On a freezing Manhattan night in February, virtually all of the media industry's top reporters, blogger and editors showed up for drinks with a newly arrived California woman who was unknown just a few months earlier. Megan McCarthy is the editor of Mediagazer, a real-time aggregator of media news.  It was spun off from tech news aggregator Techmeme on March 8, [...]

The New York offices of Next New Networks erupted in jubilation shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday when news was published of the the company's acquisition by the YouTube. After grabbing a bullhorn, COO Liam Collins announced that the staff are "now Google employees." Then the party started.  With the music on, Liam  took to the conference table for an impromptu dance [...]

NEW YORK - Next New Networks, the innovative studio and incubator for entertainment video programming for the Web, has been acquired by Google and will be part of YouTube.  This is the first significant acquisition by YouTube of a content creation company. A number of Next New employees are joining YouTube where they will develop original programming. Terms were not disclosed. [...]

FreeWheel, the big video advertising technology solution provider used by 80 big publishers, is expanding its offering with a new service to allow publishers to manage pay-per-view and subscription services.  The company announced the new product last month. On Thursday at the paidContent2011, we spoke with JoAnna Abel, VP of Marketing, about the new product and other related developments. The company, which [...]

Chris Anderson, "curator" of TED has announced the winners of the 10 best "Ads Worth Spreading".  Late last year, we sat down with Anderson for an overview on the "Ads Worth Spreading" program and the opportunities for marketers to engage in new ways with a digital audience.   We have republished the interview today.  

The introduction of tablets and smart phones has driven extraordinary growth in digital news consumption.  According to Robert Grimshaw, Managing Director of the the FT.com, approximately forty-five percent of digital news is now consumed via mobile devices. Coupled with the growth in consumption has been the interest in advertisers around advertising on the mobile platforms, which was nearly non-existent just one [...]

Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Web video index platform Clicker, has been named president of CBS Interactive, the company announced today. CBS also announced it is buying Clicker. In November, we spoke with Lanzone about Clicker.  We have republished the interview today. Andy Plesser

As the Huffington Post merges with AOL, the company will leave its successful brands to operate as independent entities.  Arianna Huffington, who will be editorial chief of the new company, tells Beet.TV in this video that she "won't mess" with successful AOL properties including TechCrunch and Engadget. Addressing the issue of HuffPo contributors who may be reluctant to publish on AOL, [...]

As it readies for the debut of the Keith Olbermann show, Current TV is building a studio in Manhattan, says co-founder Joel Hyatt in this interview with Beet.TV. Hyatt says that the studio will have additional uses beyond the Olbermann show, which will debut in "late Spring." The San Francisco-based cable network has its primary broadcast studio in Los Angeles.  Although Current [...]

With the imminent role for Arianna Huffington as editorial chief of AOL, she will be "smart enough" to leave TechCrunch and its editor Michael Arrington alone, says Felix Salmon, finance blogger for Reuters and media pundit. We spoke with him this morning at the paidContent2011 conference in Manhattan. Salmon interviewed Gawker Media chief Nick Denton at the media event. Salmon also addresses [...]

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More and more publishers are moving videos from a video section "gallery" into article pages, and this move is bringing increased viewership, says Stokes Young, head of multimedia and Ann Derry, editorial director of video at The New York Times who comment in this segment from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit held last month at the Washington Post. Recently MSNBC.com has [...]

While the ability of editors to identify and define news is essential, the creation of news is increasingly driven by real-time analytics, according to participants in the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit. Leading of this segment is TVNewser editor Alex Weprin with comments by Yahoo!'s Anna Robertson, who heads original news video, Mark Larkin, Vice President of CBSNews.com, Mike Stepanovich, managing editor [...]

Integrated sponsorships are essential to the success of original news on the Web says Steven King, Editor of Video, for The Washington Post, in this clip from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit. Also in this segment Yahoo! video news chief Anna Robertson and CBSNews.com VP Mark Larkin speak about the value of single brand sponsorships. This segment is moderated by Alex Weprin, [...]

On Monday, Bloomberg West debuted, a daily, one-hour television program about the business of technology originating from in the company's new television studio in its San Francisco bureau. It appears daily at 3 p.m. PT on the the Bloomberg Television network which includes cable, satellite and the Web. Segments from the live program are quickly edited into clips and published to [...]

When brands, publishers and Web sites add personalized video recommendations for site visitors, they can see a 3x lift in video views, according to video discovery platform Taboola. Other ways to increase video views include adding video to more pages on a site and striking syndication deals. For additional details, check out this week's New Media Minute. Beet.TV spoke with Liz [...]

Facebook pages are becoming increasingly video rich and an increasing number of small and large video publishers are streaming more of their videos "in-line," meaning having their player on Facebook pages, not just providing links. Says Yahoo's Anna Robertson, Director of Original Video & Social Media, the opportunities to stream videos on Facebook is a "huge opportunity for us." She spoke during [...]

The power of Apps for video news producers is profound, allowing them to "reinvent" themselves to consumers says CNN.com's Mike Toppo, Senior Director for News Operations in this segment from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit at The Washington Post earlier this month. Says Jeff Whatcott, Senior VP of Brightcove, that publishers are finding a significant value in "customer loyalty" around the [...]

After considerable anticipation and disappointment around the value of video for newspapers, one big publisher has found profitability by utilizing low cost cameras, a decentralized workflow approach and an effective sales strategy. John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company, a publisher of 324 online and print properties in 10 states, says in this interview with Beet.TV that the his company [...]

At a recent private meeting of Brightcove's top thirty clients, its media clients said that a "vast majority" of their pre-roll advertising are "sold-out," reports Jeffrey Whatcott, Brightcove SVP in this video. With a sellout, the upside opportunity is for publishers to increase views through social media and search optimization, Whatcott told the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit earlier this month in [...]