Andy Plesser

LAS VEGAS — In an effort to deliver the same experience for HD online video streams for consumers with different bandwidth connections, the industry is embracing a technology called "adaptive streaming."  

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. 

While an entire industry has been created to measure the impact of conventional advertising on brand perception and purchasing, there is very little methodology around the impact of online video advertising.

Out  in Mountain View today, RJ Pittman and his crew unveiled the latest developments in image search. Michael Arrington has been live blogging about it.

thePlatform, the white label video services company owned by Comcast, has announced it is has new customer in 4Kids.TV.

Stay tuned to Beet.TV over the course of the week as we will be doing a number of interviews from the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center at the annual NAB convention.

Great to see the success and recognition for CHOW, the San Francisco-based foodie site created on a shoestring  by Jane Goldman as a print publication back in 1997 then sold to CNET in 2006 when it launched online.

Conde Nast, which had organized most of its content on big, themed portals, has created new Web sites for most of its individual titles.  This is part of the transition from CondeNet to the new entity Conde Nast Digital, which was announced in January.

Congratulations to Andrew Baron and the team at Rocketboom for the new technology series created sponsored and developed in cooperation with Intel.  Andrew blogged about it today.

In what could be an important development for producers of premium content, YouTube is planning ways to charge for some videos, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments during this afternoon's earnings call.

We read Caroline McCarthy's report on CNET News.com that Ning has reached 1 million networks. 

Banner ads on YouTube for the SarahPAC, the political action committee formed to advance the 2012 presidential candidacy of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin, are getting some unexpected exposure on YouTube. 

I caught up last month in San Francisco with Tim Napoleon, Akamai's chief digital strategist who spoke about the importance of creating industry standards around the many video players in the market.

WASHINGTON, DC — Vivian Schiller, former head of the NYTimes.com and now President and CEO of National Pubic Radio, told me in this interview that she is "bearish" on the opportunity for non-television media companies to undertake original news video production.

Pontiflex, a New York based company which provides advertisers with the tools to pay for just the CPL, or cost per lead, has secured a second venture round of funding of $6.25 million.

MENLO PARK, CA — Sun Microsystems, which has long been a leader in corporate blogging by executives and employees, is now empowering its 30,000 employees to upload employee-generated video to Sun's big video site Channel Sun as part of its communications with customers, developers and others.

The Rubicon Project, the fast growing ad optimization firm, has raised $13 million for possible acquisitions, according to a report out by Ryan Lawler over at Contentinople.

StumbleUpon has separated from eBay, which acquired the company two years ago to become a startup.  Co-founder Garrett Camp will be CEO of the newly independent enterprise. Kara Swisher has the story at All Things Digital.

ScanScout, the Boston-based online video advertising network, has raised a third venture round of $5.1 million, according to a report in Mass High Tech, citing financial filings.

Hulu is on fire. The video site, co-owned by Fox and NBC Universal, had nearly 350 million video streams in March, up 50 million streams from February, according to just released numbers from Nielsen Online.  As was the case in February, Hulu is second only to YouTube.