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 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 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 Thu, Jul 29 2010 9:38 PM

Ran Harnevo, CEO of the big online video syndicator 5MIN, says that without a syndication strategy, there is no direct ROI around video for content producers. Producers, big and small, who are creating video just for their own sites, are missing opportunities on the wider web, he says....

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jun 28 2010 11:00 PM

The consumption of online video news and information clips in the U.S. has doubled over the past 12 months, to 565 million video views in May up from 277 million last May, according to comScore. While the increase in new views tracks closely to a doubling of total video views, news vid...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jun 09 2010 6:26 PM

As the HTML 5 versus Flash debate rages on, the yeoman’s Web work being done by many media companies still relies on Flash-powered video.  That's why New York-based social Web software company KickApps recently partnered with Adobe to introduce the Open Source Media Framework Studio, whic...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, May 23 2010 11:43 PM

Ooyala, the Mountain View-based online video services company founded by several ex-Googlers, is providing customers the ability to publish YouTube clips into the publishing system and on an Ooyala player. By using the Ooyala player, publishers can track metrics of how the clip perform...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, May 21 2010 12:32 PM

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow’s Wednesday night, news-making interview with Rand Paul--Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky--has gotten over 500,000 online video views in just twenty four hours, making it one of the most wid...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 18 2010 12:22 PM

In judging success of online video sites, the number of streams count, but time spent is an extremely important metric. According to a report just out from Nielsen on video views for April, visitors to Justin.tv, the live web video site, had an average of nearly 170 minutes watched per ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Mar 12 2010 3:12 PM

LONDON — Reuters, which produces and distributes news videos to many of the world’s broadcasters and top news sites, is working on a plan to syndicate videos from third-party content producers, said Greg Breitchman, Global News Editor of Reuters, at Beet.TV's online video summit. ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Mar 04 2010 1:51 PM

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube, which announced in November the availability to create computer generated text captions of video on a limited number of sites, is announcing today that it is making voice-to-text captioning available to most video channel producers. YouTube also plans to ...

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 Wed, Feb 03 2010 5:34 PM

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week. Nothing is imminent on a paid offering for TV.c...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jan 19 2010 8:17 AM

Users of Verizon FiOS now have the opportunity to upgrade to a symmetrical connection speed of 35mps up and down, the company has announced.  The previous offering was 35 up and 20 down.  With the upgrade, Verizon is offering expanded television programming.  The upgrade involves a 24 month se...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 10 2009 6:56 AM

Forrester has published a comparative study of six online video platform service providers. We reported on the study on Friday.  While some industry observers are taking issue with the inclusion of just six players when there are over 60 such companies in the sector, that’s not the goal of the...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Oct 23 2009 8:07 AM

Msnbc.com,  was the first major video provider to provide an embeddable player, allowing users to play videos on their sites.  Finding widespread adoption of the player "off domain," the company is further nurturing the process by allowing its player to be resized so it can fit on Facebook, Cha...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Sep 13 2009 10:43 PM

Guided by a focus on what today’s business headlines mean to jobs, savings, and homes, CNNmoney.com has been profitable with video since it began video operations more than a year ago, Chris Peacock, the site's VP and editor told Beet.TV in a recent interview. The site itself launc...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jul 28 2009 8:03 AM

We are here at the Blip.tv news event and demo of the new web site, Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder, said that producers on Blip.tv can syndicate videos directly to YouTube with Blip.tv managing advertising sales of these syndicated shows. While Blip.tv has offered content creators the opportuni...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jul 23 2009 9:12 AM

Online video site how-to programmer and syndication service 5min.com scored $7.5 million in venture capital in its second round, the company is expected to announce today. The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners and included additional investment from existing venture partner Spark Capit...