Media

BOSTON –  5Min, the AOL unit which syndicates a range of lifestyle and informational videos to publishers who use a proprietary 5Min player on their pages, will soon provide its inventory of videos to publishers who use the Brightcove player.

Consumption of live video of the March Madness on the iPad was "amazing," says Turner Sports VP Michael Adamson, marking a milestone for live sports distribution, he tells Beet.TV in this interview.

Mashery, the San Francisco-based provider of API management services, is finding extensive use of its platform around the new crop of Apps for big publishers including The New York Times, The Guardian Newspaper and USA Today, says Ian Brown, the company's marketing manager.

While video plays an increasingly important role as a storytelling tool, principally enhancing print reporting, in the future, video will be ubiquitous and will be indistinguishable from print. It will be the predominant form of journalism, predicts Craig Duff, Multimedia Editor of TIME.com in this interview with Beet.TV.

Launched just over a year ago, now with 1700 videos and millions of streams, TechCrunchTV is expanding with new programming, a state-of-the-art studio at the Aol headquarters in Manhattan and a focus on videoblogging.

LOS ANGELES (via Skype Video) With a new studio in downtown Hollywood and a presenting sponsor in AT&T, CBSNews.com launched on Tuesday a weekly Webshow titled "What's Trending"with Shira Lazar.

Some 500 video industry executives from around the globe will descend on Boston next week for Brightcove's three-day PLAY conference.  It will be the first conference run by Brightcove and the show is sold out.

Revision3, the San Francisco-based programmer of lifestyle and technology video shows geared to 13-34 year-old males, is "the largest over-the-top" television network in the United States, says CEO Jim Louderback in this interview with Beet.TV.

French Maid TV, one of the Web's first and most successful entertainment series, is coming back after a two-year haitus and will be featured on YouTube, part of the YouTube partnership program. 

It's been two years since TED Talks enlisted fans around the globe to translate its videos into many languages through its Open Translation Project powered by dotSub, a crowd-sourced translation platform.

The New York Times, which features a short article and photo of a couple of dozen newly-weds every Sunday in the Style section, will be adding short videos created by the couples.  The first user-generated video will be published this weekend.

The Wall Street Journal is training its print reporters to use the iPhone 4 for video news gathering and live streaming via Skype Video, says Kevin Delaney, Managing Editor of the WSJ.com

The Rachel Maddow Show enjoys the highest degree of engagement, meaning minutes spent per month, among all the NBC News and MSNBC news programs, according to MSNBC.com president Charles Tillinghast, in this interview with Beet.TV

With syndication partnerships in place with establish news sites including the Wrap for entertainment and SB Nation for sports Reuters is quickly expanding its alliances with publishers and content creators, says Chris Ahearn, president of media at Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV

The announcement late Sunday evening by President Obama that Osama Bin Laden had been killed created extraordinary traffic for MSNBC.com and pointed the emerging role of online video viewing in cable-connected homes.

Reuters, a leading provider of live news video to television broadcasters around the globe, is now making a rich offering of live video feeds available to  digital publishers, says Chris Ahearn, president of media for Thomson Reuters, in this interview with Beet.TV

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is partnering with Dublin-based  Storyful to curate breaking news on YouTube's CitizenTube channel, says Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube in this interview with Beet.TV

With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.

SAN BRUNO, CA — While YouTube is playing a unique role in providing raw video of the unrest in the Middle East to the Web, and to many of the the world's news organizations, the giant video site doesn't actually organize or vet video.

CineSport, a small New Jersey-based syndicator of professional sports highlight videos, served some 250 million video views in March, according the comScore Video Metrix.