Andy Plesser

LOS ANGELES — The economics around Web original video programming are not yet sustainable, says says Myles Beckett, a co-creator of lonelygirl15, the pionering "webisode" from 2006 and CEO of Los Angeles based EQAL.

LOS ANGELES — Published on YouTube just two weeks ago, Gamer Commute is a runaway hit with over eight million views 80 thousand "likes."  

LOS ANGELES, Calif — Yahoo! has green-lighted eight new, short-form Web original video programs, producing them both in-house and with leading Hollywood shops, including Electus, Principato-Young, FishBowl Media and Warrior Poets (Morgan Spurlock's company), says Erin McPherson, VP and Head of Video, in this interview with Beet.TV.

As part of an expansion of YouTube's EDU efforts, which has mostly involved college-level education, the big video site has expanded its reach into primary school education with a new platform for teachers to create and share educational video materials.

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Storify, the social media curation tool, was used by the Weather Channel during Hurricane Irene, says Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Intercast Network launched a product which allows broadcasters to distribute their programming live via a rich display unit with accompanying social tools and e-commerce functionality.

The Weather Channel, which claims the second most downloaded iPad App, has moved from a Flash player to an HTML 5 player from Brightcove, enabling consumers to watch video regardless of their device, said Cameron Clayton, EVP for Digital, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Since the Los Angeles-based filmmaker/gamer  Freddie "W" Wong released "Gamer Commute" on YouTube this past Saturday, the two-minute clip has garnered nearly 5 million views and 18,000 comments.

The Wall Street Journal would not be delivering its three and a half hours of programming if it were not for the iPad, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor of the WSJ.com.

While the the sale of downloadable entertainment has been the largely the province of the Apple, media companies will create their own "media stacks" to sell content directly to consumers, says Chris Van Noy, Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist at Akamai.

comScore, which first broke out metrics around the top 50 YouTube partner channels for the month of July, is publishing analytics for all YouTube partner channels, which is many thousands, says Dan Piech, Product Manager, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Having decided as to "go it alone," and not be part of Hulu, CBS has seen dramatic growth of its business in an "open, non-exclusive approach" to syndication with deals with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Comcast, explains Ken Lagana, SVP of Sales at CBS Interactive.

Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch has been named editor by AOL, taking over the reins from founder Michael Arrington.

Meporter, an application for local news gathering, which is being used by Forbes and other news organizations, just launched an Android App. 

AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO – HTML 5 is essentially a "video tag," says Ashley Still, Director of Video Operations at Adobe Systems, in this interview with Beet.TV

AMSTERMDAM/SAN FRANCISCO – Adobe says it has agreements in place with the top ten U.S. cable/telco operators for its Pass product. 

AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO – At the big IBC show in Amsterdam, Adobe announced the introduction of Flash Media Server 4.5, a platform for publishers to deliver Flash content to Apple iOS devices, including the iPad and iPhone.

Interactive ads for Lincoln on AT&T U-Verse are engaging visitors up to 15 minutes and driving "tens of thousands" of leads, says Christopher Monteferrante, VP of Media Sales at U-Verse.

In a significant publishing acquisition, Google has acquired Zagat, the Internet giant announced today.