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MONACO — Broadcasters have been reluctant to participate in programmatic buying online, but that may change soon because brands want more audience buying, says Marco Bertozzi, EMEA Executive Managing Director for the VivaKi Nerve Center, during an interview with Beet.TV at the Monaco Media Forum. "In every market we're talking to [broadcasters] about how we can work […]

We are streaming the Digiday Video Conference here on Beet.TV. Good show:

The TEDTalk videos, the iconic, 18-minute on-stage presentations by leading thinks, has reached one billion video views, according to Adam Ostrow at Mashable. 

Jason Glickman, co-founder and former CEO of the giant video ad network Tremor Video, who left the company in 2010, has been working on a start-up called Connected Sports Ventures. 

RAMP, the Boston-based content optimization company, best known for providing voice-to-text technology services to media companies, is launching a full enterprise video services product called MediaCloud.

Compelling headlines and carefully constructed interviews lead to success with online video news consumption says Dan Colarusso, Global Head of Programming of Thomson Reuters, in this video interview.

In its third quarter earnings release today, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said that video at AOL will account for $100 million in revenue, up from just $10 million two years ago.

The Huffington Post has just launched an app for its HuffPost Live video program.  While the app is good but not remarkable, its integration with Apple TV could make it a “game changer,” writes Jeff John Roberts in this story on GigaOM.

In a conference call on Q3 earnings, Brightcove, the big Boston-based video services company, said that both Viacom and Discovery International have become new customers.

LongTail video, the New York-based provider of online video services, has raised a $5 million venture round, reports Peter Kafka on AllThingsD.

By making its London and Paris runway shows “shoppable” in a special streaming video preview for its 15 million Facebook fans, London’ fashion house Burberry is transforming the entire “value chain” fashion retailing, says Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO of Vivaldi Partners Group, a global brand consulting firm, in this interview with Beet.TV

The emphasis on TV-like buying digital video using gross ratings points by several portals, is having a big impact on theway media dollars are being spent, says analyst Ashley Swartz in her regular commentary on Beet.TV

Online video is expensive, and programmatic is creating greater efficiencies for advertisers, says David Fineman, Partner, Digital Investment and Technology Director, Maxus, a unit of GroupM Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV

CHICAGO – The Weather Channel has dropped the word “Channel” from its name as part of a re-branding of the company beyond it’s core cable and satellite offering, the New York Times reports.

AMSTERDAM – San Antonio-based NewTek is touting a mobile video production unit, its TriCaster 40, a device that provides full switching and live encoding to HD, for under $5000.

AMSTERDAM – After two years of work on standards, MPEG-Dash, a new industry format for streaming video, is being "productized" by Qualcomm, says Thomas Stockhammer in this interview with Beet.TV

AMSTERDAM – PayWizard is finding a growing aruond  pay-per-view and subscription scenarios for video consumption via over the top devices (OTT), says Richard Jacobs, head of business development of the London-based company, in this interview with Beet.TV

Last month, BrightRoll, the big video advertising services company announced the launch of a real-time bidding exchange for mobile video, the industry’s first the company said.

SAN FRANCISCO (Via Skype Video) — Adobe has won an Emmy prime-time engineering award for its Adobe Pass, a product which allows consumers to automatically log onto television programming delivered to digital devices.  

With extensive live coverage at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, The New York Times is expanding its live programming around big political events says Ann Derry, Editorial Director for Video and Television, in this interview with Beet.TV