From: Beet.TV on Wed, May 04 2011 2:17 PM

The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama Bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com and pointed the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes. In this interview with Beet.TV, Charles Tillinghast, President of MSNBC.com, sa...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, May 02 2011 9:55 PM

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is partnering with Dublin-based  Storyful to curate breaking news on YouTube’s CitizenTube channel, says Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube in this interview with Beet.TV Storyful, which employes former CNN and Irish Times journalists, provides a real-time, socia...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, May 01 2011 9:53 PM

Following Skype’s purchase earlier this year of Redwood City-based mobile video chat platform Qik, the combined company aims to deliver both live video calling and delivered video messages, covering both asynchronous and synchronous communications on a global basis, says Qik co-founder Bhaskar R...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, May 01 2011 11:42 AM

With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview. The company made its first big content ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 28 2011 9:17 PM

FreeWheel, the fast-growing video management firm, is providing live video ad management for a number of broadcasters including ESPN and Turner and it has just signed up the UK’s leading satellite company BskyB. Today, the company managed video ads for the live streaming of the Royal ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 28 2011 10:16 AM

Digitalsmiths, the video search platform which visually analyzes and indexes video, has announced a new funding round of $12.5 from existing and new investors. Last year we spoke with CEO Ben Weinberger. We have republished the interview today. Andy Plesser

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 26 2011 10:01 PM

Marketers, venture capitalists and online video experts are always looking for emerging companies to work with and keep an eye on. That’s the New Media Minute is sharing four such digital media startups in this week's episode. Watch for innovation from Rich Relevance, Yinzcam, Klout and Tyn...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 20 2011 10:15 AM

LAS VEGAS — Kaltura is seeing growth across many sectors around its open source video solution -- a system which allows customers to use the Kaltura "toolkit" to create a customized solution, says CEO Ron Yekutiel.  Yekutiel tells Beet.TV in this video interview that the company is working...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 19 2011 8:41 AM

LAS VEGAS — Brightcove, the big U.S. online video services company, is working closely with giant television maker LG to bring digital content to Net-connected television sets. The alliance, announced in February, will take center-stage in Boston next month when hundreds of Brig...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Apr 03 2011 9:56 AM

Half of buyers of Internet-ready TV’s are connecting to the Net, video consumption on mobile devices for big publishers like iVillage is quickly increasing, linear television is inexorably moving online and to mobile devices, Madison Avenue is moving beyond pre-roll to interactive ads and big pu...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Mar 29 2011 9:34 AM

  Social media is a powerful marketing tool, but most social media posts fade quickly. According to data culled by Edelman Digital’s social media expert Steve Rubel, about 92% of retweets happen in the first hour if they happen at all. Likewise, Facebook posts receive the most comments in the fi...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Mar 28 2011 9:46 PM

Adap.tv, the San Mateo-based advertising technology provider, has raised a new round of $20 million, reports TechCrunch. Investors in the new round were led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Gemini Israel Funds, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital. We interviewed CEO Amir Ashkinazi back in 2008....

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Mar 24 2011 4:29 PM

Aspera, a small, privately-funded start-up in Emeryville, California, has developed the means to transfer enormous video files at speeds far greater that FTP and other TCP-type protocols. Quietly, it has become the industry standard for the movie and on video industry to manage and send around b...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Mar 23 2011 6:22 AM

SAN JOSE, Calif — The "pipes" of the Internet will be crucial to the success of an increasingly video-rich Internet and Cisco is putting in place a number of solutions, says Scott Puopolo, VP for Internet Business, in this interview with Beet.TV To frame the enormity, Puopolo cites an Inte...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Mar 22 2011 11:09 AM

When interactive features are added to in-banner video ads, the interaction rate can increase to 18 to 20 times that of a display ad, a promising jump that underscores the potential that new video ad innovations hold for advertisers. That figure comes from Mixpo, which recently introduced custom...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Mar 18 2011 6:13 PM

Marketers are ready to spend money in 2011, buoyed by the economic turnaround that’s finally reaching the advertising business, said Shelly Lazarus in an exclusive interview with Beet.TV. The chairman of Ogilvy & Mather spoke to Beet.TV at the Bloomberg Media Summit. She told us that ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Mar 17 2011 11:10 PM

AUSTIN - As the Web becomes increasingly Web-centric, more publishers are embracing the .tv domain as a way to denote video content, says Verisign’s Tom Correia, who is product manager for the .tv domain. Dulles, Virginia-based Verisign manages the global use of the .tv domain in an on-going arr...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Mar 16 2011 4:13 PM

While Google says it wants to index the world’s content, it hasn't done made much progress in Hollywood. But an Israeli start-up called AnyClip has already indexed hundreds of movies in the Universal Pictures library. Using advanced audio and object recognition software, and an army of 1800...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Mar 16 2011 8:11 AM

Vevo, the popular music video site, which is a collaborative business involving several of the major record labels and Google, will launch in the U.K. shortly, announced CEO Rio Careaff in comments today to the Abu Dhabi Media Forum, the Guardian Newspaper reports. In November, we spok...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Mar 15 2011 10:09 PM

AUSTIN — At SXSW, the New Media Minute caught up with Internet expert and social media impresario Gary Vaynerchuk to discuss how brands and marketers can apply the lessons of his latest book, The Thank You Economy. Gary says the value in social media for brands is not media, meaning media ...