Andy Plesser

Click To Play The New York Times Company’s About.com, the giant informational portal of content created by hundreds of domain experts, called "guides," in everything from travel to home repair to health, is expanding the use of video as part of  if offering and now has some 2000 videos on the site. I caught up […]

Editor’s note: The first video we posted had to be taken down because the copyright expired. This newer footage of the assassination was posted 10/02/08. While user-generated videos of news events from the 2004 Tsunami — to the hanging of Saddam Hussein have made their way around the Web, a video of the Bhutto killing […]

Click To Play The Washington Post, a pioneering publisher of online video, is increasing production and selling out its inventory of pre-roll advertising, reports Daisy Whitney on the WebVideo Report. Daisy gets the story through an interview with Tom Kennedy, managing editor of multimedia at the WashingtonPost.com I’ve reposted my interview with Tom from earlier […]

Click To Play Andrew Baron, the visionary creator of Rocketboom, says that publishers who are solely focused on inserting advertising into Flash video files will reach only a fraction of their viewers as large numbers will watch on downloaded files, which are not Flash. Andrew says just a small percentage of Rocketboom viewers watch the […]

Click To Play Although the consumption of streaming Flash video will continue to dominate the bulk of online video viewing, the growth of downloadable media to a desktop application is going to quickly accelerate. For many innovative online video publishers, distribution of online video via download exceeds streaming.  This is the case at The Washington […]

Click To Play Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who invented the organizational system for the World Wide Web, has been an advocate for a more organized Web, something he calls the "semantic" Web. This new system of organizing Web pages in a unified system, something akin to a giant Dewey Decimal system where pages have […]

Click To Play As the video functionality of mobile phones increase, so will the numbers of uploaders to various sites including YouTube, VideoEgg and Blip.TV which take video uploads directly via mobile devices.  Other video sharing sites, just for mobile video sharing sites like Veeker and Kyte will certainly grow. Check out this informative round-up […]

Click To Play This has been quite a year in our industry.  What’s ahead in 2008? Will things change as much we might expect?  I caught up with Business Week’s media columnist Jon Fine a couple to get his take on developments in technology and media business for 2008. Jon wonders how much things will […]

  Click To Play In Manhattan, the insider media crowd calls Michael’s its dining room.  It’s where many television, book, film, magazine and Internet deals are hatched.  Doing lunch is great, but who has time and is it really necessary to do business over a $34 Cobb salad? For many in the media elite, however, […]

Click To Play Earlier today I interviewed Cynthia Farrar, the CEO and producer of PurpleStates.TV Tomorrow, the first of nearly a dozen video segments produced by her new company and reported by non-professional citizen journalists, go up on the Op-Ed pages of the NYTimes.com  The videos will be uploaded through February 5, "Super Tuesday." Update […]

Click To Play Today I spoke with Tina Brown, the doyenne of the New York media world. Having served as longtime editor of Vanity Fair and New Yorker,  she is now a best-selling author with the recently published book about Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles. There are reports that she will be developing video properties […]

Click To Play We were saddened to read about the death of Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi, a 22-year-old reporter for the award-winning online video show "Alive in Baghdad."  About a year ago I interviewed the Brian Conley founder and executive producer (above) who gave an overview on the show and its reliance on Iraqi videographers.  The […]

Click To Play Brightcove provides video services for 4000 commercial publishers, which in turn serves video clips to 120 million unique users per month.  Having dropped its consumer facing portal and its business as an advertising network, the company is fully focused on its platform business.    These are topics covered  in an expansive interview […]

Click To Play In the "battle" of technology news aggregators Techmeme vs. Blogrunner, little Techmeme has the juice: it is the "water cooler" of the blogosphere, wrote power blogger Michael Arrington last month when Blogrunner was integrated into the NYTimes.com Technology page. While Techmeme grows in influence, Blogrunner has just added a powerful new component […]

Click To Play The New York Times is expanding its online video offerings by creating syndication deals with independent content producers.  Last month, it brought the Bloggingheads to the paper’s op-ed page.  In the latest development, it has an agreement with Purple States TV for a series of about a dozen segments on the  presidential primaries […]

Here at the purple channel, we’ve been covering video bloggers who are exploring and establishing the medium.   But none have had the impact of the Italian video blogger Beppe Grillo.  In today’s Technorati rankings of the most influential bloggers, determined by the number of other blogs that link in, he comes in at number eight […]

Click To Play The world of online video syndication between major content creators and portals has shifted into high gear over the past two days. Yesterday, Yahoo! Finance announced that it would host hundreds of CNBC clips.  Today, MTV Networks announced that it is syndicating a substantial amount of videos onto AOL Video.  Shows from […]

Click To Play Just as software for putting still images on a web page is free, so should codecs for encoding and decoding video, said Philippe Le Hegaret, Architect Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) headed by Tim Berners-Lee.  Video encoding, the essential process in which video is compressed, converted and then […]

Click To Play YouTube, which has offered an advertising revenue sharing opportunity to about  100 "qualified" partners, meaning "established" content creators like Ford Models, Rocketboom and Beet.TV, is now offering advertising participation to vast range of content creators. Update: 2:00 PM EST:  Ad revenue will split on a CPM basis with "a majority" of the […]

Click To Play Nokia, not Canon, Nikon or Casio or Sony, is the world’s camera phone company, Tim Frain, Director of Intellectual Property and Regulation at Nokia, told Beet.TV European Correspondent Mika Hentunen an exclusive interview in Espoo, Finland earlier this month. Of course, Mr. Frain was referring to the cameras in Nokia phones.  Some […]