There are currently over 1.5 million active media streams online, 83 percent more than the daily average, according to data on the Akamai website, indicating higher video consumption likely prompted by the U.S. election. The number of visitors per minute to news websites has also risen, to around 3.4 million in the U.S., 14 percent above the daily average. The global [...]

**We will be updating this post throughout the day. Keep reading for news on our upcoming interviews and round-ups of the hottest political tech coverage on the web! *** So it's Election Day and Kelsey and I will be reporting on the extraordinary day for digital news and online video.  We're off to NBC News, MSNBC, CNN and CBS today to [...]

Ad delivery platform Adap.tv OneSource now allows publishers to serve video ads using DoubleClick DART and Microsoft Atlas Ad Manager, the company announced today. OneSource, which allows publishers to serve ads from multiple sources, can connect any ad server to its platform and extend its capability to video, CEO Amir Ashkenazi told me in an interview after the Beet.TV Online [...]

Sure the IPO market has been shut for some time and the prospects don't look good, but it's still a bit of jolt to read that one of the industry's most respected venture capitalist tells The Deal's TechConfidential that he is not planning for IPO exits for his 24 companies.  Here's what he says: "We have 24 companies in our portfolio, [...]

Video advertising in the U.S. only makes up two percent of the online advertising market but will make up 10 percent by 2013, according to eMarketer's August projections, eMarketer analyst David Hallerman said during Beet.TV's online video roundtable Monday. He told me during a video interview that traditional video advertising, such as pre-roll, will compose a large part of the [...]

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While Google, Yahoo! and AOL are focused on advertising-based business models around online video, Microsoft is advancing into the area it knows the best; software and services. Seeking a big piece of the emerging field for video streaming and the demand for HD video, Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem for Silverlight, the new rich-media Web plug-in.    On Tuesday, Microsoft and [...]

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HOLLYWOOD, CA -- "Bloody Disgusting," which bills itself as "Your Number 1 News Source for All Things Horror," is proving the viability of vertical publishing. The Hollywood-based site counts major studios like FOX as advertisers and has an engaged community of the genre's cultish fans. "The difference between us and everyone else? We just try to keep it fun, keep it [...]

Video streams on Yahoo! dramatically increased in September to 265 million, up 56 percent from August's 169 million.  The new traffic puts Yahoo! ahead of *Fox Interactive, which had been number two to YouTube.  Monthly video streams on YouTube have broken the astounding five billion mark with 5.3 billion streams, up 12 percent, according to unpublished results provided by Nielsen [...]

What a fantastic group of media and technology leaders who came together at the msnbc.com digital cafe at 30 Rock on Tuesday for our online video roundtable and live streaming "show." YouTube, MySpace, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, CBS Interactive, CNN, MSNBC, CondeNet, Dow Jones,  Ogilvy, The New York Times Company, eMarketer, along with key emerging new companies Adap.tv, BigThink, Blinkx, Blip.tv, [...]

It was great to have Saul Hansell of The New York Times at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable on Tuesday.  He distills quite a lot in his post this morning on Bits. A big topic of discussion was the "discoverability" of videos offered at the conclusion of a selected video. The publisher can provide related clips which would be of interest of [...]

At MySpaceTV, some two thirds of videos are consumed on user profile pages, according to Cristian Cussen, speaking yesterday at the Beet.TV online Video Roundtable.  Fellow panelist Laura Lee from YouTube said that social referrel is a big driver along with search on Google and YouTube.  For Truveo, the giant AOL-owned search engine, the big driver of video consumption is [...]

CNN has stepped up advertising of its live coverage this year, and is promoting CNN.com Live's election night coverage on The New York Times homepage today as part of that effort. "We have been advertising CNN.com Live's video content more significantly this year than ever before," CNN Vice President of Interactive Marketing Andy Mitchell told Beet.TV via e-mail. "Politics has been the primary focus, [...]

msnbc.com has plans for interactive coverage of voting results on a hyperlocal level, Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher told Kelsey earlier today in this interview. Visitors to the site's national map will be able to see results for both states and individual counties on election night.  Not just the data for political insiders, understanding how voting is tallied on a [...]

Two thirds of the videos on MySpace are viewed on user profiles and are discovered primarily through social referral, MySpaceTV Director of Content and Marketing said during the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable today. The MySpaceTV toolset makes video a part of the social media experience, he explained to Andy in an interview yesterday evening at a dinner hosted by Beet. [...]

Video downloading via iTunes is a massive platform for video producers.  For publishers and advertisers, there are problems:  Although publishers know who subscribes or downloads videos via iTunes, they don't know much more.  Moreover, advertising served into videos are "baked-in" to files.  Blip.tv, the New York online video publishing site, has a solution, according to CEO and co-founder Mike Hudack. Mike [...]

(Update: The conference ended at noon. The on-demand videos of the event are published above.) The Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable is taking place at the msnbc.com digital cafe today at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City from 9 a.m. to noon, and we're streaming the event live using Mogulus.  For a list of participants, please see our earlier post. I'll be [...]