Media

SAN BRUNO, Calif — With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen by the cameras of mainstream news organizations.

SAN BRUNO, CA — YouTube is cultivating a new crop of promising video creators with top-tier film school education scholarships and direct grants.  

It might be hard to make a viral video hit, but building a steady audience on YouTube is doable, especially if brands and creators follow some basic guidelines.

LAS VEGAS -  The Associated Press is working with New York-based Livestream to provide live streaming of events from the Academy Awards to this month's Royal Wedding.

LAS VEGAS — While consumption of video-on-demand on Boxee is growing with premium services including Vudu, the HD movie service, and the MLB.com, the integration of live network programming is a “couple years” off says Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV 

Taboola, a video recommentation company, is integrated into many Bloomberg pages, driving consumption of video by as much as 2.5X. 

Video is in a period of dramatic transformation as consumers can now access content across multiple devices. 

The value of search and story links is essential for the biggest of information sites.  According to Paul Slavin, EVP of Digital Media for ABC, some 70 percent of video views come from search and links.

While many big video portals and sites are keen on building traffic to their sites, Aol is putting considerable effort around the syndication of content. This strategy is being driven by last September's  acquisition of 5Min.

With the acquisition of Next New Networks, YouTube aims to expand its legion of independent content creator by many thousands, creating both short and long form programming in various verticals says Tom Pickett, YouTube's Director of Global Content Operations and Lance Podell, Director, Global Head of YouTube Next Lab.

SB Nation, the fast-growing portal for professional sports enthusiasts, has hired eight senior editors from AOL’s Engadget to create a new tech blog, David Carr at The New York Times reports. In November, I interviewed Bankoff at the Monaco Media Forum.  Reposting the video here tonight. Andy Plesser    

Video news is being consumed by more people than ever before and viewership of digital video at ABC News is "exploding," presenting a "limitless demand" for video journalism, says Paul Slavin, who heads digital for ABC News, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Beet.TV has found a unique spot in the world journalism by "celebrating the media in way which is not cynical," observes former Wall Street Journal columinst Emily Meehan in this video produced at the vlog's fifth-year birthday party on Wednesday night at the Flatiron Lounge.

Ooyala, the Mountain View-based video services company, started in 2007 by a group of ex-Google executives, is powering the online and mobile video distribution for information giant Bloomberg.

Jim Spencer, the CEO of Newsy, a start-up which produces and distributes video segments edited from from hundreds of news sources, is focused nearly entirely on Apps as the platform to deliver its product.

The New York Times' top digital editor Len Apcar says, in this exclusive segment on Beet.TV, that the paper has decided to link to corporate sites as a means to provide an extra dimension to its staff reporting.

Jim Brady, who was the managing editor of the WashingtonPost.com before heading to start-up the ill-fated TDB.com, a local D.C. news site, is joining the Journal Register Company to manage its digital “transformation,” David Kaplan at paidContent reports.

Newsy, the Columbia, Missouri-based video news start-up, has raised $1.5 million in new funding to allow it to expand with original programming and to expand overseas, CEO Jim Spencer tells Beet.TV in this exclusive interview.

Aspera, a small, privately-funded start-up in Emeryville, California, has developed the means to transfer enormous video files at speeds far greater that FTP and other TCP-type protocols. Quietly, it has become the industry standard for the movie and on video industry to manage and send around big files.   

The well-funded and female-skewing entertainment publisher Wetpaint is ramping up its focus on video via a recent partnership with media company Alloy Marketing.