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SANTA MONICA — Yahoo!’s daily digest of highlights of the previous night’s network prime time programming is turning into a hit.  Primetime In No Time, launched in March, had 4 million daily streams per day last week, Beet.TV has learned. On Wednesday afternoon, I visited the the Yahoo! entertainment complex in Santa Monica for a […]

LOS ANGELES — DailyMotion, the video sharing site started in France, has dramatically grown to be a global powerhouse, second only to YouTube, according Joy Marcus, who heads U.S. operations for the site. I sat down with Joy earlier this week at Digital Hollywood. She explained that DailyMotion has a channel strategy, with contents organized […]

LOS ANGELES — It is amazing how Pete Cashmore started Mashable from his home in Scotland at the age of 19, just three years ago, to create one of the most widely read blog about technology and social media. It is among the top 10 most influential blogs in the world. Pete recently moved to […]

LOS ANGELES — Bebo, the fast growing social network which was sold recently to AOL for $850 million, is driving an extraordinary amount of video consumption.  Ziv Navoth, Vice President, told Beet.TV that Bebo is driving one billion videos views a month. Bebo doesn’t require that publishers use its video player. It provides an open […]

LOS ANGELES — The co-producers of lonelygirl15,  Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, have raised $5 million in venture funding, moved into their new offices, just got their computers this week and are hiring.  The funding was announced last month. The new company is called EQAL. I caught up with Miles and Greg on Monday night […]

LOS ANGELES – Seesmic, a new "video conversation company" launched by uber blogger Loic Le Meur, will provide a plug-in for video comments to be uploaded to MoveableType and TypePad blogs later this month, Beet.TV has learned. I caught up with Seesmic evangelist Cathy Brooks at a poolside party on Monday night at the Digital […]

LOS ANGELES — Here at Digital Hollywood yesterday, HP announced that YouTube clips would be made available on the soon-to-be-released MediaSmart Connect digital media receiver.  The box acts as a connection between multiple PC’s and Macs around the house to television sets.  HP is squarely taking on Apple TV with the new device which will […]

FORA.tv, referred by TechCrunch as the "C-SPAN of the Web," has closed a Series A round of venture funding with $4 million from William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures and other investors.  Hearst and Adobe were investors in the original $2 million seed round.  The San Francisco start-up organizes videos of symposiums and conferences from […]

How cool is this: Beet.TV has established a global video news gathering operation, with hundreds of videographers, in over 50 nations, through a new association with TurnHere.TurnHere is the Emeryville, California-based video production and distribution company that produces thousands of short Web videos for corporate customers including Williams Sonoma, Simon & Schuster and Conde Nast.  […]

Here in Hollywood last night, I caught up with several of the creative leaders in independent online video.  I interviewed  Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, producers of lonelygirl15, Tim Street of French Maid TV and Hayden Black of Good Night Burbank.  As each of these producers seek a growing audience, they are monetizing their content […]

In a move that has been highly anticipated by content creators, online publishers and advertising agencies, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the industry trade organization of online publishers, will announce today that the standardization of online video advertising has been finalized. Many of the standards, including specifics for companion ads and pre-roll ads have been […]

Click To Play In the span of just six months, peer-to-peer (P2P) companies have gone from being the bane of Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) to emerging as a practical solution for managing network traffic and maximizing profits for the ISP’s and content creators. A great deal of collaboration is underway including the efforts of Comcast […]

Late last month, CNET Networks quietly released a superb new Flash video player.  The player is beginning to propagate CNET’s news videos.  It was developed in house.  Here’s what I think is notable: *The player has a pop-up window for a text description along with hyperlinks to related stories. This is extremely valuable as videos […]

The newly launched MySpace page for political coverage with content from MSNBC is an interesting experiment in brand building in the social media world.  Videos from msnbc.com appear on the MySpace video player.  Not just a marketing outpost, NBC News talent and executives are busy "friending" and sharing.  Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has been […]

The utilization of Flash on mobile devices may well expand with the news that Adobe will provide Flash for free for certain mobile phone applications.  The initiative is called Open Screen.  The BBC published the news earlier today. Earlier this year, I was at Adobe’s San Francisco office for this cool demo of how Flash […]

Acclaimed for his work as employee #1 at MTV where he was creative director and later as president of MTV Online, president of Hanna Barbara and the force behind the revitalization of Nickelodeon, Fred Seibert has been on the forefront of several chapters in the (r)evolution of television. These days he’s building a diversified network […]

Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan are co-founders of DoubleClick, the giant ad serving technology platform sold to a private equity firm in 2005 for $1.1 billion and later to Google. The two have been building new businesses including a content delivery network (CDN) called Panther Express.   Earlier this year, Kevin told  Beet.TV that Panther is […]

Adify, the San Bruno-based ad network which raised $27 million in venture funding, has been sold to Cox Communications for "about $300," according to reports on paidContent and the Silicon Alley Insider.    I interviewed Adify chairman Larry Braitman 18 months ago in San Jose, I’ve reposted my interview tonight.  Good overview on the business […]

Whether or not the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) enjoys widespread adoption, the technology solves the critical issue of tracking the viewership of downloaded files, says Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder of Blip.tv. While most downloaded video files come through iTunes, publishers like the Washington Post and advertisers have difficulty knowing if the files are […]

VodPod, the San Francisco-based start-up that creates widgets of multiple video players, has doubled the number of video sites from which users pull clips to 3500 over the past six months.   VodPod users have organized some 1 million videos into widgets. Mark Hall, CEO of VodPod, told me on Sunday that most of this increase […]