From: Beet.TV on Fri, Feb 25 2011 7:08 AM

After considerable anticipation and disappointment around the value of video for newspapers, one big publisher has found profitability by utilizing low cost cameras, a decentralized workflow approach and an effective sales strategy. John Paton, CEO of the Journal Register Company, a publisher of...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Feb 24 2011 8:09 AM

Vimeo has become the video sharing site of choice for many videographers and professional film makers. With its ad-free player and high quality playback, it has become the "hipster YouTube," writes John Patrick Pullen in Fortune magazine. Last August, we sat down with Vimeo GM Dae Mellencamp for...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Feb 23 2011 12:08 PM

The Journal Register Company, the big local newspaper chain with nearly 324 publications serving over 900 communities in 10 states, will beat AOL’s Patch or the Huffington Post in its home markets, says CEO John Paton in this interview with Beet.TV. The company is profitable, well esta...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Feb 22 2011 4:03 PM

SpotXchange, one of the leading online video networks, has launched an automatic optimization engine for online video advertising.  For an overview of SpotXchange, the new optimization system and the state of online video advertising, we spoke with CEO Michael Shehan. In December, the Colorado-b...

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 Wed, Feb 16 2011 7:57 AM

Carloyn Everson, who joined Microsoft to head sales just last June, is joining Facebook to head global sales, Kara Swisher reported last night. In November at the Monaco Media Forum, I interviewed Everson about her views on digital advertising, including the lack of inventory around online video...

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 9:13 PM

Nielsen executive Howard Shimmel is the latest industry pundit to declare cord-cutting a myth, but did say that “cord-swapping” is occurring. He added, consumer behavior is changing with a new generation of viewers who prefer online as their TV medium, added Shimmel, SVP, Client Insights, Media ...

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 Fri, Feb 04 2011 3:21 PM

As an indication of the growing value of mobile video advertising, New York-based Tremor Media, the big online video ad networks has will San Francisco-based Transpara, a leading mobile ad network, according to a report in TechCrunch. Terms have not been disclosed. For an overview on Transpara, ...

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...