paris. In this conversation, he explains the [...]

Exposure to earned and paid media on Facebook can change consumer purchase behavior, comScore's latest white paper, The Power Of Like,' finds. People that were exposed to Starbucks, fans and friends of fans translated to a lift in offline purchase says comScore's Media Evagelist, Eli Goodman, in this video interview with Beet.TV As a platform that accounts for one in every seven minutes spent [...]

PARIS -- UbiQ, a new digital media and entertainment conference will debut in Paris this  coming week with several highlevel speakers including Randi Zuckerberg, Machinima's Allen DeBevoise, Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp and some 60 others who will be part of the conference at the historic Palais Brongnairt. I am doing a "masterclass" on Monday at 12:30 with Amina Belghiti, [...]

Autoplay works best on video pages rather than article pages, say Taboola's CEO, Adam Singolda, at Beet.TV's recent video news strategy session. Publishers addressing the challenges of driving traffic and video views, should look to YouTube's video player to establish a successful platform that will attract marketers says Singolda. In this video interview, at MSNBC.com's New York offices, he explains the key [...]

FOX's American Idol ranked top in Optimedia's fifth annual Content Power Ratings, which measures performance across televisions, computers, smart phones and tablets, says its Executive Vice President and Business Development Director, Greg Kahn, in this video interview with Beet.TV The report's metrics uncover a new trend in the way people interact with their favorite television shows, telling content producers that while audiences execute [...]

LONDON - Livestation has signed aggreement with the BBC, Sky News and Euronews to bring this bundle of news channels to digital consumers in the U.S. and  Canada, says CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this inteview with Beet.TV The package will be offered for a monthly fee of $4.99. In other news, he tells Beet.TV in this interview that the company has launched [...]

LONDON -About half of online video impressions in the United Kingdom in the first quarter came from the categories of consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and financial services, according to a study of nearly 300 million online video ad impressions by technology provider Videology. We spoke to Jana Eisenstein, the company's managing director in the UK for more details on the analysis [...]

Increasing discoverabilty for online video, using metadata, will increase traffic and drive business opportunities forward say news publishers at Beet.TV's recent video news strategy session. The Boston Globe will create more long tale content for the publisher's channels and YouTube, in hopes of driving more traffic says, its VP for Digital Products, Jeff Moriarty. MSNBC.com's Executive Producer, Stokes Young says the company [...]

Online video news does not need to meet the manicured production demands of television, says video news panel at Beet.TV's  video news strategy session. Reuters' Head of Global Programming, Dan Colarusso and The Wall Street Journal's Digital Network Video Director, Rahul Chopra, both agree that online video news differs from its traditional, more upscale big brother: broadcast news, seen at times, to [...]

The Wall Street Journal and Reuters are leveraging mobile devices and reformating online video content to create a more streamlined brand of video journalism that audiences can identify with, says WSJ's Video Director, Rahul Chopra and Reuters' Head of Global Programming, Dan Colarusso, at Beet.TV's video news strategy session. Speaking of the technological challenges ahead, both organizations voiced the need to [...]

Online video broadens audience engagement and establishes print news organizations as a stronger competitor in local markets, but it requires a significant investment of time for consumers says a panel of news executives at Beet.TV's video news strategy session. Describing the value of video to print legacy companies such as The Wall Street Journal, its Director of Video Rahul Chopra says [...]

Half of The Wall Street Journal's video views are coming sites other than its own says Alisa Bowen, General Manager for the paper's digital network, in this interview with Beet.TV Syndicating video content to sites such as Apple TV, AOL On/5Min and YouTube is an important part of the growth strategy, she explains. The WSJ Digital Network, which comprises of MarketWatch, Barron's [...]

Chicago-based startup, Clearstream, launched new software, Clearview to help advertisers better measure the impact of online videos on target consumers. It is the first ever technology to help publishers and brands understand and categorize video content, based on the accoustics, audio and objects that live within the stream, says Founder and CEO, Brian Mandelbaum. In March, comScore indicated that online video advertisement views topped eight [...]

The Wall Street Journal, which has been expanding its daily live video programming to more than five hours, with a show from New York and a new one from Hong Kong, will debut a weekly live show from the paper's DC bureau, says Rahul Chopra, Director of Video at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, in this interview with Beet.TV The [...]

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation engine, which serves up videos on publishers' web pages, will soon be operational on Apps and the mobile web, says CEO Adam Singolda in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him last week at the Beet.TV video news session at MSNBC.com in New York. Singolda says the company is working with 300 publishers and  [...]

Journalism students need to learn how to specialize, while being able to adapt says Craig Duff, Journalism Professor at Medill Northwestern University, in this video interview with Beet.TV Despite news being published on multiple platforms, he says that very few people are expected to write a long form story, shoot the photographs, edit a video and tweet about it. The university's undergraduate [...]

SpotXchange's latest ad skipping service, 'SkipIt,' which charges consumers a small fee to skip ads, will soon allow audiences to earn free skips, in exchange for engagement with a brand on its desired platform, says Michael Shehan, President and CEO, in this video interview with Beet.TV In practice this means, if a brand is seeking to increase its 'likes' on Facebook, [...]

The duPont-Columbia University Awards, is soliciting submissions from broadcast, digital and documentary journalists covering stories in the public interest, says director, Abi Wright, in this interview with Beet.TV   Typically, awards are given out every year to news publishers who demonstrate quality reporting and storytelling on a high public impact story. Previous winners include BBC America and BBC World News America for its coverage [...]