PARIS -- Digitas, the global interactive unit of media giant Publicis Groupe, has a dedicated agency for Nissan in Europe, called DNA/Digitas (Dedicated Nissan Agency). The agency has been creating innovative video for the Nissan Qashqai.  The recent campaign has run in 25 counties and in 26 languages throughout Europe.  We have edited some of the footage into this clip. In Paris [...]

In a profile of Mediagazer editor Megan McCarthy just out in the American Journalism Review, VentureBeat executive edtor and former boss Owen Thomas calls her "the cyborborg of news, the borg queen of the blogosphere." He explains her value in changing journalism ecosystem: "Megan is not a storyteller. She's a natural story collector. Increasingly, that's a role that has value." Bring Your [...]

NEW YORK -- With last month's launch of the new Twitter Web page, selected beta users have been able to embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo.  Now, Brightcove has been authorized by Twitter to have its videos embedded. Last week, at an Akamai/Brightcove rooftop event, we spoke with Brightcove's SVP, Marketing Jeff Whatcott about the opportunities for publishers to share video on [...]

Today's news from Nielsen about the fast growth of Android to become the most popular mobile operating system in the U.S. owes much of its success to the support of Verizon Wireless, says Ross Rubin, lead technology analayst at the NPD Group. Rubin says that Verizon's predominent installed base and price support for the sophisticated device are the key factors in [...]

Consumers are increasingly searching for brands and businesses using their mobile phones. Google has said about 20 percent of searches on Google.com are now related to location and about one-third of all Google searches via the mobile platform are related to the searcher’s local environment. Google searches via the mobile platform are related to the searcher’s local environment. Here's a look [...]

Viewdle, the facial recognition company with its origins in the Soviet military, has closed a $10 million funding round  with the the BlackBerry VC fund and Qualcomm, David Kaplan at paidContent reports on the deal this morning. In July, I interviewed John Albright, co-managing partner of the BlackBerry fund and its investment in Viewdle.  He explains how the Viewdle technology will [...]

Last month, VideoEgg, the online video ad network announced it was buying SixApart, the big blog platform company which operates Movable Type and TypePad. The merged company, will be called SAY Media and will be based in San Francisco. Last week, we sat down with CEO Matt Sanchez in his New York office to talk about the acquisition.  In this first of [...]

While Google's Android OS has been has been a huge hit for handsets, thanks in part to subsidization in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless, there will be no sort of carrier support for Google TV.  This lack of support may limit the success of the new Google platform outside a group of enthusiasts, says Ross Rubin, senior tech analyst of the [...]

PARIS -- Dailymotion, the big global video sharing site, has been developing tools for content discovery including "hubs," areas of content around themes and personal interest. Grandin Donovan, Product Manager, explain the development of tools around content discovery.  He describes the new hubs as sort of "Facebook pages." For serving up related videos, Dailymotion is working with the London-based The Filter. He also [...]

NEW YORK -- The "currency" of online advertisnig will shift from the current CPM model of cost per impression, to a "cost-per-view" model in which advertisers only pay for the ads which are watched, says Google's Barry Salzman, head of media and platforms for the Americas in this interview with Beet.TV That transition will begin when Google introduces its "viewer's choice" [...]

Vimeo, the video sharing site favored by independent content creators and an increasing number of consumers, is developing an iPhone App, according to a report on NewTeeVee. Recently, we sat down with Vimeo's general manager Dae Mellencamp for this overview on the emergence of HTML5 at Vimeo.  She also discusses the recent integration with Vimeo into Roku. We are publishing this interview [...]

In its rankings for video views in August for the U.S., comScore has found that the San Francisco-based video ad network Brightroll has served up nearly 470 million video ads, ranking second to Hulu for most ads served. For "content" video viewing, YouTube has reached 1.9 billion video views.  According to comScore, YouTube has 146 million unique users who watch about [...]

NEW YORK -- While rich media display ads comprise just 6 percent of Web advertising now, that number will vastly increase as the cost and complexity of serving comes down, says Barry Salzman, Google's Managing Director of Media and Platforms, the Americas, in this video interview with Beet.TV Salzman says that rich media, including video display advertising, will appear on "hundreds [...]

PARIS -- VivaKi, the digital and media arm of the giant Publicis Groupe, has formed a division committed to creating original branded campaigns. The new unit, called Newcast, was created in London inside the ZenithOptimedia network. The unit now has 11 offices worldwide, with plans in place for expansion, we are told.  Its global headquarters is in London. Newcast in France is [...]

VivaKi, the digital unit of the giant Paris-based Publicis Groupe, is set to unveil details this week of the online video ad format ASQ that it helped to develop as part of its work with the Rising Tide Coop. The ad format is essentially a slate before a video that lets consumers choose from one of three ads to watch. It's not [...]

  After 40 years, it is gratifying to connect with so many young people who are watching and commenting on my high school film in a new, mashed-up form. There have been 400,000 views, with over 500 ratings, and 600 comments with more added daily. The mash-up was done by a YouTube member who calls herself Sara "Adorkable," she says she is 19 [...]

5MIN, the fast growing syndicator of online video, mostly lifestyle and "how to" clips, has been sold to AOL, according to a report by Peter Kafka of All Things Digital, MediaMemo. Peter says the deal will be announced this morning. In June, CEO Ran Harnevo participated in the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable.  We have republished a segment of Ran speaking about the [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif - Cisco, which has a high-end video conferencing business called TelePresence, will announce in October a consumer product for as little as $500 per unit, according to a report out on Reuters. This year,  Cisco bought and integrated a lower priced product line of video conferencing gear from Norway's Tandberg. The introduction of the new line is part [...]

PARIS -- Dailymotion, the Paris-based online video site, has registered a 21 percent rise in unique visitors around the globe to reach 70 million, according to the latest numbers from comScore Media Metrix. According to comScore, monthly unique viewers to Dailymotion in North America has jumped to 15 million, a 57 percent increase over the same twelve-month period. (See below.) Citing internal [...]

Media is changing so we might as well get good at it. That's what David Pescovitz, founder of Boing Boing and a thought leader at the Institute for the Future says. I had a chance to nab an interview with this visionary mind and asked him what we should be afraid of and what we should be embracing when it [...]