Andy Plesser

Video downloading via iTunes is a massive platform for video producers.  For publishers and advertisers, there are problems:  Although publishers know who subscribes or downloads videos via iTunes, they don’t know much more.  Moreover, advertising served into videos are “baked-in” to files.  Blip.tv, the New York online video publishing site, has a solution, according to […]

(The conference ended at noon. Please see our more recent post about the conference to watch the on-demand videos.) Industry leaders from Yahoo!, YouTube, MySpace, AOL, Microsoft, The Washington Post, Dow Jones, CNN, msnbc.com and several emerging new companies are gathering for the big online video summit tomorrow, 10/28, at the msnbc.com digital cafe at […]

Video on most news sites is presented in either a video gallery, where numerous videos are displayed, or as a single player placed on an article page.  The New York Times has broken ground by creating a sort of "contextual" video player which displays multiple clips related to the subject of the story, on the […]

The New York Times has launched a new HD-format video player with a 16:9 wide-screen frame. Other new features include a redesigned video library, a "Most Viewed" rank, and tools to share videos to social sites like Facebook and Digg.

The impact of online video on the 2008 presidential campaign will be sorted out by political scientists, historians, media pundits and consultants over the months and years ahead, but political strategist and former Edwards campaign senior advisor Joe Trippi tells Beet.TV that the Obama-financed “1984” video effectively crippled Hillary Clinton’s hopes. The mash-up of an […]

We are producing a live show of our online video industry summit on Tuesday, October 28 from 9-noon EDT, from the msnbc.com digital cafe at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, headquarters of NBC. CNET News.com Dan Farber and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld will join me in moderating in-depth discussions on technology, monetization and the changing role of […]

YouTube has premiered its first full-length studio film, “The Princess of Nebraska,” by Wayne Wang and has garnered some 160,000 views since Friday night and a positive review in today’s New York Times by movie critic A.O. Scott.

Third party presidential candidate Ralph Nader isn’t getting much television exposure, but he has 2 percent support of likley voters according to yesterday’s Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll.  Could it be that alternative media, including online video shows, might be helping his cause? Wouldn’t it be ironic if the Obama Girl herself is helping him?

Blaise Zerega, the veteran magazine editor who left Conde Nast’s Portfolio earlier this month, has joined FORA.tv as President and COO, William Randolph Hearst III, lead investor and vice chairman of the board announced today.

Quickly uploading, transferring downloading large video files through the Beet.TV virtual private network (VPN) to my New York apartment has gotten incredibly fast with my new fiber optics connection from Verizon FiOS.  As The New York Times reports, I am among the first to get the super fast service at home in Manhattan, and I’m […]

NEW YORK — YouTube and PBS have put in place a joint program to solicit, organize, stream and broadcast user-generated video from polling places around the nation on election day, November 4.  The program is called “Video Your Vote.”

Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove Chairman and CEO, visited Beet.TV recently to demonstrate the new platform.  It uses a new kind of dynamic delivery which adjusts the bitrate to the viewers’ bandwidth.   

The authoring tools for Microsoft’s Silverlight, the new rich-media Web plug-in,  will soon be available for those working on Macs and on open source programs.  The software giant hopes to accelerate the use of Silverlight on different operating systems through the funding of a project to be undertaken by Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider […]

Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, says the industry is on the "cusp" of making computing more "humanistic."  To demonstrate where this may be going, he shares a video of a prototype robotic receptionist at work at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass — In the midst of this extraordinary financial and political news cycle, online media consumption has been breaking traffic records.  As consumption is up, so is demand for bandwidth from big content delivery networks like Akamai.  Akamai, which carries Internet traffic for NBC, the BBC, Reuters and others, had a spike of 7 […]

Tina Brown, a titan of magazine publishing, has just launched her first online venture with the backing of Barry Diller’s IAC.  The Daily Beast is a site and daily email about cultural/business/political movers and shakers, a world she knows very well as past editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk.

The Washington Post, the newspaper publisher which has lead the industry in integrating online video, has registered a record 1.4 million video views in September, up some 162 percent over last year, according to internal numbers released this morning.

LOS ANGELES, CA — TMZ, Time Warner’s hugely popular celebrity gossip site, is expanding its video syndication agreement with NewsCorp’s MySpace. Today, MySpace is launching a new branded entertainment hub.

StumbleUpon, the large referral system for discovering video and other online content, has moved to a Web-based platform, the company announced late yesterday.  Previously, it had only worked with a toolbar plug-in.    The new web strategy might work, posits Kara Swisher in her post. Here’s the take on this by MG Siegler in VentureBeat. […]

ABC’s highly regarded online video player will be available for developers outside of Disney’s ABC, the network’s online video chief Albert Cheng told the Streaming Media West conference last week. CNET’s Webware contributor Dorian Benkoil has the story.