SAN FRANCISCO --- Brightcove, the big video services company which powers the online video technology for a number of news organizations including The New York Times,  the Washington Post and TIME.com, sees growing opportunities in non-media customers. Our Daisy Whitney caught up last week with Brightcove founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire at his company's networking event.He told Daisy that the company [...]

News videos created for an online publication should "amplify not echo" text stories Caleb Silver, executive producer for video at CNNMoney.com told me in this interview. Last month, the site delivered over 17 million video streams.  Caleb explains how the news gathering works at the giant business/finance site.  In addition to its staff, it can rely on the worldwide news gathering [...]

Partnerships are all the rage in the new media business. Online video technology companies, in fact, are betting on alliances with other like-minded firms to help grow business and win new customers. This week's episode of the New Media Minute looks in depth at the new partners that both Brightcove and thePlatform have brought on board and what these deals signify [...]

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Internet as an advertising vehicle can drive brand sales by more than four times when compared to television, said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni at the iMedia Brand Summit in San Diego Monday morning. He cited research comScore and others have conducted comparing the two mediums. The result: Over the course of a year, TV ads lifted retail sales by 8%, [...]

We read the TechCrunch report about Mint, the personal finance tool, which will be acquired by Intuit (Quicken, etc) for $170 million. Last year we caught up with Mint CEO Aaron Patzer, who gave us an overview of his company's offering.  We have republished the interview today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

Guided by a focus on what today's business headlines mean to jobs, savings, and homes, CNNmoney.com has been profitable with video since it began video operations more than a year ago, Chris Peacock, the site's VP and editor told Beet.TV in a recent interview. The site itself launched in 2006 with video following in early 2008. "We started video operations as [...]

Lots of buzz this week about the introduction of the iPod Nano with a video camera.  While the new Apple device seems like a cool idea, providing simple video gathering, the images are not nearly as good as the Flip SD, Chris Albrecht shows with a side-by-side video test/demo. Watching the demo, the Nano video looks like a decent camera phone.  [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The idea of clicking on a sweater your favorite TV character is wearing has long been held out as a promised land of interactivity. Now, the two-year-old interactive video startup ClikThrough said its technology is enticing Web users to watch videos longer by giving that very option: The average user clicks at least four times in a [...]

SEATTLE, WA--Making the shift from a video aggregator to a video platform is not easy--that's the warning from Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform who spoke to Beet.TV at this company's headquarters about the shakeout in the online video business this year and how it will continue to unfold. Already, casualties of 2009 include content makers like 60 Frames and ManiaTV, while [...]

Adobe today announced that it is extending digital rights management, DRM, for Flash files which are downloaded by users.   While Flash is popularly used to stream video, more high quality, longform content is going to be increasingly downloaded more and content owners want more protection.This effort to beef up DRM, has been available since March of last year.  For an explanation [...]

Today there is a huge New York Times, four-photo, above-the-fold feature on Gary Vaynerchuk, host of the popular and influential wine video blog Wine Library TV. The paper reports that Gary has a million dollar, 10-book contract with HarperStudio. It is fascinating to see that Gary has parlayed his video blog and relentless social networking into a successful personality-driven business, which [...]

Time.com has grown its video viewership five times in the last year in part by producing unusual and interesting videos that you won't find on a nightly newscast, including a new partnership with popular Web star Ze Frank, the site's Craig Duff, director of multimedia, told us. Frank is best known for his project "The Show," and he continues to be [...]

Microsoft will preview two new Silverlight features at the IBC in Amsterdam later this week.   Mary-Jo Foley at ZDNet has some of the details. Here is the company press release. Earlier this summer in Redmond, we spoke with Chris Swenson for an update on Silverlight. We have republished the interview today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

REDMOND, WA -- Bing, the newly introduced search engine from Microsoft, assembles videos from sources beyond video sharing sites, an approach which we find more open and "universal." Most video search engines process information provided by sharing sites via a feed of videos, which include the video file and related metadata about the clip.  While Bing seems to do an effective [...]

Interesting first-person story today by Meetup founder Scott Heiferman in The New York Times. We interviewed Scott three years ago for his explanation of  the success of Meetup and the concept of  "group power."   We have republished the video today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

Web syndication service and how-to video site 5min.com is generating 3.5 million uniques per month, but the real action is in the company's distribution platform, 5min's senior VP business development Richard Bloom told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month. That's because 5min can reach 250 million unique visitors across its distribution network and delivers 22 million video views each month, [...]

Charging for your services is the new black. Web video startups, like WatchMojo.com and Magnify.net are realizing that there's nothing wrong with getting paid for their content and services; in fact such practices can lead to staying in business and turning a profit. WatchMojo produces infotainment videos that it licenses to advertisers such as McDonald's and Coca-Cola and to a range [...]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Imaging of the streets here has been underway by Google for Street View since April, but this might be the first time the Google car has been caught working in this picturesque capital. By chance, I spotted the Google car quickly driving around the historic district of the city on Monday (8/31), near the Charles Bridge.  I [...]

CBS-owned TV.com plans to launch its first original Web series this month with a weekly recap of prime-time programming, the New Media Minute has learned. The show will be hosted by Web veteran Julie Alexandria. The show will include clips, commentary, and an interactive poll. Other networks are planning companion Web shows for marquee properties, such as the CW with "Melrose [...]

Time.com has been building out its video library with a clear goal in mind: taking people to places they can't go without the video. That's what the site's managing editor Josh Tyrangiel told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month about how he journalistically approaches online video. Journalists should keep "story diagnostics" in mind when planning a video piece and [...]