From: Beet.TV on Tue, Feb 22 2011 7:58 AM

Ooyala, the fast-growing Mountain View, California- based provider online video services, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan to manage and distribute a broad range of video services. The agreement calls for Ooyala system to power Yahoo! Japan v...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Feb 20 2011 12:26 PM

WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of film makers and videographers are using a "still" camera to create video images of extraordinary quality.  The camera which is getting the most use is the Canon, EOS 5D Mark II, which sells for around $2500. The camera is widely used by Associated Press p...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Feb 17 2011 10:15 PM

WASHINGTON — CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year.  Part of the success around the network’s growth has been by streaming programming on popular live portals with channels on Livestream and Ustream, in addition to ...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Feb 13 2011 9:38 PM

WASHINGTON — MSNBC.com has reported that January was the biggest month for online video with 162 million views.  While big news stories including the Tuscon shootings, floods in Australia and the unrest in Egypt, have driven views, a big factor has been the recent integration of MSNBC.com ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Feb 07 2011 9:11 AM

WASHINGTON — The Associated Press declined to stream President Obama’s 30-minute live interview on YouTube (on 1.27) since the program was shot on White House cameras, says the AP's Kevin Roach, Vice President & Director of U.S. Broadcast Operations, in this segment from the Beet.TV ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Feb 07 2011 7:11 AM

AOL, which is building its footprint as a media company, will purchase the Huffington Post for $315 million in a deal reported last last night. Last year, we spoke with Arianna Huffington about her company and its collaboration with Yahoo! We assume that collaboration is ending and many have lea...

From: Beet.TV on Sat, Feb 05 2011 1:45 PM

WASHINGTON — As a follow-up to the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama sat down with YouTube for a live half hour conversation on Thursday (1.27) to take viewer questions from the public and speak with Steve Grove, head of news at Google’s video site. Also in the c...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Feb 01 2011 10:03 PM

WASHINGTON, DC — The New York Times will provide reporters with the Apple iPhone 4 to record and upload videos via an Aspera App to the paper’s server.  The first staffer to use the device was Andrew Ross Sorkin who used it for his Davos coverage. In the clip, the Sorkin's stand-up wa...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Feb 01 2011 2:02 PM

beet_tv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free   Above is the first half of Beet.TV’s Online Video Journalism Summit from the Washington Post. Below is the second half of the panel, a picture of the entire group and our live-blog of the event. beet_tv on livestream.com. Broadcast Live F...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 31 2011 4:58 PM

While audiences for the networks news nightly newscasts have vastly shrunk and cable news nets have maintained which might called a niche audience, the emergence of the Web, social media and mobile as video-rich environments has powered video news consumption in extraordinary ways. Th...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 31 2011 2:58 PM

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com Click through for our live blog.   11:35 AM: After a rundown on the future of video (quick recap: it is very bright!), we’re done! Keep checking Beet in the following days for highlight clips of the panel. Thank you for watching, we hope ...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Jan 30 2011 12:56 PM

WASHINGTON, DC — "The Fast Fix" a daily, 60-second daily video update on Beltway news featuring the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has exceeded online viewership of 1 million on some days, a Yahoo! spokesperson tells Beet.TV. The program is co-produced and co-branded by The Washington Po...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 24 2011 3:06 PM

The average speed of broadband connections in the United States has reached 5 Mbps in Q3 of 2010, up 8.6% over the previous quarter, making it the biggest percentage gainer among the world’s 12 fastest connected nation's, Akamai reported today. While far behind South Korea, the fastest nati...

From: Beet.TV on Sat, Jan 22 2011 12:56 PM

Norway’s Opera claims 140 million worldwide users, most of whom are on smart phones using Opera Mini.   In an interview at CES, Opera's Jeremy Forrester tells Beet.TV that the popularity of the browser on iPhone has come from its speed which is "four-to-five times faster than the native" (M...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jan 21 2011 8:47 AM

SecondMarket, a New York-based company which provides an exchange, for some 35,000 qualified investors, to buy and sell shares in private companies, has seen demand double in the fourth quarter of 2010, Erick Schonfeld reports this morning at TechCrunch. In May, we interviewed Jeremy Smith, the ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jan 20 2011 4:45 PM

The Discovery Networks connects with 23 million fans on Facebook, says Kelly Day, who heads the network’s digital operations, in this interview with Beet.TV We spoke with her earlier this month at at CES. A spokeswoman for Discovery told you correspondent this afternoon that the network of progr...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 18 2011 10:40 PM

CBS has been rapidly expanding its online efforts in several major U.S. markets by integrated its local owned and affiliated television and radio stations into 15 regional portals, says Ezra Kucharz, President of Local Digital Media. We spoke with him at CES earlier this month. He explains how m...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 17 2011 5:36 PM

Samsung and IBM have announced plans to jointly developed semiconductors for use in mobile handsets.  Earlier this month At CES, we spoke with Yiwan Wong, VP for Business Development for Samsung. He  explains that advancement in chips is essential to many core functionalities of smart phones. An...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jan 12 2011 6:08 PM

LAS VEGAS --  The iPad App for the New York Times has had 1.5 million downloads since it launched in April, says Ray Pearce, who heads circulation for the newspaper.  We interviewed him at CES last week. This number puts it ahead of weekly circulation for The Times which is about 950,000.  Sunda...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 11 2011 5:02 PM

For many in the industry who have wondered about Google’s plans to develop a universal codec for the Web, the big news is that Google will support its WebM codec on the Chrome browser, the company announced today. The company says it will not support H.264 - a widely used codec for online video....