MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Ooyala, the online video services company started by ex-Googlers, is developing realtime analytics for video producers to closely monitor the success of their content.
We spoke with company CTO Sean Knapp for this overview on the value and utility of analytics. Sean came from [...]
On Tuesday (12/1) in Washington, Beet.TV will gather an extraordinary group to talk about online video and its role in the evolving news environment.
The line-up for Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable includes political strategist Joe Trippi and Obama Campaign video producer Max Harper along with editors and executives from CBS [...]
SAN JOSE -- NBC Sports is demonstrating the highly interactive functionality of its online experience with Sunday Football. Much of this functionality will be part of NBC's Winter Olympics online presentation.
At Streaming Media West, we caught Bob Cowherd and Michael Moser of Vertigo, the San Francisco-based Interactive consultancy which' [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- With smart phone sales outpacing PC sales, mobile devices represent "the future of media" and video producers will soon begin to produce videos for the small screen first,
in a "total reversal" of platform-specific programming, says Kevin Lynch, Chief Technology Officer of Adobe Systems.
We caught [...]
Fashion icon Norma Kamali, the New York-based designer, is making a big retail push online with a custom page on eBay.
eBay is holding a competition for consumers to upload photos of themselves with a Kamali tunic in order to win a $500 prize.
Flash for the iPhone would be helpful to developers and programmers, but it's not essential in getting the rich interactivity of Flash on the iPhone, says Jeremy Allaire, one of the principal developers of Flash.
Allaire, who was CTO of Macromedia, the company that developed Flash and was sold to Adobe,' [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month, we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster than real time," the company says.
New York Times reporter Ashlee [...]
Comcast-owned video destination Fancast.com lured 11.3 million unique visitors in October, nearly double its 6.5 million count in September, according to comScore.
I spoke with Comcast senior VP Karen Gilford about Fancast at the newTeeVee Live event in San Francisco earlier this month.
She attributes the jump to marketing. [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- First, the question everyone wants to know when reporting on the video platform company Ooyala. What the heck does Ooyala mean?
It means "cradle" in the Indian language Telegu, and the company picked it because it believes in "cradling innovation," Ooyala co-founder Bismarck Lepe told [...]
Earlier this month, eBay launched Inside Source, a style/fashion/shopping guide published by the auction giant. Here's the launch story in The New York Times.
Last week we caught up with the publication's editor Meredith Barnett at the eBay store, a temporary promotional facility on 57th Street. She tells us [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Adding another notch to its cable customer belt, online video technology firm thePlatform inked a deal to power broadband video for Rogers Cable.
The company's VP of marketing Marty Roberts told us thePlatform now delivers online video for five of the seven largest cable operators including' [...]
SAN JOSE, CA - Adobe's latest version of Flash has been installed in some 98 percent of the world's computers, according to Kevin Towes who is product manager for Flash Media Server.*
We caught up with Kevin at an opening night party for the Streaming Media West hosted by Brightcove. [...]
Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up that provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media, the NBA, and now on The New York.
The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built [...]
Some media companies are spending in excess of 100% of their digital revenue on site development, management, and hosting, says Cisco's Scott Brown.
Cisco aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60% of technology costs with a hosted solution called Eos.
Launched earlier this year, the' [...]
Introduced originally as videogame console, the Xbox from Microsoft is fast becoming a powerful video viewing device with the introduction of Zune, the new video streaming platform.
The device connects to the Internet and streams high quality video. It has a number of offerings including Netflix, Last.fm, integration with social networks, [...]
NEW YORK, NY-- eBay has the pulse of the fashion market because, "It's probably the only place that a person could come to and really see the breadth and depth of style at their fingertips," says Constance White, Style Director for eBay.
Yesterday, Andy met up with White, a' [...]
RealPlayer SP, A small desktop application from RealNetworks, which allows users to save and share Flash videos, has been downloaded 100 million times, the company said today.
Earlier this year, we spoke with RealNetwork's Jeff Chasen about the new application. We have republished the interview today.
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer [...]
TEDx live webcast from Amsterdam.
Not sure if TED has streamed the conferences live since we haven't seen them live, so this is interesting to see.
This is also one of the few events we have seen streamed live in Microsoft Silverlight.
You may need to download the Microsoft' [...]
Adobe sees a big growth opportunity in the emerging eReader market, says Bill Rusitzky, who heads media alliances for the software company.
The company is heavily promoting the ePub format which will be used in the Nook and the Sony eReader. It is not used in the Kindle and [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Streaming Media West, the annual industry gathering of broadband executives, drew a bigger crowd this year then last and the focus has changed from delivery and distribution to devices and content, says Dan Rayburn, head of the show.
We caught up with Dan on Wednesday [...]
Though it only has two years of online video availability under its belt, the NFL is in the game for new media opportunities.
That's what the league's Laura Goldberg told Beet.TV at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco last week. She's the general manager of NFL.com and' [...]
Facebook integration around video got its first high profile exposure with CNN and the Inauguration of President Obama, but the first was last year's collaboration with Joost.
A spokesperson for Facebook has told Beet.TV:
"Joost users who have connected their Facebook accounts continue to rank as most active group on the'" [...]
The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of video, says Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing.
The company announced its name change today at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose along with the launch of [...]
"Bet on TV Everywhere." Those are the parting words of CBS' outgoing digital chief Quincy Smith.
We caught up with him at the NewTeeVee live event last week and he talked about Hulu, TV Everywhere, and his mission to convince advertisers that online video is a reach and' [...]
