Live Streaming

Here is the live stream of CBS News continuous coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  View this as full screen  — hit the rectangular icon in the control box.  Looks great. This player was created by CNET and is not the player for CBS News.  CNET is a unit of CBS Interactive. — Andy […]

Get the CNN Live News widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Here is the CNN.com Live feed of the Inauguration of Barack Obama. We have embedded the live video widget. The player requires a small client download which takes just s few seconds. On Beet.TV, we are also hosting the live streams […]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy For several of the biggest TV news operations, this will be an Inauguration to share, literally.  Over the past year, most of the major broadcast news operations have made a decision to provide a sharable embed code which allows smaller Web publishers and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — CNN.com leads the news business in the live streaming of news events. From its home page, visitors are offered the choice of four different live streams. In 2008, the network provided 83 million individual streams, a CNN.com spokesperson told Beet.TV

Demand for bandwidth dramatically spiked immediately after the first reports of the emergency landing of a U.S. Airways jet in New York Hudson river.  Shortly before 5:00 p.m. EST, demand for bandwidth  to view the event live online hit nearly 5 million demands per second, according to records of Akamai, the world's largest content delivery […]

The sinking US Airways plane in Hudson River makes compelling live online video.  Here is the CNN.com coverage.  You will need to download a small application.  (This still image was taken at 4:11 EST) CNN.com has been leading the online media industry with live streaming of news events.  This will certainly be among the most […]

During the Inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday, Jan. 20, CNN.com Live users will be able to update their own Facebook status directly from the CNN.com Live player; and also see status updates from their friends and other Facebook users on CNN.com Live. On Facebook, the status updates for those using CNN.com Live will be […]

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 […]

CNN’s live streaming channel has had continuous coverage of the attacks in Mumbai since the events first broke on Wednesday at just after 1 p.m. EST.  CNN’s live coverage has gotten 1.4 million views as of 11:30 a.m. EST, a CNN spokeswoman told me. We have seen how live streaming of events has taken hold […]

BitGravity, a new content delivery network (CDN) which is largely focused on streaming high-quality live video, has a new product out which delivers six high-def video streams at once.  The development was reported by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch.  Live streaming, while a niche, is growing, and BitGravity, with customers like Revision3, could be well positioned […]

Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with MLB.com to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com’s 1.5 million subscribers.  Games were previously streamed on Microsoft Silverlight, an arrangement announced in August of 2007.  In the rich media platform game, Adobe has a home run here.  Details were released a […]

Election night night coverage at CBS News was streamed live on its site, on mobile devices and on CNET.com, the publisher recently acquired by CBS.  The live webcast was sponsored by Intel.  At the end of the Webcast, Katie gives a shout out to Intel. A sponsorship mention by an anchor would not be seen […]

CBS has live video coverage of the election available through Verizon Wireless V CAST and on-demand video for the iPhone, Ethan Dreilinger, Director of CBS Mobile News, told Andy in an interview this afternoon. “It’s a much richer experience, and it’s more of the experience that you are expecting,” he says. “So if you’re expecting […]

CNN.com and CNN International had received 88 million page views by 3 p.m. this afternoon, three to four times more than on an average weekday, Executive Vice President of CNN News Services Susan Grant told Beet.TV. CNN.com Live, which has four simultaneous live streams, had generated 1.6 million views domestically and internationally–seven times higher than […]

While Google, Yahoo! and AOL are focused on advertising-based business models around online video, Microsoft is advancing into the area it knows the best; software and services. Seeking a big piece of the emerging field for video streaming and the demand for HD video, Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem for Silverlight, the new rich-media Web […]

What a fantastic group of media and technology leaders who came together at the msnbc.com digital cafe at 30 Rock on Tuesday for our online video roundtable and live streaming "show." YouTube, MySpace, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, CBS Interactive, CNN, MSNBC, CondeNet, Dow Jones,  Ogilvy, The New York Times Company, eMarketer, along with key emerging new […]

CNN has stepped up advertising of its live coverage this year, and is promoting CNN.com Live’s election night coverage on The New York Times homepage today as part of that effort.

(Update: The conference ended at noon. The on-demand videos of the event are published above.) The Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable is taking place at the msnbc.com digital cafe today at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City from 9 a.m. to noon, and we're streaming the event live using Mogulus.  For a list of participants, […]

We are producing a live show of our online video industry summit on Tuesday, October 28 from 9-noon EDT, from the msnbc.com digital cafe at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, headquarters of NBC. CNET News.com Dan Farber and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld will join me in moderating in-depth discussions on technology, monetization and the changing role of […]

Video streaming solution DigiMeld will broadcast PublicScope Film’s “The Third Jihad” online at 2 p.m. today, at the same time as the film’s theatrical release, the company announced. I interviewed DigiMeld Executive Chairman Alex Mashisky last week about how the company’s recent launch of SuperStream grid streaming technology, which allows online video to reach large […]