Andy Plesser

The Financial Times has created its own App based on HTML5 and it is better than the earlier "native" App created for the Apple iOS, says Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of the FT.com in this interview with Beet.TV

DBG, the New York/LA-based Web video production and syndication company, has launched a highly produced home design show called "Spaces" on YouTube. 

Mobile blogging is growing quickly with over four million active users of the mobile WordPress platform, says WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg in this inteview with Beet.TV

Emeryville, California-based TubeMogul, launched in 2008 as video syndication and analytics tool for video producers (which we used), pivoted about two years ago to transform itself into a top video advertising delivery platform.

Howcast, the four-year-old 'how-to' video producer and distributor, has redesigned its site. organized around topics, with related video served up on its pages.

BOSTON (via Skype Video) – The Boston Globe, which has been producing and streaming video clips for over five years, has launched it first regular live show. 

As the advertising industry sizes-up the value of branded Web video, the nascent medium provides "residual value," something not found in television advertising, explains John McCarus, SVP of Brand Content at Digitas in this inteview with Beet.TV

The costs for content delivery network services (CDN), which have been in steep decline since 2009, have finally leveled off says Dan Rayburn, an industry analyst with Frost & Sullivan and EVP of StreamingMedia.com

LONDON (via Skype Video) — The Associated Press, a leading provider of video news for broadcast and online media, has upgraded its news gathering and distribution and will be offering broadcast and online clients news video in HD beginning May 30, says the AP’s Mark Davies, Deputy Director of International Video in the AP’s London […]

While the two-screen experience (TV and handheld or laptop) is the predominent platform for social TV interaction, in the future, viewing and social interaction will be integrated into one screen, says Jordan Bitterman who heads up the social marketing practice at the global digital media shop Digitas.

Machinima, the highly popular YouTube channel about video games and gamers, will soon raise a funding round of about $30 million and Google will be an investor, reports Peter Kafka in All Things D.

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video discovery company, which has many top U.S. publishers as customers, has announced a significant expansion in Germany with the the newspaper network OMS.

Like the the Financial Times which has totally left the Apps platform for an enhance HTML mobile Web scenario, Technology Review has abandoned its App strategy.

comScore has been working closely with YouTube since August to provide third party data around consumption and demographics.

Vibrant Media, the company known for inserting ads into text advertising in the form of hyplinks which link to a rollover message, has introduced a video ad unit which expands full-screen when visitors choose. 

The New York Times has launched a branding program using online video as the medium for the first time.   The campaign launched this week on several sites including Salon, Gothamist, Bloomberg and Comedy Central.

Sky News, the U.K.-based global, satellite news channel is avialable in the United States for the first time, via Livestation, the London-based agregator of of live news programming,  Sky News announced today.

AOL Video/HuffPost Media, has become a major player in video news, passing both CBS News and Fox News in video views, according to February comScore numbers. 

From news updates, reviews and long-form, branded shows, Mashable is making a big commitment to digital video programming and syndication, says Adam Ostrow, Executive Editor in this interview with Beet.TV He says that Mashable will be surfacing third-party video content.  And, the company has entered into syndicators to expand the reach of Mashable videos beyond […]

Yahoo! is investing heavily in original, premium video for the Web, says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP for the America's in this intview with Beet.TV at yesterday's Digital New Front event where the company unveiled a slate of new shows.