Vimeo has become the video sharing site of choice for many videographers and professional film makers. With its ad-free player and high quality playback, it has become the "hipster YouTube," writes John Patrick Pullen in Fortune magazine. Last August, we sat down with Vimeo GM Dae Mellencamp for an overview on Vimeo's growth and its unique appeal to the creative community.  [...]

paidContent is putting on an extraordinary, one-day digital media conference on March 3 in New York at The New York Times Center. We will be there to cover.  Beet.TV is delighted to be a media sponsor. As part of our sponsorship, we are pleased to extend a 15 percent discount to our Beet Peeps.  Arianna, Keith Tim and Nick will be there [...]

The Journal Register Company, the big local newspaper chain with nearly 324 publications serving over 900 communities in 10 states, will beat AOL's Patch or the Huffington Post in its home markets, says CEO John Paton in this interview with Beet.TV. The company is profitable, well established and has thoroughly embraced a successful digital strategy, focusing on "digital first."  Paton is something [...]

SpotXchange, one of the leading online video networks, has launched an automatic optimization engine for online video advertising.  For an overview of SpotXchange, the new optimization system and the state of online video advertising, we spoke with CEO Michael Shehan. In December, the Colorado-based company raised $12 million in funding which is allowing the company's international expansion. Andy Plesser

Ooyala, the fast-growing Mountain View, California- based provider online video services, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan to manage and distribute a broad range of video services. The agreement calls for Ooyala system to power Yahoo! Japan video.  Additionally, the companies will jointly market the solution to broadcasters, publishers and enterprise users, the companies announced [...]

The Journal Register Company, a large newspaper group with 324 publications in the local markets of 10 states, is quickly scaling its online video offering by providing video cameras to its editorial staff. Unlike most video journalists who need to edit locally on a program such as Final Cut, or send files to a video editor to cut, the  paper's reporters [...]

WASHINGTON -- Increasing numbers of film makers and videographers are using a "still" camera to create video images of extraordinary quality.  The camera which is getting the most use is the Canon, EOS 5D Mark II, which sells for around $2500. The camera is widely used by Associated Press photographers who are increasingly using it to shoot video segments.   In this interview [...]

WASHINGTON -- CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year.  Part of the success around the network's growth has been by streaming programming on popular live portals with channels on Livestream and Ustream, in addition to the network's live player. Live programming engages an audience in a significant way, explains Mark [...]

WASHINGTON - Many top financial institutions are producing original video programming in-house, from 90-second equity analyst reports to market analysis and extended discussions.  Scores of banks, including JP Morgan Chase and UBS, are having their video content distributed by Thomson Reuters via Reuters Insider. Reuters Insider is a subscription service which exists on the Reuters desktop used by some 500,000 financial [...]

Carloyn Everson, who joined Microsoft to head sales just last June, is joining Facebook to head global sales, Kara Swisher reported last night. In November at the Monaco Media Forum, I interviewed Everson about her views on digital advertising, including the lack of inventory around online video and the opportunities around the emerging medium.  I have republished that interview here. More coverage here [...]

With the rapid rise in tablet and smartphone adoption, a number of apps and tech tools have emerged that allow users to stream videos from their mobile devices back to the TV. They include Airplay, Skifta, Eyecon, Rovi and Snapstick. For the rundown on how to stream your smartphone videos on your TV, check out this week's New Media Minute. -Daisy Whitney Editor's [...]

Online video demographics are shifting towards older females and ad agencies are taking note. The Web viewing world had been dominated early on by young guys, but now women 34 to 64 are watching online video and that’s especially encouraging for consumer packaged goods advertisers, said Michael Turcotte, VP media director at Zenith Media. He attended the recent YuMe road show [...]

WASHINGTON -- During the unrest in Egypt, CNN iReporters uploaded 1600 videos and photos,of which 44 were vetted for use on CNN.  While there is value having citizen reporting out on the streets, verifying the content can be an arduous task, according to panelists speaking in this 7:30 minute clip from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit at The Washington Post. One of [...]

Nielsen clients have been leaning heavily on its cross-platform measurement tools especially given the increase in online video viewing, said Nielsen’s Howard Shimmel at the YuMe Road Show in New York. In introducing the results of a Nielsen-YuMe study on reallocating TV ad dollars to online video, Shimmel explained that brands can measure cross-platform effectiveness of a media buy using Nielsen/TV [...]

Kaltura, the open-source online video platform, has secured $20 million in funding from existing and new investors including Intel, the company announced today. In November, we spoke with Kaltura president and co-founder Michal Tsur.  We have republished her interview today. Today, Intel announced investments in several companies. Andy Plesser

WASHINGTON -- MSNBC.com has reported that January was the biggest month for online video with 162 million views.  While big news stories including the Tuscon shootings, floods in Australia and the unrest in Egypt, have driven views, a big factor has been the recent integration of MSNBC.com videos in site and blog pages, says Stokes Young, Director of Multimedia at MSNBC.com The [...]

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK via TokBox  -- TokBox, the San Francisco-based group video chat company, has shuttered its consumer product and is putting its efforts around an API for publishers seeking to incorporate group video conferencing into their Web pages.  The new product is called OpenTok. Unlike Skype Video, which offers group video conferencing but requires an application, TokBox runs on Flash [...]

Online video can play a vital role in a media buy because it increases impression numbers without increasing costs, said Travis Hockersmith, director of market analytics at online video network YuMe. We spoke to him during the YuMe Road Show in New York recently and he highlighted several key findings from the recent research YuMe undertook with Frank N. Magid and [...]

WASHINGTON - Touted just three or four years ago as a promising editorial and business opportunity for newspapers to compete with local television stations and to grab new visitors and revenue streams, a large number of newspapers are cutting back on video and laying off video journalists, according to a study of 100 U.S. newspapers undertaken by the Associated Press. The [...]

Online video is watched at least once a day 13% of all Internet users. For YuMe users, however, the number is much higher --about 49% of YuMe users* watch online video at least once a day, with 22% who report watching online video had become part of their daily routine, said Mike Vorhaus, president of Frank N. Magid Associates, during [...]