Andy Plesser

In judging success of online video sites, the number of streams count, but time spent is also an extremely important metric.

Roku, the little black box that connects the Internet to television sets, has sold over 500,000 units, and its owners use it over two hours a sitting, Roku spokesman Brian Jaquet told Beet.TV in this video interview.

With the imminent launch of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe will provide publishers with tools to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs with a new peer-to-peer system, explains Kevin Towes, Product Manager of Adobe Flash Media Server, in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV.

TechCrunch is rolling into New York with a three-day conference called TechCrunch Disrupt.  The event, from May 24-26, will present the established and debut emerging players who are "disrupting" the media and technology landscape. 

As video platform companies and publishers scramble to make video run properly and to insert advertising into the Apple iPad, Kyte is integrated with several ad networks, as well its own ad sever, to manage ads onto the emerging format.

LOS ANGELES — The Scripps Network, producer of the hugely successful Food Network, will launch a completely new 24/7 cable food channel called the Cooking Channel on May 31.

Clicker, the new online video directory and guide, now indexes video references for 75,000 individuals and entities, meaning shows and series titles.

While the Adobe vs. Apple, Flash vs. HTML5 struggle rages on, engineers at Adobe are readying the debut of the Flash 10.1 player on Android-powered smart phones.  The player is also working on a Google Android tablet, according to some reports.

Boxee, the software platform that allows Internet users to watch IPTV on their computers and television sets, is readying a payment systems for programming.  

LOS ANGELES — At the Cable Show, lots of buzz about 3-D programming and the roll-out of TV Everywhere.  Daisy caught up with Discovery's Rebecca Glashow, SVP for Digital Media Distribution, to talk about both.

LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, the Cable Show got underway and the big buzz is interactivity–how cable programmers and operators can make shows more involving to viewers getting used to a Web experience.

Since the launch of the Apple iPad, many online video publishers have been been working feverishly to get video onto the the popular platform. 

Reuters Insider, a vast business and B2B video site from Thomson Reuters, is launching this week, and Beet.TV is a content partner for the new subscription service.

Over 25 years ago, a incensed Georgetown undergraduate “railed” on the phone about the sloppy coverage of her college to Assistant Managing Editor Larry Kramer, the paper’s metro editor.

Nearly thirty percent of U.S. consumers of scripted television content are watching programming both online and on TV, as viewers are becoming increasingly platform “agnostic,” according to a study by comScore which has been made available to Beet.TV

Later this summer, we can expect to see wider implementation of Microsoft Silverlight as two of the bigger online video platform companies Ooyala and Kaltura ready video players for their customers.

Last week, the San Francisco-based, video ad solution provider FreeWheel announced an additional venture round of $16.8 million from venture and institutional investors, including the venture units of Time Warner and Disney.

Congrats to the team at the BBC for winning this year's Webby People Award as best news site.   The New York Times won in the "official" category of Best News Site as judged by the panel.

Online video consumption has become pervasive around the globe as nearly 80 percent of all Internet users watch some video, according Tania Yuki, who heads online video product management for comScore.

While video applications over stable Wi-Fi connections look terrific on the iPad, some video applications, including the popular ABC Television, do not run on the iPad.