LAS VEGAS -  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this month's Royal Wedding. We caught up last week at the NAB conference in Las Vegas with Bill Burke, the global director of online video for the AP.  He speaks about the value of live programming as an emerging [...]

LAS VEGAS -  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this months' Royal Wedding. We caught up last week at the NAB conference in Las Vegas with Bill Burke who is the global director of online video for the AP. He speaks about the value of live programming as [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Akamai, the world's largest content delivery network, announced at NAB this week that it is getting into the authentication management business around the "TV Everywhere" movement. At the show, we spoke with Akamai's Adam Greenbaum who explains the new offering.  He says Akamai's service is focused primarily on content providers, like cable networks, who want to deliver video [...]

"You can drive a Mack truck" through the IAB's industry standards around online video, says Bill Lederer, CEO of Kantar Video, a unit of WPP, in this segment from the Beet.TV Digital Video Summit. He says that the very meaning of a "view" or "impression" is interpreted differently.  This lack of standards is inhibiting growth of the online video industry. He says [...]

Author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki spoke at the ad:tech SF conference on the Art of Enchantment, sharing his tips on how to "enchant" audiences, customers, viewers, your boss, employees and more. Here are his tips from Daisy Whitney in the New Media Minute.

LAS VEGAS (via Skype Video)  -- Although Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player is not on Apple's iOS devices, its Flash Media Server will soon allow publishers to stream the same live video format to these devices as well to the desktop, Android and some smart TV's, according to Kevin Towes, senior product manager for Adobe's Flash Media Server group.   We interviewed Towes [...]

LAS VEGAS -- President Barack Obama's campaign kickoff will take place at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto next Wednesday and New York-based Livestream is powering the live video on Facebook, says the company's CEO Max Haot in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV Livestream is co-producing the 8-camera production with Facebook and is managing the production out of the company's new [...]

LAS VEGAS -- While consumption of video-on-demand on Boxee is growing with premium services including Vudu, the HD movie service, and the MLB.com, the integration of live network programming is a "couple years" off says Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV  We spoke Ronen yesterday at the NAB conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Andy Plesser

Taboola, a video recommentation company, is integrated into many Bloomberg pages, driving consumption of video by as much as 2.5X.  Thumbnails of suggested videos appear around the video player and embedded in text pages as can be seen here. CEO Adam Singolda explained the Taboola integration at the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit last month.  We have published this excerpt today. The company serves [...]

Video is in a period of dramatic transformation as consumers can now access content across multiple devices.  While the technology for content creation and distribution levels the playing field for many content creators, making compelling content is essential for success in the new media landscape, says Dermot McCormack, EVP of Digital Media for MTV Music and Logo Group. At the recent Beet.TV [...]

KIT Digital, the Prague-based software and services provider for the digital video industry, has announced it is acquiring San Diego-based ioko for $80 million in stock and cash. Recently we spoke with Alex Blum, the COO of KIT about the company's strategic plans.  Blum was previously the CEO of KickApps which was acquired earlier this year by KIT along with Kyte. We [...]

While many publishers have been building video Apps in response to the dramatic rise of video consumption via the iPad, iPhone and Android, it's not a very effective environment for discovery, according Ross Rubin, top technology analyst at the NPD Group. He notes that there is no content index of video Apps at the present time. His comments were echoed by Bloomberg [...]

In a major development for Kaltura, the open-source video platform company, it has jointly announced today with Fox that Fox will use the company's technology to manage its online video distribution. Late last year we spoke with Kaltura co-founder and president Michal Tsur.  We have republished the interview today. In February, the company raised $20 million in funding which included Intel Capital. Andy [...]

"TV Everywhere," the industry moniker for technology enabling cable subscribers to access programming on multiple digital platforms, can be implemented by content creators, says Ooyala's Bismarck Lepe in this excerpt from the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit. While he lauds the efforts for the cable operators, he says that in the fragmented digital video landscape, content creators should establish their own, [...]

Comcast's consumer program called XFinity, which allows cable subscribers to access cable fare on the Web and on mobile devices, is using tools from thePlatform and Microsoft. The companies made the joint announcement on Friday. Not suprising about thePlatform as it is a Comcast subsidiary and has been involved with this project for some time, but a significant development for Microsoft which [...]

The value of search and story links is essential for the biggest of information sites.  According to Paul Slavin, EVP of Digital Media for ABC, some 70 percent of video views come from search and links. He made his comments during the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit in a session moderated by Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch. Also in this segment is Rob [...]

While many big video portals and sites are keen on building traffic to their sites, Aol is putting considerable effort around the syndication of content. This strategy is being driven by last September's  acquisition of 5Min. It's all about taking advantage of the enormous demand for video content far beyond a publisher's site, says Ran Harnevo, CEO of 5Min now heads [...]

As much as 10 percent of MSNBC.com's 200 million monthly video views are coming from other sites, via a sharable or embeddable video player, says Mark Marvel who runs video operations at the giant news portal. To monetize that traffic, the publisher is experimenting with 15-second pre-roll advertising.  Marvel explains that is is important to find a "threshold" for what viewers [...]

With the acquisition of Next New Networks, YouTube aims to expand its legion of independent content creator by many thousands, creating both short and long form programming in various verticals says Tom Pickett, YouTube's Director of Global Content Operations and Lance Podell, Director, Global Head of YouTube Next Lab. Says Pickett, there are now 22,000 content partners at YouTube and "hundreds [...]

The biggest TV ad buying season of the year will soon kick off in the upfront , and new media is likely to play a big role in many cable networks’ plans and presentations to ad agencies and marketers. Network groups like Turner and Scripps, as well as networks like History Channel and Bravo are seeing a big uptick in new [...]