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Many video producers embrace a hyper-syndication approach to distributing their videos across many sites, meaning they make their videos sharable on unassociated blogs and Web sites.  The issue is how to track where those clips are seen, and what is the value to a publisher and advertiser.  Auditude, a Palo Alto company has created a system to cross reference a [...]

News videos displayed on YouTube have been organized to be timely and relevant to the news of the day through the integration of Google News into YouTube News.  This is a significant change to the way that videos are surfaced to YouTube's main pages, which had been done mostly through recommendations and popularity. YouTube made brief mention of this development [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A large part of the success of online video can be attributed to the widespread adoption of Flash, a rich media, Web plug-in application which is on nearly all of the world's computers. Developed at Macromedia, which was then acquired by Adobe, the developers never planned for video as part of the program, says Jennifer Taylor, a former [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube. Olivia told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable this morning that views for news and political videos were up 600 percent in 2008.  I photographed the two [...]

Webcam chat at Ustream The Beet.TV roundtable in San Francisco (and Ustream's live stream of the event) ended at noon PT today. You can watch the first half on-demand in this post; for the second half, visit our Ustream channel. Keep reading for my live blogging of the event! See our previous post about the roundtable for a rundown of the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Adobe is aggressively promoting the use of its Flash video ecosystem into more of the news and entertainment world with a new development deal with Time Warner.  Here in San Francisco on Monday, I interviewed Adobe's Jennifer Taylor on the association and its goals.  The deal is not exclusive and there are no financial arrangements.  Liz Gannes [...]

Thomson Reuters has announced a new online video service as part of a $1 billion plan to update the company's products and infrastructure.  The new video portal is part of the company's paid service for financial professionals.    Here's the story in tomorrow's New York Times by Richard Perez-Pena.A number of video producers are part of the program, which is still [...]

Amplify, which provides Natural Language Processing solutions for customers who want to understand and better target advertising to online content, announced its first big U.S. partnership with social Media ad targeting firm Lotame, CEO Mark Redgrave told Andy at the AlwaysOn conference last month. "We are simply intercepting content in social media properties that are part of that network," he [...]

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here.  The Flash-based video on the White House blog, which [...]

Several small niche sites in health, sports and video gaming appear to be bucking the downturn trend and registering growth in traffic and revenue, reports Jessica Vascellaro and Elizabeth Holmes in today's Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that several of these smaller players are producing content at low cost and striking distribution and syndication deals with bigger sites in [...]

Be an insider: Find out what is really happening with online video and where it's going.  Tune in to the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, live from the Adobe offices on Tuesday, March 3 from 9-noon, Pacific time.You can find details and the speaker line-up right here.See you then! Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Google has scanned and indexed the entire archives of New York magazine.  Issues spanning 40 years have been organized as part of Google Book Search. New York is one of the first magazines in the program which was announced in December. We sat down with New York top online exec Michael Silberman to talk about the Google project.  Michael told me there [...]

Google's Marissa Mayer is profiled by Laura Holson in Sunday's New York Times.  The senior exec, who is in charge of look, feel and usability of the world's biggest search engine, tells the Times she is not leaving the company and says, "people don't understand me." Last September in San Francisco, we sat down with Marissa for this interview.  We have [...]

This difficult period for start-ups will produce many important companies, as happened in the last tech downturn, says Sita Vasan, a senior officer with Intel Capital, one of the the world's biggest corporate investors.   Sita is based in New York where she evaluates investments in media, marketing and related companies.She says that Intel is looking for investments in online advertising [...]

KIT digital, a jack-of-all trades company that can produce videos for clients, deliver them over their own global CDN, and monetize them, will continue to strengthen its focus on mobile and TV through set-top boxes in 2009, Head of the Americas Dan Rosen told me at the Beet.TV studio. "We've moved over the past to also deliver to mobile and [...]

Beet.TV has put together a fantastic group of industry leaders for our online video roundtable next week at the Adobe headquarters in San Francisco. We are thrilled that NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes will co-moderate. You can tune in to our live three hour webcast Tuesday, March 3, beginning at 9 a.m. PT right here. You can embed the stream in your site--here's [...]

Since it evolved into a news site in 2006, NYmag.com has been building a sizable national audience.  Fashion has been a big traffic driver and Fashion Week in New York and brought historic traffic to the site, according to a report in Mediabistro's WebNewser. Last month, I interviewed New York magazine's Web chief Michael Silberman on the evolution of the site.  [...]

In what is probably the first time a presidential speech has been automatically transcribed by a software program, msnbc.com used a voice-to-text solution from Nexidia to transcribe last night's address to Congress by President Barack Obama. The online news site got the Obama transcription up in 15 minutes after the conclusion of  the speech, we have learned. Getting the transcript up [...]

SeeqPod, the search engine that crawls the web for "playable search results" like music--including pirated files--is under fire from the record companies again. Camille Rickets at VentureBeat reports that EMI and Capitol Records are seeking billions of dollars in damages from not only SeeqPod, but individuals in the company including CEO Kasian Franks. The Warner Music Group first filed suit against [...]