Andy Plesser

I interviewed Alex Castro, founder and CEO of Delve Media, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable earlier this month.  Alex explains the value of Delve in a field filled with big, established competitors. 

Adobe, known principally as a software company, is expanding Web services business according Bill Rusitzky, who heads business alliances at company. 

Video consumption is becoming less of destination scenario. Many of us are watching videos on social networks, so widgets are increasingly important.  

Msnbc.com has announced that it has expanded its offering of television news programming to mobile devices through an alliance with Transpara. NBC News shows to be sent to mobile devices will include "Today," "Nightly News with Brian Williams" and "Meet the Press."

Here at Beet.TV we are like to chronicle how small media brands, with no legacy, emerge to grab attention.  Fora.tv, launched in 2007, is a site which presents videos of thought leaders speaking in public forums. It been gaining some traction over the past three months.

SAN FRANCISCO — Online video is replacing television for consumers 25 years and younger  as part of a dramatic demographic shift.  Watching video on a personal computer is becoming the principal way young adults consumer video. 

Many video producers embrace a hyper-syndication approach to distributing their videos across many sites, meaning they make their videos sharable on unassociated blogs and Web sites. 

News videos displayed on YouTube have been organized to be timely and relevant to the news of the day through the integration of Google News into YouTube News. 

SAN FRANCISCO — A large part of the success of online video can be attributed to the widespread adoption of Flash, a rich media, Web plug-in application which is on nearly all of the world's computers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube.

Webcam chat at Ustream The Beet.TV roundtable in San Francisco (and Ustream's live stream of the event) ended at noon PT today. You can watch the first half on-demand in this post; for the second half, visit our Ustream channel. Keep reading for my live blogging of the event!

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe is aggressively promoting the use of its Flash video ecosystem into more of the news and entertainment world with a new development deal with Time Warner. 

Thomson Reuters has announced a new online video service as part of a $1 billion plan to update the company's products and infrastructure.  The new video portal is part of the company's paid service for financial professionals.   

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here. 

Several small niche sites in health, sports and video gaming appear to be bucking the downturn trend and registering growth in traffic and revenue, reports Jessica Vascellaro and Elizabeth Holmes in today's Wall Street Journal.

Be an insider: Find out what is really happening with online video and where it's going. 

Google has scanned and indexed the entire archives of New York magazine.  Issues spanning 40 years have been organized as part of Google Book Search.

Google’s Marissa Mayer is profiled by Laura Holson in Sunday’s New York Times.  The senior exec, who is in charge of look, feel and usability of the world’s biggest search engine, tells the Times she is not leaving the company and says, “people don’t understand me.”

This difficult period for start-ups will produce many important companies, as happened in the last tech downturn, says Sita Vasan, a senior officer with Intel Capital, one of the the world's biggest corporate investors.  

Beet.TV has put together a fantastic group of industry leaders for our online video roundtable next week at the Adobe headquarters in San Francisco. We are thrilled that NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes will co-moderate.