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PHOENIX – Outbrain, the content recommendation platform which is widely used by news publishers including, ABC News, to gain views for video and print content, is expanding its platform for brands and agencies seeking views of branded or “native” content, says Tom Foran, GM for North America, this inteview with Beet.TV

PHOENIX  – VideoHub, a unit of New York-based Tremor Video, has launched a platform that says it gauges the potential impact of video ad effectiveness.  It also announced an agreement with comScore to measure the “viewability” of video ads on pages.

While publishers like Dailymotion, and big advertising agencies like Digitas are getting fast-increasing demand for native or branded video projects from agencies and brands, the creative direction, or the “brief” on these opportunities, are generally open ended.

Surfacing up related content around live video programming is difficult, and the technologies of ACR (automated content recognition) that drives content to popular seconds screen apps like Shazam and Zeebox, is limited, explains Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP, in this video.

AOL’s video syndication platform has expanded with its recent integration with The Weather Channel’s  Weather.com, says Tal Simantov, General Manager of AOL On, in this on-stage segment from the Beet.TV executive retreat earlier this month in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

Video news syndicator NDN registered 49 million unique viewers who watched 578 million videos in January, reports comScore today.   The this puts NDN past video giants AOL and Yahoo in monthly uniques.

LONDON – We delighted to be in town to cover the FT Digital Media Conference this week. Media luminaries to speak include Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner; WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell; Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann and several top media industry innovators. For an overview on the conference, we spoke with FT’s Media Editor […]

The very nature of the active, engaged consumer of Web video news, who often need to click “play” twice before viewing, makes the experience quite different than the “background” noise of cable television news, says Dan Colarusso, Head of Global Programming for Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV

Consumer preferences around the platforms of video consumption is leading a “revolution” in the video ad medium, says Tom McMahon, president of Videology in this wide-ranging, on-stage interview with Rob Norman, Chief Digital Officer of GroupM, the giant media agency of GroupM.

presented by hosted by THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER Participating Speakers   Chris Paul, General Manager, Audience on Demand,  VivaKI Erik Swain, SVP for Operations, SpotXchange Kurt Unkel, President, VivaKI Nerve Center Brett Wilson, CEO, TubeMogul Mark Zagorski, CEO, Exelate Gian Fulgoni, Chairman  Founder, comScore Mike Zeman, VP for Solutions, VivaKi Nerve […]

The Huffington Post, a unit of AOL, has been expanding internationally over the past 18 months with ventures in Canada, the U.K., France and Italy.   It is now poised to go globally this year with editions being readied for the North African Maghreb nations, Japan and Brazil, says Jimmy Maymann, CEO of Huffington Post Media […]

While the fundamental the technology of video publishing is well established, the “second phase”  is about making content contextually relevant, across devices and in real-time.  The key is the use of metadata, says Tom Wilde CEO of RAMP, the Boston-based company that provides data services to big publishers and TV networks including NBC Universal, Fox […]

Videology, the Baltimore-based video advertising services company, is expanding its platform to television advertising and the company’s management of deep data around consumer preferences is key, says Tom McMahon, President, in this interview with Forrester Principal Analyst Joanna O’Connell.

VIEQUES, PR – Video on the Washington Post has long been a sort of “sideshow” or enhancement to its print reporting, but is now becoming a “prime” platform for breaking news , says Vijay Ravindran, Chief Digital Officer of The Washington Post Company, in this session fromt the Beet.TV executive retreat.

VIEQUES, PR – With the end of YouTube’s funding for the Reuters channel, the giant news agency is finding a powerful, new syndication partner in Ustream, says Dan Colarusso, Head of Global Programming for Thomson Reuters, in this segment from the Beet.TV executive retreat.

VIEQUES, PR –  From  ESPN to the widely watched content channels on Yahoo and YouTube, from  producers including Machinima, Maker and Vice — to emerging news producers at The New York Times and the Washington Post, media buyers are finding an attractive range of digital content, says Rob Norman, Chief Global Digital Officer of GroupM, […]

VIEQUES, PR — Please check out this four and a half-hour Webcast with digital leaders from Bravo/NBCU, Dailymotion, Digitas, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Gannett Company, Forrester Research, GroupM,  MediaVest, MIT, Videology, the Washington Post Company and Zeebox recorded  Friday, February.

Leaders in digital advertising and digital media will

An automated system in which advertisers purchase spots on Dailymotion in real-time has lead to greater efficiency for marketers and higher ad rates for the big publisher, says Roland Hamilton, who heads the U.S. operations for the Paris based company.