Andy Plesser

Fora.tv, the San Francisco company which began as a free portal for influential conference videos, has gained traction with a pay model, charging to watch high-level conferences by organizations and publishers, including The Economist, Wired and The New Yorker.

The industry’s largest video advertising network has shifted its emphasis from a cost-per-view formula to cost-per-engagement and has found “dramatic” success around purchase intent, says Jason Krebs, Chief Media Officer of Tremor Video.

MONACO – We are here covering the show. We had hoped to pull off a live show tomorrow, Thursday, but due to some planning issues, we can't pull it off.

The New York Times has launched a program to bring documentary filmmakers, both famous and aspiring, to the digital pages of the paper in a new program called Op-Doc. 

Umami, a New York-based stealth start-up with seed funding from top VC's NEA and Battery Ventures, will launch its iPad App, which is a synchronous companion to TV shows, tomorrow on November 8th.

While video is becoming increasingly pervasive on news sites, what is it that makes visitors hit that play button?  According to the top video editors at the Wall Street Journal, CBS News and The New York Times, the motivation comes by providing a surprise, the unexpected scoop or a unique viewing opportunity.

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper group, is getting $40-50 per thousand video views on several of its smaller market newspapers, says Kate Walters, SVP for Video at Gannett Digital.

HealthiNation, a New York-based producer and syndicator of original health and medical videos for the Web, is the most widely viewed producer in its sector, having more than double the views of WebMD, according comScore's September Video Metrix.

Historically, newspaper editors have been slow to embrace video, in part from a long-held print bias. Video editors have had to struggle for visibility on newspaper sites. 

NEW YORK/BELFAST (via Skype Video) -  For many in the news business, Mediagazer has become an essential destination for important stories about the media business and journalism. 

Video advertising and content are essentially "separate," says Ashley Still, Director of Video Solutions for Adobe Systems in this interview with Beet.TV.

YuMe, the big online video ad management and software solution company, announced today that LG Electronics has embraced the YuMe advertising platform to serve a major campaign into its line of smart TV's. The first big campaign is for Toyota.

As video publishers seek to gain audience on Facebook, some provide sharable links and others provide full episode, in-line video players. Bloomberg is using a hybrid.

While live programming at the Wall Street Journal is meant to provide visitors with up-to-the minute news and analysis, it happens to be an effective means to produce numerous clips for use on article pages and in the paper’s video section, explains Shawn Bender, Editorial Director for Video at the Wall Street Journal Online.

While it seems logical that video views are generated on the video pages of Web sites, the big opportunity for publishers is to generate video views on text pages via thumbnails of related videos, says Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola, a video recommendation engine.

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper group, is making a "significant investment in video" through site redesign, content acquisition, training of staffers on video reporting, by embracing user-generated content and by building a major video production center in Atlanta, says Kate Walters, SVP for Video at Gannett Digital in this interview with Beet.TV.

NEW YORK/SAN JOSE (via Telepresence) — "Video is invading all aspects of our lives" and in three years will account for 90 percent of Internet traffic, says David Hsieh, VP for Marketing and Emerging Technologies at Cisco in this interview with Beet.TV.

While video has been published by the New York Times for several years, it is now becoming a primary reporting tool, not just an adjunct to print stories, says Ann Derry, Editorial Director of Video and Television for The New York Times in this interview with Beet.TV

We trying to be "authentic," we are not doing "news acting," says Shawn Bender, Editorial Director of Video for the Wall Street Journal, in this interview with Beet.TV.

CBS News has introduced a Chrome App for its "60 Minutes" program, the network announced today.