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The growth of social activity in conversations and check-ins around TV programming has grown by about 91% year over year, according to a study by social TV tracking service Trendrr.TV.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif – With its  relaunch of Google TV, the Internet giant has revamped how users search, find and discover programming on the Internet TV service. We recently spent time with Google's Shanna Preve, business development manager for Google TV, and she walked us through a special preview of the new look of the […]

Collaborative video production firm Market7 has released enhancements to its software and added a new exec to extend its reach further into Hollywood and media production. The company launched more than three years ago to serve the needs of corporate and media video production and we recently caught up with Market7's CEO Seth Kenvin for […]

New video destination MyPod Studios is betting that online viewers are interested in watching videos that have been vetted first before they're posted on the Web. Relative newcomer MyPod Studios launched last year and is operating as a "gated community" focusing on videos in many genres so long as they're entertaining, educational or informative, says […]

Forrester expects that 112.5 million adults, or one-third of the adult population, will own a tablet by 2016, a revision of its previous forecast of 82.1 million.

As it aims to expands its reach as a real-time media buying video platform, TubeMogul said it hired Paul Joachim as chief revenue officer late last week. We caught up with Joachim in one of his first video interviews in his new role and he shared his vision for growth with Beet.TV.

Early adopters of “TV Everywhere”  are relying on the service for news, short clips and snacking, says Jason Forbes, senior VP of strategy at Time Warner Cable Media, in this video interview with Beet.TV 

In advance of the coming launch of its platform to connect brands and producers, online video advertising company Outrigger Media is partnering with production company Zero Point Zero and travel and lifestyle brand Tumi for a branded content show that's already amassed nearly 60,000 views for its first three episodes after one week of launch, […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA  — Google's reboot of its Google TV over-the-top product aims to bring changes to the service that will help it win traction with consumers.

The biggest challenge in online video advertising is proving the "effectiveness of the buy" to the brand marketer, says Anthony Risicato, General Manager of VideoHub, a unit of Tremor Video, in this interview with Beet.TV

As the online video business continues to grow, video vendors are racing to introduce new products, eager for a piece of the $3.1 billion ad spending pie.

Mobile and social music app Songza is gaining traction on Facebook and via mobile phones and now counts more than 500,000 users since its launch in September 2011. We caught up with Songza's CEO Elias Roman recently and he talked to Beet.TV about how the digital music service works.

SUNNYVALE, CA — Yahoo is wedding social TV and interactive TV with its companion TV app IntoNow  says Cameron Johnson, Director of Product Management, IntoNow, in this interview with Beet.TV at the company's headquarters.

Global video management software firm KIT Digital has created a "social" TV electronic program guide, says KIT's Alan Wolk, Global Lead Analyst in this video interview. 

More than half of U.S. smartphone users turned to their phone to perform retail-related activities while in a store, comScore said in its newly released mobile forecast for 2012.

SUNNYVALE, CA — With more than one million monthly users, Yahoo is aiming to expand the reach of its connected TVs this year and is planning several new feature rollouts in the coming months.

Since only one in twelve branded videos pass the one-million mark, brands and producers are better off building an audience than going for a viral hit.

Big brand marketers are champing at the bit for more quality digital video inventory and more quality material to go into that inventory, said Randall Rothenberg, president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau in this  interview with Beet.TV.

The next step for online video data platforms will be to tap into better ways to find brand loyalists online, said Mark McKee, General Manager of online video platform firm Videology in an interview with Beet.TV at the ANA conference in NY.

Online video ad solutions provider Hiro Media has been rolling out a new tool that enables its agency partners to target ad campaigns using URL sniffing rather than cookies, and already media firms such as Universal McCann Digital Israel have signed on.