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NEW YORK — Today, CNN.com announced a number of developments around digital content, including full integration with Facebook Connect, a blog network across many verticals and expanded coverage of entertainment and technology.

Silverlight, Microsoft's rich media Web plug-in, will will soon be available on the Ooyala and Kaltura video players.  To our understanding, this the first time an online video platform company has offered Silverlight.

Video Highlights from Beet.TV’s Online Video Roundtable in London Sponsored by Brightcove Financial Times Mulls Paid Model for Online Video Apple Inexorably Pulling Video Publishers to HTML5 — Whether They Like it Or Not News Corp’s BSkyB Gaining Ad Traction with Online Offering and “TV Everywhere” Play Reuters Readies Syndication Plan for Third-Party Video News […]

SAN FRANCISCO — One of the keys to being successful as an independent digital studio lies in striking international licensing deals, said John Evershed, CEO of Mondo Media, in an interview with Beet.TV at our online video roundtable in San Francisco.

LONDON — In Iran, with significant limits on what it can cover from its bureau in Tehran, Reuters is following a cadre of citizen journalists on Twitter who provide camera-phone videos of street protests, says Greg Beitchman, Global Editor of the Reuters News Agency.

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  Our first overseas event was on Monday, March 8 at the London offices of the Guardian. Helping me co-moderate was Robert Andrews, editor of paidContentUK. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Getting viewers to want to watch online ads, particularly mid-roll spots, requires that the ads are relevant to the viewers.  By increasing the personal relevance of them, CBS is finding completion rates of views of as high as 95 percent, which is about 10-15 points higher than normal.

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube, which announced in November the availability to create computer generated text captions of video on a limited number of channels, is announcing today that it is making voice-to-text captioning available to most video channel producers.

The Financial Times has been publishing online video for the past three years and is set to "invest heavily" in production and technology, according to Rob Grimshaw, head of digital operations for the FT.

Not surprisingly, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver have captured the attention of millions of Canadians who are watching the Olympics online.  

Cable networks and big media companies aren't the only ones pursuing international distribution.

Vook, the startup which has developed a multi-media platform for books that mixes video, pictures, and social media with traditional text, has raised $2.5 million in funding.

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Today Google released a video about its Google Voice and its many features.  One of which is the means by which voicemail messages are transcribed to text. 

Associated Content has some 350,000 contributors uploading millions of articles and videos and is growing quickly, according to Patrick Keane, CEO in this interview with Beet.TV.

The Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable, London Moderated by: Robert Andrews, PaidContent UK and Andy Plesser, Beet.TV   Our first overseas event was on Monday, March 8 at the London offices of the Guardian. Helping me co-moderate was Robert Andrews, editor of paidContentUK.  We are publishing a number of segments from the conference on this […]

A year after its founding, social video startup Vpype launched one of its first applications in partnership with Facebook. Since social video is an area that’s bubbling up in attention, I traveled to the company’s offices in Milpitas, Calif. for an interview with the CEO Shoieb Yunus. Yunus explained how Facebook’s 350 million users can […]

A year after its founding, social video startup Vpype launched one of its first applications in partnership with Facebook. Since social video is an area that’s bubbling up in attention, I traveled to the company’s offices in Milpitas, Calif. for an interview with the CEO Shoieb Yunus.

5Min, the creator/syndicator of instructional Web videos registered a whopping 30.5 million video views in December, according to a report on TechCrunch.

Advertising is becoming participatory and social and because of that shift it’s returning to its roots, said Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot.   We caught up with the social community and advertising thought leader at the recent NATPE conference in Las Vegas where she shared her thoughts on the transition brands are making […]