Andy Plesser

After testing Google Hangouts for the past six months on a number of interactive video projects, The New York Times has embraced Hangouts as a primary social video platform says Lexi Mainland, Social Media Editor of The New York Times, in this interview with Beet.TV

While it is important for journalists to have a "human voice" in their tweets, the real reason reporters are followed on Twitter is for their expertise and their added perspective of the their beat, says Liz Heron, Director of Social Media at The Wall Street Journal, in this interview with Beet.TV

LONDON – Stockholm-based Bambuser, the creator of a mobile video App and distribution platform, which has become widely used by activists in the Arab Spring, and today is streaming (graphic) videos of the conflict in Syria, hopes to grow its business by providing a "white label solution" to broadcasters and other enterprises says Hans Eriksson, […]

With television rights to the London 2012 Olympics,including video highlights for news outlets severely restricted by the IOC and by NBC Sports in the U.S., one news organization has found a crafty way to report on the action by using stick puppets.

SAN BRUNO, CA — In addition to streaming the games live to 65 nations and providing the feed for NBCOlympics.com, YouTube is using the London 2012 Olympics to showcase 50 of its content creators, or channels "partners'" who are in London covering the games and doing lifestyle stories, says Lee Hunter, Global Head of Brand […]

NBC’s ratings for the London 2012 Olympics has passed the 2008 Beijing Games and the broadcaster is finding a surge in last minute advertising at high rates, reports The New York Times.

For Verizon FiOS TV subscribers with Internet-connected televisions, an interactive widget with up-to-the-minute Olympics information, has been "extremely popular," with some 1.7 million launches, says Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, Verizon Director, FiOSTV in this interview with Beet.TV

Verizon FiOS, a leading  provider of broadband and cable TV services to consumers in the U.S., is giving customers access to over five thousand hours of live streaming video from the London 2012 Olympics, via NBC Sports, on various digital devices.

SAN BRUNO, CA – YouTube has an Internet-connect bus in India, streaming the London 2012 Olympics to many small villages who lack television or Internet access. It is rolling through the country until August 13. The bus is equipped with several monitors where visitors can select which of 10 Olympic streams to watch.

LONDON – Apple is preparing a "sneak attack," a profound change to television consumption with the introduction of a "dual app" scenario. These new apps, on the iPad or iPhone, will run the entire television experience, says Jeff Whatcott, Chief Marketing Officer of Brightcove, the big, Boston-based video services company.

PLAINVIEW, NY — NeuLion, a U.S.-based digital video services company, has won the contract with China Central Television (CCTV) to provide video streaming services for the 2014 Winter and 2116 Summer Olympics in China, the company says.

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is streaming 3500 hours of 10 separate live channels of the London 2012 Olympics in the United States, via NBCOlympics.com, and to 64 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, including Ghana, Kenya, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

LONDON – Open data around video news is essential to the growth of the digital news business, says Peter Bale, General Manager of CNN International Digital, in this segment from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit in London held at the offices of the Financial Times.

The recent news that MSNBC.com has become NBCNews.com is much more than a name change, it means that all the digital resources of NBC News, its cable networks and owned televison are unified online as a new, "multi-platform news organization," explains Vivian Schiller, Chief Digital Officer of NBC News in this interview with Beet.TV

LONDON – Sky News, a unit of the highly profitable satellite channel in Great Britain, has introduced the functionality for viewers to timeshift live programming via its iPad app, says Rob Owers, Producer/Team Leader for the iPad at Sky, in this segment from our recent video journalism summit at the offices of the Financial Times.

LONDON – "This is the biggest thing the BBC has ever done," say Chris Dobson, GM/EVP Global Sales, BBC Worldwide, referring to the role of network as the host broadcaster for the London Olympics.

LONDON – The Financial Times, which has produces primarily talking heads videos from its studios in London, New York and Hong Kong, is gaining attention for its longer-form, feature stories says Josh de la Mare, Global Editor of Financial Times Video, in this segment from our recent video journalism summt at the FT’s headquarters.

PLAINVIEW, NY – NeuLion, the digital video services company based on Long Island, New York, with offices in Canada, China and the U.K. has been selected by China's main national broadcaster, CNTV, to stream over 5600 hours of live and on-demand video of the London 2012 Olympics.

LONDON –   Dublin-based Storyful, a new  sort of “wire service” which authenticates and curates “crowd-sourced” journalism for big media customers including The New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters and YouTube, quickly identified authoritative “citizen” journalists and local news sources in the aftermath of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

LONDON – State-supported, English-language  Russia Today (RT) and Iran’s Press TV are building a “loyal following” via the live news aggregator Livestation, says the company’s CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this segement from the recent Beet.TV video journalism summit at the Financial Times.