CNN's sizable investment in international coverage has paid off with increased television ratings and digital consumption, says Mark Whitaker, EVP and Managing Editor of CNN Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV. Unlike the "political news channels" of FOX News and MSNBC, CNN is building its business around several news sectors including politics, international and business, he explains. Whitaker, former editor of Newsweek [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The economics around Web original video programming are not yet sustainable, says says Myles Beckett, a co-creator of lonelygirl15, the pionering "webisode" from 2006 and CEO of Los Angeles based EQAL. For producers and artists creating exclusive video content for the Web, the most profitable route is making branded content for advertisers, he says in this interview with [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Published on YouTube just two weeks ago, Gamer Commute is a runaway hit with over eight million views 80 thousand "likes."   We spoke with actor and co-creator Freddie Wong about the making the of 2 minute segment, finding an audience and working with brands.   Samsung has sponsored this video by providing a Galaxy S II.  Samsung is also [...]

Visible Measures, the Boston-based video analytics and ad platform, has raised $13 million, according a report just published in TechCrunch. Earlier this year, we spoke with CEO Brian Shin about the company and its expansion.  We have republished that interview today. Andy Plesser

LOS ANGELES, Calif -- Yahoo! has green-lighted eight new, short-form Web original video programs, producing them both in-house and with leading Hollywood shops, including Electus, Principato-Young, FishBowl Media and Warrior Poets (Morgan Spurlock's company), says Erin McPherson, VP and Head of Video, in this interview with Beet.TV. The new programs, which are aimed at a female demographic aged 25-54, launch next [...]

Sports leagues are making hundreds of millions in digital revenue from paid content, ads and other revenue streams, according to a new report from eMarketer. The NFL tops the list at about $500 million in digital revenue, MLB at $450 million, the NBA at $225 million and the NHL at $120 million, the study found. Under this backdrop, ESPN expects to [...]

As part of an expansion of YouTube's EDU efforts, which has mostly involved college-level education, the big video site has expanded its reach into primary school education with a new platform for teachers to create and share educational video materials. The new channel is for all teachers. Earlier this year, we spoke with YouTube EDU's Angela Lin who explained that YouTube is [...]

In an effort to refine tools for advertisers, online audience measurement service comScore plans to release a new report in the next month or so that will provide more detailed attitudinal and behavioral information about online video viewers, comScore told Beet.TV in an interview. Called Video Plan Metrix, the report will pair page-level data with video data to create a more [...]

Hoping to capitalize on the apps boom, Canadian-based startup Carbyn is banking on HTML5 as the platform that will boost its technology and services, the company told Beet.TV at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco. Carbyn is both an apps store and a service that makes HTML apps work on any device, such as a tablet, desktop or smartphone. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - Interactive video platform provider Coincident TV has added new customers in CBS syndicated show "Excused" and in an expanded relationship with Fox Sports for high school sports, the company told Beet.TV at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.  The San Francisco startup has powered social TV and interactive video for Fox's hit show "Glee," and is [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO - Based on a belief that consumers want more video on the Web, the startup Wibbitz raised about $500,000 in a round of seed funding for its technology that can turn any text on a Web site into a viewable video. We caught up with the company at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco. "Wibbitz is the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Austin-based Latakoo has a product which allows video producers to compress big files to under 5 percent of their size and then send via the Web. The company has 200 customers, many in the news business, according to this report in TechCrunch.   We caught up with Jade Kurian, president, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference earlier this week. Another company [...]

Storify, the social media curation tool, was used by the Weather Channel during Hurricane Irene, says Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV. He explains that the network had to scramble to cover the dramatic impact Irene had in Vermont and used Storify's story curation tools until it had reporters on the scene. Also in the clip, he explains how [...]

Online audience measurement service comScore has released reporting that lets clients see how video audiences between sites overlap and relate to each other, the research firm told Beet.TV in an interview. The audience duplication and cross-viewing reports in the Video Metrix service give comScore customers a snapshot into unique video viewers on various sites, as well as the crossover between those [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Intercast Network launched a product which allows broadcasters to distribute their programming live via a rich display unit with accompanying social tools and e-commerce functionality. On Monday, we spoke with Intercast's Melissa Thompson for an overview and a demo. Here's the story on Intercast by TechCrunch's Sarah Perez. This is the first of several segments [...]

The Weather Channel, which claims the second most downloaded iPad App, has moved from a Flash player to an HTML 5 player from Brightcove, enabling consumers to watch video regardless of their device, said Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV. The Weather Channel's digital footprint is huge, with some 60 million unique visitors to its website, 50 [...]

Since the Los Angeles-based filmmaker/gamer  Freddie "W" Wong released "Gamer Commute" on YouTube this past Saturday, the two-minute clip has garnered nearly 5 million views and 18,000 comments. Segments of the viral video hit were shot with a Samsung Galaxy  S II, a new smart phone which shoots in 1080p. Some trade reports call it the "iPhone killer".  The use of the [...]

The Wall Street Journal would not be delivering its three and a half hours of programming if it were not for the iPad, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor of the WSJ.com. In an interview with Beet.TV, Murray explains how the iPad has enabled a growing audience to watch greater amounts of both [...]

While the the sale of downloadable entertainment has been the largely the province of the Apple, media companies will create their own "media stacks" to sell content directly to consumers, says Chris Van Noy, Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist at Akamai. In other developments on the horizon, he sees tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook and Google moving more aggressively in the [...]