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The future of effectively indexed online video is "key to the future of the Web," says Adobe’s Mark Randall, chief strategist at the Dynamic Media group.  Here in Las Vegas at NAB, Adobe made a big step in this direction with the announcement of a new text to speech functionality for its editing software.  While […]

CNN has been creating Web specific video for some time. Live streaming has greatly increased since the news organization took the subscription wall down around its paid streaming service known as Pipeline. I caught up with Sandy Malcolm, Executive Producer of CNN.com about how the Web has afforded her company with new ways to present […]

Click to play In our industry, there has been a great deal of discussion and angst around the viability of video advertising around clips.  How can we "monetize" all this?  Sure, that’s the primary solution for media companies and content creators who have based their business around advertising. But, the thing is that effective video […]

Click To Play The monetization of online video will happen when clips containing overlay ads are broadly distributed on Web sites, blogs, social networks and in downloaded media.  The big opportunity for video content producers are in these emerging syndication schemes, not "destination sites," says Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv. Former YouTube executive Daniel Blackman […]

Click To Play Charlie Rose, the thinking person’s late night talk show host, has undertaken an ambitious plan to edit 4000 hours of archives into short Web videos under four minutes.  While many of the shows are available online, in the long form, the project will involve edited shows into smaller segments for sharing and […]

Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, has been investing in online video start-ups, recently participating in a round with TurnHere, the Emeryville-based video services company. Yesterday at the AlwaysOn conference in Boston, Kara Swisher moderated a panel.  Luckily for us, she did some reporting and video news gathering, which we have posted […]

Click To Play Watching a video in a high quality, H.256-encoded Flash video looks pretty much the same whether it’s streamed in a browser or viewed in the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) For large, high quality files, streaming is not necessary practical, given common bandwidth and processing constraints.  For these files, downloading is often […]

As Adobe launches today its much-anticipated desktop application called the Adobe Media Player (AMP) with big content partners, the business model around the new technology is quite novel. The software giant is providing its platform to producers and is splitting advertising revenue.  Adobe isn’t selling advertising.  The new business is a hybrid of sorts:  Software […]

Click To Play Yahoo! News, the most popular news destination, is experiencing strong growth in the views of its videos.  A spokesman told me that monthly viewership is way in the past six months. It has averaged from 150 to 200 million steams per month.  I am told views in February were up 163 percent […]

Andrew J. Viterbi, the man whose technology has lead to the creation of CDMA and other forms of wireless telephony, is one of four finalists in Finland’s Millennium Technology Prize, a bi-annual award for technology achievement for the betterment of humanity.  The co-founder of Qualcomm was honored for developing the Viterbi algorithm.  The finalists were […]

Click To Play Video consumption will grow when it is placed in the context of  articles or relevant social network pages, not when it resides in video libraries of portal and publications.  This was among the conclusions from our executive summit in Washington earlier this week. One of our participants, Scott Baker, a senior Brightcove […]

YouTube, which introduced overlay advertising into its video clips on the channels of  certain "qualified" content producers, is allowing some producers, including CBS, to sell advertising themselves, on their own terms. Breaking the news on this is my colleague Daisy Whitney of TV Week who visited YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters to interview Jordan Hoffner who […]

Click To Play For videos to be successfully found through search, they need to build a following first, says  Pete Kocks, the president of Truveo, the San Francisco-based video search unit of AOL. Similar to the way that text search engines track the popularity of pages and indexes them accordingly, video search engines like Truveo […]

Although some hits will emerge from the slew of new online entertainment programming from independent producers, for the most part these producers will comprise a "cottage industry" of small, "long tail" content creators, says Greg Baumann. Greg, who was the Los Angeles bureau chief of Bloomberg before taking over Television Week, the big industry trade […]

Click to play All Things D, the web site spun out from a successful conference business run by Wall Street Journal staffers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is undergoing a major redesign and will  debut in a month or so, Walt told me in Washington on Tuesday. We don’t know how the new site will […]

Click To Play The war in Iraq has been exceedingly dangerous for Reuters journalists. Six correspondents have been killed.  Others have been taken hostage by warring factions and several had been held by U.S. forces. On Tuesday at the Beet.TV executive summit in Washington, I sat down with Victor Antonie, longtime Reuters Television editor who […]

The FTC should stop Verizon from calling DSL "broadband," which Walt Mossberg calls "crap" and is not broadband by world standards. Moreover, Walt says that higher connection rates provide by cable companies,  6-8 mps, often deliver at less than half of the advertised speed and are over priced. At comments yesterday at the Beet.TV executive […]

The Web is becoming "a video delivery medium in a big way," said Walt Mossberg in his opening remarks at Beet.TV’s first executive summit which was held yesterday at the Embassy of Finland in Washington. Walt is technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and is co Executive Editor of All Things Digital. Walt and […]

Click To Play There’s been a great deal of discussion about HD web video coming online.  Unfortunately, real HD quality, which you would find on a big screen television set, is not realistic for Web video given slow Internet connections in the United States and computers with limited processing power.  In his review recent review […]

Earlier this year, without much fanfare, Contentinople, a new blog about digital media and convergence was launched in the United States by London-based United Business Media, one of the world’s biggest business-to-business publishers. Not a scrappy start-up, this enterprise has five full-time editorial employees with the sales and back office support of the parent company. […]