5Min, a small start-up with offices in New York and Israel, backed by Spark Capital, has landed the number 10 spot as most viewed video video property as measured by uniques, according to numbers released by comScore yesterday.  comScore reported that 5Min had over 30 million uniques in December, just behind the Turner network.Although 5Min has been called a how-to site [...]

DailyMotion, the Paris-based video sharing site which enjoys considerable popularity in Europe, has been making progress in the United States, registering at number 17 in comScore's ranking of U.S. video sites in December. In 2009, the site enjoyed a seventy percent jump in traffic in the U.S. with 12 million monthly unique visitors  consuming some 130 million videos per month.Earlier this [...]

Alex Bogusky is one of the most revered ad men working today and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, and Advertising Age. He is the chairman of Crispin Porter + Bogusky agency and the creative mastermind behind recent campaigns for superstar brands such as Burger King, Guitar Hero, [...]

5Min, the creator/syndicator of instructional Web videos registered a whopping 30.5 million video views in December, according to a report on TechCrunch. The site creates original videos and syndicates user generated and third party content. In her story, Leena Rao calls 5Min the "Hulu for Niche Content. Last year we interviewed Richard Bloom who heads biz dev at the New York-based [...]

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week. Nothing is imminent on a paid offering for TV.com, but technology is making it more feasible, he says in this interview. CBS has been [...]

Keep an eye on how the growth in online video will shift this year into the mobile world via smartphones like Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, said Will Richmond, the publisher of daily news site VideoNuze. Will and I host the podcast The VideoNuze Report each week, and I sat down with him at the recent NATPE conference in Las Vegas to [...]

BrigthtRoll, one of the biggest of the video ad networks has raised $10 million in new funding, hit profitability and its reaches over 53 million viewers monthly , according to a story by Paul Boutin in Venture Beat. Last year I spoke with BrightRoll CEO Tod Sacerdoti about his company and the market place.  Republished the video today. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer [...]

Syndicastor is helping some 80 broadcast news operations create some 30,000 online clips per month.  Clips are made available to the station's sites and various video sites including AOL, YouTube and Brightcove. Syndicastor's most recent client win  is Univision, we have learned.   Monday, YouTube announced the launch of a Univision channel.  The integration of Syndicastor and YouTube and Brightcove was reported [...]

Advertising is becoming participatory and social and because of that shift it's returning to its roots, said Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot.   We caught up with the social community and advertising thought leader at the recent NATPE conference in Las Vegas where she shared her thoughts on the transition brands are making toward more transparency with their consumers. "We [...]

Having struck media partnerships with MTV, Current, and the recent Hope for Haiti Telethon, among others, Twitter has a full plate this year, according to my interview with the company's executive Chloe Sladden. She's the director of media partnerships at Twitter and I was fortunate to interview her in a one-on-one NATPE panel last week in Las Vegas. We spoke afterward for [...]

Seattle's thePlatform, a high-end online video services provider to cable and broadcasters, is aiming its sites on a broader range of customers with today's announcement of a new publishing system.  Yesterday in Manhattan, I interviewed Ian Blaine, co-founder and CEO.  He explained to me that the new system will be easier to use, making the product more accessible for a broad [...]

In Las Vegas last week at the NATPE convention, Daisy caught up with Ross Levinsohn, former digital chief at News Corp and now a venture capitalist at Fuse Capital. Ross spoke with Daisy about some of his firm's investments including True/Slant and 5:1. As far as big trends, top of his list is online video which he says will become "mainstream" this [...]

Robin Sloan, formerly a top online strategist at Current TV is headed to Twitter to manage media partnerships, he announced on his blog. Last year in San Francisco, we spoke with Robin about his approach to API's, content syndication and the emerging state of digital journalism.  We are republishing the interview tonight.More on his move by Kim-Mai Cutler at Venture Beat.Andy [...]

Ooyala, the two-year old online video services company, is putting a big effort around its live streaming platform.  It will get considerable  exposure with the live streaming of the Grammy Awards pre-show, the "red carpet" and back stage activity. Ooyala is also streaming Grammy videos on demand.Earlier this week, the platform was used by Britain's Telegraph newspaper to stream the live [...]

LAS VEGAS -- Producers of Fox's super-popular freshman hit "Glee" will host an open casting call online for a few new roles in the Glee club. The roles are open to both amateurs and professionals. I sat down with the network's Laurel Bernard, senior VP of marketing, at the recent NATPE show to chat about the viral efforts the network has [...]

LAS VEGAS, FreeWheel, the video advertising platform, is off to a strong start, with new customers in Turner and and VEVO, the company announced earlier this week at the NAPTE convention.  Our Daisy Whitney covered the show and interviewed Brent Horowitz, head of business development at the company.Here's an in-depth story on the FreeWheel deal with Turner by Michael Learmonth at [...]

Break.com, the Los Angeles-based video portal for young men, has expanded into social games, the company announced earlier this week. We had a chance to sit down with CEO Keith Richman last week for this debrief.   We will be publishing additional interviews with Keith about the online video space.Here's the take on the news up on TechCrunch.We are delighted that Keith [...]

The Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable: An Exploration of Online Video Distribution, Analytics and Monetization Moderated by: Kara Swisher, AllThingsD and Andy Plesser, Beet.TVIn addition to the on-demand feed of the video above, we have published a number of segments and one-on-one interviews from the conference, so please check back for updates: 2/26/10 Top CBS Exec Wary of iPad's Video Content Distribution Costs 2/26/10 James [...]

Howcast, the two year-old producer and distributor of how-to short form videos, is on track to reach profitability this year, co-founder and COO Daniel Blackman said in this interview. With one million downloads of it its iPhone App, mobile is an increasingly big platform for the New York start-up.  On the revenue side, branded content has been a key element.TechCrunch's Erick [...]

To lure more ad dollars and improve the quality of Web TV shows, the International Academy of Web Television is developing a set of best practices for Web TV creators, Beet.TV has learned. While at the recent NATPE conference in Las Vegas I sat down with George Ruiz, a new media agent at ICM who also serves as secretary for the [...]