From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 28 2010 4:54 PM

New online video syndication service Alphabird recently inked a deal with FremantleMedia to push out the studio’s new branded entertainment series, the company's CEO Chase Norlin told me last week at ad:tech San Francisco. San Francisco-based Alphabird follows a different model th...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 08 2010 8:28 PM

Los Angeles-based Break Media, the fast growing network of young man-oriented Web sites, announced today the launch of its proprietary online video ad server called Apex. Late last year, I sat down with Break’s CEO Keith Richman for this chat about the company's advertising and syn...

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 Sun, Feb 21 2010 4:09 PM

This year will be a transformative one for online video as advertisers are routinely buying seven-figure campaigns, says Jason Glickman, CEO of Tremor Media, the big New York-based video ad network. He says that an "up front" marketplace for online video is emerging as significant dolla...

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, Dec 08 2009 12:44 AM

TubeMogul, the Emeryville-based video syndication and analytics company, has entered into an agreement with Brightcove to provide analytics tools to the big Boston-area video services company. Analytics around Web video usage has become essential to many publishers and advertisers.  Wh...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Nov 13 2009 6:33 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — The much blogged about introduction of a higher quality playback experience at  YouTube, using a 1080p shoebox sized player, was done in part to accommodate the emergence of pre-roll video advertising on the giant site. In a related announcement this week, YouTube ...

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 Fri, Sep 25 2009 8:31 AM

Syndicating online video to different Web sites is not an easy task, with sites running numerous different video players and formats.  But it seems that New York-based Mochila has a bit of breakthrough by putting videos into a display ad unit which can be used by virtually any Web site. ...

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 Sat, Aug 08 2009 9:53 AM

MTV Networks is currently selling ad inventory for the format it officially declared the best for online video, and the media company expects other Web publishers to follow suit, said Jason Witt, SVP and GM of MTV’s digital advertising unit in an interview with Andy last week in Manhattan. Based...

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...

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...