Andy Plesser

While perfomance-based advertising around online video has become widespread, the "sweet spot" for advertisers and publishers is "brand advertising," says Ed Haslam, SVP for Marketing at YuMe.

Despite the expectation and excitement about television advertising budgets moving to digital, there is a major disconnect between brands and their agencies and the publishers around the value of the media, says Steve Sullivan of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, in this interview with Beet.TV.

SB Nation, the fast-growing portal for professional sports enthusiasts, has hired eight senior editors from AOL’s Engadget to create a new tech blog, David Carr at The New York Times reports. In November, I interviewed Bankoff at the Monaco Media Forum.  Reposting the video here tonight. Andy Plesser    

Video news is being consumed by more people than ever before and viewership of digital video at ABC News is "exploding," presenting a "limitless demand" for video journalism, says Paul Slavin, who heads digital for ABC News, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Beet.TV has found a unique spot in the world journalism by "celebrating the media in way which is not cynical," observes former Wall Street Journal columinst Emily Meehan in this video produced at the vlog's fifth-year birthday party on Wednesday night at the Flatiron Lounge.

Ooyala, the Mountain View-based video services company, started in 2007 by a group of ex-Google executives, is powering the online and mobile video distribution for information giant Bloomberg.

Jim Spencer, the CEO of Newsy, a start-up which produces and distributes video segments edited from from hundreds of news sources, is focused nearly entirely on Apps as the platform to deliver its product.

The New York Times' top digital editor Len Apcar says, in this exclusive segment on Beet.TV, that the paper has decided to link to corporate sites as a means to provide an extra dimension to its staff reporting.

Jim Brady, who was the managing editor of the WashingtonPost.com before heading to start-up the ill-fated TDB.com, a local D.C. news site, is joining the Journal Register Company to manage its digital “transformation,” David Kaplan at paidContent reports.

Adap.tv, the San Mateo-based advertising technology provider, has raised a new round of $20 million, reports TechCrunch.

An Emeryville California start-up has developed a way to send big video files from computers and mobile devices to a special server at speeds far in excess of FTP (file transfer protocol).

Newsy, the Columbia, Missouri-based video news start-up, has raised $1.5 million in new funding to allow it to expand with original programming and to expand overseas, CEO Jim Spencer tells Beet.TV in this exclusive interview.

Aspera, a small, privately-funded start-up in Emeryville, California, has developed the means to transfer enormous video files at speeds far greater that FTP and other TCP-type protocols. Quietly, it has become the industry standard for the movie and on video industry to manage and send around big files.   

SAN JOSE, Calif — The "pipes" of the Internet will be crucial to the success of an increasingly video-rich Internet and Cisco is putting in place a number of solutions, says Scott Puopolo, VP for Internet Business, in this interview with Beet.TV

AUSTIN – As the Web becomes increasingly Web-centric, more publishers are embracing the .tv domain as a way to denote video content, says Verisign's Tom Correia, who is product manager for the .tv domain.

While Google says it wants to index the world's content, it hasn't done made much progress in Hollywood. But an Israeli start-up called AnyClip has already indexed hundreds of movies in the Universal Pictures library.

Vevo, the popular music video site, which is a collaborative business involving several of the major record labels and Google, will launch in the U.K. shortly, announced CEO Rio Careaff in comments today to the Abu Dhabi Media Forum, the Guardian Newspaper reports.

London-based Livestation, a portal which streams linear news programming from broadcasters, including the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and a number of Arabic-language programs, including Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiya, BBC Arabic, France 24 Arabic, has seen a huge spike in traffic to its site since unrest in the Middle East erupted in January.

The big Interactive agency Digitas has taken a leading role in creating innovative branded Web video programs for many clients including Kraft.

Introduced in late 2009 by Comcast as a means for subcribers to get a selection of their cable offerings on PC’s and mobile devices, there are new, significant opportunities emerging around the technology.