Andy Plesser

comScore just came out with the video view ranking for December and Google sites (principally YouTube with 99 percent of company views) has registered 5.9 billion views.  Fox Interactive (MySpace) is a distant number two in views and unique visitors  

Google News has just released a widget which allows webmasters to create a customized news feeds in two sizes, 728×90 and 300×250. The company refers to it as a “Google News–based element for webmasters and developers.”  Details were just published on the Official Google Blog. The company said in a blog post: “This makes it […]

On January 12, 2009 in Washington, YouTube hosted an event: "Broadcasting the World: The New Ecosystem for News Online."  The panel ("Reeling Them In: Building an Audience for News Video") featured:  Chris Cillizza, Journalist, The Washington Post, Jim Brady, Executive Editor of WashingtonPost.com, Ann Derry, The New York Times' Editorial Director of Video and Television, […]

Interesting video interview up on TechCrunch from Michael Arrington from Davos where he interviews Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

While many video publishers distribute their shows as downloadable media, known generically as podcasts and mostly organized via iTunes, there has been scant standardization in advertising format size and measurement.  These standards have been finalized, reports Liz Gannes at New TeeVee.

Here at Beet.TV, we have been keeping a close eye on innovative online video journalism emanating from newspapers.  We have seen extraordinary work from The Washington Post, The New York Times and others.

HANOVER, NH — Through intentional or mistaken breaches, hospitals and insurers are allowing a large amount of private medical data onto P2P networks such as Gnutella and Limewire, according to a report just released by M. Eric Johnson, an expert in cybersecurity and privacy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  The paper will […]

Adobe announced early today that Flash 10, the newest version of its ubiquitous Flash web plug-in which drives a vast majority of video consumption, has reached an installed base of 55 percent of global users of Flash.

comScore has come out with a ranking of the fastest growing U.S. Web sites.  As Erick Schonfeld points out in TechCrunch, some of the sites have grown as a result of mergers.  Some, however, appear to be just plain popular.  Break Media, the video network for young adult males, is on fire. comScore reports it […]

PETA, the activist animal rights group has landed some attention and possibly a viral video hit with its  "banned" Super Bowl television spot featuring an attractive female model getting intimate with a pumpkin, asparagus, broccoli and an eggplant. But hey, not one darn beet!

We read with interest the January cover story in Wired by Thomas Goetz titled “The Truth about Cancer…Don’t try to cure it. Just find it.”

Big win for the Los Angeles-based EdgeCast Network, a new content delivery network (CDN) backed by Disney's Steamboat Ventures, has backbone deal with Deutsche Telekom.  Om Malik at NewTeeVee broke the story earlier today. 

TED, the annual California gathering of movers and shakers in society, politics and business, is a completely closed affair, invitation only and very expensive.  Since 2006, speeches from conference have been edited and presented for free as short episodes online onto a site called TED Talks. 

While media companies large and small are figuring out how to monetize Web video with advertising, the demand for businesses and institutions to have video on their web sites, or as part of their marketing mix, is exploding. 

The New York Times has been providing resources and visibility around its online video, and the audience appears to be substantial, with  some 544,000 unique visitors in December, according to numbers provided to Beet.TV by Nielsen Online.

Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch as a story up tonight about plans to allow a greater number of content creators to sell their own advertising for their YouTube channel. 

Audi, as the exclusive sponsor of the live webcast of the Obama Inauguration on CBSNews.com, MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com and the WashingtonPost.com, had expected 30 million views of its pre-roll advertisement titled "Progress."  Beet.TV has been told by a spokesperson for Audi USA that its pre-roll ads have been watched nearly 70 million times.  

Driven by unprecedented demand for live online video of the Inauguration of Barack Obama, CNN.com was forced to limit the number of viewers of its online stream during the speech.  Some visitors who logged-on during the speech saw a message, explaining that they would be put in a "queue" and provided the stream when available.  […]

Akamai, the world's largest private global computer network, which provides distribution services to many of the world's news organizations, had record traffic today during the speech of Barack Obama. Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET.  Akamai also delivered over 12,000,000 […]

In what will surely be the be the biggest day in Internet history, CNN.com has seen historic traffic for its live feed.   Today, as of 11:45 a.m. there were 14 million streams, nearly three times the biggest day, which was the past election day.  Update: CNN.com streamed an incredible 19 million individual streams of the […]