Andy Plesser

Interesting to learn about a development at Pixsy, a video search and syndication company, which is now introducing a way for publishers of premium content to distribute their clips via embed codes and make money.  Not sure how this well work out, but as videos are widely shared, it would be extremely helpful for publishers […]

Here is the live stream of CBS News continuous coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  View this as full screen  — hit the rectangular icon in the control box.  Looks great. This player was created by CNET and is not the player for CBS News.  CNET is a unit of CBS Interactive. — Andy […]

Get the CNN Live News widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Here is the CNN.com Live feed of the Inauguration of Barack Obama. We have embedded the live video widget. The player requires a small client download which takes just s few seconds. On Beet.TV, we are also hosting the live streams […]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy For several of the biggest TV news operations, this will be an Inauguration to share, literally.  Over the past year, most of the major broadcast news operations have made a decision to provide a sharable embed code which allows smaller Web publishers and […]

Nexidia, the Atlanta-based company which provides video search software, has an agreement with msnbc.com to crawl, "listen" and create text metadata around msnbc.com video clips.   The first implementation is on the msnbc.com Inauguration Player page.  The page provides a great deal of multimedia clips going back to FDR.  I've pasted a screen shot here.

Consumption of news and politics videos on YouTube increased by over 500 percent last year, according to Olivia Ma, News Specialist. Olivia made these comments at the YouTube news media conference in Washington last Monday.  Surely the Olympics and the presidential campaign were key drivers.  The Associated Press, the world's largest media organization, has been […]

YouTube leads Yahoo! as the world's second biggest search engine according the the latest numbers from comScore released on Friday.  It is a different sort of search engine of course, as the queries are for videos.  Seeking to monetize all that traffic, late last year YouTube launched "Sponsored Videos," a program modeled after and managed […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CNN.com leads the news business in the live streaming of news events. From its home page, visitors are offered the choice of four different live streams. In 2008, the network provided 83 million individual streams, a CNN.com spokesperson told Beet.TV

Big story today in the The New York Times by Brad Stone about Boxee and its growing success.  Brad reports the company was much sought after at CES and has 200,000 active users.  Avner Ronen visited Beet.TV for an explanation and demonstration.  I've replublished the interview today. — Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

This Tuesday, if the sky is clear over Washington, the world will see a detailed color image of the throngs attending the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  GeoEye, the Virginia-based satellite company which owns the new satellite, has an exclusive arrangement with Google Earth to provide quality satellite images.(There is no relationship with Google and this […]

We read this morning Newsweek's Dan Lyon's rant about the "rotten press" corps in Silicon Valley and that  PR people are mostly paid to "tell lies. "  Well, we don't think that Apple handled the health issues around Steve Jobs properly, but we wonder why Dan is so worked up about Apple coverage these days.

Steve Hamm over at Business Week has a story out on two potential candidates who could be chosen as the nations’ first Chief Technology Officer.  Citing sources close to the Obama team, Hamm names Padmasree Warrior, CTO of Cisco and Vivek Kundra, CTO of the District of Columbia city government. Neither individual nor the Obama […]

The sinking US Airways plane in Hudson River makes compelling live online video.  Here is the CNN.com coverage.  You will need to download a small application.  (This still image was taken at 4:11 EST) CNN.com has been leading the online media industry with live streaming of news events.  This will certainly be among the most […]

Motionbox, the New York-based video sharing site which has a subscription model, has gotten a third venture round of $6 million, Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch reported tonight.  Along with the investment is a management shake-up with Chris O’Brien assuming the title of Chairman and Josh Grotstein becoming CEO.  A little over a year ago, Chris […]

In what might be the biggest breakthrough for Panache, a Los Angeles-based video ad insertion company,  MTV has agreed to deploy its program across its sites.  I interviewed Panache CEO Steve Robinson at Streaming Media East this past May in New York.  I've republished the interview here.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  On Sunday night at American University, YouTube recognized the five finalists and winner in the Project Report competition, a new journalism award for short video documentaries. Co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, the assignment was for "non-professional" video journalists to report on underreported communities.

We were pleased to read this past weekend in The Wall Street Journal that our friends at Iron Horse Vineyards were cited by Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher as one of the two best U.S. sparkling wine makers. The story is a guide to buying domestic “Champagne” or sparkling wine to celebrate Tuesday’s Inauguration of […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  YouTube has just launched a site for all members of the U.S. Congress.  The New York Times reported on the development today.   I am at the Google offices in Washington where I just interviewed Steve Grove who heads politics and news for YouTube.  We spoke about a number of subjects including the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A five-minute film titled "Abilities" about a California community for disabled adults by San Francisco filmmaker Arturo Perez, Jr, has been selected as the winner of Project Report, an award from YouTube and the Pulitzer Center for best video journalism from non-professional journalists.  The winner was announced earlier this evening in Washington, […]

Accurate monitoring of online video consumption across multiple platforms is not an easy task. But for publishers and advertisers hoping to make a business of this, complete metrics is essential.  Nielsen Online is developing new system to track online video consumption on multiple sites by identifying the distinct "audio signature file" which is specific to […]