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 [...]

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REDMOND, WA -- msnbc.com has grown ad revenues for the fiscal year that just ended in June and is attracting advertisers in a range of categories, the site's President Charlie Tillinghast told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month. "We have grown tremendously over the last year. Advertising in the display sector is still suffering...but we are seeing a changing [...]

Despite the high-profile loss of Hulu content earlier this year, Boxee users are still tuning in: the average Boxee user watches six to seven TV shows and three movies on the Web-to-TV service each week, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month. Ronen spoke to Beet.TV after his convergence startup raised an additional $6 million in [...]

One of the last interviews with Ted Kennedy that was done is up on BigThink, the little New York-based start-up which creates and publishes interviews with thought leaders. The company has raised angel money from several notables, including top White House economics adviser Lawrence Summers, and has been doing well with an advertising syndication deals.  We've seen the clips on sites [...]

Magnify is growing dollars by migrating customers to a fee-based service, the company's CEO Steve Rosenbaum told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month. Magnify.net is a video platform that has built its business around search, discovery, and curation of online programming, which has helped the company command a network of 61,000 sites uploading 2.1 million videos each week. Notable [...]

YouTube will stream the OutsideLand's music festival from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this weekend.  It is the first music festival streamed the big video sharing site. In 2008, YouTube live streamed a community event in San Francisco, but this is the first full music event.  The three-day concert will include performances by the Dave Matthews Band, Jason Mraz, Thievery Corporation, [...]

Media executives at News Corp., Disney, and NBC are talking about paid content models online being all the rage, but a new eMarketer report says that's just not going to happen. This episode also covers new features on the popular video directory OVGuide.com, as well as a tip on a great companion Web series for USA Network's show "Burn Notice."Editor's Note:  Daisy's [...]

Buoyed by the overall growth in video RSS feeds, Web video service Channels.com is releasing a new version of its service today that indexes four times as many Web shows as it did just four months ago, the company said.  In a telephone call with Channels CEO Sean Doherty today, he explained to me how the increasing usage of video RSS [...]

REDMOND, WA -- The transcription of the voice track of video has proven to be a big value by making video more searchable. Now, it is making video editing more effective and scalable, explains Charles Tillinghast, President and Publisher of msnbc.com. A number of technologies are being used by msnbc.com to automatically transcribe and organize raw video and create associated transcripts [...]

Congratulations to Blaise Zerega and the crew at Fora.tv for being named one of the 50 best Websites by TIME.com. Fora finds itself in mighty impressive company.  We've published this video by TIME.com's Shea Hess who talks about Fora.tv and other winning sites. Below is my video interview with Blaise done earlier this year in San Francisco.Here is the list [...]

REDMOND, WA -- Companies seeking to harness the power of videoblogging need to look at Channel 9, the pioneering site launched back in 2003.  Today, 4.5 million visitors per month come to the site to learn about Microsoft products and the developers and executives behind them. Over the past 5 years, the some 10,000 videos have been uploaded to the site.  Many [...]

Long form journalism, a staple of  magazines like Time, is not working, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of TIME.com. In this third part of my chat with Josh, he explains how stories are written and edited for the Web.  He says that  some 95 percent of content on his site is created exclusively for the Web.He says that a a [...]

Traffic to Newser, the news aggregator, has dramatically dropped from a peak of 1.6 million uniques to 565,000, reports Zach Steward in the Nieman Journalism Lab, siting Quancast numbers. Earlier this year, I interviewed Newser co-founder Michael Wolff.  In his report, Wolff explains some of the reasons for the decline, citing changing "distribution deals."In June, company raised $2.5 million in funding.  [...]

REDMOND, WA -- Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of the Microsoft Web browser, provides users with the ability  to use a drop down menu of recent stories from a designated site.  Microsoft calls these "Web Slices."  A handful of publishers have made their feeds available as Web Slices including Digg, eBay, ESPN, Bing and a few others.Not only are [...]

Seems like a bunch of guys like watching a video mix of humor, sports and and attractive women that Heavy.com is serving up.  comScore just reported that traffic to the site jumped 41 percent in July to 5.3 million uniques. Last June at paidContent event, I interviewed CMO Eric Hadley for the overview on the site and its formula for success.Andy [...]

RealNetworks released RealPlayer SP today, a software application which allows users to sync videos to a number of mobile devices including the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Palm Pre. The software also allows users to share downloaded videos on social networks.  It had been in beta since June.In June, we spoke with RealNetwork's Jeff Chasen who explains the new offering and provides a [...]

Watching video on a BlackBerry right now is not the best experience -- it involves a download then playback.  According to a post on the Boy Genius Report, support for Flash Video and Silverlight will be streaming to the BlackBerry in around 12 months. Although a more limited version of Flash, called Flash Lite, is on many mobile devices outside [...]

Mixpo, the Seattle-based online video advertising management platform, is partnering with NCC, a big player in local cable television media buying, the two companies announced today. Earlier this year, we spoke with Mixpo CEO Anupam Gupta.  We have republished the interview today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor