SAN JOSE, Calif --  We read the today's annual report on global web traffic from Cisco and the dramatic rise in video file traffic on the Internet. Stacy Higginbotham over at GigaOm has an analysis, as does Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch.  Why is it so big and where might it go?  Beet.TV sat down with Cisco's Sr.VP Dan Scheinman for this talk [...]

Warner Bros. online video destination TheWB.com has greenlit production on a Web original from former WB CEO Jordan Levin, who talked to Beet.TV earlier last week about the show. Called “The Lake,” the original coming-of-age Web drama will be directed by Jason Priestley of “90210” fame and will follow four families during a summer on the lake. Each of the 12 [...]

Over the past year, the Wall Street Journal Digital Network has passed both MSN Money and AOL Money & Finance to become the second biggest site among the top 15 Financial News & Information Sites tracked by The Nielsen Company. Yahoo! remains the leader. Nielsen reports that the Journal and associated properties had 15.7 million unique visitors in April, vs. 9.2 million [...]

Consumption of news on mobile devices is on the rise.  At The New York Times, there were 60 million mobile views in April, nearly double the number from April 2008. The paper gets about 10, no, 20 million views per month on the iPhone alone, a Times spokesperson told Beet.TV (the original number was incorrectly reported, apologies). These are internal traffic [...]

On Tuesday, Warner Brothers will release the newly expanded Woodstock film on Blu-ray and DVD to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the festival.  Excerpts of never before seen videos of Santana and Creedence Clearwater Rival performing at Woodstock have been  provided to Beet.TV*Creedence was not in the original film, due to a decision by John Fogerty. The film, which now runs [...]

The New York Times has internally developed, in collaboration with Palm, an application for the new smart phone called the Pre. The application launches in Beta today and is free at the Pre app site which is called the App Catalog. Sections and articles with photos are available, the tool bar disappears to give maximum canvas for content, and the ad unit [...]

YouTube is cracking down on Web stars who try to sell ads against their YouTube views without paying YouTube its required revenue share. Some YouTube celebrities are selling branded deals based on their YouTube views, circumventing the site. That can violate the partner deal, according to this week's New Media Minute.Daisy WhitneyEditor's note:  New Media Minute is Daisy's weekly series which is [...]

Reports out today on the downturn in online advertising for Q1 must not come as surprise to most publishers.  Seeking new form of revenue and presenting the industry is developing new forms of display advertising.  On Monday here in New York, at the ContentNext conference, I interviewed Pam Horan, president of the Online Publishers Association. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Video Transcript   [...]

NEW YORK - Google has a deal with fast-food chain Carl’s Jr. to create branded Web content with eight YouTube stars, inching the video site along toward its goal to win more ad dollars. At the Digitas New Front in New York earlier this week, Google’s Alex Levy, director of branded entertainment, told Beet.TV about the partnership that rolled out this [...]

ESPN is planning on merging its magazine and other online offerings, including Web videos from the the cable network, into a paid subscription site in August, Jon Fine reports in BusinessWeek There has been much talk about the viability of pay models for media, clearly the folks at ESPN are betting that sports fans will pay.Last week in California at D: [...]

Despite the overall downturn in the advertising market, online studio Next New Networks is on a path to turn a profit this year states CEO Lance Podell during an interview at the company's headquarters in New York.  During the first four months of 2009, Next New Networks booked the same amount of ad revenue as the company did in all of 2008, he said. New [...]

Yesterday, at the much talked about iWantMedia panel on the future of the media, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton said that a third of his company's "posts are video centric."* Gawker blogs don't publish much in the way of original videos, the videos are embeds from other sources and videos culled from a rack of DVR's which monitor a number [...]

We stopped by the Business Insider daylong conference about the start-up scene yesterday at NYU. I caught up with with Kevin Ryan, co-founder of AlleyCorp, the parent other Business Insider and its growing network of online publications.  Kevin's Manhattan-based company also includes, e-commerce, a CDN business and other ventures.The event was moderated by Henry Blodget, editor of the growing business network [...]

AOL Video includes scores of brands in many countries. Over the past several months, much of the video publishing operations has switched to the Brightcove platform. We caught up last week here in New York with Victor Haseman, Director of AOL Video about the company's global use of video and the Brightcove platform.   Victor says that the AOL is going to [...]

Caught up with Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist immediately after his panel organized by iWantMedia today in Manhattan.   He told me that while his company has had "an effect on newspapers," the notion that it has killed newspapers is "urban legend."New York Times media columnist David Carr was on hand at the event.  After I spoke with Newmark, I asked David [...]

Digital studio Next New Networks plans to introduce at least 12 to 15 new online networks and Web series from now until the end of the year, the company's co-founder Tim Shey told Beet.TV during an interview at Next New Networks' New York offices. Next New Networks planned to showcase some of its new programming at the Digitas New Fronts event today in New York. [...]

Great to be here at the iWantMedia event live at NYU.  Tune in now Jack Dorsey, Bonnie Fuller, Alan Murray, Craig Newmark, Nick Denton.  Moderated by Patrick Phillips. Here's the take by Caroline McCarthy at CNET News.com Here's the story up on The New York Observer. (This is a still image of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the session can here [...]

REDMOND/NEW YORK -- Bing, the new search engine released this week from Microsoft, has an agreement with Hulu to surface and play videos on its site.  The site was launched on Monday. Late yesterday we interviewed Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing in Redmond via video Skype.  He spoke about Bing's integration with Hulu and plans to integrate [...]

Lauren Rich Fine, former longtime newspaper analyst for Merrill Lynch, and now research director for ContentNext Media, parent of paidContent, tells me that some newspapers will be able to charge for selected, premium content, but not many can charge for full, recurring subscriptions. I spoke to her on Monday afternoon in midtown Manhattan, during the ContentNext daylong conferenceIn a related post, [...]

It is fascinating  to see how advertisers are seeking creative solutions to integrate brand messages into online line video sponsorships. Actually, it can be a little horrifying as this spoof video by the CollegeHumor guys so cleverly demonstrates.Let's hope there are some more creative solutions which come from today's Newfronts event organized by Digitas.  The event  features a keynote address [...]