Andy Plesser

gle We’ve uploaded all 260 or so video clips from Beet.TV to our "Partner" channel on YouTube and it’s really starting to grow.  Folks are subscribing to the channel, commenting and generally spreading the word.  Today, the purple channel ranked 69, which I think it is pretty cool.  And yes, I have been designated a […]

Click To Play The business of delivering video files quickly and efficiently to users is made possible by Content Delivery Network (CDN) companies. The big players are Akamai and Limelight. But there are many emerging players, plus big, established companies moving into the space including VeriSign and Level 3. Level 3 is a big Internet […]

Click To Play One of the most spectacular online video players can be found at ABC.com. It was introduced just last month and and has attracted quite a bit of attention. The player shows remarkable, full-screen high quality.  And, it loads quickly. It’s not Flash, it’s not Windows Media and it’s not distributed on P2P.  […]

Click To Play When I was in LA earlier this month for the AlwaysOn conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Abraham who heads IBM’s consulting services in the entertainment and media industries.  Steve provides a very informative take on the NBC Universal/News Corp alliance for syndicating and advertising online video content. […]

Click To Play NBC Universal and News Corp announced plans to create a giant distribution and advertising platform for video programming. At that time, AOL announced it would be associated with the new entity by providing its massive platform to present the videos and related advertising. Earlier this week, I spoke with Fred McIntrye who […]

Click To Play One of the coolest online video environments I have seen is the new home for Major League Baseball. It is being created on Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform. I got a sneak preview when I caught up with Microsoft’s Sean Alexander this week at the Streaming Media East conference in New York. Sean […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Robert Scoble from the floor of Streaming Media East in New York yesterday. Robert was one of several guests I interviewed live over a two hour period. In addition to streaming the interview, we taped it, so here’s an excerpt. Many more video clips to follow. The live […]

Click To Play Bart Feder is the President and CEO of the FeedRoom, a company that powers video platforms for media organizations including The New York Times and Conde Nast. The company is increasingly providing video distribution platforms for companies who want to provide videos to journalists, bloggers and the general public. After all, any […]

Click To Play Earlier today, Akamai announced a new initiative to offer live video support for Flash video playback. The giant content distribution network (CDN) company said the new initiative supports On2 Technologies VP6 Codec used in Adobe’s latest Flash Player. This is another indication of the imminent proliferation of live streaming Flash video. At […]

Click To Play Adobe’s Flash Video has huge penetration.  Its brower-based application is nearly everywhere.  So, why is Adobe launching a new player this summer?  Earlier today, I caught up with Adobe’s Craig Barberich at the Streaming Media East conference here in New York. Craig gave us a demo and it’s pretty impressive.  Unlike the […]

Click To Play The very premise of the "Streaming Media" conference has tranformed from largely a broadcast-engineering expo to a must-attend summit where online video and its revolutionary effect on society is explored.  It’s a whole new ballgame.  Congratulations to Dan Rayburn for programming such a relevant and informative show. We are delighted to cover […]

Click To Play More and more video will be available on mobile devices. Consumers will have choices and opportunities to download and stream short and long-form content. That’s cool but how can the wireless providers and their networks support this bandwidth demand? Part of the solution will come with the deployment of WiMAX, says Padmasree […]

Click To Play Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adap.tv  It is a new kind of advertising network that places advertising on video clips in the form of contextual overlay advertising.  These are not video ads inserted before of in the clips, but they are […]

Click To Play Gabe Rivera, 34, working completely on his own in his home in the Bay Area, has created Techmeme, what many bloggers, reporters and editors consider the most important tech news aggregation site.  And, he is about to transform the news and blogging world with new aggregation sites for national politics, gossip and […]

Click To Play I caught up with legendary angel investor Ron Conway in Hollywood last week. Ron was an earlier investor in some of the Valley’s most successful companies, including Google. Ron is very enthusiastic about the opportunties for investment in a whole crop of new online video ventures including kyte.tv.  He is an investor […]

Click To Play Sometimes hanging out at cool Hollywood parties, you can catch a scoop now and again. Well, I learned at a poolside shindig at the Roosevelt that Richard Rosenblatt, the former CEO of INTERMIX and MySpace, has made a private investment in Vator.TV, the new company headed up by former MarketWatch columnist Bambi […]

Click To Play Here’s Justin Kan of Justin.TV, the dude wearing the live TV camera on his head. I hung out with him LA last week where he was live casting his experience at the AlwaysOn conference. Justin is streaming live Flash video through a wireless device. This is no publicity stunt, it’s about business. […]

Click To Play Question: Who needs a set-top box if your TV is really smart?  I’m starting to wonder about that — particularly in light of today’s news that Akimbo is dropping its hardware altogether. HP believes that there is a big future in "smart" television that are connected wirelessly and through wires to various […]

Click To Play In Los Angeles last week, I had a chance to sit down with Padmasree Warrior, Executive VP and CTO of Motorola. She was a keynote speaker at the AlwaysOn Hollywood conference. Entertainment is moving to the "tiny screen," as Laura Holson wrote in today’s New York Times — and Motorola plans to […]

Click To Play Ford Models, NBC Television and Fox have channels on VMIX as do many independent musicians, filmmakers and video uploaders of deferent levels of skill. The site has over 1 million users and is growing. It is interesting to see VMIX as an alternative video sharing site to YouTube. My colleague David Kavanaugh […]