From: Beet.TV on Thu, Sep 23 2010 11:35 PM

Innovid, a New York-based provider of interactive pre-roll technology for publishers and marketers, has raised a new venture round of $4 million from T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. Funds will allow the company to expand its operations in the U.S., Europe and in Israel w...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Sep 02 2010 9:49 AM

Vimeo, the video sharing unit of IAC has over four million registered users and has 30 million monthly unique visitors, nearly doubling those numbers over the past six months. The site, which historically has been a video site for video enthusiasts and the creative community, has garnerered a br...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Aug 17 2010 9:19 AM

Vimeo, the online video site, a unit of IAC, will now provide video distribution to the television set via Roku, the companies announced today. This is an expansion in the offering of Web original video programming for Roku, which presently distributes Blip.tv content and others. The ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Aug 03 2010 9:07 PM

Dailymotion, the big Paris-based video sharing and entertainment site, has seen traffic in North America grow to 13 million monthly unique users from just 8 million last year. Monetizing these video views, Dailymotion has been experimenting with interactive pre-roll advertising, using ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 22 2010 7:32 AM

LAS VEGAS — Founded by three ex-Googlers, Howcast is the New York-based video production and distributor of "how to" videos on a wide range of subjects.  Lately it has been creating campaigns for big marketers, seeking branded web video.    GE has a giant "takeover" ad on the directory ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Feb 23 2010 3:20 PM

PALO ALTO, CA — Facebook has become the "ultimate tool for achieving viral distribution," says Ethan Beard, the director of the Facebook developer network in this interview with Beet.TV. Beyond the video traffic emanating from simple viral sharing among members, media partners ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Feb 12 2010 1:15 PM

A year after its founding, social video startup Vpype launched one of its first applications in partnership with Facebook. Since social video is an area that’s bubbling up in attention, I traveled to the company's offices in Milpitas, Calif. for an interview with the CEO Shoieb Yunus. Yunus...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Feb 08 2010 3:54 PM

MILPITAS, CA — With social media usage across Facebook, Twitter, and niche social sites continuing to climb, it’s inevitable that a number of start-ups will emerge to piggyback on the opportunity. One such company aiming for a role in the social video world is the startup Vpype....

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Sep 11 2009 10:32 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of clicking on a sweater your favorite TV character is wearing has long been held out as a promised land of interactivity. Now, the two-year-old interactive video startup ClikThrough said its technology is enticing Web users to watch videos longer by givi...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jul 28 2009 5:39 PM

NEW YORK, NY — Blip.tv, the fast-growing video sharing site which leads the industry in hosting and distributing episodic Web video programs, now allows its show producers to upload directly to YouTube, the company announced earlier today. At the Blip.tv event, I spoke with George Strompol...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jul 09 2009 10:36 PM

TubeMogul’s David Burch says that an analysis of video discovery has found that blog are the biggest referrer of video views. According to the  study by TubeMogul, 45% of video views come from specific searches for a video.  Of the the 55% remaining, 81% are found through blogs. If you ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jun 30 2009 6:37 PM

NEW YORK, NY — The White House has signed an agreement with TubeMogul, an Emeryville, California-based start-up to distribute and analyze web videos, said David Burch, a TubeMogul executive, in this video interview. I interviewed David this afternoon at the Personal Democracy Forum. (Pleas...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jun 23 2009 9:20 AM

Qik, the mobile video platform, is being integrated into Brightcove, the big video services company.   Initially, mobile users will be able upload files, but soon after they will be able to stream live to Brightcove-powered sites. This could be an important development in, so called, "c...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 21 2009 9:29 PM

LAS VEGAS — We read the coverage about Adobe’s Flash coming to television sets, which is an important development.  But this Flash content will only play on new television sets with new chips.  It will take quite some time.  Some of it is here already with the new Intel/Yahoo! collaborati...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Feb 05 2009 12:29 PM

Interesting video interview up on TechCrunch from Michael Arrington from Davos where he interviews Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. Not much news, and Sanderg is a little coy, but a very enjoyable, interesting chat.  Michael asked if and when the limit of 5,000 friends on Facebook might be lifted, ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 18 2008 11:50 PM

On TechCrunch today, Roi Carthy explores the new direction of pioneering video sharing site Metacafe. Roi interviews founder Eyal Hertzog about the implementation of a system by which users are invited to annotate the metadata around video, in a Wiki-type process. In August, I interviewed Eyal ...