Video Syndie Start-up ‘Vidible’ Gets Funding from The New York Times, Greycoft, IDG

Vidible, a San Francisco-based start-up, which has created a content exchange platform for video creators and publishers, has received a $3.5 investment in a Series  A round lead by Greycroft Partners with IDG and The New York Times. The role of Greycroft and IDG in the round  was previous reported in TechCrunch.   The participation […]

 
 

Getty’s Digital Video Library Growing By Up To 20,000 Each Month

CANNES — Getty Images’ evolution from static to moving images is happening at pace in the digital age. “We have around 1.5 million video clips currently on our site,” company Christian Toksvig told Beet.TV in this video interview. “We are adding something like 10 to 20,000 a month at the moment from our own and […]

 
 

AOL Says Video Syndication Biz is Booming, Monthly Views Reaching 1 Billion

CHICAGO — AOL’s syndicated video business is growing quickly, at close to 70% to 80% per year, says Brad Elders, Senior VP East Coast Sales at AOL. Beet.TV contributor Ashley Swartz spoke to Elders at the Beet.TV Advertising Leadership Summit in Starcom’s Chicago offices for a deep dive into AOL’s approach to video, as well as whether online video can […]

 
 

News Execs: Publishers To Create More SEO Friendly Video Content

Increasing discoverabilty for online video, using metadata, will increase traffic and drive business opportunities forward say news publishers at Beet.TV’s recent video news strategy session.

 
 

WSJ Digital Network GM: Syndication Generates Half of Video Views

Half of The Wall Street Journal’s video views are coming sites other than its own says Alisa Bowen, General Manager for the paper’s digital network, in this interview with Beet.TV

 
 

OneScreen Readies Syndication Platform for Publishers

OneScreen, the Irvine, California-based video services company which helps publishers including Dow Jones get content on a variety of platforms, is readying a content syndication platform called Express for Web Publishers.