Yahoo! has passed Facebook and has essentially tied with Vevo as the second most popular video site on the Web, according to December numbers released by comScore this morning.  The most popular site remains YouTube. In November, Yahoo trailed Vevo and Facebook in video views, comScore reported. "We're Gonna Go Crazy with Video in 2012" Last week at CES, we spoke with Yahoo's [...]

comsScore has released the online video view numbers for December.  Excluding Hulu which is number one, Adap.tv tops "online video ad" properties category with 1.1 billion video ads viewed.  In the new rankings, Adap.tv passes Tremor Video which lead the category in November.   The comparison is quite broad as video ad networks, platforms and auction sites are put in the same [...]

LAS VEGAS - Online video production and distribution shop DBG has partnered with actress Zooey Deschanel's site Hello Giggles on the second season of Web show "The Single Life," DBG's Chairman & CEO Chris Young told Beet.TV. We spoke to him last week at CES and he shared details on DBG's roster of digital programming and ad plans for the year [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Following its December acquisition of Panache, WPP's marketing technology company 24/7 Real Media has now integrated 13 of Panache's advanced video ad formats into its existing ad platform. We caught up with Jill Druschke, VP marketing and business development at 24/7 Real Media at CES, and she shared details on how the Panache formats are being used by [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Stand-up comedian and actor Kevin Pollak has some 100,000 live viewers of his talk show -- along with one million monthly downloads of the show on iTunes, he tells Beet.TV in this video interview. He says its growth has come from Twitter and word of mouth, with no traditional marketing.  We spoke with him after the IAWTV Awards on [...]

LAS VEGAS, "Anyone But Me," a scripted web series about gay, straight and ethnically diverse young people in relationships, won two IAWTV web video awards on Thursday night; one for best writing and one for Rachel Hip-Flores who grabbed best female performance, drama. After the award we interviewed Hip-Flores and the shows producers and writers Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward. Andy [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Jane Espenson, a veteran Hollywood TV writer and producer, has been getting noticed for her Web series, a comedy about a newly married gay couple titled "Husbands." We caught up with her on Thursday evening at the IAWTV Awards where she was a presenter. She said was suprised and delighted with a very positive review of the series by [...]

LAS VEGAS - Samsung is aiming to capture a piece of the advertising opportunities on connected TVs this year. The consumer electronics maker introduced ways to include marketing and ads on apps for its smart TVs at the Consumer Electronics Show. Already, the CE giant's smart TV app store offers 1400 apps and is on pace to hit 20 million downloads [...]

LAS VEGAS -- The International Academy of Web Television, which held its first awards program on Thursday night at CES, will have partnerships with YouTube and Yahoo this year, says the organization's chairman Paul Kontonis in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him after the ceremony on Thursday evening.   Kontonis said the partnerships with the giant video sites will involves educating [...]

LAS VEGAS, Shira Lazar and her live show "What's Trending," won four awards at the International Academy of Web Television gala ceremony held Thursday night at CES.  She and her team were honored for best live host, live program, directing and social interaction.   After the ceremony, I spoke with her about the show and the value of live web programming. Earlier in [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Online video services firm Ooyala has  extended its reach into connected TV's in a deal with Panasonic to deliver broadband programming and ads to smart TV's. Consumers are starting to view video in new and different ways, including on connected TVs, said Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher, in an interview with Beet.TV this week at CES. The Panasonic partnership kicks [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Actress/writer producer Felicia Day swept several Web video awards Thursday night at the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) including best comedy series for The Guild, comedy writing and performance. Before the show, we spoke with her about creativity, the emerging opportunities around Web exclusive content and her current work on a "slate of new shows" for YouTube [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Brands that will be successful in social media are those that integrate naturally into social media conversations and digital mediums, said Jon Greenwood, president of WPP's Media Innovation Group, during an interview at CES. "The brands that work with the right agencies and figure out how to provide the right social messaging so the messages integrate more into [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Smart TVs got a big boost at CES when Verizon announced it would be providing a FIOS TV app for LG Smart TVs, effectively providing a TV Everywhere-type of entry point into the service provider via LG's connected sets. We caught up at CES with Matt Durgin, Director Smart TV Content, LG Electronics USA. In addition to Smart [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Building on its Videoscape product, tech giant Cisco has introduced several new features at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Cisco's Scott Puopolo, VP of the company's Internet Business Solutions Group, told Beet.TV during an interview at the show. Videoscape, introduced at last year's CES, is a cloud solution to help media companies and service providers deliver live and [...]

LAS VEGAS, LG Electronics has introduced the Google TV platform to its "smart" television, explains Matthew Durgin, Director, Smart TV Content Business, North America, in this interview from the floor of CES. Durgin tells Beet.TV that the upside of the integration of the Google TV UI is the richness of content partners who are currently part of the LG offering -- [...]

LAS VEGAS -- YuMe, a provider of digital video advertising services, announced on Monday at CES an alliance with Samsung to power the advertising platform for the electronics giant's smart televisions. In addition to powering the advertising, YuMe is also providing metrics around brand lift from ads on the TV's, in a collaboraton with Vizu, an analytics company. Yesterday, we spoke with [...]

LAS VEGAS - The industry consortium of five of the the major Hollywood studios, the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), is readying a common file format for digital content distribution, says Mitchell Singer, President of the group and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Pictures in this interview with Beet.TV Singer calls it the first interoperable DRM system, allowing consumers to share [...]

The annual Consumer Electronics Shows kicked off this week in Las Vegas, and already manufacturers such as Panasonic and Samsung have struck deals to include more online video ads in their connected TVs, the latest sign that the Internet TV market is poised for rapid growth. Last year alone, connected TVs accounted for about 52 million sets sold and that number [...]

Eyeview, an American/Israeli start-up that creates "personalized" online video ads for brand advertisers, has raised a new round of $5.2 million, TechCrunch reports. Early investors include Eric Schmidt, which we reported in April. For an overview on Eyeview, we spoke last year with CEO Oren Harnevo and have republished that interview today. Andy Plesser