Andy Plesser

All Things Digital, the fast-growing events and publishing unit of Dow Jones, headed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, plans to expand its reviews section, says Swisher in this video interview with Beet.TV

Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of All Things Digital, says that while there is "froth" around IPO activity, including the anticipated IPO filing of social game maker Zynga, the fundamentals around these companies are more substantial than during the tech boom of the late nineties.

LONDON (via Skype Video)  Skype has released an Android App for two-way video calling and SMS messaging. 

The free ESPN App for live sports on the iPad was released in April. When combined with the downloads on the Android platform, the ESPN App has had in excess of 2 million downloads, says Tim Connolly, VP of Digital at Disney/ESPN in this interview with Beet.TV.

Specific Media, one of the biggest online advertising networks, has purchased MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million today.

Animoto, a company which allows users to create custom videos from a sort of "clipboard" in the sky, has raised $25 million in venture funding.

As more video is being produced and consumed on the Web, the marketplace for file footage is becoming a growing profit center for Hollywood studios, news organizations and sports leagues.

ABC News is producing a multimedia offering of text and video reporting in the form of a video book, or "vook," for the Apple iOS devices, Android and Nook Color. 

While online video advertising spending will increase by nearly 40 percent this year, the big opportunity for marketers is to create "useful" content, says Geoff Ramsey, CEO and co-founder of eMarketer.

LongTail Video, the New York-based provider of online video services, widely known as the provider of the open source JW Player, is serving a half billion ads into the streams of its publishing customers, says Dave Otten CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.

SAN FRANCISCO (Via Skype Video) — Yidio, the online video guide which claims 10 million users, is launching today a personalized Twitter and Facebook feed for its users called Yidio Alerts.

FremantleMedia, the big Los Angeles-based television production company, producer of the hit global franchise,"Idols," is expanding its original Web offering with the "World's Greatest Mom," starring Daphne Brodgon, a stand-up comic and creator of the "Cool Mom" video blog.  

NOTTINGHAM, England (via Skype) – British retailer Marks & Spencer is using video on its site and is finding that visitors who watch video stay on the site twice as long, says Forrester Principal Analyst Martin Gill in this interview with Beet.TV.

SAY Media, is building its own "vertical networks" of original content, including the fashion and pets categories, through the acquisition of Dogster and by building new content around fashion celebrity Jane Pratt.

DECA, the Los Angeles-based producer of non-scripted, original Web video, has launched a video ad network or women’s sites called HerChannel.

Really sorry for so many of us who have lost dads, brothers, husbands, lovers and friends to prostate cancer.  I lost my dad 13 years ago to the disease. 

Scott Donaton, former editor editor of Ad Age, who leads the two-year-old, IPG branded content unit Ensemble, has his first big, high-profile campaign with a progam for Denny's.

LIve concert programming delivers unique value as an "emotional connection" for sponsoring brands says Scott Reich, VP of Programming and Original Content for VEVO.

The Arab Spring is not a “Twitter revolution,” but  a real revolution in which social tools including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube played a central role in organizing movements, says PJ Crowley, former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, in this interview with Beet.TV

With the widespread implementation of a rich media ad unit called "Project Devil," and a standardized, in-page video template, Aol will soon have "video on every page," says Jeff Levick, President of Global Advertising and Strategy at Aol in this interview with Beet.TV.