The high-pitched YouTube star Fred is earning a six-figure income from his online videos and his status as the most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time, Google's Eileen Naughton told attendees at the OMMA Video conference in New York earlier this week. That money is helping push online video as a category to command 4% of […]
Dow Jones reports this afternoon that the U.S. Justice Department has requested information on the proposed settlement for Google Book Search.
TypePad, the popular blog platform owned by San Francisco-based SixApart, has become integrated with VOX, allowing TypePad users easier interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.
Warner Bros. online video destination TheWB.com has greenlit production on a Web original from former WB CEO Jordan Levin, who talked to Beet.TV earlier last week about the show.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — As it continues to mine new advertising models, YouTube said VISA has currently bought out the new “click to buy” ad option on YouTube.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — It must not be not easy for the Google crew to be called "parasites or tech tapeworms in the intestines of the internet" by Robert Thompson, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Analysis by Daisy Whitney*Senior Producer, Beet.TV Today’s Hulu-Disney partnership raises the question of whether Hulu and YouTube are engaged in a head-on battle for eyeballs and advertising.
Webcam chat at Ustream The Beet.TV roundtable in San Francisco (and Ustream's live stream of the event) ended at noon PT today. You can watch the first half on-demand in this post; for the second half, visit our Ustream channel. Keep reading for my live blogging of the event!
Interesting to learn about a development at Pixsy, a video search and syndication company, which is now introducing a way for publishers of premium content to distribute their clips via embed codes and make money. Not sure how this well work out, but as videos are widely shared, it would be extremely helpful for publishers […]
As YouTube expands its offering of professionally produced–and advertising-appropriate–videos, its analytics tool YouTube Insight will become increasingly important. YouTube’s Strategic Partner Development Manager Laura Lee explained the value of YouTube Insight for both content creators and marketers at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable last month. “That tool I think has been really powerful especially to […]
From small online videos content producers such as EQAL and NextNewNetworks, to giant ones like Yahoo!, the marketing messages of sponsors are being "baked" into original productions. These messages range from product placements to branded characters to stories about a particular product or service. As online video advertising is in its nascent stage, sponsored content […]
Kent Nichols, co-creator of the web video sensation "Ask a Ninja," has just been tapped to co-write the remake of the schlock classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. My colleague Daisy Whitney of TV Week spoke with Kent about the project earlier this week at SXSW in Austin. It’s very exciting to see how online […]
Click To Play It’s not nearly as big as YouTube, but Blip.tv is growing four times faster in worldwide use, according to the latest comScore numbers. Blip has the fastest growth among all the video sharing sites, the tracking company has found. The comScore numbers are published in a terrific round-up article on the state […]
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 […]
Click To Play At Streaming Media West this week, one of the big trends was the growing business alliance between content delivery companies (CDN) and innovative technology platform companies such as Move Networks and Pando Networks. Move Networks, the video distribution system that powers the beautiful ABC Television online player, signed up with Level3. Pando, […]
Click To Play Higher quality user generated video is inevitable, Forrester’s lead PC analyst told me a few weeks back when I was up in Cambridge. Better cameras and editing tools will make this all possible, J.P. Gownder explains. Yesterday, I was in San Jose for the Streaming Media West conference. The prospects for higher […]
We read with interest a report that YouTube is sharing revenue with video creators, like the Revver model, and that advertising will be inserted into the video. There has been quite a lot of buzz about this today in the blogesphere. This is not happening, yet. We reached a YouTube spokesperson who told Beet.TV that […]
View a transcript of this interview Mark Whitaker is one of our most celebrated journalists. Having lead Newsweek as its award-winning editor in chief for eight years, he was recently tapped by the Washington Post Company (parent of Newsweek) to head new initiatives for the Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive. The online division also includes Slate. I […]
Click To Play I caught up with Hunter Walk, a key executive at Google Video who had previously run Google’s AdSense. My visit coincided with the launch of the new EepyBird exploding Diet Coke bottles. Fun clip and quite popular with 1.6 million views, but what does it mean? Well, it marks the first step […]
Click To Play I think the coolest guy I met at the Vloggies in San Francisco last Saturday night was Steven Starr, the founder and CEO of Revver, the viral video sharing network based in LA. Steven and I had a great talk about the potential of viral video in fundraising. Not just speculating about […]