Andy Plesser

After considerable anticipation and disappointment around the value of video for newspapers, one big publisher has found profitability by utilizing low cost cameras, a decentralized workflow approach and an effective sales strategy.

At a recent private meeting of Brightcove's top thirty clients, its media clients said that a "vast majority" of their pre-roll advertising are "sold-out," reports Jeffrey Whatcott, Brightcove SVP in this video.

Vimeo has become the video sharing site of choice for many videographers and professional film makers. With its ad-free player and high quality playback, it has become the "hipster YouTube," writes John Patrick Pullen in Fortune magazine.

paidContent is putting on an extraordinary, one-day digital media conference on March 3 in New York at The New York Times Center. We will be there to cover. 

The Journal Register Company, the big local newspaper chain with nearly 324 publications serving over 900 communities in 10 states, will beat AOL’s Patch or the Huffington Post in its home markets, says CEO John Paton in this interview with Beet.TV.

SpotXchange, one of the leading online video networks, has launched an automatic optimization engine for online video advertising. 

Ooyala, the fast-growing Mountain View, California- based provider online video services, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan to manage and distribute a broad range of video services.

The Journal Register Company, a large newspaper group with 324 publications in the local markets of 10 states, is quickly scaling its online video offering by providing video cameras to its editorial staff.

WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of film makers and videographers are using a "still" camera to create video images of extraordinary quality. 

WASHINGTON — CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year. 

WASHINGTON – Many top financial institutions are producing original video programming in-house, from 90-second equity analyst reports to market analysis and extended discussions.  Scores of banks, including JP Morgan Chase and UBS, are having their video content distributed by Thomson Reuters via Reuters Insider.

Carloyn Everson, who joined Microsoft to head sales just last June, is joining Facebook to head global sales, Kara Swisher reported last night.

WASHINGTON — During the unrest in Egypt, CNN iReporters uploaded 1600 videos and photos,of which 44 were vetted for use on CNN. 

Kaltura, the open-source online video platform, has secured $20 million in funding from existing and new investors including Intel, the company announced today.

WASHINGTON — MSNBC.com has reported that January was the biggest month for online video with 162 million views. 

WASHINGTON – Touted just three or four years ago as a promising editorial and business opportunity for newspapers to compete with local television stations and to grab new visitors and revenue streams, a large number of newspapers are cutting back on video and laying off video journalists, according to a study of 100 U.S. newspapers […]

SpeakerText, a start-up which provides automated video transcriptions via crowdsourcing through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, has raised an angel round from tech veteran Mitch Kapor and others, the company announced today.

WASHINGTON — The days of newspapers serving up just “meat and potatoes” are over and it is essential for journalists to serve a “buffet” of content, says Chris Cillizza, The Washington Post  political editor/blogger and video personality.  He likens the essential offerings of media to an exotic and bountiful 3:00 a.m. dinner buffet in Las […]

WASHINGTON  — The Associated Press declined to stream President Obama’s 30-minute live interview on YouTube (on 1.27) since the program was shot on White House cameras, says the AP’s Kevin Roach, Vice President & Director of U.S. Broadcast Operations, in this segment from the Beet.TV Online Video Journalism Summit at The Washington Post.

AOL, which is building its footprint as a media company, will purchase the Huffington Post for $315 million in a deal reported last last night.