VIEQUES, PR -- With the avalanche of digital video across multiple devices, the discovery of relevant content is essential - and it is a sector ripe for venture capital investment says Joy Marcus, partner at global VC powerhouse Draper FIsher Jurvetson in this interview with Beet.TV Marcus was previously general manager of Dailymotion in the North America before joining the New [...]

The growth of social activity in conversations and check-ins around TV programming has grown by about 91% year over year, according to a study by social TV tracking service Trendrr.TV. The company also uncovered several interesting trends regarding social activity for shows, news and live events, such as how Facebook is a more popular social venue for animated shows than Twitter. [...]

The Digital Broadcasting Group (DBG) is a partner in the Digital Content NewFronts, a month-long marketplace for Web video, the  Web video studio/distributor announced today. DBG will join AOL, Digitas, Hulu, Microsoft, Yahoo! and YouTube in the program where each partner has a specific event date in New York.  DBG's date is April 23 when it will unveil a new slate [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- With the proliferation of digital devices for consuming digital video, advertisers and publishers are faced with an enormous task of serving the appropriate file for the specific device.   To meet this challenge, London-based Videoplaza has launched a platform called "Karbon" to match up ads and content with some 7,000 specific device profiles, says Sorosh Tavakoli in this interview [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation engine used by several top news publishers including Bloomberg, CNN and the New York Times to drive video clip consumption, has entered into an agreement with live video news portal Livestation to drive recommendations of live news video on the Web, says Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola in this interview [...]

VIEQUES, PR -- The Wall Street Journal's expanding slate of live business programming, has gone live on the Livestation, the London-based global portal for live news, says Lippe Oosterhof in this interview with Beet.TV The WSJ Live joins other business programmers including CNBC and Bloomberg on the distribution channel.  Livestation takes the live, satellite telecasts of several other world's major broadcasters including [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif - With its  relaunch of Google TV, the Internet giant has revamped how users search, find and discover programming on the Internet TV service. We recently spent time with Google's Shanna Preve, business development manager for Google TV, and she walked us through a special preview of the new look of the service. For how viewers can navigate through [...]

Collaborative video production firm Market7 has released enhancements to its software and added a new exec to extend its reach further into Hollywood and media production. The company launched more than three years ago to serve the needs of corporate and media video production and we recently caught up with Market7's CEO Seth Kenvin for an update. Last month, Market7  hired  [...]

VIEQUES, PR - The future of video journalism will be one of the two principal tracks at the Beet.TV executive retreat tomorrow and Saturday at the W Retreat & Spa on Vieques, Puerto Rico.  Keynoting the program will be Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer of NBC News, a former CEO of National Public Radio.   Schiller will kick off the event with [...]

As demand for display advertising rates remains soft, rates for pre-roll video ads are up by 18 percent.  Despite the rise in rates, publishers are finding it difficult to provide enough inventory to meet the surging demand, says Michael Lombardi, director of business development for Taboola. The New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendations company creates video thumnails of "related videos" for publishers [...]

New video destination MyPod Studios is betting that online viewers are interested in watching videos that have been vetted first before they're posted on the Web. Relative newcomer MyPod Studios launched last year and is operating as a "gated community" focusing on videos in many genres so long as they're entertaining, educational or informative, says Jay Miletsky, CEO and founder [...]

Forrester expects that 112.5 million adults, or one-third of the adult population, will own a tablet by 2016, a revision of its previous forecast of 82.1 million. That's a huge jump, but it's not just from the iPad3 announced last week. The increase is due to the success of the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet too, Forrester says. But what do [...]

For the first time since the collaboration of ABC News and Yahoo! was announced in October, comScore has reported online traffic for the joint effort and finds it has served over 400 million views in February -- which is more than half of all the video news views streamed in North America in the month. The online measurement company has found [...]

As it aims to expands its reach as a real-time media buying video platform, TubeMogul said it hired Paul Joachim as chief revenue officer late last week. We caught up with Joachim in one of his first video interviews in his new role and he shared his vision for growth with Beet.TV. Brands want transparency, safe places to run ads and [...]

Early adopters of "TV Everywhere"  are relying on the service for news, short clips and snacking, says Jason Forbes, senior VP of strategy at Time Warner Cable Media, in this video interview with Beet.TV  We spoke with the cable executive about how the TV Everywhere platform is being used by advertisers and consumers, as well as challenges ahead for TV Everywhere [...]

In advance of the coming launch of its platform to connect brands and producers, online video advertising company Outrigger Media is partnering with production company Zero Point Zero and travel and lifestyle brand Tumi for a branded content show that's already amassed nearly 60,000 views for its first three episodes after one week of launch, Outrigger's CEO Mike Henry tells [...]

With new video studio in New York, the big sports blog network SB Nation has launched an ambitious channel of sports videos on YouTube.  Also today, the parent company Vox Media raised $14 million in new funding, according to report by Robin Wauters at TNW. Back in 2010 at the Monaco Media Forum, we spoke with Vox/SB Nation CEO Jim Bankoff about [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Washington Post  has introduced  two new video shows for the Web,  59 Seconds, an update on on Washington-based news and Trail Mix, a report from Post staffers on the presidential campaign trail. For an update on the new shows, existing programs and video strategy at paper, we sat down with Andrew Pergam, Director of Video.  He says [...]

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video discovery and distribution company, has expanded its customer base from newspapers and wire services to some big magazine publishers including Rodale Press, Bonnier and the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter, says Michael Lombardi, Senior Director of Business Development, in this video interview with Beet.TV He explains the opportunities for advertisers around premium content  -- and [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seeing an emerging playing field where Internet delivered video news will eventually be on par with cable, Politico will broadly expand its video programming this year, says Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor, in this interview with Beet.TV Web-only video news from newspapers, wire services and portals is on the rise.   Yahoo! just announced an ambitious documentary season, Adweek's Mike [...]