SAN FRANCISCO -- The giant media agency MediaVest is a big believer in online video and is now turning to the Web to precisely target audiences, said Donna Speciale, president of investment and activation and agency operations. I caught up with her at the recent 4A's conference.  She talked about how clients are starting to consider a wide range of video sites, including small [...]

Blip.tv, the New York based video sharing and services company that publishes episodic Web video shows had 85 million video views in February, according to report by Will Richmond in VideoNuze. Most of the the views (85%) are being monetized by pre-roll and overlay advertising from many national brands.Here's Blip's announcement of the progress with traffic and ads.Last summer,  I spoke [...]

AUSTIN - Fox TV Studios is using its new digital studio 15 Gigs as an incubator for new types of content that might also make the leap to the TV, said  Rachel Webber, director of digital strategy and development at Fox TV Studios.  We caught up with her at SXSW in Austin this month, and she talked about the types of partnerships 15 Gigs is pursuing. The [...]

NEW YORK -- Cisco Systems, which has a big* video teleconference business with a product called TelePresence, is entering the broadcast world with the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who is using the system to conduct remote interviews. Unlike most conventional remote interview set-ups where a guest listens to questions in a an earphone, the TelePresence system displays both participants on large screens [...]

The historically private daily deliberations of New York Times editors in their Page One meeting, which sets the day's coverage and has a big impact on the global news cycle, are now being shared in a daily video program called TimesCast. Snippets of the meeting, along with one-on-one interviews with editors and reporters about news of the day, are edited into [...]

Today, Fox is expected to announce a Hulu-like service for mobile devices that will offer a range of content from Fox, NBC Universal, and Discovery, according to a report in GigaOM The free application comes with sneak previews, and full content will have a $10 a month subscription fee. It is expected to launch "in several weeks."Last month in San Francisco, [...]

With Apple's iPad hitting the market in a matter of days, the computer giant's entrance into tablets and eReaders is expected to give the digital book business a boost. In this week's New Media Minute I report that according to a recent eMarketer study, the eReader market in the United States will reach 6 million units this year and will rise [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- In a hopeful sign of the recovery in the technology industry, Adobe released its Q1 results and registered a 9 percent increase in sales over the same period last year and beat analysts' earnings estimates. "Stability in our creative business, combined with strength in our Acrobat and Omniture solutions, helped drive strong financial performance in Q1," said Shantanu [...]

Justin.tv, the big live webcasting service, has launched an iPhone application, allowing viewers to watch, share and interact with all the thousands of live streaming channels on the site. For an explanation and overview of the new app, Justin.tv's VP for Marketing Evan Solomon put together this explanation of the service for Beet.TV.  Following his comments is a demo of the [...]

LONDON --  The  lack of a by-line for  Economist writers provides a high degree of access, which is a big benefit in the reporting process, says Executive Editor Daniel Franklin in this interview with Beet.TV at The Economist's headquarters.  While anonymity is strictly the rule for the print publication and related online stories, the editors have decided that blogs require some [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Los Angeles-based Break Media has found a growing business around Web videos targeting males 18-34.  Key to its success is the matching of good content with a smart distribution strategy, says Keith Richman, CEO of Break Media. Last month, the company made a big expansion on the content side with the acquisition of FileFront, a gaming site. Daisy caught [...]

LONDON -- LIvestation, the small London-based start-up that organizes real-time feeds of 20 of the world's leading video news sources, had 5 million video views with 65 million minutes of video watched in January, according to founder and CEO Matteo Berlucci. I caught up with Berlucci at our London event earlier this month.  He explained how his business works with several [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Revision3 is experimenting with offering more shows live as well as on-demand, the company's CEO Jim Louderback told us at the recent Beet.TV online video roundtable in San Francisco. Earlier this year, the Web TV company began recording its gaming show "Co-Op" live so viewers can watch the show online as it happens on Revision3.com and Justin.TV, with [...]

LONDON -- As publishers seek to maximize revenue around online video, many are studying consumer attitude towards the number of in-stream ads they will accept.   According to early research by Turner in Europe, which distributes entertainment content online there, consumers are willing to accept a full ad load as long as the ads are relevant.These are the comments by Caroline Casey, [...]

LONDON -- The Guardian newspaper has been innovating with online video since 2006, has invested heavily in video operations in its new headquarters, and is finding traction with its own brand of journalistic video. These are comments by Stephen Dunn, head of technology strategy at the newspaper, in this interview.  Dunn notes that while video reside in a video section, the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO - The advertising business finally has the data, tools, and analytics to measure cross-platform reach and frequency across mediums, said Mike Bologna, director of emerging communications at GroupM, when I caught up with him at the 4A's conference earlier this month. GroupM is the giant media operation for the WPP advertising agencies.  The availability of that data is attracting [...]

AUSTIN -- Justine "iJustine" Ezarik, a Web video celebrity and producer, has leveraged her skills and enormous network of followers into a cottage industry of branded content for major companies, including GE, Intel, and Nikon, she told Beet.TV at SXSW last weekend. While her business is coming along, the challenges in creating and monetizing branded content can be daunting, she says.  [...]

Chris Hughes, one of the three founders of Facebook who left the social media giant to manage social media operations for the Obama presidential campaign, is launching "Jumo" a site to help charitable organizations in fundraising and outreach. The site will launch this fall, the Wall Street Journal reports. We caught up with Chris in Palo Alto,  way back in the summer [...]

Kaltura, the open source online video services company, has launched a site to provide resources around HTML5.  The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, and the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura announced this morning. Daisy caught up with Kaltura CEO Ron Yekutiel in Las Vegas at the NAPTE convention last year.  We are republishing the interview today. For an overview [...]

AUSTIN -- We caught up with digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW this weekend to get his take on the whole "free" movement around content.  He tells us that "free everything is a fantasy." On UGC, he says it's not going to a big business and the future of video is television.Much more of Mark along with Boxee's Avner Rovner from [...]