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AUSTIN – Racist comments on YouTube, often penned anonymously, can be ugly an painful, but engaging in a conversation provides the commentator the platform they seek.  It’s best to step back and not respond says Andre Meadows, the Los Angeles-based comedian  and creator of “Black Nerd Comedy” a successful YouTube partner channel. Hate comments on […]

While the live viewership of the HuffPost Live is modest, viewership of short from the daily, 12-hour talk show,  has reached 48 million, reports Peter Kafka in AllThingsD.  Earlier this year, we spoke with Huffington Post Media CEO Jimmy Maymann about how the fledgling network has become a vast creator of video clips which are […]

The important digital media stories are not so much the transformation of the big legacy companies, but around a new crop of digital-only innovators, says Ernie Sander, Executive Editor of GigaOm and paidContent, as he give this preview of the paidContent media conference set for New York on April 17. Beet.TV will be covering the […]

AUSTIN — The time is now for marketers to start taking advantage of advertising in user-generated videos given the sheer number of videos consumers are watching, says Jeff Hinz, Managing Partner and U.S. Digital Director at MediaCom, during a panel session at SXSW in a private session about digital video organized and hosted by Videology.

Brands that have the most success in social media are often those that integrate social throughout the organizatons, says Jan Rezab, CEO of Socialbakers, a social media analytics firm, in an interview with Beet.TV. “There are companies with just one to two guys working on social and I think the most common mistake is not scaling social […]

AUSTIN — Even though scale is vital for the video business, some of the more exciting developments to watch in this sector involve consumer interaction with different devices, says Phil Rzepka, VP, Group Director of Digital at Carat. He served as a panelist at SXSW at a private session about digital video organized and hosted […]

AUSTIN — Given the growth in real-time buying on the digital front, it’s only logical that the buying approach would move to addressable TV next, says Ken Barbieri, VP Business Development, AdAdvisor at Neustar, a real-time information provider. He served as a panelist at SXSW at a private session about digital video organized and hosted […]

By 2015 about 30% of all video ad spend, or roughly $2.5 billion, will be audience-based, says Sorosh Tavakoli, CEO of ad management platform Videoplaza, in an interview with Beet.TV. That’s why the company rolled out a new version of its platform, Karbon 2, to include more audience data, segmentation and targeting for media owners, […]

AUSTIN —  Given the speed of the news cycle and the time needed video news production, social media is “the first way we break news now,” says Andrew Springer, Producer of Social Integration at ABC News, in this interview with Beet.TV at SXSW He explained how ABC News is building a following of several million […]

TV programmers need to take control of their destiny via social and digital channels, says Ashley Swartz in this commentary on the state of the business. With the TV upfront getting underway shortly, she urges programmers to seize the opporunities afforded in social media and digital venues. As an example, AMC actively tweets and engages with […]

Hadoop, the 10-year old open source platform for data management, is one of the hot topics around cloud computing at the GigaOm Structure, a two-day event taking place in New York. For an overview on the fast-growing sector around cloude computing, we caught up with Ernie Sander, Executive Editor of GigaOm at event today.

AUSTIN – The volume of tweets about a TV show is often related to the TV show’s ratings, according to a new study released today from Nielsen. Heading into the upfront, this sort of data may help arm media planners  who are looking for more insight into the impact of Twitter chatter on TV show […]

Hadoop, the 10-year old open source platform for data management, is one of the hot topics around cloud computing at the GigaOm Structure, a two-day event taking place in New York. For an overview on the fast-growing sector around cloude computing, we caught up with Ernie Sander, Executive Editor of GigaOm at event today.  

AUSTIN – The volume of tweets about a TV show is often related to the TV show’s ratings, according to a new study released today from Nielsen. Heading into the upfront, this sort of data may help arm media planners  who are looking for more insight into the impact of Twitter chatter on TV show […]

AUSTIN – “A lot of people have fun with YouTube,” explains Andre Meadows, creator of ‘Black Nerd Comedy‘, “but there’s also a business side to it.”  In an interview with Beet.TV at SXSW, Meadows explains how his YouTube channel evolved from a hobby into a full time career. Meadows says that he began his YouTube […]

AUSTIN — Data is the watchword in the digital marketing business these days, and the key to success is knowing when and how to employ data in ad campaigns, says Ken Barbieri, VP Business Development, AdAdvisor at Neustar, a real-time information provider, during an interview with Beet.TV. We spoke with him at SXSW where he was a […]

AUSTIN — The next frontier for digital video is the connected TV, says Jeff Hinz, Managing Partner and U.S. Digital Director at MediaCom, during an interview with Beet.TV. We spoke with him at SXSW where he was a panelist at a private session about digital video organized and hosted by Videology. “We have 50% of consumers already watching […]

AUSTIN – Yahoo! News has become increasingly focused on live video, with events and programming, explains Hillary Frey, Editor in Chief of Yahoo! News, in this interview with Beet.TV at SXSW. We spoke with her after she participated in a panel moderated by Anna Robertson, head of Yahoo! Studios. Frey joined Yahoo! in 2011 from […]

Earlier this month, video campaign management platform Extreme Reach launched a new cross-media reporting suite that enables advertisers to measure their video campaigns across all screens, from television to mobile and across the web. 

VIEQUES, PR – "More and more people are consuming their information through news aggregators, especially in the post-PC era, where more and more people are consuming their information on mobile devices, tablets and Connected TVs," says Wibbitz CEO Zohar Dayan.