About.com, the online network of special interest communities, enjoys "unbelievable margins" from Google AdSense, said Martin Nisenholtz, who heads digital operations at The New York Times Company, which owns About.com. Nisenholtz was a panelist Monday at the OMMA conference where I taped his comments.  (His reference to AdSense comes up at 2:45 in the clip.) He says that companies who create low [...]

On Monday, veteran media executive Greg Coleman will get to work at the Huffington Post as President and Chief Revenue Officer.  His joining is part of an expansion the site's business operation, Eric Hippeau, CEO,  told me earlier this week. In this interview, he said that the plan is to put in place a business structure which will  match revenue with [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Because a comment has become currency in the social media world, a company that's built out commenting technology for the Web is now profitable.  At the recent Brightcove Alliance event in San Francisco earlier this month, I connected with Khris Loux, the CEO of Silicon Valley-based JS-Kit, best known for its "Echo" commenting system that lets users [...]

So, its official, Twitter has raised $100 million in venture funding.  It will be interesting to see how funding will change the company.  We see Twitter as a powerful media enterprise, a topic I discussed with co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams when we spoke at the All Things D conference in May.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

Online video will comprise 90 percent of the world's Internet traffic by 2013, Intel's Justin Rattner told the BBC's Maggie Shields.  Gearing up for the explosion, Intel is developing new processors which can more effectively bring video to computers and other consumer electronic devices.Earlier this year in San Francisco, I spoke with Intel's Wilfred Martis about the emergence of online video [...]

Syndicating online video to different Web sites is not an easy task, with sites running numerous different video players and formats.  But it seems that New York-based Mochila has a bit of breakthrough by putting videos into a display ad unit which can be used by virtually any Web site. The company is syndicating content for IDG onto several of the Tribune [...]

The Google book deal is on hold, according The New York Times reports, citing a decision by a Federal court judge.  Earlier this year, we spoke with Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker on the scope of the settlement.  We have republished that interview tonight.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor  

After five years in gestation and much anticipation, online video advertising is reaching a "tipping point," of becoming a major part of the media mix, writes Temor Media CEO Jason Glickman in a guest column on Fortune's Brainstorm blog. Tremor is among the fastest growing online video ad networks. I interviewed Jason in May at the Wall Street Journal's All Things D [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- Video is an essential part of Yahoo's business, CEO Carol Bartz told me yesterday at the company's news conference here. She said, a "big cornerstone of our strategy is video."According to Nielsen, Yahoo! served over a quarter billion streams to 28 million unique users in August. While small compared to YouTube's 7 billion videos, much of [...]

NEW YORK -- Despite the gloom around the advertising and media world, we found Advertising Week and its many events upbeat. I caught up with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on Monday evening outside the tent AOL erected in Times Square for a  big advertiser event.         AOL has made a big move to New York in recent month and Armstrong told me [...]

It's one of the most natural habits when online -- hitting the back button or clicking over to Google. But the Web services company Apture wants to help publishers avoid that "flight to Google" ...... ....by providing tools that can keep Internet visitors on a site longer. In fact, Apture CEO Tristan Harris told me at the Brightcove Alliance event in [...]

The video production and matchmaking sector of the online video business is heating up. One of the newest entrants is video production marketplace MediaMobz, a company that joined the Brightcove partner program earlier this month. At the recent Brightcove Alliance event in San Francisco I talked to MediaMobz CEO Dave Toole about competition in the marketplace with firms like TurnHere, [...]

Everyone's searching for a business model that works in the new media world. Well, how about this one? Getting paid. In this week's New Media Minute, I expand on stories first reported here on Beet.TV. I look at two business-to-business players recently shifted from ad-centric models to license fees and are starting to turn a profit. Those companies are production shop [...]

Online ad inventory company the Rubicon Project, has raised a new round of $9 million from NBCU and other earlier investors, paidContent's David Kaplan reports. Here is the press release. We interviewed CEO Frank Addante last year and have republished the clip today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

In the view of Huffington Post technology editor Jose Antonio Vargas, if technology were a solar system, the core of the systems around which most technology revolves is Apple, Facebook and Google. This is the second part of my interview with the former Washington Post technology writer who is now an editor at the Huffington Post.  The technology page launched on [...]

Particle, the San Francisco based start-up funded by Justin Timberlake, launched a product called Robo.to in May, which is a Web application that allows users to upload a four second video created on a mobile device or Web cam and share it on various social network sites . Today, the company is expanding its service with something called TV Mode, which [...]

The Huffington Post, the Web's most influential blog, is launching a technology section today edited by Jose Antonio Vargas, former Washington Post reporter.  Signed-up to blog are a number technology innovators and wonks including FCC chairman Julius Genachowski who will write about net neutrality, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and others.Jose says in this interview that "technology is [...]

Earlier this summer, the Verizon FiOS, the Internet/television/phone service, integrated Facebook and Twitter into its platform, allowing subscribers to initiate Twitter alongside their favorite shows. Here's the story by CNET's Maggie Reardon. These days, "billions" of Tweets are being generated monthly, according to Joe Ambeault, Director of Consumer Product Development, in this interview with Beet.TVJoe told us that Facebook is increasingly [...]

Ensequence, a software company that provides interactive tools to video producers, has raised $22 million in new funding and is about to close on an additional $14.5 million, bringing its total raise to about $100 million, reports Rafat Ali on paidContent this morning. We spoke with CEO Dalen Harrison last year and have republished the video today.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer and [...]

Mixpo, the Seattle-based company which integrates local television advertising into local websites, is now offering its platform to advertising agencies, the company announced today. We spoke with CEO Anupam Gupta last week here in New New York.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor