Earlier week, CBS News introduced a completely redesigned website with more videos featured and integrated into text reporting.  In addition to the site redesign, the network is adding more web-video only programs, including the daily Washington Unplugged (clip below) and the new Crimesider spin-off of 48 Hours.On Tuesday, I went over to the CBS Broadcast Center to speak with Mark [...]

The high-pitched YouTube star Fred is earning a six-figure income from his online videos and his status as the most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time, Google's Eileen Naughton told attendees at the OMMA Video conference in New York earlier this week. That money is helping push online video as a category to command 4% of all online ad revenue -- still [...]

Brands like Home Depot and Red Bull are using TubeMogul to launch themselves into the same realm as media companies.  Mark Rotblat, VP of Sales & Marketing at TubeMogul spoke with Andy last week at the Advertising 2.0 conference in New York. He notes that media companies such as Revision3 and Next New Networks widely use TubeMogul, but the distance between [...]

Earlier this week, authorities in Iran blocked YouTube along with several other sites and mobile networks.  For YouTube, the crackdown has been highly effective, with traffic dropping by 90 percent. This number is from internal log files provided to Beet.TV by a YouTube spokesperson.I've pasted here a video of citizen video of someone apparently being beaten in the front yard by [...]

Tremor Media, the New York-based online video advertising network, has one billion video impressions and 135 million unique video viewers in its network according to Jason Glickman, CEO. He says that despite all the buzz about instream and interactive advertising, pre-roll advertising is the industry's mainstay. Last week, Tremor introduced new enhanced video ad units and comScore announced last month the [...]

Staci Kramer over at paidContent has a story up about a big shake-up at the Huffington Post, with veteran publishing executive and VC Eric Hippeau replacing Betsy Morgan. I have published an interview we did with Eric from February of 2008 on his view the change nature of news content and the evolution of the Huffington Post.  Update: Here is the [...]

Reuters, the giant global news and information company, is expanding the offering of its content via mobile with the launch of an iPhone application and an application for Nokia's OVI store. Late last month, I caught up with Alisa Bowen, who heads consumer publishing for Thomson Reuters.  I interviewed her at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference.Reuters now [...]

Politico.com, the Washington-based, online news organization created by former Washington Post staffers in 2006, will become profitable this year, says John Harris, editor and co-founder, in his interview with Beet.TV. We caught up on Tuesday with John Harris after his panel at the Advertising 2.0 conference here in New York.He spoke about the early success of the organization's new syndication model [...]

Michael Wolff, who has written a much talked about book about Rupert Murdoch and the rise of News Corp, sees MySpace in a downward spiral.  In this interview with Beet.TV, he calls the acquisition of the social media site a "relative calamity for News Corp." because the giant media company "knows nothing about technology."I caught up with Michael yesterday at [...]

As the lights go out today on analog television broadcast as part of the long-planned transition to digital, frequencies in several markets carry television signals to mobile phones. At the D: All Things Digital conference in California in May, I interviewed Bill Stone, the president of FLO TV, which is wholly owned by Qualcomm. Qualcomm, which has spent $500 million to buy frequencies [...]

Giant media agency MediaVest just promoted digital director Amanda Richman to EVP and managing director after becoming head of digital in 2008. She oversees MediaVest's digital practice. We caught up with her at the Digitas New Front event in New York and talked to her about the range of new media projects her clients are working on. MediaVest clients including Procter & [...]

Paula Deen, "America's best southern cook" has expanded her sizable television presence with a new online video reality cooking show produced by EQAL, the Los Angeles-based video production company best known for creating lonelygirl15. At the Digitas event in New York last week, Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney inteviewed Paula and EQAL co-founder Greg Goodfried about the new show.  While this sounds like [...]

The biggest challenges to brands finding success with online video is not money or ideas; it’s lining up all the various departments within a company. That’s what Kevin Nalty, a YouTube star, told me during an interview at the Digitas New Front event in New York last week.“The big thing is getting their own organizations in line,” he said, including the [...]

What do women want? It’s an age old question and it’s getting a lot tougher for TV networks to answer because evidently a lot of women are tuning out the TV, according a report released recently by Solutions Research Group. Only half of women say they usually pay full attention while watching their favorite shows. About 50 percent of women with laptops said [...]

In the era of Twitter and Facebook, having an individual blog is essential as it is "yours,"  says Anil Dash, the chief evangelist for SixApart, the big San Francisco-based blog software company. Anil explains that while social networks ebb in and out of vogue and present content changing ideas, having a blog is always controlled by the blogger.  He also explains [...]

Dow Jones reports this afternoon that the U.S. Justice Department has requested information on the proposed settlement for Google Book Search.  A Google lawyer told reporters at the Google Washington offices today that the company expects the settlement to be approved. Here's a Reuters' report on the inquiry. Update 8:30 PM ET:  Google Also Cooperating with "Several State Attorneys General"Here [...]

Neal Shapiro is longtime network news producer and former president of NBC News, now President and CEO of WNET/Thirteen, the flagship PBS station in New York. He says that video journalism has changed but elements of success remains the same, truth, integrity and balanced reporting. I spoke with Neal last week at his Manhattan offices.  We covered the changing nature of [...]

Matt Marshall, editor and CEO of VentureBeat, the authoritative technology and finance blog, is gearing up for his first year as co-producer of DEMO, the 20-year-old tech conference.  We caught up last week at the Business Insider start-up conference/competition last week at NYU where Matt was a judge. He is co-producing the show with founder Chris Shipley, who leaves after the [...]

TypePad, the popular blog platform owned by San Francisco-based SixApart, has become integrated with VOX, allowing TypePad users easier interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. At D: All Things Digital, the tech conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal in California last month, we interviewed Chris Alden, the CEO of SixApart.  The company owns Vox, TypePad, and Movable Type.He [...]

Eric Schmidt CEO is not too impressed with Microsoft's new Bing search engine, dismissing it as another search engine effort that Microsoft makes "every year."  This in a Fox Business Network video just posted. He says Google wants a search deal with  with Yahoo!  He says that Microsoft's entrance should remove the U.S. government's opposition to such a deal. He also takes [...]