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Beet Media: Video Production and Consulting Services Beet Media, a pioneer in video blogging, is now offering video production and viral marketing services.  We produce high quality, low-cost Internet video.  Our videos, produced in a journalistic style, convey an authenticity that Web consumers like to watch and share with others.    Our philosophy is simple: […]

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Beet.TV, launched in 2006, has become an influential and respected source for digital media news and is linked to by major news organizations including CNET and The New York Times. Our audience of 50,000 unique monthly visitors is composed of leading professionals in the media and technology industries. Sponsored Video Player Beet.TV’s sponsored video player […]

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Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available for free download, the company announced today. Andy interviewed Jim Guerard, VP of Adobe Dynamic Media, in Palo Alto this summer about the second beta version of the player; I republished the interview above.

CNN has planned an online experience that complements rather than reproduces the televised broadcast of the presidential debates, according to Alex Wellen, Deputy Political Director of CNNPolitics.com. As more and more viewers are watching the broadcast with their laptops close at hand, real-time reactions from CNN analysts, the People Meter, and scorecards have become an […]

Co-founder Tim Shey of Next New Networks, the publisher of micro-television networks such as Barely Political, says his company is making money publishing videos on YouTube. Next New Networks is one of the content producers that has been selling its own YouTube ads and has regularly sold out all of its inventory of overlay ads […]

Wow, so great to see Don Reisinger’s post on TechCrunch about Beet.TV, highlighting our coverage of the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month.  It was a huge task for our little crew, but we got up nearly 40 videos of the show. We are delighted with our association with TechCrunch, which involves the […]

ABC Television has just introduced a sharable video player for short-form segments from its entertainment line-up. I’ve posted the player here on Beet.TV. Later tonight the company will introduce a revamped video player, with a greatly enhanced user interface.

MySpace will allow users to upload video files of up to 512 MB from the 100 MB limit it has had in place.  It also will allow users to upload files directly from video camera to the site.

comScore just came out with the stats for May and Americans watched 12 billion videos during the month, up 45 percent from last May.  Fox Interactive, owner of MySpaceTV ranks number two with a market share of 6.4 percent, up 1.3 versus April. Last month I visited MySpaceTV in Los Angeles to interview Jason Kirk.  […]

Revision3, the fast growing producer of online tech programming, has signed an agreement with Blip.tv to syndicate the video for all its shows. The news was first reported this morning by Michael Learmonth of the Silicon Alley Insider. Earlier this month, I was in San Francisco for a tour of the very cool Revision3 offices […]

That ubiquitous YouTube watermark on the lower right hand side of the embeded players seen on millions of blogs and Web sites is gone.  This development was spotted and reported by the eagle-eyed Liz Gannes, editor of NewTeeVee. I’ve been checking around and Liz is right. We don’t know if the watermark is history or […]

A big part of the future of video won’t be "on the web" but on mobile devices, delivered through super fast private networks. There’s a lot going on in the space and it’s great when it’s pulled together in one spot. Today’s Wall Street Journal has published a special section on developments in wireless (subscription). […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview This week at the AlwaysOn On Media conference, I had the good fortune to catch up with two profound media observers: blogger Jeff Jarvis who consults to major newspaper companies and Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News.  Jeff says that newspapers and media sites should […]

  Click To Play View a transcript of this interview I caught up with Newsweek’s Steven Levy on Saturday at the Manhattan studios of Beet.TV. It was a little post New Year’s get together with our good friends and colleagues — so that explains the noise in the background — and the wine created a […]

Click To Play Earlier this month, I sat down with Anil Dash, the chief evangelist for Six Apart, the world’s biggest blog software company.  They develop and run TypePad (Beet’s platform), Movable Type, Vox and LiveJournal. Anil is one of the top thought leaders in the field.  He explains the simplicity and value of posting […]

In my vlogging, I like to introduce my visitors to industry leaders by providing the passions and vision of the interviewee.  It’s not easy to make good business video, but I believe that business people are "talkers" — leaders and sales persons.  They know how to emote and this can be caught on camera.  Business […]

Kathy and I were sad to read the news this morning about the passing of musical trailblazer James Brown. He was one of the great performing artists of our lifetime. Fortunately, there is a good deal of video of his performances. Here’s a wonderful vintage clip I just found on YouTube.  Long live the "Godfather […]