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StumbleUpon, the video referral site where registered users recommend videos to others, has grown to 5 million registered users who "stumble." or recommend, some 350 million Web pages per month, Garrett Camp, co-founder, told Beet.TV in this interview.    The San Francisco-based was purchased by eBay last year, but operates independently.  The company recently expanded […]

Today, as part of big site redesign, MySpace is unveiling a new video player.  We haven’t seen it yet, but here is what the company is saying about it: "The new player includes scrubber, time-stamp, volume memory, new menu system, greater sharing functionality and more…..The player offers a more flexible advertising platform with multiple Ad […]

LOS ANGELES — Yesterday at the AlwaysOn conference, the Seattle-based, enterprise video search company Pluggd, relaunched with a new name,  Delve, and as a new business.  The company is taking its deep search and tagging system and into a full-blown video publishing company.  They are entering a somewhat mature and heavily funded sector where  it […]

BURBANK — Warner Brothers Television will broadly syndicate original programming on a number of popular video sharing destination and device platforms, the company announced today. Beginning in September, videos on branded channels will be syndicated onto DailyMotion, Veoh, Joost and onto Sling and Tivo. Here’s a statement from Warner Brothers: "The channels will launch in […]

LOS ANGELES – Flixwagon, the Boston/Tel Aviv-based developer of live mobile video streaming technology, is streaming live video on an Apple iPhone, on a demonstration basis.  The application works on an unlocked iPhone for the moment, which means it is not practical for most users.  The company hopes this demonstration will lead to integration into […]

BEVERLY HILLS — Video consumption on MySpace far outpaces Facebook, and all the other social media sites in video streams served and unique users, according to Nielsen Online’s April numbers, Beet.TV has learned.    Video streams on MySpace were 290 million vs. a mere 8 million on Facebook.  Unique users of videos on MySpace were […]

StumbleUpon, the recommendation platform for video consumption, organizes primarily videos from major video sharing sites.  Having videos discovered, or "stumbled," is a powerful way in which videos are propagated. Last week I spoke with StumbleUpon co-founder Garrett Camp. He has set his sites on pulling major media sites into his network.  For big publishers from […]

LOS ANGELES — Jesse Draper, one of the stars of the hit Nickelodeon show Naked Brothers Band, is about to star in weekly series about innovation in Silicon Valley in a show titled Valley Girl.  The show will debut next month.  Google CEO Tim Schmidt and Craig Newmark are among several Valley executives and VC’s […]

Gigya is powering widgets for over a thousand online publishers, including video producers. As publishers seek to get content distributed, widgets are essential. Gigya’s widgets get 128 million unique users per month.  It’s an enormous base. More than just distributing widgets, the company is offering analytics so publishers and advertisers know how media is being […]

With hand held cameras, video reporting is a natural extension of print reporting and holds great advantage for newspaper publishers, says pioneering news producer Tammy Haddad. In the world of innovative television news producing, Tammy is at the top. She has produced “Larry King Live,” “Hardball with Chris Matthews” and others. These days, she’s reporting […]

NewTeeVee, the 18-month-old video site dedicated to covering the business of online video, has expanded its franchise with a site that reviews and recommends online video content. The new site is called NewTeeStation.  A guide to what’s new and worth watching is very much needed.  And it’s a field that is just now taking shape.  […]

LOS ANGELES — It was a little depressing listening to Quarterlife producer Marshall Herskowitz give the keynote address at iHollywood today over at the Roosevelt Hotel.  He is clearly still bitter about NBC’s decision to remove his show from its line-up.  He said that the days of user generate video success, with a hit on […]

At Advertising 2.0 in Manhattan earlier this week, I caught up with David Rosenberg, who heads the Emerging Media group at JWT, the big global advertising agency.  David talks about the new aesthetics of online video advertising, a major departure from the traditional 30 second spot.  David says that the pre-roll and post roll will […]

Nielsen Online is very close to launching a platform to monitor the number of downloaded media served through iTunes and other systems.  While Nielsen and others track the views of streaming video, third party monitoring of downloaded video does not exist, as far as we understand. In this interview with Beet.TV, Jon Gibs, VP for […]

Long a leader in creating and publishing original and stylized video journalism, the Washington Post is educating a large number of print journalists in how to use video cameras. Some 185 staffers have been trained, according to Chet Rhodes, Assistant Managing Editor for News Video at the washingtonpost.com Further, the paper is providing low cost […]

Artists like platinum-selling superstar rapper Chamilllionaire are taking advantage of the new opportunities of video sharing and social network sites to build reputation and business. I interviewed him earlier this week at Advertising 2.0 in New York.  He told me that reality TV is indicative of consumer demand for video about people’s lives.  He says […]

The Semantic Web been the longtime vision of Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who invented the World Wide Web.  It is a highly organized index of Web objects and pages. It is far from being implemented but is starting to emerge. Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at The New York Times Company, told me that […]

NEW YORK — The bubble of excessive funding of of digital media companies is over, according to paidContent founder and editor Rafat Ali.  Beet.TV caught up with him at his company’s packed mixer last night at the IAC headquarters.  The second half of the year does not look very good as many venture backed companies […]

Our intrepid producer David Kavanaugh headed to Brooklyn last night to attend the diggnation event.  David said the place was packed and the light was low but he managed to get some stage shots and quick interview with Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback who explains the Kevin Rose frenzy.    Caroline McCarthy from CNET was on […]

Last night at the paidContent mixer in Manhattan, I caught up with Eric Hadley, CMO of the Heavy.com, the successful New York-based online video site for guys 18-35.  Hadley is a longtime senior Microsoft executive who joined the company last year. Yesterday the company announced plans to build out its video services division called Husky […]