Andy Plesser

Click To Play Reuters, the global news organization which produces some 125 video clips a day, has just launched a program to make videos available to publishers big and small on a licensing basis.  We first reported on this development last week. In our second interview with Reuters’ Mitch Koppelman, we learn more about the […]

Williams Sonoma, the essential gourmet supply source, has long offered tasty recipes in books, magazines and online.  Videos are now part of the mix. Today, the company announced to its customers via e-mail, the redesign of its web site which includes a considerable amount of cooking videos. TurnHere, the Emeryville-based Internet video production and distribution […]

Click To Play Shel Israel, blogger, consultant and co-author of Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble, will join FastCompany.tv, the company announced today. Shel’s daily show launches on March 3.  Here’s a description of the show in a statement from Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company: Primarily a daily interview show, Israel’s program, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), […]

Click To Play One of the most successful and unique drivers of Fast Company magazine’s growth in the late nineties was a social network called Company of Friends.  Long before Facebook or MeetUp, Fast Company galvanized readers around the nation for live events and online forums.  The network was launched in 1997. David Carr of […]

As all the presidential candidates embrace online video to reach voters, it is interesting to see who has made a success of this medium.  In the online video match up between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in terms of the nubmers of views, Obama is the big winner, by a margin of 11 to 1 […]

Click To Play Newsweek has been ambitiously implementing an in-house video production operation since last fall when it separated from MSNBC, after 7 years.    A team of video producers at the Manhattan headquarters, and others on the campaign trail and around the globe, are creating around a dozen videos everyday.  For breaking news, the […]

Click To Play Investment in information technology has slowed in recent years and will slow more in the months ahead with the prospects of a recession, according to a report by Steve Lohr in today’s New York Times. While this belt tightening may be tied to an economic cycle, Jason Pontin, editor of MIT’s Technology […]

Click To Play I visited Steven Levy at his Newsweek office in midtown Manhattan today to get the lowdown on the new MacBook Air.  Steven has one of a handful of review units provided to big foot tech journalists. Steven gave the new computer a mixed review on newsweek.com and in the Washington Post, which […]

Click To Play As you might have guessed, we like beets here at the purple channel — we like ’em grilled, boiled, juiced, on sandwiches and in our soup — ah borscht! These days you’ll find beets served in some of the fanciest restaurants. But, this wasn’t always the case and Beet.TV has gotten to […]

Uber video blogger Robert Scoble is  making video blogging  history in Davos at the World Economic Forum right now.  With a Nokia 95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming an extraordinary number of interviews.  Sure, the quality is not great, but the access to so many leaders is extraordinary.  It also […]

YouTube has a big presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Co-founder Chad Hurley and executives are on the scene.  The video sharing site has launched a channel for citizens around the globe to upload questions and comments.  Above is a Reuters video report about the YouTube efforts at the summit.  Jeff Jarvis has […]

The World Economic Forum in Davos has been the super exclusive gathering for the world’s leaders in government, business and academia. It’s been covered by a very small group of journalists including The New York Times John Markoff Markoff blogs about the big presence this year of Silicon Valley execs and its elite bloggers.    […]

Click To Play Microsoft is making available some $235 million over the next five years to help students around the world with computer equipment and training, Reuters reports.  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled announce the program tomorrow in Berlin.   The New York Times has some additional perspective via an IDG News Service story. Beet.TV […]

Click To Play We’ve been talking about the prospects of inserting dynamic advertising into downloadable video clips as an emerging trend.  Clearly, consumers will download more clips. The big issue facing the industry is how can ads, once downloaded as part of file, be "changed" dynamically.  There is some big news with YuMe running the […]

Click To Play In much the same way that Reuters made Web portals Yahoo! and AOL into news platforms by providing its newswire feeds some 10 years ago, the London-based information behemoth is set to make the Web video-news-rich by providing thousands of clips to publishers. Some 13,000 clips Reuters-produced videos, with 125 new clips […]

Click To Play As publishers large and small look to monetize online video content, one emerging model is sponsorship, a format in which a brand gets to be associated with a show, usually with an introductory  mention and/or graphic. This form of advertising harkens back to the early days of TV when sponsors, like Lucky […]

Click To Play Congrats to Techmeme‘s Gabe Rivera for winning the Crunchie Award last night in San Francisco.  Gabe won best bootstrapped start-up for his powerful aggregation site that sorts blog and news sources automatically.  Here’s how Techmeme is organizing news about the Crunchie Awards. Gabe really does bootstrap all this himself.  He told me […]

Click To Play With news of Revions3’s new program launch The Digg Reel, we have republished our interview with Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 which was originally posted in October. For an update on Jim’s efforts, read Wired’s Terrance Russell’s Q&A that was published last night. — Andy Plesser

While YouTube commands the majority of video views with a whopping 52 percent, AOL Video is growing more quickly than any other video site, up nearly 24 percent in market share in December.  That’s up to 8.4 percent, passing MSN and just behind Yahoo!  This according to the latest numbers from Compete. I asked AOL […]

Click To Play "Google is like a gigantic parasite that hollows-out existing (media) businesses," says Jason Pontin, editor and chief and publisher of Technology Review and New York Times business columnist.  This is part of a series of segments from an interview we had earlier this week. He says that Google and Yahoo! "create nothing" […]