Media

NEW YORK — VMIX, the San Diego-based video services company, is powering a number of newspaper and local television station Web sites, including the Tribune newspapers.  It has had a recent win with the Post-Newsweek television stations sites.

NEW YORK, NY — Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company, has been enjoying annual 300 percent growth, global expansion, strong balance sheet and is hooking up with devices including Vudu.

The Wall Street Journal's web site has jumped to more that 12 million monthly unique visitors in April, an increase of 160 percent over the same period last year, according a Nielsen Online report published today in Editor & Publisher.

NEW YORK – While readers of the print version of The New York Times spend an average of 40 minutes a day, visitors to the Web site (a vastly bigger number) spend just 30 hours minutes per month.

NEW YORK — Owen Thomas, who is finishing up as editor Valleywag, is heading to NBC to head up editorial operations for NBC Local in the Bay Area, one of several regional hubs created by NBC, it was announced today. (Press release below.)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — It must not be not easy for the Google crew to be called "parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet" by Robert Thompson, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. 

NEW YORK, NY — Akamai has returned to the Cannes Film Festival this year, powering the video distribution of film trailers and event coverage, but this time in HD quality. 

Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality series “Married on MySpace” kicking off this week on the site.

EveryZing, a Boston-based video search company, has raised a $8.25million venture round from GE and has completed an extensive agreement to provide universal search solutions to  several NBC Universal online properties.

Animoto is building a subscription business with its tools for rich media greeting cards and other products.  Like JibJab, the company is not advertiser supported, but based on a subscription model. 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Vevo is the big music site being created in a partnership between Google's YouTube and the Universal Music Group.  It will be a "deep, immersive" music site with e-commerce and revenue share around advertising.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — You might think of YouTube as the site for viral videos and your cousin’s birthday clips, but the giant of the Web video world is on a mission to change that perception, YouTube spokesperson Chris Dale told Beet.TV in an interview at the corporate parent Google’s headquarters on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO —   Launched last month, online personal finance destination CBSMoneyWatch.com is fast increasing its video in by creating original programming and integrating more financial-related content from the CBS News and its affiliate stations, network executives say. 

YouTube, which last month introduced premium television and film programming in a section called "Shows," is ready to expand the distribution of the programming into several of its existing international operations.

TechCrunch just put up a stationary web camera in its Palo Alto HQ to stream live video. Heather Harde, CEO of the scrappy tech blog, has figured there's both an audience and sponsorship dollars around the live stream.  Beet.TV has signed up as the first sponsor.

Smart, enterprising journalists working outside the legacy of a conventional newsrooms, often in their homes, may the future of journalism — and Kara Swisher and Sharon Waxman, two former Washington Post reporters, might have figured it out.

Daisy Whitney, one of the most astute chroniclers of the online video scene, and an online video celebrity herself, has joined Beet.TV as a regular contributor. Her title is Senior Producer.

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.  

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.  

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.