Andy Plesser

Click To Play Andrew Cleland of Time Warner Investments, the venture arm of the world’s biggest media company.  Yesterday, I caught up with him along with my pal Mary Kathleen Flynn, senior editor at Tech Confidential.  We were at the "Convergence 2." conference in Manhattan. Beet.TV is collaborating up with Tech Confidential on video segments […]

Click To Play Edgar Bronfman Jr. is head of Warner Music, one of the world’s biggest labels which he bought from Time Warner in 2004. I was at The Deal’s Convergence 2.0 conference in Manhattan where Bronfman was one of the featured speakers.  He announced one deal – and outlined his vision for transforming music […]

Click To Play Mochila, the fast-growing online syndication company, which distributes text, photos and videos, has just expanded its offering with an agreement to syndicate video content from Reuters.  I caught up with CEO Keith McAllister who explained the company’s offering and the new deal with Reuters. Mochila provides a three way split of revenue, […]

Click To Play The Wall Street Journal just came out with its annual rankings of business schools and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is ranked number one. The Tuck School is a client of my PR firm and we are delighted.  Not only is the school a client, but my son Benjamin, who […]

Click To Play Viacom, one of the world’s biggest media company, owner of MTV, Paramount Pictures, BET, Comedy Central and others, is ambitiously expanding its online video presence.  Like this new effort with Yahoo! Fortune magazine just published a story "Viacom’s Plan to Be Cool Again."  If Viacom is cool, it’s also tough when it […]

  Click To Play We’ve been talking about Microsoft’s Silverlight as a new technology for creating online video.  The other side of the technology is its use as a rich, interactive medium.  One of the more intriguing applications is its use as a graphical interface for search results. Developers have come up with some very […]

OK, it might not be time to quit the day job, but cash is starting to flow to independent content creators through advertising splits with video sharing sites. Revver, one of the first sites to share revenue with with content creators has paid out $1 million over the past 12 months, the Los Angeles-based company […]

Click To Play Fora.TV, is a bit of an amalgam of C-SPAN and YouTube: a vast collection of authoritative academic, government, NGO and business conferences, speeches and summits from around the globe. Health care is a substantial channel on Fora, and Pfizer has just come on board as the channel sponsor.  It’s the first sponsor […]

Click To Play Monday, we reported on the launch of vTap, the video search engine for mobile devices from Veveo.  This is a very cool new development. Here is our second interview with Murali  Aravamudan, CEO and founder of the company.  Murali sees wider consumption of video on mobile devices in the U.S. following the […]

Click To Play uStream’s been getting some nice notices from Robert Scoble, the New York Times and others. The company provides an easy and free platform to share high quality live video.  Users just connect a webcam to a PC or Mac and  can generate a  pretty nice live stream.  Using a  camcorder and external […]

Click To Play Tens of millions of video clips, organized by one of the Web’s "most comprehensive" video search engines, are now available on the Apple iPhone and on Microsoft Mobile-powered phones, through a thin application downloaded to a mobile browser. vTap is an offering of Veveo, a Boston-area mobile that has received some $28 […]

Click To Play In Australia today, Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN declared that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.   Today’s New York Times reports how a "virtual" fashion world is taking  shape in Second Life. Above is my interview with professor Eric Johnson of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  Dr. Johnson […]

Click To Play Here’s the second of two interviews with Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb, who heads product development for Silverlight. Beet.TV was in Redmond last week for a series of interviews about the Silverlight launch and its implications.  Brian outlines the two fundamental implementations of Silverlight: as a media platform for streaming video — and as […]

Click To Play We just heard that NewTeeVee, the fast-growing and influential offshoot of GigaOM that covers the online video space, is coming to New York City for a screening/mixer event.  Sources tell Beet.TV it will be September 24 at a cool loft space on 10th Avenue.  Details to follow.  But, if you’re in the […]

Click To Play Danny Rimer, the 36-year-old ex-pat, London-based VC has "colonized" Europe with hugely successful investments in Skype and the much anticipated Joost. He was recently crowned the "Venture Capital King of Europe."  Along with his three brothers, he runs Index Ventures, a VC fund that focuses on European technology companies.  Danny is known […]

Click To Play Major newspapers have been getting into the online video space at a furious pace. The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the News Corp papers have beefed up their online video operations.  These news organizations have turned to video management service companies including Brightcove, Roo and the […]

Click To Play Earlier today, Microsoft released the final version of Silverlight 1.0, the new cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for viewing rich media including games and video.  One of the most significant uses of Silverlight is its implementation on the Entertainment Tonight site.  ET moved to Silverlight this afternoon.  Last week, our video producer David […]

Click To Play Microsoft just released Silverlight 1.0, the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for streaming video, games and other multi-media content. The company has a number of content partners who will use Silverlight including Entertainment Tonight, HSN, World Wrestling Entertainment. Entertainment Tonight launches today in Silverlight.  (As reported on Beet.TV Major League Baseball launched in an […]

Click To Play As we seek success in the digital revolution, we need to understand failure.  For budding entrepreneurs and senior corporate executive, dealing with failure properly is essential. I was up in Hanover, New Hampshire at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, last week to interview Sydney Finkelstein, a leading management expert and […]

Click To Play Video search is different than search, it’s more akin to browsing and finding interesting content:  It’s largely a process of discovery.  Key to an solution is the user interface, and Truveo, the AOL search unit, has set the standard with its recent relaunch. I was in San Francisco earlier this month to […]