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AMSTERDAM — Seeking to address the growing demand of video producers to create files in multiple streams, for numerous digital devices, Akamai has launched a cloud-based transcoding service called Sola Vision.

AMSTERDAM – Aspera, the fast-growing provider of file transfer server technology for a number of large media companies including Netflix, announced its integration with Microsoft’s Azure cloud-based media services.

AMSTERDAM – With 2.5 million users, or “seats,” for its Premiere Pro editing software package, Adobe has become the “industry leader,” says Bill Roberts, Director of  Video Product Management, in this interview with Beet.TV

AMSTERDAM – Zencoder, the San Francisco-based software company recently acquired by Brightcove, sees demand for various streaming formats to be created, or transcoded, instantly in the "cloud."  

The surfacing up of actionable metadata on the new Amazon Kindle HD with the tools called X-Ray, is one of most significant, of the new launch, says analyst Ashley Swartz in her weekly commentary on Beet.TV

AMSTERDAM – Videoplaza, the Stockholm-based video ad serving platform, is prepared to serve ads without using cookies, says Alfred Ruth, CTO in this inteview with Beet.TV

AMSTERDAM – The emergence of MPEG Dash as a standard for streaming Internet video has reached a milestone of sorts as it is being tested by Google on Chrome in a limited program initiated earlier this month, says Will Law, Principal Architect, Media Cloud Engineering, Akamai, in this video interview at the IBC conference.

AMSTERDAM – Akamai, the giant U.S.-based content delivery network, has substantially expanded its  video offering with the introduction this week of the new  Sola Media Solution platform.

With a dedicated advertising sales staff just selling original Web series, Blip monetizes this content better than anyone, says Kelly Day, CEO in this video interview with Beet.TV

Presented by Hosted by GroupM The adoption of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and, the programmatic buying and selling of digital video advertising, is exploding with brands, agencies and publishers.  Beet.TV will host a half-day exploration of the topic with leading agency executives, analysts, publishers and technology providers. Keynote Speakers: Rob Norman, Global Chief Digital Officer, GroupM […]

The London 2012 Olympics was a transformational event for the “TV Everywhere” — a means of delivering premium content to connected devices which have been previously just seen on the television, Adobe announced this morning.

Wall Street Journal has launched WorldStream, a platform for video news gathering and publishing of short form videos created by the paper's staffers.  The publisher made the announcement today.

The New York Times surfaced the tweets of its staffers in London during the Olympics onto page which acted as a real-time news environment for many of the competitions.  For this live news page, the journalists didn’t use their Twitter handles but tweeted as @LondonLive.

Xbox Live has been an increasinly popular platform for video news consumption, and NBCNews.com has substantially increased the number of apps and content it is surfacing on the Microsoft gaming platform, TechCrunch reports.

YouTube, which streamed the IOC's feed of the London 2012 in Olympics in some 65 nations and provided streaming services for NBC Olympics in the United States, registered more than 231 million streams in total, the company announced today. 

The prices that advertisers pay for video inventory is rising at about 30 percent year-over-year, according to a report by the big real-time bidding company TubeMogul.

Boston-based Visible Measures, a video advertising services company which started as a provider of analytics and recently expanded as a video ad network, has raised $21 million in new funding, the company announced today.

The emergence of real-time bidding solutions for online video ad buying, which are employed by ad agencies, will replace the ways buying is done today, says Joanna O'Connell, Senior Analyst, Interactive Media at Forrester Research, in this interview with Beet.TV

Videolicious, a Newark-based software developer, has created an app for iOS devices to shoot, edit and narrate videos instantaneously.  The company recently raised $1.4 million from Amazon and a group of well-regarded early investors.

LONDON – With the London 2012 Olympics over, the BBC has released the final numbers for digital consumption of the digital video of the Games.   The BBC's offering, mostly limited to the U.K., found some 106 million video "requests" vs. 32 million for the Beijing Games.