Justin.tv, the big consumer site for live streaming, has just launched an Android app for creating live streaming.  According to Evan Solomon,  VP of marketing, it is superior to current offerings from competitors Qik and Ustream. Evan tells Beet.TV that the quality of the stream is better and the app takes far less battery life that its competitors. At the end of [...]

Earlier this month, Vimeo, the IAC-owned video sharing site, announced an integration with Roku.  More than just featuring videos and providing search, the implementation is highly personalized, very Web like. For a demonstration of Vimeo on Roku, we spoke with Dae Mellenchamp, general manager of IAC. In his review, USA Today's Jefferson Graham called the Roku integration "a beauty."  We agree. Today, Roku [...]

In the race to provide more tools to advertisers in online video, tech firms like Taboola and Adap.TV are rolling out new features and landing new deals. Taboola and Revision3 recently reported that Revision3 viewers were 90% more likely to watch another video when Taboola served up recommended video picks for them. Meanwhile, Adap.TV just introduced a new brand measurement tool [...]

Taboola, the video recommendation engine which is used by publishers to provide "related" or "recommended" videos at the end of clips, has introduced a system for publishers to offer up recommended video thumbnails at around text articles. For the new service, the company spiders text stories and provides thumbnails of videos adjacent or below the article.  Videos are selected by both [...]

As publishers consider creating mobile video Apps vs maximizing their mobile Web for video, Apps provide a valuable, persistent connection with the most loyal and valued fans. This is the view of Bob Mason, co-founder and CTO of Brightcove, the big online video platform company which has implemented a mobile App for the Financial Times. Mason was panelist at the Beet.TV Online [...]

Vimeo, the fast-growing IAC unit,  is throwing a two-day online video festival and awards program to celebrate the community of video creators. The event on October 8 and 9 is being held at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC offices and at screening rooms at the School of Visual Arts.  It is open to the public. Vimeo has been the domain of filmmakers and [...]

Vizu, the San Francisco-based advertising analytics company, has created a system to track the "brand lift" of online video ads. It also provides information on how to optimize targets for advertisers and ad networks. All of these services are provided in real time.  According to CEO Dan Beltrano, these tools make online video more effective and provides much higher rates for publishers. Here [...]

Cisco, ramping up its efforts around online video management services, has purchased Boston-based ExtendMedia for an undisclosed sum, Cisco announded today. Dan Rayburn puts the value of the deal at around $80 million. As we reported last year, ExtendMedia is playing a key role in the "TV Everywhere" initiative of cable operators. We have republished our interview with ExtendMedia President and Founder Keith [...]

Cisco's Eos, a hosted digital publishing solution, is now powering 67 web sites and delivering a total of 11 million monthly page views to customers, a Cisco spokesperson has told us. One of the most recent customers to sign on is the London Organizing Committee for the Olympics and Paraolympic Games. In addition to London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, recent [...]

Los Angeles-based Machinima, the fast-growing video gaming video site, uses YouTube as its primary publishing platform and gets nearly 130 million monthly video views. In this segment from the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, Machinima CEO Allen DeBevoise explains the value of YouTube as a publishing and distribution platform.  He also explains the value of interactivity in online Web video programming.  He [...]

As publishers continue to wrap their arms around digital books and as high-profile authors like Seth Godin announce their departure from traditional publishing, the book business is quickly experimenting with new media platforms. So keep an eye on an intriguing new company launching officially this fall called Figment Fiction, that marries social networking, community and both user-generated and professional writing. It’s an [...]

Earlier this year at the Streaming Media East Conference, I was interviewed by videoblogger/online video evangelist Larry Kless. I spoke about the origins of Beet.TV, its editorial focus and where things are going. I'm not crazy about being on camera, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to speak with Larry for this clip. He did a great job in editing this piece [...]

While much of buzz about video streaming has been about Netflix, Amazon has around four times as many videos available -- and provides TV shows the next day and movies the day a DVD is shipped. While Netflix streaming is a monthly subscription, the Amazon service costs per program/film as rental or purchase.Amazon has proven quite popular on Roku, the Internet-connected [...]

San Francisco-based web video syndicator AlphaBird is handling syndication services for Warner Studio 2.0 Web originals, the company announced today.  The principal outlet for the series will be DailyMotion.  Chase Norlin, CEO of AlphaBird explained the role of his company in getting visibility for the Warner Web series.   "Alphabird does video syndication, that’s all we do and we have the [...]

Brigthcove, the big online video platform company, announced that its customer base has doubled this year, is expanding rapidly and hiring key executives. Last year, we spoke with CEO Jeremy Allaire about the company's plans for growth.  We have republished that interview here. The company is said to be considering an IPO in 2010.Here is a report on the company's news [...]

While camera phones and mobile devices have been used by news reporters to shoot and send video for some time,  the BlackBerry has been mostly a communications tool.  With a more sophisticated video camera on later models, this could change. Kyte, the San Francisco-based online video platform, has launched the ability of customers to upload BlackBerry files directly into the management [...]

Vimeo, the online video site, a unit of IAC, will now provide video distribution to the television set via Roku, the companies announced today. This is an expansion in the offering of Web original video programming for Roku, which presently distributes Blip.tv content and others. The site now features 50 streaming channels. Roku offers a number of free and subscription services [...]

Tremor Media, the New York-based video ad network, had 450 million video ad views in July, according to the comScore report. comScore puts Tremor second to Hulu in most ads served.   This is the second month when comScore has broken video views into two categories:  videos ads and video content served.  BrightRoll registers third with 243,000 ads viewed.On the content [...]

Social media monitoring company Networked Insights has found that media agencies are improving efficiency in their TV buys by 5% to 12% when they consider the social media ripple effect surrounding a TV show. The company's Social Sense TV tool measures online engagement for TV shows across social media and then helps media agencies understand how to value the on-air [...]

Magnetic, the New York-based search retargeting firm, has linked with the giant online video ad network BrightRoll for a video ad retargeting program, the companies have announced. For an explanation of Magnetic's technology and the opportunity for advertisers and publishers, we sat down with CEO Josh Shatkin-Margolis.  The company has raised $5.25 million in venture funding. Andy Plesser