Online video news and review site Tilzy.TV will hold an upfront showcase for Web shows and media buyers in early June and has landed former WB CEO Jordan Levin, now the CEO of production company Generate, as the keynote speaker for the event. The Web video upfront called “Onfronts” in New York is slated for June 9. It’s designed to showcase the [...]

Showtime is the third most viewed entertainment channel of all-time on YouTube and the premium network relies heavily on the viral video site as a marketing platform. With 16.5 million subscribers to the pay TV channel, Showtime has found that digital venues like iTunes and YouTube can drive additional demand for a show, the network’s Rob Hayes, senior VP and general manager for digital media, told [...]

Scott Kirsner here... long-time fan of Beet.TV, first-time guest blogger. Like Andy, I've been following the evolution of online video as an incredibly powerful new distribution channel for content, writing in the Boston Globe, Variety, the NY Times, and on my own blog, CinemaTech. I've spent the past 18 months talking to content creators about how they are navigating this new [...]

Just about a week ago, YouTube introduced a new functionality which surfaces up local news video which corresponds to the location of the user's IP address.   Clicking on YouTube News  via my Verizon FiOS connection here in New York, I got several local video news stories under the category "News Near You."  (See the bar at the bottom of this post.)  [...]

For both Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company and Delve Networks, a competing start-up player in Seattle, the fastest growth in their business is coming from non-media customers such as businesses and universities who want to use video for marketing and other purposes.   In San Francisco in March, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, Jeff Whatcott, Brightcove's head of [...]

If you just go by YouTube’s all-time most watched videos list, you might think Evolution of Dance at 118 million views would win the most popular crown. But that quirky dance video isn’t actually the most viewed video ever, says Visible Measures. In fact, singing sensation Susan Boyle appears on track to grab that title soon. The online measurement firm  just released its first ever compilation [...]

Owen Thomas, who has been the editor of tech/gossip blog Valleywag for the past two years, will be Managing Editor of NBC Bay Area , one of a new series of regional online sites created by NBC Universal.  The site is in beta. Owen will be an employee of General Electric Corporation, owner of NBC.  Big change from Gawker Media!  [...]

The small number of U.S. newspaper with online video operations, are seeing 27 percent of their online revenue coming from video ad sales, according to a research report released today by Borrell and published in Editor & Publisher by Jennifer Saba. Whether newspapers are making money on online video, given production costs, is tough to say, but what is clear [...]

NEW YORK -- Congrats to the crew at New York magazine for winning last night for best magazine web site with over 1 million unique visitors.  The National Magazine Award was presented at the industry's annual gala held here last night. Earlier this year, I sat down with the site's GM Michael Silberman. He talks about the the success of the [...]

LAS VEGAS -- With newspaper and other media sites going multimedia, the AP is finding fast-rising demand for its online video news products, Bill Burke who heads up global online video for the AP tells Beet.TV Even local television sites, which produce their own content, are seeking outside video to help monetize their Web sites, he told us in this interview [...]

Analysis by Daisy Whitney*Senior Producer, Beet.TVToday’s Hulu-Disney partnership raises the question of whether Hulu and YouTube are engaged in a head-on battle for eyeballs and advertising. At first blush, the deal that calls for Disney to become an equity partner in Hulu along with NBC and Fox suggests that Hulu is winning the race for premium content since it now adds [...]

LAS VEGAS -- 3D viewing, currently a growth area for Hollywood's theatrical business, will come to a significant number of homes in two to three years with the adoption of a new cable box from Motorola and new encoding processes, we have been told. On the convention floor, we spoke with Motorola's Marty Stein who gave an overview of how 3D [...]

NEW YORK -- CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon. We met in a busy newsroom which was preparing for a special webcast hosted Katie Couric with Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington, The Atlantic's Political Editor Marc Ambinder, Politico.com's Chief Political Correspondent Mike Allen, CBS News [...]

SplashCast has had considerable success with its Facebook app, a video player that allows users to chat around video content.  Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch reports tonight that the company has reached 7 millon monthly views and has sold out its inventory.  We interviewed Splashcast CEO Michael Berkeley last year and republished this interview tonight.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Seattle-based Wetpaint, a Web publishing platform for smaller companies and individuals hopes that the recent announced shuttering of Yahoo's GeoCities will provide a big biz dev opportunity. The company announced its new campaign this morning. Earlier this year, we caught up with Wetpaint CEO Ben Elowitz.  Republished it today.Here's the take by MG Siegler at TechCrunch on the news which also [...]

There's concern among publishers big and small about how to "monetize" online video, particularly in light of recent reports which have scaled backed ad growth forecasts. Surely publishers with smart content connecting with valued audiences will find a growing revenue opportunity, but the medium is not just about advertising.  In fact, the vast majority of online video has no advertising and [...]

Associated Content, a online publishing platform has raised an new $6 million venture round, TechCrunch is reporting tonight.   I interviewed founder and CEO Luke Beatty at Stanford a in 2007 and have republished the interview tonight.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

YouTube will live stream its first news event, tomorrow's (4/29) prime time press conference by President Obama at 8:00 pm ET on the White House YouTube channel, we have learned. The White House had asked YouTube to integrate its live feed from the White House site to be embedded onto its YouTube channel, a spokesperson told Beet.TV late today. In turn, [...]

Earlier this year, Conde Nast launched individual sites for its magazines, expanding beyond what had been a handful of topic-centric portals.  This was the transformation of CondeNet to Conde Nast Digital. Video is playing a big part of the online presence of the magazines.  Richard Glosser, executive director of emerging media, explains how the company is seeking to distribute its content [...]

SeeqPod, the multi-media search engine which grew out of research at the Lawrence Livermore Labs as a biometric search engine,  which has raised the ire of the music business, is about to be sold to a "major media company," founder Kasian Franks tells Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired's Epicenter.  Last year in Los Angeles I interviewed Kasian about the technology [...]