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The consumer appetite for digital video may bring the Internet to its knees, if the viewership of video streaming continues at its current pace, says Irwin Gotlieb, chairman of global media investment company Group M, in an interview with Beet.TV.

The online advertising business would greatly benefit from technology that curates scoally shared  content and identifies the content that can be monetized with ads. That’s the conclusion of Rene Rechtman, CEO of Goviral and Senior VP AOL Advertising Group International during a panel session at the recent Monaco Media Forum covering inventory challenges.

BuzzFeed, the brainchild of Huffington Post co-founder of Jonah Peretti, is the big winner in the media landscape of 2012, writes Erika Frey in Fortune magazine.

While much has been said about a “second screen” powering television viewership, Ensequence is harnessing the power of the TV set, or “first screen,” in driving ratings as much as 20 percent for programmers, says CEO Peter Low, in this interview with Beet.TV

Dynamo, the New York-based start-up that has served as video-on-demand rental portal for independent documentary, film and Web series producers, has changed its business to become a “white label solution,” allowing content creators to license the platform for their own use, explains founder Rob Millis, in this interview with Beet.TV

As consumer video viewing spreads across devices, advertisers increasingly will want tools and analytics to track, measure and reach those audiences. That’s what 24/7 Media is aiming to do, Nicolle Pangis, President of Real Media Group, a division of 24/7 Media, WPP’s marketing technology company, tells Beet.TV in an interview.

TubeMogul, the Emeryville, California based video advertising services has raised $20 million in a series C round, the company announced today.

Interactive features in digital video ads should grow tremendously in the next year, based on the expontential rise in ad campaigns using them over the last several months, says Zvika Netter, CEO and co-founder of Innovid, a digital video and ad serving technology company, during an interview with Beet.TV.

Nearly two-thirds of mobile video viewing is occurring in the home, often concurrently with another screen, according to a just-released study from the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

NDN, a syndicator of video news clips on the Web, has been ranked by comScore as the second biggest U.S. Web video source, by unique viewers, after Google/YouTube, comScore reports in its November video rankings.

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This Sunday’s big, VH1 Divas show from the Shrine Auditorium in Hollywood has many of the digital elements of other live entertainment shows with video streaming from the red carpet and backstage, but in something new, the cable net is producing a large numer of animated GIF’s of celebs.

This Saturday’s Rolling Stones concert at Newark’s Prudential Center will be available as a pay-per-view event on cable and satellite, but in something of a first, it will be available on digital devices including PC’s, smart phones and tablets.

Broadcasters and cable networks, which have long kept the digital distibution of their programming to their owned sites and apps, are beginning to syndicate programming far more broadly, says Doug Knopper, co-CEO of video ad services firm FreeWheel, in this interview with Beet.TV

ESPN rolled out an expansion of its TV Everywhere product with the launch of WatchESPN within the Xbox Live app that brings live ESPN programming to the gaming console, says Raphael Poplock, VP Games and Partnerships at ESPN.

I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.  Had a good one here.  I wanted to catch up on some developments and fill you in on some upcoming plans.

Kaltura, the open-source video services company, has taken $25 million in new investment for its expansion in Asia Pacific, the company announced today.

SAN FRANCISCO — At the Smart TV and Multi-screen Advertising Summit in San Francisco, J.P. Lee, Executive VP of Enswers, the leading provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies and systems, announced that the company signed a deal with Samsung in May, making them the exclusive ACR vendor for Samsung Smart TV in North America.

Web original series are continuing to grow and will reach 1000, says Paul Kontonis, Chairman of the International Academy of Web Television in this interview with Beet.TV

To help broadcasters deal with device proliferation, Adobe expanded its Project Primetime platform with both the addition of an ad insertion option and a new player technology that lets programmers handle streaming, rights and content prep for all devices, Adobe says.