From: Beet.TV on Sun, Jan 09 2011 9:51 PM

LAS VEGAS — Yahoo! Connected TV, a software program installed in a number of Internet-ready television sets, will soon allow producers and advertisers to enhance the viewing experience with a variety of interactive features, the company announced at CES. At CES, we spoke with Ronald Jacoby...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 04 2011 6:31 AM

Pioneering P2P file sharing platform BitTorrent has 100 million active users, the company announced on Monday. In November at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco, we spoke with Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, about developments at the company and the development around techno...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jan 03 2011 4:30 PM

Already this week, Vizio and Toshiba have introduced new tablet computers and more tablet releases should be unveiled at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Manufacturers such as Dell, LG and Microsoft are expected to enter the market with their iPad competitors. Many of the n...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Dec 15 2010 6:32 AM

As brands and businesses continue to migrate their services to the growing number of Smartphone users, they will want to keep the user experience that is particular to mobile phones, said consumer research firm Opinion Lab. The company recently released a report on how to migrate your Web site t...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Dec 14 2010 11:30 AM

NEW YORK — Using an algorithm which parses one million records per day, the MTV Music Meter provides a ranking of the the most talked about and fast moving tunes. For each artist in the ranking, the Meter provides music to purchase along with news, tweets and video. The platfor...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Dec 13 2010 10:28 PM

While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com may be the world’s largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced. Examiner.com has some 67,000 writers under contract in 230 U.S. cities who file around 100,000 stories pe...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Dec 13 2010 6:26 AM

New York-based Big Think, which launched in early 2008 with seed capital from Lawrence  Summers*, President Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council, and other investors including Peter Thiel, is serving some 5 million monthly video views and has reached profitability, says Victoria Bro...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Dec 10 2010 3:42 PM

SB Nation, a network of nearly 300 micro blogs about professional sports teams in the U.S. and Canada, has reached 100 million page views per month, making it the fastest growing, and one of the largest sports sites, says CEO Jim Bankoff in this interview with Beet.TV Last month the Washington, ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Dec 07 2010 10:33 PM

Despite the plethora of streaming video and over-the-top options, the vast majority of TV viewers are keeping their cable. In a recent study, the Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing found that 84% of Internet video viewers still watch as much TV as they did before, suggesting ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Dec 03 2010 7:21 AM

SAN FRANCISCO --  Livestream, the New York-based live webcast platform, had 2.9 million unique viewers in the United States in October, consuming 137 million video views, according to comScore. CEO Max Haot tells Beet.TV in this interview that the average viewing time for these videos is sixteen...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 30 2010 9:55 AM

SAN FRANCISCO --  StumbleUpon, the big content referral engine, in which new content discoveries aka "stumbles" are referred to others, is moving directly into video discovery with a new video player and strategy. Last month at the New Tee Vee LIve conference in San Francisco, our correspondent ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Nov 29 2010 8:51 AM

MONACO — In an effort to track video consumption of users who view video online, on TV and via mobile, comScore is organizing a global panel of 25,000. CEO Magid Abraham explains the industry need and the new monitoring system from comScore. Beet.TV interviewed him at the Monaco Media Foru...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Nov 25 2010 7:35 AM

MONACO — A small start-up from Copenhagen, 23 Video, has launched globally its online video platform. Sort of a "WordPress" for online video, 23 provides a video "page" to publish and track video as a CMS solution. Here is an example. Unlike most online video platform providers...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 23 2010 2:17 PM

Ran Harnevo, whose video syndication business 5Min was purchased by AOL in October for a reported $65 million, will head the growing online video operation at AOL, the company announced today. News of Harnevo’s promotion was first reported by Peter Kafka of MediaMemo. Talking Syndicati...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Nov 21 2010 9:06 AM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif — Google TV was never intended to replace subscriptions to cable or satellite TV, but to integrate Web video and Apps with television offerings, says Google’s Saluhuddin Choudhary, project manager, in this interview with Beet.TV Despite the intentions to embrace commer...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Nov 19 2010 3:05 PM

MONACO - Distributing video content via Apps has "real advantages," says David Kenny president of Akamai in this interview with Beet.TV He says the new technology represents a "convergence with television." He explains the efficiency of the delivery Apps in terms of bandwidth, security and say...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Nov 18 2010 11:02 PM

MOUNTAIN VIIEW, Calif — November 18 -- Beet.TV visited the Googleplex for this demo of Google TV given by Salahuddin Choudhary, the Google TV Product Manager. Using the Sony controller, we are shown how live broadcast and Web programming can be searched and organized. We will be following ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 16 2010 11:55 AM

MONACO — With the approval of its governing body, the BBC is readying the global introduction of the iPlayer, the highly successful video on-demand platform which registered 139 million video program views in October. Its popularity has nearly doubled over the past twelve months, the BBC s...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 09 2010 3:04 PM

Vevo, the online music video site hit 55 million unique visitors in the U.S. in October, according comScore. We caught up with David Kohl, Vevo Executive Vice President about the site’s growth, syndication strategy and its marketing solutions. Andy Plesser

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Nov 08 2010 6:59 AM

LOS ANGELES — The talk of platform wars between Flash and HTML5 has apparently ended, at least publicly from Adobe’s side. Adobe's Kevin Towes tells Beet.TV that "the Web is ready for HTML5" and Adobe is supporting its development through its popular authoring tool Dreamweav...