Andy Plesser

With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.

Eyeview, a company which provides brands and their agencies with tools to localize in-instream advertising, has received investment from ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's venture fund, Oren Harnevo said in this interview with Beet.TV

FreeWheel, the fast-growing video management firm, is providing live video ad management for a number of broadcasters including ESPN and Turner and it has just signed up the UK’s leading satellite company BskyB. 

Digitalsmiths, the video search platform which visually analyzes and indexes video, has announced a new funding round of $12.5 from existing and new investors.

If all goes according to plan with the Space Shuttle Endeavor, YouTube will stream a live interview with the crew on May 2 at 2:15 EDT via PBS which is producing the transmission and will host it on the Newshour YT channnel.

SAN BRUNO, CA — While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the world's news organizations, the giant video site doesn't actually organize or vet video.

CineSport, a small New Jersey-based syndicator of professional sports highlight videos, served some 250 million video views in March, according the comScore Video Metrix.

SAN BRUNO, CA — The introduction of the live streaming platform of YouTube is nothing less than "creating a new YouTube," says YouTube's Joshua Siegel, Product Manager for Live Streaming, in this interview with Beet.TV conducted at the company's headquarters.

SAN BRUNO, Calif — With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen by the cameras of mainstream news organizations.

While Web has video has grown primarily in an "on-demand" ecosystem, an increasing amount of programming will be streamed live online, affording publishers siginificant new opportunities says Bismarck Lepe, co-founder of Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based digital video services company.

KIT Digital, the Prague-based global provider of digital video services, sees opportunities beyond the online video platform sector and more broadly in digital services for broadcasters who want to reach audiences through multi-platform solutions, says Gannon Hall, EVP of KIT.

SAY Media, the company formed through VideoEgg’s acquisition of Six Apart, has acquired the Dogster, the dog owner social site and is planning several more acquisitons, reports Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch.

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is cultivating a new crop of promising video creators with top-tier film school education scholarships and direct grants.  

LAS VEGAS — Kaltura is seeing growth across many sectors around its open source video solution — a system which allows customers to use the Kaltura "toolkit" to create a customized solution, says CEO Ron Yekutiel. 

LAS VEGAS — Brightcove, the big U.S. online video services company, is working closely with giant television maker LG to bring digital content to Net-connected television sets. 

LAS Vegas — Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month.

LAS Vegas — Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month. At the NAB conference last week, we spoke with Akamai’s Stuart Cleary about this new delivery platform and why it is important. Andy Plesser

LAS Vegas — Akamai has become the first content delivery network to be certified to distribute content via HTTP Dynamic Streaming from Adobe, both companies announced earlier this month. At the NAB conference last week, we spoke with Akamai’s Stuart Cleary about this new delivery platform and why it is important. Andy Plesser

LAS VEGAS -  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this month's Royal Wedding.

LAS VEGAS –  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this months’ Royal Wedding.