Andy Plesser

The historically private daily deliberations of New York Times editors in their Page One meeting, which sets the day's coverage and has a big impact on the global news cycle, are now being shared in a daily video program called TimesCast.

Today, Fox is expected to announce a Hulu-like service for mobile devices that will offer a range of content from Fox, NBC Universal, and Discovery, according to a report in GigaOM

SAN FRANCISCO — In a hopeful sign of the recovery in the technology industry, Adobe released its Q1 results and registered a 9 percent increase in sales over the same period last year and beat analysts’ earnings estimates.

Justin.tv, the big live webcasting service, has launched an iPhone application, allowing viewers to watch, share and interact with all the thousands of live streaming channels on the site.

LONDON –  The  lack of a by-line for  Economist writers provides a high degree of access, which is a big benefit in the reporting process, says Executive Editor Daniel Franklin in this interview with Beet.TV at The Economist's headquarters. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles-based Break Media has found a growing business around Web videos targeting males 18-34. 

LONDON — LIvestation, the small London-based start-up that organizes real-time feeds of 20 of the world's leading video news sources, had 5 million video views with 65 million minutes of video watched in January, according to founder and CEO Matteo Berlucci.

LONDON — As publishers seek to maximize revenue around online video, many are studying consumer attitude towards the number of in-stream ads they will accept.  

LONDON — The Guardian newspaper has been innovating with online video since 2006, has invested heavily in video operations in its new headquarters, and is finding traction with its own brand of journalistic video.

AUSTIN — Justine "iJustine" Ezarik, a Web video celebrity and producer, has leveraged her skills and enormous network of followers into a cottage industry of branded content for major companies, including GE, Intel, and Nikon, she told Beet.TV at SXSW last weekend.

Chris Hughes, one of the three founders of Facebook who left the social media giant to manage social media operations for the Obama presidential campaign, is launching "Jumo" a site to help charitable organizations in fundraising and outreach.

Kaltura, the open source online video services company, has launched a site to provide resources around HTML5.  The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, and the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura announced this morning.

AUSTIN — We caught up with digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW this weekend to get his take on the whole "free" movement around content.  He tells us that "free everything is a fantasy."

LONDON — VideoPlaza, the Stockholm/London-based online video advertising platform, has raised $5 million in its first venture round, the company announced today.

After years of anticipation, it seems that the open source community is ready to publish video on Wikipedia. Users will encode videos with a free codec called Ogg Theora and publish them on an HTML5, open format. 

Late last year, Capture Your Flag, a new online video site that chronicles the leadership philosophy and strategy of emerging leaders, launched in beta with some 500 clips.

AUSTIN — YouTube is making a big push to pull musicians to YouTube to help them build audiences and monetize their videos.  

LONDON — The BBC’s iPlayer, a destination site for BBC news and entertainment programming, is enjoying rapid growth in the U.K.  Unique monthly visitors reached 6.3 million in February, according the most most recent data compiled by Nielsen.

AUSTIN — YouTube Rental, the video sharing site's nascent pay-per-view service that launched in January with a handful of independent films, is becoming a paid platform for creators of education, travel, and entertainment programming, according to YouTube's Sara Pollack.

LONDON — STV, the digital arm of Scottish Television, is gaining 10 percent of new registered users through its integration with Facebook Connect, according to Alistar Brown, who heads new media for the company.