Andy Plesser

LAS VEGAS — Akamai, the world's largest content delivery network, announced at NAB this week that it is getting into the authentication management business around the "TV Everywhere" movement.

"You can drive a Mack truck" through the IAB's industry standards around online video, says Bill Lederer, CEO of Kantar Video, a unit of WPP, in this segment from the Beet.TV Digital Video Summit.

LAS VEGAS (via Skype Video)  — Although Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player is not on Apple's iOS devices, its Flash Media Server will soon allow publishers to stream the same live video format to these devices as well to the desktop, Android and some smart TV's, according to Kevin Towes, senior product manager for Adobe's Flash […]

LAS VEGAS — President Barack Obama's campaign kickoff will take place at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto next Wednesday and New York-based Livestream is powering the live video on Facebook, says the company's CEO Max Haot in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV

LAS VEGAS — While consumption of video-on-demand on Boxee is growing with premium services including Vudu, the HD movie service, and the MLB.com, the integration of live network programming is a “couple years” off says Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV 

Taboola, a video recommentation company, is integrated into many Bloomberg pages, driving consumption of video by as much as 2.5X. 

Video is in a period of dramatic transformation as consumers can now access content across multiple devices. 

KIT Digital, the Prague-based software and services provider for the digital video industry, has announced it is acquiring San Diego-based ioko for $80 million in stock and cash.

While many publishers have been building video Apps in response to the dramatic rise of video consumption via the iPad, iPhone and Android, it's not a very effective environment for discovery, according Ross Rubin, top technology analyst at the NPD Group.

In a major development for Kaltura, the open-source video platform company, it has jointly announced today with Fox that Fox will use the company's technology to manage its online video distribution.

“TV Everywhere,” the industry moniker for technology enabling cable subscribers to access programming on multiple digital platforms, can be implemented by content creators, says Ooyala’s Bismarck Lepe in this excerpt from the Beet.TV Video Strategy Summit.

Comcast's consumer program called XFinity, which allows cable subscribers to access cable fare on the Web and on mobile devices, is using tools from thePlatform and Microsoft.

The value of search and story links is essential for the biggest of information sites.  According to Paul Slavin, EVP of Digital Media for ABC, some 70 percent of video views come from search and links.

While many big video portals and sites are keen on building traffic to their sites, Aol is putting considerable effort around the syndication of content. This strategy is being driven by last September's  acquisition of 5Min.

As much as 10 percent of MSNBC.com's 200 million monthly video views are coming from other sites, via a sharable or embeddable video player, says Mark Marvel who runs video operations at the giant news portal.

With the acquisition of Next New Networks, YouTube aims to expand its legion of independent content creator by many thousands, creating both short and long form programming in various verticals says Tom Pickett, YouTube's Director of Global Content Operations and Lance Podell, Director, Global Head of YouTube Next Lab.

Innovid, the New York-based technology provider which enables big publishers and ad networks to add interactive elements to existing video pre-roll inventory, has introduced the means to integrate Twitter, Facebook and YouTube "buttons" into any pre-roll campaign powered by the company.

Boston-based Visible Measures, a company which provides video view analytics to publishers and marketers, has launched a performance-based video advertising network, the company has announced.

Consumers are willing to give up “pocket real estate” as they carry increasinly large mobile devices, says Ross Rubin, lead technology analyst at the NPD Group. 

Half of premium video content will be consumed by connected deviices, via the Internet, by early 2014 says Akamai's Chief Media and Entertainment Strategist Chris Van Noy in this interview with Beet.TV