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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 […]

Wochit has launched its platform to provide publishers with a constant supply of topical, professionally produced daily news video in early “real-time.”  We spoke with Co-Founder and CEO, Dror Ginzberg, in our studio in New York this week.

presented by         Beet.TV is producing a three-hour leadership summit on the fast-moving changes in digital advertising advertising.  Topics will include the impact of data on addressable advertising, the growth of programmatic buying and the emergence of new screens for consumption. The twelve participatants will include leaders from digital ad agencies, publishers, […]

With the IAB’s management of the upcoming Digital Content NewFronts program slated for late April in NYC, digital video will be moving front and center of next week’s IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Scottsdale, explains Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the trade association for digital publishers, in this interview with Beet.TV

Gannett-owned local TV stations are exploring ways to extend video views and video advertising into new types of content and beyond the traditional geographic boundaries of TV broadcasters, says David Payne, Senior VP and Chief Digital Officer with the Gannett Company, during an interview with Beet.TV at the Beet.TV Leadership Summit on Big Data.

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 […]

As as part of the Financial Times  recently announced “digital first,” the London-based, global paper is expanding its digital staff, introducing a new real-time feature on market-moving news called Fast FT and building social tools for its audiences, says Martin Dickson, Managing Editor for the U.S. in this interview with Beet.TV

Online video news giant NDN recently inked a deal with CBS Local to distribute news video from its local stations across NDN’s network of sites. That deal helps bring more original content into the video platform, says Kevin Gentzel, Chief Revenue Officer at digital video and advertising company NDN, during an interview taped at the […]

A true multi-screen measurement system would open new opportunities for marketers in digital advertising by re-aggregating fragmented audiences, says Jonathan Bokor, Senior VP and Director of Advanced Media at MediaVest, during an interview taped at the recent Beet.TV executive retreat.

With its 12 hours of daily live streaming, HuffPost Live is creating a giant catalogue of short video clips which are being served into the pages of the Huffington Post, a key element of the company’s video monetization strategy, says Jimmy Maymann, CEO of the Huffington Post Media Group, in this interview with Beet.TV

Dow Jones has grown its digital video traffic by four times in the last year, says Rahul Chopra, VP of Video Programming at Dow Jones, during a recent interview with Beet.TV at the Wall Street Journal offices in New York. The growth comes in part from a wider reach; Dow Jones videos are now distributed across […]

As part of efforts to evolve the DirecTV Everywhere service and help advertisers reach customers on digital and mobile devices, DirecTV has partnered with leading video advertising technology provider FreeWheel.

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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.

Here’s the big news and various updates from the Beet world: I have bootstrapped Beet.TV with the support of the boutique PR firm I founded 20 years ago. The staff, and my partner Kent Holland in particular, have allowed me to grow it over the past seven years. And I am grateful.

Beet Retreat 2013: A Summit of Digital Media… by DailymotionUSA Watch the Beet Retreat 2013, a leadership summit of leaders in the digital video industry, streaming live via Dailymotion from the W Resort & Spa in Vieques, Puerto Rico. You can find the stream right here on this page, on Friday, February 1, from 11:30 […]

The next evolution of search will be predictive and it will reach across TV viewing, says Sam Vasisht, Chief Marketing Officer for Veveo, a video search and recommendation technology firm, in an interview with Beet.TV. He shares insight into how he sees search evolving across devices and screens and what that means for consumers watching videos.

Talking to the TV in plain English and having it respond has long been a pursuit of technologists and manufacturers, but so far most voice-processing is clunky and unnatural. Video technology firm Veveo is aiming to change that and is currently testing its conversational voice software with a handful of service providers, says Sam Vasisht, Chief […]

Consumers can expect to find 80-inch TVs for less than $3000 in retail stores in the next few years, says Irwin Gotlieb, chairman of global media investment company Group M, in an interview with Beet.TV. As larger sets become the norm, so will the 4K resolution, he adds, as he shares his predictions for the future […]