In many ways, 2011 was the year of the tablet, while social TV and online video partnerships enjoyed a robust twelve months as well. Looking ahead to 2012, keep an eye out for standards in tablet measurement, advanced online video deals in measurement and an increased use of social TV for Web TV discovery. Those are the 2012 predictions in the [...]

In January, owners of the Boxee Box can expand their viewing to include local HD broadcast channels with the purchase of a $49 dollar USB dongle which connects to the Box. The dongle is called Boxee Live TV. It is a TV receiver for HD broadcast channels. The reception depends on the strength of the broadcast signal - but comes with [...]

The "all you can eat" plate of high-speed broadband access delivered to home users will shift increasingly in the near future to a "tiered" system in the U.S., says Andrew Grant, Industry Marketing Manager for Akamai. In this segment, Grant explains the changing economics of content delivery and the bandwidth demands of exploding video consumption. He makes his comments on the [...]

The collapse of AT&T's planned acquisition of T-Mobile will be beneficial to consumers looking for low-cost alternatives, says Maggie Reardon, telecom reporter for CNET News.com in this video segment. This video was recorded last week when most indications were the deal would collapse. The Problems with Android Also in this segment, Reardon talks about some of problems with software updates for Android and [...]

In the way the iPhone revolutionized the smartphone by providing a vast amount of content, an Apple television could dramatically change television viewing, says Ross Rubin, Executive Director and Principal Analyst, Connected Intelligence at NPD Group, in this video segment. Rubin explains that the current crop of connected TV's offers limited Internet TV content, thus providing Apple with an opportunity to [...]

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) will present its first awards at a gala program at CES on January 12th at the Venetian Hotel. On Wednesday in Los Angeles,  the organization announced the nominees across 33 categories. Below is the announcement made by Shira Lazar, host of What's Trending. Shortly afterwards in New York, [...]

Apps are beginning to proliferate the connected TV landscape, but they are not the future, says Avner Ronen, CEO and co-founder of Boxee, in this interview with Ross Rubin, Executive Director and Principal Analyst, Connected Intelligence at NPD Group. Ronen noted that Boxee has 300 Apps on its platform, but Apps are not a natural part of the television viewing experience. He [...]

The proliferation of native Apps, individually scripted for over 100 different devices, is creating big problems for content distributors and will lead to an over-crowded user interface, says Lauri Kivinen, CEO of Finnish Broadcasting, in this interview with Beet.TV. Finnish Broadcastsing, the nation's public broadcaster, has embraced a more "generic solution" to serving content to multiple devices by using HTML5 He cites [...]

The New York Times has been expanding "vertical" Apps around specific editorial with the recent launch of an iPhone App for the 2012 election and an iPad App for fashion called the Collection. While the paper sees growth in consumption in Apps, it is also "excited about HTML5" as a publishing platform, says Fiona Spruill, Editor of Emerging Platforms, in this [...]

As mobile devices become more powerful and more pervasive, broadband streaming of live programing will likely grow, said Stuart Saw, Channel Partners Director for global streaming service Streamworks Interactive, in a recent interview with Beet.TV. London-based Streamworks handles the encoding for customers such as Major League Gaming and the Associated Press. Earlier this fall, Streamworks set a record for Major League Gaming [...]

The Shira Lazar-fronted Web show What's Trending finished the year averaging 84,000 viewers per weekly episode, more than double its viewership than when it counted CBSNews.com as a distribution partner earlier this year. That show's success underscores one of the lessons learned in new media in 2011 - you don't always need a network partner to deliver a successful Web video [...]

Software security firm Irdeto is migrating its service provider-centric business to also include content protection now for online services, said Jan Steekamp, VP Business Development & Sales at Irdeto, in this interview with Beet.TV. Irdeto has built its 1000-employees business over the last 40 years to focus on content protection on TVs, set-top boxes, video game consoles and mobile devices. It'll [...]

SAY Media, the San Francisco-based media company, has acquired the influential technology blog Read/Write/Web. In October, we spoke with SAY's President Troy Young about the company's plans and future acquisitions which he discussed in the interview, which has been republished today. Andy Plesser

Twitvid, the popular video publishing and sharing platform for Twitter, has become something of a social video sharing network where users can upload and share videos of interest from YouTube and Vimeo, the company announced today. For an overview on Twitvid and a demo of the new social functionality, we spoke with CEO Mo Al Adham. Although the platform is launching with [...]

Global Revolution, the organization which is managing the live Web video streaming of a number of Occupy Wall Street protests, has purchased several 4G devices which allows cameras with a small attachment to stream directly to Livestream. According to Livestream CEO, Global Revolution has purchased 10 devices called the Cube. The battery-operated device allows fast, high-quality streaming without the need to use [...]

Ad agencies like to be able to optimize their own campaigns and that's why ad exchanges can be a better bet than ad networks, said Dave Marsey, Senior VP and Group Media Director at Digitas, during the Beet.TV online video leadership summit in New York last month. "With an ad exchange you can buy the attributes of your audience...it can outperform [...]

Engagement with interactive online video ads can be tremendously high if targeted to the right consumer, said panelists during the Beet.TV online video leadership summit in New York last month. As an example, Tremor Video has added interactivity in Spanish to a commercial for a top beverage maker and has seen an average engagement of 80 seconds with the interactive portion [...]

Panache, the Los Angeles-based online video advertising services company, has been acquired by WPP's 24/7 Real Media, the companies announced last week. We interviewed Panache CEO Steve Robinson last week about the acquisition and plans for the company now that it's merged. Also last week, we spoke with 24/7 Media CEO David J. Moore about the acquisition and the opportunities around online [...]

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com   Please join Beet.TV on Wednesday, December 14 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a 90-minute Webcast about digital media, devices and a preview of things to come at CES. The show will be live from the Livestream studio in New York. The session will be a series of one-on-one interviews with these [...]

In one of its first partnerships with a brand marketer for its inPowered platform, the blog ad network NetShelter has generated 52% more viewership for Samsung's Smart TV campaign on tech blogs using its new ad unit, said NetShelter's CEO Peyman Nilforoush in an interview with Beet.TV. The NetShelter technology platform operates as a blog ad network and stretches across 4500 [...]