Brands making videos for YouTube don't need to spend a lot of money because there's no correlation between production values and views, the online video strategist Kevin Nalty told me in this week's New Media Minute.
I interviewed him after his iMedia Summit talk on "Seven Strategies for YouTube Success" and he' [...]
Business Week has picked TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel as its new Editor-in-Chief, Tom Lowry reported this morning.
Earlier this year, I interviewed Josh about online journalism. He said that on the Web, long form journalism on the Web is "not working." I have republished this video today.
More on today's' [...]
YouTube has introduced a solution for media sites to moderate and post video uploads from visitors. The Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, and the San Francisco Chronicle are the first media companies to use the system called YouTube Direct.
The system allows registered YouTube users to upload videos directly to a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- Comcast, the nation's biggest cable system, will launch an online offering of its television service to 14 million Comcast "double play" subscribers next month. Comcast's Interactive Media President Amy Banse told Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney in this video interview.
While the December introduction had been widely anticipated' [...]
The online television listing serving Clicker launched last week, entering the crowded business of online television listings.
We caught up with the Los Angeles based company's CEO Jim Lanzone at NewTeeVee Live last week and asked him about the service and how it stands out in a competitive' [...]
Brightcove, the video platform services company, which has established a reputation for providing video services for big publishers and business enterprises, is launching a slimmed down version of its solution priced at $99 per month
Separately, the company is now providing support for native iPhone application development. The new offering [...]
Boxee, a software program which allows users to connect Web video to a television set, created a lot of buzz last week when the company announced it was providing a consumer electronics device, the Boxee "Box."
We caught up with CEO and founder Avner Rovner at the [...]
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 said it would [...]
CNET has a sit-down video interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt on social search, Android, and plans for the Chome OS , which will be initially targeted to for netbooks. Also, he provides an explanation of Google Wave.
When asked by CNET's Tom Krazit about the Google books settlement, at' [...]
Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com
We are publishing the live feed from the NewTeeVee Live conference underway in San Francisco. A number cool stories coming out today. Here's the story about the Boxee Box. You can' [...]
Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has a new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30.
Peter wrote that Apple is in the early stages of conversation with programmers but noted there are a number of hurdles.
Last [...]
While search and display are far bigger categories than online video advertising, the digital advertising sector that is hot right now is online video advertising around premium news content.
The Wall Street Journal's sale of pre-roll advertising for its new show the News Hub is sold out at a rate of' [...]
The advertising business has traditionally operated according to one very simple principle: marketers pay to pitch their products to someone else's audience. But brands are starting to think it might be time to develop their own audiences rather than rent, according to several agency executives at the Beet.TV online [...]
Executives and employees alike at digital startups, media agencies, and television networks should still build their personal brands.
That's the advice of Gary Vaynerchuk, the multi-million dollar businessman, uber-popular video star, and now New York Times bestselling author. In his latest book "Crush It," Gary evangelizes his philosophy on how' [...]
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 [...]
In report released today, Forrester analyst Bobby Tulsiani writes that Brightcove and Ooyala provide the best end-to-end online video platform.
He writes, "Brightcove separates itself from the pack with leading scores in distribution and integration while Ooyala earns its highest marks in monetization and analytics."
The report ($1749) evaluates [...]
Despite the commanding position of YouTube, with 40 percent of video streams in the U.S., the quality of the environment for advertisers is not always acceptable, according to leading digital advertising executives.
Rob Norman, CEO of WPP's giant GroupM Interaction, the digital media buying group, says that despite the availability of' [...]
msnbc.com, which had the first embeddable video player among the major video producers in the United States, will soon launch a player which provides embed codes for specific segments.
The new player will also be resizable and will carry forms of advertising, deemed acceptable on off domain sites, meaning no pre-roll [...]
NBC Universal's ten regional web sites, which are affiliated with local owned and operated television stations, has reached an audience of 12 million monthly unique viewers, according to internal numbers.
More on the results on Mediabistro's WebNewser.
Earlier this year, we spoke with Gregory Gittrich, Executive Editor of the sites and [...]
NBC Sports will announce plans today to use Microsoft Silverlight as the software for Web viewing the Winter Olympics Games in the United States.
We have been impressed with the latest use of Silverlight by NBC for Sunday Night Football. We look forward to watching the Olympics online. Although, [...]
Advertisers want to know more about their neighbors and brands want to know who they're running next to and whether their ads are live in safe online environments, said Jayant Kadambi, co-founder and president of online video ad network YuMe.
We caught up with him at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable last' [...]
Advertisers and marketers can use the techniques of venture capitalists in evaluating new advertising platforms, technologies, and tools.
Online-advertising-executive-turned-venture capitalist Brian McAndrews of Madrona Venture Group spoke with me during the recent iMedia Summit for this week's New Media Minute. This evaluation includes assessing the market opportunity, the timing, and the' [...]
Online video ad network YuMe is generating engagement rates that are as much as three to four times higher or custom spots than for pre-rolls. That's what YuMe's CEO Michael Mathieu told Beet.TV during a recent interview in New York.
The company served up more than three billion video ads through the third [...]
The big challenge facing mainstream media with online video is scale; a lack of inventory of content and viewers, according Vivek Shah, head of digital news at Time Inc.
At the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, Vivek was questioned by paidContent Editor Rafat Ali, one of the event's moderators.
Vivek says estimates' [...]
Although pre-roll advertising, the 15-30 second ads seen before a video begins, is the dominate media form, the promise of online video advertising is much greater.
The opportunity is much more than simply re-purposing television ads , as a kind of "Television 2.0." It is incumbent on the industry to be [...]
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