Web star Curtis Paradis nabbed a Shorty Award for in the YouTube Star category in the fourth annual award competition for the use of social media. Beet.TV caught up with Paradis via Skype in an interview about how he started the channel and his next plans. Paradis told Beet.TV he relies on Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus to push out his [...]

Interactive program guide and digital entertainment tech company Rovi said it's reaching more than 40 million households across its network of connected devices and smart TVs' says  EVP of Global Media Sales, Jeff Siegel in this interview with Beet.TV So far this year Rovi has made inroads in connected TV advertising, including via an expanded deal with Samsung to build in [...]

A groundhog puppet has won a Shorty Award for video blogging for a Web show that spoofs videoblogging. After a record-breaking 1.6 million tweet nominations were cast for the 4th Annual Shorty Awards, winners were named late last month, including Fafa The Groundhog of "Glove and Boots" fame in the videoblogger category. Beet.TV caught up with the video series creators Damien [...]

As the consumption of online video content has grown, so has the demand for live news streams.  More viewers than ever are watching live news broadcasts online, but live video streaming is still far from perfect.  In this video from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat, Livestation CEO Lippe Oosterhof talks about some of the issues facing live news streaming and how Livestation [...]

Unlike news on teleivison which fully occupies its own screen, video for the Web must share real estate with text which is generally adequate to report the news. To win mindshare on the Web, video has to be visual and unique, says Charlie Tillinghast, President and Publisher of MSNBC.com in this interview with Beet.TV One of the biggest mistakes video news [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Web video production and the financing of it has shifted dramatically in the last five years. Now, the industry has entered a second wave of content creation that brings Web publishers closer to the funding process, says Erick Hachenburg, CEO of Metacafe. Beet.TV spoke with him recently at his San Francisco office and he shared [...]

Online video ads may have a halo effect on the display business. That's because sites like MSNBC.com only serve video ads when they're in the "viewable" section of a page, explains Charlie Tillinghast, President and Publisher of MSNBC.com in this interview with Beet.TV. This inventory placement approach ensures brands are only billed for ads that are viewable, rather than just stuffed [...]

The Metropolitan Opera, which has been streaming performances on demand on the Web since 2008, recently released an iPad App featuring the institution's nearly 400 full-length operas and hundreds of audio recordings. The App has been created with Brightcove, using its App Cloud platform, says the Met's Justin Fuhs in this interview.  The App has a monthly subscription of $14.99.  It does [...]

LONDON (via SkypeVideo) Bambuser, the fast growing Swedish start-up that allows users to stream live video over mobile devices, has entered into an agreement with the Associated Press.  The pact provides the Bambuser platform to AP staffers and provides "citizen" journalists to provide unique live video to the wire service. Bambuser has gotten widespread notoriety with live streaming of the strife [...]

Online video attribution models are becoming more sophisticated and qualitative, says Eli Goodman, comScore Media Evangelist, in this session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Both brands and publishers are looking more closely at where to spend money and how effective various pieces of an online buy will be, he says in this video session with Paul Kontonis, [...]

Online video is flourishing and more advertisers are embracing the nacent media.  However, in this video session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat, Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola, points out that "there’s a supply and demand issue" when it comes to online video. He explains that advertisers are going to some of the biggest websites and offering millions of dollars to run [...]

Paul Slavin, the veteran news producer and executive at ABC News who left the network last year, joined the big health destination site Everyday Health where he is creating an ambitious slate of video for the Web and television. Last night, the New York-based company launched its own YouTube channel as part of the new partner's program. Earlier in the day, we [...]

Hiro Media, the Tel Aviv-based online video advertising company has raised $5 million in funding the company announced today.   The company says the new funding will allow its global expansion including operations in the United States. Earlier this year, we spoke with Hiro's director of product marketing Rinat Sherzer about the company's ad serving solution.  We have republished that video today.    

Wibbitz, an early stage startup from Tel Aviv, is making waves in the online video industry with a text-to-video software that analyzes and understands written content and automatically turns it into video inventory for publishers.  In this video session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat last month, Wibbitz CEO Zohar Dayan speaks about the growing demand for online video and how Wibbitz [...]

Digital video traffic is steadily shifting from PC-only to include mobile and other devices, says Sorosh Tavakoli, CEO of ad management platform Videoplaza, in this session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Tavakoli said that 100% of VideoPlaza's traffic in 2010 was delivered on PCs. In the fourth quarter of 2011, about 8% of traffic occurred on non-PC [...]

Look for a host of dedicated second-screen experiences to come down the pike from TV programmers in the next two years, said Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer for NBC News, in this session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat. Studies have shown that a good portion of tweets in prime-time hours are about TV shows, underscoring the opportunity for networks to create [...]

YouTube is selling channel sponsorships to brands for $4-6 million, according to a report in Adweek. In November at the Monaco Media Forum we interviewed YouTube's global sales VP Lucas Watson about YouTube's new channel strategy and the opportunity for brands.  We have republished that interview today. Tomorrow, an ambitous fashion and beauty channel U Look Haute will launch on YouTube.  The [...]

Online video superstar Felicia Day launched a new YouTube channel today called "Geek and Sundry" billed as the "very best of indie geek culture" that rolls out with several new original series. Beet.TV first caught up with Day in January at CES where she gave us the early details on the new project. Day's YouTube Channel is part of YouTube's big [...]

Online video buying opportunities for brands are becoming more TV-like, but yet the payment models are shifting to more targeted methods, said Paul Kontonis, VP/Group Director at Digitas in this session from the Beet.TV Executive Retreat. Marketers are beginning to buy Web video on cost-per-view, rather than via impressions, effectively shifting away from the volume and household approach that has defined [...]

An early stage Tel Aviv-based start-up called Wibbitz, says that it can take the RSS feed of a text publisher and create a distinct video segment incorporating voice, images, photos and video.   At the Beet.TV Executive Retreat earlier this month, we spoke with CEO Zohar Dayan.  In this video he explains how his company creates value for publishers by building video [...]