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With its acquisition earlier this year of Unicorn Media, Brightcove has expanded its video services offering to the advertising space with its cloud-based ad insertion tool. With the recent introduction, customers are finding increased monetization rates of 30 percent, says David Mendels, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV He also talks about the launch of […]

New York Times media and culture and columnist David Carr has been in the forefront of innovative video creation at The New New York Times for about nine years. We caught up with him after The New York Times NewFronts presentation yesterday. He talks with Beet.TV about his approach to video:  keeping it simple and […]

HitFix, a Los Angeles-based producer of entertainment news and reviews, editorially positioned somewhere between Variety and TMZ, has found an enormous audience for its videos with 90 million monthly video views via Web syndication and outdoor media, says Jennifer Sargent, CEO and co-founder in this video interview with Beet.TV The company has just launched a […]

The newly relaunched Time.com is highly video centric, with increased production of original content, a prominent player and a cross-title “recirculation” strategy which is driving consumption of  videos across all the company’s titles, with customized thumbnails of videos displayed on all article pages, explains Craig Ettinger, General Manger of Time.com in this interview with Beet.TV […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The spread of programmatic buying in media is changing how agencies buy and sell media, but also how they approach metrics, says Gregg Colvin, North American Chief Operating Officer for Universal McCann during an interview with Beet.TV. “This is a mindset change. Planners and buyers are thinking towards a more nuanced approach to KPIs […]

Yahoo is in conversations to acquire the big video news syndicator NDN, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.   The acquisition would resemble in some respects, the 2010 acquisition by AOL of 5Min.   Earlier this year at the Beet.TV executive retreat, we  interviewed  NDN COO Eric Orme on stage about the […]

SAN FRANCISCO –  Netflix is embracing programmatic video as a means to raise visibility of Netflix as an entertainment brand –  not as a service which had been the past marketing objective, explains Mike Zeman, Director of North American Marketing, in this interview with Beet.TV Zeman, who joined Netflix last year from the giant media […]

Comcast has finalized its acquisition of digital video ad services company FreeWheel, according to this report by Peter Kafka up on Re/code.  The deal could be worth as much as $375 million  In August we spoke with FreeWheel co-ceo Doug Knopper about the company and it’s plans for growth.   Knopper will stay after the […]

Vidible, a San Francisco-based start-up, which has created a content exchange platform for video creators and publishers, has received a $3.5 investment in a Series  A round lead by Greycroft Partners with IDG and The New York Times. The role of Greycroft and IDG in the round  was previous reported in TechCrunch.   The participation […]

VIEQUES, PR – Taboola, the fast-growing content recommendation engine, which displays some three billion suggested thumbnails on Websites and mobile apps on a daily basis, is finding that 20 percent of its traffic is coming from mobile devices, says CEO Adam Singolda, in this interview with Beet.TV Taboola, which had started as a content discovery […]

The internet-connected refrigerator has often been mocked as the loopiest imaginings of internet evangelists gone wild. But the emerging Internet Of Things hype is forcing the industry to ask: is that really so far-fetched? At the Consumer Electronics Show, Norm Johnston, chief digital officer of Group M’s Mindshare division, saw just such a fridge be […]

clypd may have recently taken on $7.2 million in VC funding to build out its ambition to bring data-driven advertising to television – but an exec says things are moving faster than anticipated. “We have a total $10.5 million (in investment) – this is being used to build out the team, build out the platform,” […]

LONDON — When it comes to content, digital media used to be seen as the poor relation to television. But, when it comes to measuring content, it’s TV that’s now imitating the web, says a Nielsen executive. “One of the most int trends we’re seeing at the moment in Europe is the extent to which […]

LONDON — How many users really viewed your video ads last week? Guess again – the number may be lower than you think, thanks to unscrupulous publishers who play videos out of view or without consumers even asking. “Fifty percent of ads, apparently, in display aren’t seen,” Publicis’ VivaKi EMEA MD Marco Bertozzi tells Beet.TV in this […]

LONDON –  We are here for our programmatic video advertising summit presented today by Videology and hosted by Xaxis at the London headquarters of GroupM.   We will explore the changing world of video programmatic in Europe with ad agency executives, publishers and analysts.  Among the executives presenting will be Caspar Schlickum is Managing Director of […]

It’s barely a couple of months since video platform Vimeo updated its iOS app with some nifty new features – and now more are imminently coming down the pipe. Vimeo president Dae Mellencamp tells Beet.TV the company upgraded its app for iOS 7 to include AirDrop sharing and instant playback even when users’ mobiles have […]

Magisto, an Israel-based start up which as found wide success with its App that allows users to easily edit videos and images, has raised a $13 million C venture round from Qualcomm and Scandisk, it was reported today. The app has been downloaded some 13 million times, TechCrunch reports. Last year in Tel Aviv, we […]

In the monthly rankings of the biggest U.S. video advertising sites, AOL has for the first time passed perennial winner Google (YouTube) as a result of AOL’s acquisition of video ad tech company Adap.tv, comsCore announced today with the September results.  comsCore consolidated AOL and Adap.tv numbers for the first time. AOL registers 3.7 billion […]

Waywire, the video curation site known for its association with Newark Mayor Cory Booker, has been sold to Magnify, a New York-based digital video company, according to a report by Peter Kafka in AllThingsD Earlier this year at SXSW, we spoke Magnify CEO and founder Steve Rosenbaum about the evolution of the company and its […]

Next week, dozens of tech innovators and established leaders will take the stage in Santa Clara  for the annual DEMO conference, which will have 1000 attendees.  Contrary to recent developments which have reinforced the reputation of Silicon Valley as a “young boys club,” about a third of the DEMO speakers will be women and about […]