With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview. The company made its first big content move outside of sports with the hiring of several former Engadget staffers, including editor [...]

Eyeview, a company which provides brands and their agencies with tools to localize in-instream advertising, has received investment from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's venture fund, Oren Harnevo said in this interview with Beet.TV The investment of just over $1 million brings total investment in the Israel/U.S. start-up to $6 million. Other investors include Gemini and Lightspeed. The company launched quietly earlier this [...]

FreeWheel, the fast-growing video management firm, is providing live video ad management for a number of broadcasters including ESPN and Turner and it has just signed up the UK's leading satellite company BskyB.  Today, the company managed video ads for the live streaming of the Royal Wedding on CNN.com. This afternoon, CNN.com announced today that it had served 575,000 live video [...]

Digitalsmiths, the video search platform which visually analyzes and indexes video, has announced a new funding round of $12.5 from existing and new investors. Last year we spoke with CEO Ben Weinberger.  We have republished the interview today. Andy Plesser

If all goes according to plan with the Space Shuttle Endeavor, YouTube will stream a live interview with the crew on May 2 at 2:15 EDT via PBS which is producing the transmission and will host it on the Newshour YT channnel. This will be among the first major news events streamed live via a YouTube partner since the company's live [...]

Marketers, venture capitalists and online video experts are always looking for emerging companies to work with and keep an eye on. That's the New Media Minute is sharing four such digital media startups in this week's episode. Watch for innovation from Rich Relevance, Yinzcam, Klout and Tynt.  -Daisy Whitney Editor's Note:   The New Media Minute is produced and sponsored separately from Beet.TV.  [...]

SAN BRUNO, CA -- While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the world's news organizations, the giant video site doesn't actually organize or vet video. Here are two prominent curators of news from Iran: Onlymehdi and the channel titled Unity4Iran. Helping organize breaking [...]

CineSport, a small New Jersey-based syndicator of professional sports highlight videos, served some 250 million video views in March, according the comScore Video Metrix. The number put it far ahead of all the major providers of online sports video including ESPN, Yahoo, Turner, Fox and CBS. (See rankings below.) The company syndicates sports highlight from major leagues as well as some in-house [...]

SAN BRUNO, CA -- The introduction of the live streaming platform of YouTube is nothing less than "creating a new YouTube," says YouTube's Joshua Siegel, Product Manager for Live Streaming, in this interview with Beet.TV conducted at the company's headquarters. He speaks about the unique demand and opportunity around the live platform and how it is being rolled out gradually, beginning [...]

SAN BRUNO, Calif -- With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen by the cameras of mainstream news organizations. Last week, we visited the headquarters of YouTube for an interview with Olivia Ma, manager of YouTube News.   She explains that mobile [...]

While Web has video has grown primarily in an "on-demand" ecosystem, an increasing amount of programming will be streamed live online, affording publishers siginificant new opportunities says Bismarck Lepe, co-founder of Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based digital video services company. Ooyala is powering Bloomberg's live television programming online.   In this segment from the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit, held at Bloomberg last month, [...]

KIT Digital, the Prague-based global provider of digital video services, sees opportunities beyond the online video platform sector and more broadly in digital services for broadcasters who want to reach audiences through multi-platform solutions, says Gannon Hall, EVP of KIT. The company recently purchased ioko for approximately $80 million.  Halls tells Beet.TV that this is the last of acquisitions for a [...]

SAY Media, the company formed through VideoEgg's acquisition of Six Apart, has acquired the Dogster, the dog owner social site and is planning several more acquisitons, reports Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch. In October, we spoke with SAY Media CEO about the newly formed company.  We have republished that inteview today. Andy Plesser  

SAN BRUNO, CA -- YouTube is cultivating a new crop of promising video creators with top-tier film school education scholarships and direct grants.   The giant video site has selected 20 winners to attend intensive, on-campus programs that are four-to-eight weeks long at the University of Southern California and the Columbia College Television Center. Ten will go to USC and ten will go [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Kaltura is seeing growth across many sectors around its open source video solution -- a system which allows customers to use the Kaltura "toolkit" to create a customized solution, says CEO Ron Yekutiel.  Yekutiel tells Beet.TV in this video interview that the company is working with a number of academic institutions including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale University. In addition [...]

It might be hard to make a viral video hit, but building a steady audience on YouTube is doable, especially if brands and creators follow some basic guidelines. We interviewed YouTube executive Bing Chen last week and he offered several tips on brand identity, how to use your dashboard to improve your videos, how to tag and annotate YouTube videos for the best [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Brightcove, the big U.S. online video services company, is working closely with giant television maker LG to bring digital content to Net-connected television sets.  The alliance, announced in February, will take center-stage in Boston next month when hundreds of Brightcove customers from around the globe gather for a two-day conference. The conference is sponsored by LG. At NAB last week, we [...]

LAS Vegas -- Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month. At the NAB conference last week, we spoke with Akamai's Stuart Cleary about this new delivery platform and why it is important. Andy Plesser

LAS Vegas -- Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month. At the NAB conference last week, we spoke with Akamai's Stuart Cleary about this new delivery platform and why it is important. Andy Plesser

LAS Vegas -- Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month. At the NAB conference last week, we spoke with Akamai's Stuart Cleary about this new delivery platform and why it is important. Andy Plesser