Limelight Networks, one of the biggest content delivery networks, has diversified recently into cloud services, mobile distribution and the online video services sector with its acquisition of Delve.  Earlier this month, the company reported a 38 percent increase in revenue for Q1. Last week at the Streaming Media Conference, we spoke with Limelight VP Paul Alfieri about the company and its areas [...]

For the past 10 months, Gawker Media has used Viddler to manage its online video distribution. The Viddler player powers Gizmodo, Gawker TV and other properties. Unlike the vast majority of online video news sites which seek broad sharing and distribution of clips, the videos on the Gawker Network do not provide embed codes or other standard sharing tools.  Management has [...]

An industry initiative, lead by The New York Times, the AP and Getty Images, to surface deep data around news content including video, will be introduced in the Hearst newsroom this summer.   This will be an initial phase, say Michael Dunn, CTO of Hearst Interactive in this interview with Beet.TV The implementation comes with finalization of standards by the IPTC.  These standards [...]

It's been two years since TED Talks enlisted fans around the globe to translate its videos into many languages through its Open Translation Project powered by dotSub, a crowd-sourced translation platform. Today, some 20,000 videos have been translated into 88 languages by over 6,000 volunteers, says Michael Smolens, founder of New York-based dotSub. We spoke with him earlier this week at the [...]

Joy Marcus, who left Dailymotion as U.S. GM in late March, has landed as a parnter at DFJ Gotham, which is part of the powerhouse venture fund Draper Fisher Jurvetson.  At DFJ, she will be focused on digital investing, she told Beet.TV in an email message today.  Here is the press release. Last year, we sat down to talk about the growth [...]

The New York Times, which features a short article and photo of a couple of dozen newly-weds every Sunday in the Style section, will be adding short videos created by the couples.  The first user-generated video will be published this weekend. The solicitation for 1-3 minute videos was recently added to the bottom of  the Times' wedding announcement submission form. Wedding videos [...]

Nielsen recently reported that the total number of TVs owned in the United States has dropped for the first time in 20 years to 97 percent of homes down from 99 percent, due in part to cord-cutting.   "A small subset of younger, urban consumers are going without paid TV subscriptions," Nielsen said in its report. That news is coupled with encouraging [...]

The Wall Street Journal is training its print reporters to use the iPhone 4 for video news gathering and live streaming via Skype Video, says Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com After deploying Sony camcorders and Kodak pocket cameras, the Journal has settled on the iPhone 4 as the device of choice for field reporting, he says in this interview [...]

Some 15-20 percent of Roku owners are cancelling their cable or satellite services agreement and are relying solely on a broadband connection to get their television programming, said company VP Jim Funk in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV. The Roku box, which connects via WiFi or Ethernet to a television set, streams a variety of free and subscription channels.  It is [...]

SAN BRUNO, CA - With the announcement of a presidential run by Newt Gingrich on Facebook and Twitter, the role of social media as the media of choice for politicians is rising.  According to Olivia Ma, who manages news and politics for YouTube, Presidential politics on YouTube, which began in earnest with President Obama's campaign launch announcement in 2007, will be [...]

TV Everywhere, the industry initiative around making cable fare available online and on mobile, presents a big opportunity to advertisers and publishers, says Will Richmond, digital video industry consultant/publisher. We spoke with him last week about industry trends, and about about his first, full-day industry conference, Elevate,  which will take place in New York on June 7. Richmond writes and publishes the [...]

The Rachel Maddow Show enjoys the highest degree of engagement, meaning minutes spent per month, among all the NBC News and MSNBC news programs, according to MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghast, in this interview with Beet.TV Part of its success has been from an online/offline strategy, involving high degree of interactivity around Apps and social media, Tillinghast explains in this video. An MSNBC.com [...]

With syndication partnerships in place with establish news sites including the Wrap for entertainment and SB Nation for sports Reuters is quickly expanding its alliances with publishers and content creators, says Chris Ahearn, president of media at Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV Reuters launched the service with the Tribune Company and is going to add several new publishing clients [...]

SAN BRUNO, CA -- YouTube has been an essential platform for videos of street violence in the Middle East, mostly camera phone uploads of events not covered by the news media.  The footage is raw and often contain graphic violence which may not be suitable for the giant sharing site.  While explicit violent videos are not permitted on YouTube, the video sharing [...]

Kantar Video, the video analytics unit of WPP, is teaming with semantic Web services company Open Amplify to gather and organize social media chatter as part of Kantar's product offering. For an overview on Open Amplify, and how its tools will provide valuable data around video in the social media sphere, we spoke with Micheal T. Petit, co-founder and CIO. We inteviewed [...]

The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama Bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com and pointed the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes. In this interview with Beet.TV, Charles Tillinghast, President of MSNBC.com, says there were some 300,000 simultaneous video views of the President's announcement, a very high number during non-work hours. While [...]

Reuters, a leading provider of live news video to television broadcasters around the globe, is now making a rich offering of live video feeds available to  digital publishers, says Chris Ahearn, president of media for Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV The new offering, called Reuters Live Stream, launched last week with the the Royal Wedding.  The new service was [...]

About 71 percent of Smartphone users search for related content on their Smartphones after being exposed to ads online and offline. That's the finding of a new study from Google on mobile search and mobile advertising behavior. The study also found that about 82 percent of people notice mobile ads and 74 percent are driven to make a purchase after using their mobile [...]

SAN BRUNO, CA -- YouTube is partnering with Dublin-based  Storyful to curate breaking news on YouTube's CitizenTube channel, says Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube in this interview with Beet.TV Storyful, which employes former CNN and Irish Times journalists, provides a real-time, social media curation tool.  It provides both a free and paid services, according to this report on PBS [...]

Following Skype's purchase earlier this year of Redwood City-based mobile video chat platform Qik, the combined company aims to deliver both live video calling and delivered video messages, covering both asynchronous and synchronous communications on a global basis, says Qik co-founder Bhaskar Roy in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with him via Skype Video. Last week, the company announced that its [...]