Andy Plesser

LONDON – Livestation, an aggregation site for linnear satellite and cable news channels, has introduced a means to “time shift” viewing in a sort of DVR-type scenario, explains Lippe Oosterhof of the London-based company.

PARIS — The outlook for a viable business around the so-called "second-screen," an app or program running on a tablet or notebook while watching television, is troubled by a highly fragmented technology landscape, the powerful control of content owners, the emergence of "TV Everywhere" and the anticipated "game changer" or automatic content recognition, ACR, says […]

BOSTON – Analytics is essential for publishers in managing decision making around serving video advertising, says Jason Burke, VP for Operations at VideoHub, a unit of Tremor Video.

BOSTON — This is a "wonderful time to be an entrepreneur focused on video, " says uber venture capitalist Jim Breyer, whose Accel Partners was an early investor (2005) in Brightcove, the same year he lead his firm's investment in Facebook.

BOSTON – While the utility of the highly anticipated new Apple TV is a matter of considered speculation, what is clear is that it will be app-based and publishers need to get ready for the new platform, says Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Brightcove, in this inteview with Beet.TV

BOSTON — Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation platform for publishers has raised a new round of $10 million, the company announced this morning.

LONDON – With its TV show Doctor Who holding the top spot on iTune in 2011, the BBC Worldwide is “at the forefront of  VOD (video on demand),” says Daniel Heaf, EVP/MD for Digital for the BBC Worldwide in this on-stage interview with Robert Andrews, senior international editor of GigaOm/paidContent.

LONDON – Facebook is emerging as destination where leading publishers and retailers are placing their videos, says Brightcove's Luke Gaydon, VP for Operations for EMIEA, in this inteview with Beet.TV

Discovery Communication's acquisition of San Francisico-based video Web studio Revision3, which was announced early last month, has closed. 

LONDON – Whilst consumers are watching increasing amounts of video across multiple digital devices, publishers and advertisers are faced with extraordinary challenges in serving content and advertising effectively.

LONDON – Whilst the BBC Worldwide has made a considerable efforts around creating Apps for the Apple iOS and Android platforms, the future of Apps will be more Web-centric, in an HTML5 framework, says Daniel Heaf, MD and EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV

PARIS –Implementing Open Graph, the Guardian newspaper has built an audience of some 6 million users on Facebook who regularly share articles and check in, says Amina Belghiti, Head of Platform Partnerships, New Markets, Facebook, in this interview with Beet.TV

PARIS – Ooyala, the U.S. based provider of digital video services, has raised $35 million in a new investment round, the company's biggest single raise.  

PARIS — UbiQ, a new digital media and entertainment conference will debut in Paris this  coming week with several highlevel speakers including Randi Zuckerberg, Machinima’s Allen DeBevoise, Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp and some 60 others who will be part of the conference at the historic Palais Brongnairt.

LONDON – Livestation has signed aggreement with the BBC, Sky News and Euronews to bring this bundle of news channels to digital consumers in the U.S. and  Canada, says CEO Lippe Oosterhof in this inteview with Beet.TV

The Wall Street Journal, which has been expanding its daily live video programming to more than five hours, with a show from New York and a new one from Hong Kong, will debut a weekly live show from the paper’s DC bureau, says Rahul Chopra, Director of Video at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, […]

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation engine, which serves up videos on publishers’ web pages, will soon be operational on Apps and the mobile web, says CEO Adam Singolda in this interview with Beet.TV

Wibbitz, a Tel Aviv-based startup, which has developed a text-to-video solution, has raised $2.3 million, its first venture round, from Hong Kong-based Horizon Ventures, the investment fund of billionaire Li Ka-shing.

VOX Media, the fast-growing sports and tech blog network, is making a substantial investment around original video production and distribution, says CEO Jim Bankoff in this interview with Beet.TV

Verizon FiOS is increasing download speeds to as fast as 300 Mbps to residential customers, the company announced today.