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While online video advertising spending will increase by nearly 40 percent this year, the big opportunity for marketers is to create "useful" content, says Geoff Ramsey, CEO and co-founder of eMarketer.

Online video advertising is on pace to grow a whopping 52% in ad dollars this year to surpass $2 billion in ad spend, eMarketer recently reported.

NOTTINGHAM, England (via Skype) – British retailer Marks & Spencer is using video on its site and is finding that visitors who watch video stay on the site twice as long, says Forrester Principal Analyst Martin Gill in this interview with Beet.TV.

Last night, TED's Chris Anderson awarded a Special Achievement (RED) Webby Award to Ushahidi, the Nairobi-based crowd-sourcing start-up. He presented it to co-founder David Kobia.

Amr Salama, an Egyptian filmmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a documentary about the historic events. 

Break Media, the big Los Angeles-based creator of humor programming for young men, is  producing programming for woman, with two shows in the works, says Jonathan Small, editorial chief for the network.

The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), a national association of video creators, has announced its first awards program for excellence in over twenty categories.

The iPad has "truly become the fourth screen," says Daniel Heaf, Digital Director of the BBC Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV.

BOSTON — The cable network A&E is expanding its creation of Apps for various shows, embracing a paid model for the History Channel's Civil War App and a free model for "Army Wives."

Deja, a new start-up which allows iPad users to create view preferred video topics in a very cool display, launched last week at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.

On the heels of LinkedIn's IPO, Groupon has been pegged as the next online-technology IPO, and that's because the sort of group-buying deals that it pioneered are red-hot. The deals market has been valued at $1.25 billion and that's why Groupon is facing competition from smaller plays like HomeRun, as well as from the giants […]

In addition to connecting with a valued audience with live programming, the process of creating daily Webcasts is valuable to the news organization, explains Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com.

Rexly, a new data-driven recommendation engine for iTunes, will soon organize music from other music platforms including Spotify and Pandora, and will next provide video recommendations from Hulu, says CEO and co-founder Joel Resnicow in this interview with Beet.TV.

A free App for the iPhone, which allows users to report and share local news developments, called Meporter launched on Tuesday in New York at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

BOSTON — The Gannett Company, the nation's biggest newspaper company, is increasing video consumption with a new, large and prominent video player. Many of the chain's websites for its 82 newspapers and 20 local stations feature the new video player on the home page.

An innovator who in mid-nineties played a central role in development tool ColdFusion and the Flash platform when he was CTO of Macromedia, Jeremy Allaire sees the evolution of digital rich media to a cloud-based environment. 

With tablet sales tracking to hit 24 million this year, brands are trying to crack the code on the best approach to a tablet strategy.

BOSTON — Brightcove, the big Boston-based online video platform company, is expanding its services to build and power native Apps for the Apple iOS and Google Android platforms.

Culling information from millions of cable set-top boxes, Simulmedia aims to give broadcasters, cable operators and others the tools to effectively manage billions of dollars in television advertising inventory.

With Microsoft’s new alliance with Nokia, there is an expectation that the market for Windows Phone 7 will grow substantially, passing the Apple iOS phones by 2015, according to a recent Gatner report.