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The conventional thinking around monetizing video is through advertising. But paid subscription and pay-per-view will be viable, according to Saul Berman, who heads the global media and entertainment strategy practice for IBM.  He is based in Los Angeles. He told me that as much as half of U.S. consumers over 45 years of age are […]

Click To Play Tim Draper, one of the world’s most successful and influential venture capitalists who manages some $7 billion in VC funds, is bullish on content companies.  This is quite a shift for the big Sand Hill Road VC’s who have steered clear of content companies. He told my buddy AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins […]

Click To Play Shel Israel, blogger, consultant and co-author of Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble, will join FastCompany.tv, the company announced today. Shel’s daily show launches on March 3.  Here’s a description of the show in a statement from Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company: Primarily a daily interview show, Israel’s program, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), […]

Click To Play One of the most successful and unique drivers of Fast Company magazine’s growth in the late nineties was a social network called Company of Friends.  Long before Facebook or MeetUp, Fast Company galvanized readers around the nation for live events and online forums.  The network was launched in 1997. David Carr of […]

Click To Play Newsweek has been ambitiously implementing an in-house video production operation since last fall when it separated from MSNBC, after 7 years.    A team of video producers at the Manhattan headquarters, and others on the campaign trail and around the globe, are creating around a dozen videos everyday.  For breaking news, the […]

Uber video blogger Robert Scoble is  making video blogging  history in Davos at the World Economic Forum right now.  With a Nokia 95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming an extraordinary number of interviews.  Sure, the quality is not great, but the access to so many leaders is extraordinary.  It also […]

YouTube has a big presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Co-founder Chad Hurley and executives are on the scene.  The video sharing site has launched a channel for citizens around the globe to upload questions and comments.  Above is a Reuters video report about the YouTube efforts at the summit.  Jeff Jarvis has […]

The World Economic Forum in Davos has been the super exclusive gathering for the world’s leaders in government, business and academia. It’s been covered by a very small group of journalists including The New York Times John Markoff Markoff blogs about the big presence this year of Silicon Valley execs and its elite bloggers.    […]

Click To Play We’ve been talking about the prospects of inserting dynamic advertising into downloadable video clips as an emerging trend.  Clearly, consumers will download more clips. The big issue facing the industry is how can ads, once downloaded as part of file, be "changed" dynamically.  There is some big news with YuMe running the […]

Click To Play In much the same way that Reuters made Web portals Yahoo! and AOL into news platforms by providing its newswire feeds some 10 years ago, the London-based information behemoth is set to make the Web video-news-rich by providing thousands of clips to publishers. Some 13,000 clips Reuters-produced videos, with 125 new clips […]

Click To Play As publishers large and small look to monetize online video content, one emerging model is sponsorship, a format in which a brand gets to be associated with a show, usually with an introductory  mention and/or graphic. This form of advertising harkens back to the early days of TV when sponsors, like Lucky […]

Click To Play Congrats to Techmeme‘s Gabe Rivera for winning the Crunchie Award last night in San Francisco.  Gabe won best bootstrapped start-up for his powerful aggregation site that sorts blog and news sources automatically.  Here’s how Techmeme is organizing news about the Crunchie Awards. Gabe really does bootstrap all this himself.  He told me […]

Click To Play With news of Revions3’s new program launch The Digg Reel, we have republished our interview with Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 which was originally posted in October. For an update on Jim’s efforts, read Wired’s Terrance Russell’s Q&A that was published last night. — Andy Plesser

While YouTube commands the majority of video views with a whopping 52 percent, AOL Video is growing more quickly than any other video site, up nearly 24 percent in market share in December.  That’s up to 8.4 percent, passing MSN and just behind Yahoo!  This according to the latest numbers from Compete. I asked AOL […]

Click To Play "Google is like a gigantic parasite that hollows-out existing (media) businesses," says Jason Pontin, editor and chief and publisher of Technology Review and New York Times business columnist.  This is part of a series of segments from an interview we had earlier this week. He says that Google and Yahoo! "create nothing" […]

Click To Play Owen Thomas, editor of Valleywag, is making some waves today with his brazen posting of a Facebook photo of founder Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend.  A similar use of a Facebook shot got his boss Nick Denton, head of Gawker Media, banned from the social network earlier this week. Owen challenges Facebook […]

Click To Play Robert Scoble, who pioneered tech videoblogging at Microsoft with Channel 9 and produced hundreds of segments during his tenure at PodTech, is launching a new business television network for Fast Company. Some details of Robert’s new work were reported a few weeks ago on TechCrunch. (Update 2:30 EST 1/16:  We just uploaded […]

Click To Play Gawker Media chief Nick Denton is "profoundly talented….kind of bitchy"….and gets by with things he shouldn’t.  But he does it in a sufficiently Oxonian way so "you don’t feel too dirty," says Jason Pontin, editor and chief of Technology Review and New York Times business columnist. Pontin is a former writer for […]

Click To Play Video widgets, the thin applications which display "pushed"  videos onto the desktop, blogs and social networks, are getting attention from video producers and site publishers and bloggers.  Last week at CES, ClipBlast’s Gary Baker announced that ClipBlast! will provide an API that is compatible with Google’s OpenSocial standard. Last month, Gary came […]

Bloomberg News has launched CEO Spotlight, a new Web video series of CEO interviews produced in Bloomberg bureaus around the globe.  It is the first step by the media behemoth to bring a vast amount of business news video clips to the public Internet. Day and night, through almost every timezone, Bloomberg creates a massive […]