Andy Plesser

BOSTON –  5Min, the AOL unit which syndicates a range of lifestyle and informational videos to publishers who use a proprietary 5Min player on their pages, will soon provide its inventory of videos to publishers who use the Brightcove player.

An innovator who in mid-nineties played a central role in development tool ColdFusion and the Flash platform when he was CTO of Macromedia, Jeremy Allaire sees the evolution of digital rich media to a cloud-based environment. 

Although many marketers seek the viral hits, it's not easy.  Success can come from extraordinary creative like the Old Spice campaign, but most from strategic partnerships, says YouTube's Dana Vetter in this interview with Beet.TV

Social media is not a marketing solution but a "profit center" for the BBC's commercial Web sites, says Daniel Heaf, Director of Digital for BBC Worldwide, in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV

BOSTON — Brightcove, the big Boston-based online video platform company, is expanding its services to build and power native Apps for the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms.

Culling information from millions of cable set-top boxes, Simulmedia aims to give broadcasters, cable operators and others the tools to effectively manage billions of dollars in television advertising inventory.

Consumption of live video of the March Madness on the iPad was "amazing," says Turner Sports VP Michael Adamson, marking a milestone for live sports distribution, he tells Beet.TV in this interview.

Tremor Media, the biggest video ad network according to comScore, is launching a reporting and analytics tool for marketers called Video Hub.

Mashery, the San Francisco-based provider of API management services, is finding extensive use of its platform around the new crop of Apps for big publishers including The New York Times, The Guardian Newspaper and USA Today, says Ian Brown, the company's marketing manager.

With Microsoft’s new alliance with Nokia, there is an expectation that the market for Windows Phone 7 will grow substantially, passing the Apple iOS phones by 2015, according to a recent Gatner report.  

While video plays an increasingly important role as a storytelling tool, principally enhancing print reporting, in the future, video will be ubiquitous and will be indistinguishable from print. It will be the predominant form of journalism, predicts Craig Duff, Multimedia Editor of TIME.com in this interview with Beet.TV.

Launched just over a year ago, now with 1700 videos and millions of streams, TechCrunchTV is expanding with new programming, a state-of-the-art studio at the Aol headquarters in Manhattan and a focus on videoblogging.

LOS ANGELES (via Skype Video) With a new studio in downtown Hollywood and a presenting sponsor in AT&T, CBSNews.com launched on Tuesday a weekly Webshow titled "What's Trending"with Shira Lazar.

Some 500 video industry executives from around the globe will descend on Boston next week for Brightcove's three-day PLAY conference.  It will be the first conference run by Brightcove and the show is sold out.

Revision3, the San Francisco-based programmer of lifestyle and technology video shows geared to 13-34 year-old males, is "the largest over-the-top" television network in the United States, says CEO Jim Louderback in this interview with Beet.TV.

Next week's three-day "Disrupt" conference on a Manhattan Hudson River pier is on target to pass last year's attendee mark of 1,800, says Erick Schonfeld co-editor of TechCrunch, organizer of the event.  It will be "huge," he tells Beet.TV.

Neulion is streaming live video over the Internet for the NBA, NHL, NFL, UFC and over 100 college sports programs, making it the "de facto leader in live sports programming,"  says Marc Sokol, EVP.

Journalists today need to "own the entire creative process," not just write and file text stories, says Michael Dunn, CTO of Hearst Interactive, in this interview with Beet.TV.  Video needs to be part of individual reporting, he adds.

Microsoft has recently integrated various video solutions including encoding, server and streaming, digital rights management and player technology into its Media Platform.

Limelight Networks, the big content delivery network, has become a significant player in the online video platform business since its acquistion of Delve last August.