Distribution

Video RSS feeds, made publicly available by many video publishers, lead to high levels of consumption by subscribers, according to Sean Doherty, founder and CEO of Channels.com.

TubeMogul, the video distribution and measurement company based in Emeryville, has raise a $3 million venture round, according to a report by Liz Gannes on NewTeeVee

AUSTIN — We caught up with Blip.tv CEO and co-founder Mike Hudack at SXSW to learn about the integration of Blip.tv onto Boxee. 

SAN FRANCISCO — A large part of the success of online video can be attributed to the widespread adoption of Flash, a rich media, Web plug-in application which is on nearly all of the world's computers.

SAN FRANCISCO — Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube.

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe is aggressively promoting the use of its Flash video ecosystem into more of the news and entertainment world with a new development deal with Time Warner. 

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here. 

Kaltura is the New York-based company which has developed an open source video publishing platform which allows users to collaborate on video and other forms of rich media.  Much of the company's development team is in Israel. 

The U.S. college basketball championships, know as March Madness, has been one of the 10 biggest Internet events, according traffic tracked by Akamai.

We read with interest comments by Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf in ReadWriteWeb about the prospects for the "cloud" to be a distribution system for the Web. Lidja Davis reports that Cerf says that while cloud computing offers opportunities, it is fraught with privacy issues.

Seeking to expand global innovation and the utilization of Microsoft products and services, Microsoft has an ambitious program to support start-ups, not with capital, but with technical and consulting support. 

Adobe announced early today that Flash 10, the newest version of its ubiquitous Flash web plug-in which drives a vast majority of video consumption, has reached an installed base of 55 percent of global users of Flash.

YouTube came out the victor today in the comparison of best HD video sites by CNET.com's Webware, impressive for a site so new to HD. Webware's Josh Lowensohn writes that "YouTube was the runt of the litter last year, and one of the reasons we put together the initial comparison."

Big win for the Los Angeles-based EdgeCast Network, a new content delivery network (CDN) backed by Disney's Steamboat Ventures, has backbone deal with Deutsche Telekom.  Om Malik at NewTeeVee broke the story earlier today. 

In what might be the biggest breakthrough for Panache, a Los Angeles-based video ad insertion company,  MTV has agreed to deploy its program across its sites.  I interviewed Panache CEO Steve Robinson at Streaming Media East this past May in New York.  I've republished the interview here.

Adobe's Flash platform continues to expand its domination of the world of online video distribution.  Industry researchers say that Flash is on 99 percent of Internet connected desktops in "mature markets."  Since September, some major video publishers moved to Flash including MLB.com, MySpace Music, DirecTV and Sunday Night Football/NBC Sports. At the Beet.TV Online Video […]

Akamai, the world’s largest content delivery network, a giant network of servers around the globe which streams video for Reuters, MySpace, Metacafe NBC, CBS, CNN, the BBC and many others, is sponsoring Beet.TV for the next 30 days with an exclusive in-stream advertising message running in our 800 clips.  The overlay links to a marketing […]

One of the biggest events of 2008 was the Summer Olympics in Beijing.  The most significant development in online video distribution has been the entrance of Microsoft Silverlight, the new competitor to Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash.  The new rich media Web plug-in had its big debut as the online video platform for NBC Sports coverage of […]

Kaltura, the company which provides an open source video platform that allows the public to edit video in a "Wiki-like" environment, just announced its first, prominent media company implementation with Public Television’s flagship Station, WNET/Thirteen New York.  The Kaltura player is being used first on Worldfocus, the show about international events. It is featured on […]

It’s a technique long used by cable programmers, including MTV: keep videos in rotation in an ongoing, 24-hour telecast.  The cable programmers knew that new viewers tune in at different times and are likely to find programming by chance.  The same concept should be applied to web videos, says Max Haot, co-founder and CEO of […]