Andy Plesser

Scott Ferber, the Baltimore-based entrepreneur who created and later sold Advertising.com to Aol, launched TidalTV, an online video ad optimization platform, in 2007. 

Los Angeles-based Panache has introduced a technology to allow publishers to insert interactive advertising into live streaming on multiple devices including Apple iOS and Android devices.

Last night, TED's Chris Anderson awarded a Special Achievement (RED) Webby Award to Ushahidi, the Nairobi-based crowd-sourcing start-up. He presented it to co-founder David Kobia.

It's been a busy few weeks for Blip.tv, the big New York-based video site for eposodic programming.  It went through a complete site redesign, becoming an entertainment destination site, and bulked up its roster of orginal programming with a new distribution agreement with The Collective.

Auditude, the Palo Alto-based provider of IP video advertising services, is deepening its relationship with DailyMotion, the enormous Paris-based video site, and with New York-based Major League Baseball.

Amr Salama, an Egyptian filmmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a documentary about the historic events. 

Having launched just over two years ago as a hub for colleges' and universities' YouTube channels, YouTube EDU has become a destination for education, providing an index for a broad range of topics and campus activities, says Angela Lin who manages the education program at YouTube.

To be sure, it seemed like an odd choice of music for the 500 marketers, agency execs and Hollywood producers as they settled in their chairs for the start of the Digitas NewFront event during Internet Week.

SAN BRUNO/HANOVER/PALO ALTO — YouTube, which has recently introduced its live streaming platform, will stream its first live commencement from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire this Sunday (6.12) at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Dartmouth's YouTube channel.

With social media "blowing up" the marketing landscape, "non-working" media, as opposed to traditional media buys, could reach fifty percent  of budgets for some big brands, says Jordan Bitterman, SVP and Social Media Practice Director at Digitas in this interview with Beet.TV

Break Media, the big Los Angeles-based creator of humor programming for young men, is  producing programming for woman, with two shows in the works, says Jonathan Small, editorial chief for the network.

The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), a national association of video creators, has announced its first awards program for excellence in over twenty categories.

ABC is the only television network with an App for episodes for the iPad.  Since the launch, the App has been downloaded two million times and 28 million episodes have been streamed, says Albert Cheng, EVP for Digital Disney/ABC Television.

The conventional means of charging for online video at a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) for video ads is quickly changing.

With the launch of the Heidi Klum site and video series, Aol is not creating a new "show" per se, but a branded "experience," says Jeff Levick, President of  Global Advertising and Strategy, as he explains in this interview with Beet.TV.

As part of the New York Times new paid subscription program, the paper is seeking greater "engagement" with readers, says Denise Warren, General Manager of the NYTimes.com in this interview with Beet.TV.

Digital consumption is growing at the Wall Street Journal Network, where some 200,000 subscriptions to mobile Apps, tablets and eReaders have been sold, according the General Manager Alisa Bowen.

Yahoo has 26 Web original programs, and claims the most traffic for nine out of the top ten Web's original shows.  

Adap.tv, the enormous online video ad marketplace, reports that the amount that advertisers pay for one thousand impressions (CMP) have risen an extraordinary 125 percent for premium content, year over year, says Amir Ashkenazi, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV.

With its origins in a dedicated terminal as a wire service, later expanded into a broad offering of text stories on the web, Bloomberg.com has become a multimedia financial and general news site with its redesign introduced a few weeks ago.