Media

While Google says it wants to index the world's content, it hasn't done made much progress in Hollywood. But an Israeli start-up called AnyClip has already indexed hundreds of movies in the Universal Pictures library.

Vevo, the popular music video site, which is a collaborative business involving several of the major record labels and Google, will launch in the U.K. shortly, announced CEO Rio Careaff in comments today to the Abu Dhabi Media Forum, the Guardian Newspaper reports.

AUSTIN — At SXSW, the New Media Minute caught up with Internet expert and social media impresario Gary Vaynerchuk to discuss how brands and marketers can apply the lessons of his latest book, The Thank You Economy.

London-based Livestation, a portal which streams linear news programming from broadcasters, including the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, and a number of Arabic-language programs, including Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Arabiya, BBC Arabic, France 24 Arabic, has seen a huge spike in traffic to its site since unrest in the Middle East erupted in January.

Topix has citizens uploading 4 millions of comments per month in forums in some 5,000 towns in the United States, generating 8 million monthly unique visitors and gettting $4 CPM’s, according to CEO Tolles in this interview with Beet.TV

On a freezing Manhattan night in February, virtually all of the media industry’s top reporters, blogger and editors showed up for drinks with a newly arrived California woman who was unknown just a few months earlier.

The New York offices of Next New Networks erupted in jubilation shortly after 4:00 p.m. on Monday when news was published of the the company’s acquisition by the YouTube.

NEW YORK – Next New Networks, the innovative studio and incubator for entertainment video programming for the Web, has been acquired by Google and will be part of YouTube. 

The introduction of tablets and smart phones has driven extraordinary growth in digital news consumption.  According to Robert Grimshaw, Managing Director of the the FT.com, approximately forty-five percent of digital news is now consumed via mobile devices.

Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Web video index platform Clicker, has been named president of CBS Interactive, the company announced today.

As the Huffington Post merges with AOL, the company will leave its successful brands to operate as independent entities.  Arianna Huffington, who will be editorial chief of the new company, tells Beet.TV in this video that she "won't mess" with successful AOL properties including TechCrunch and Engadget.

As it readies for the debut of the Keith Olbermann show, Current TV is building a studio in Manhattan, says co-founder Joel Hyatt in this interview with Beet.TV.

With the imminent role for Arianna Huffington as editorial chief of AOL, she will be "smart enough" to leave TechCrunch and its editor Michael Arrington alone, says Felix Salmon, finance blogger for Reuters and media pundit.

More and more publishers are moving videos from a video section "gallery" into article pages, and this move is bringing increased viewership, says Stokes Young, head of multimedia and Ann Derry, editorial director of video at The New York Times who comment in this segment from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit held last month at […]

While the ability of editors to identify and define news is essential, the creation of news is increasingly driven by real-time analytics, according to participants in the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit.

Integrated sponsorships are essential to the success of original news on the Web says Steven King, Editor of Video, for The Washington Post, in this clip from the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit.

The Journal Register Company, the big local newspaper chain with nearly 324 publications serving over 900 communities in 10 states, will beat AOL’s Patch or the Huffington Post in its home markets, says CEO John Paton in this interview with Beet.TV.

Ooyala, the fast-growing Mountain View, California- based provider online video services, has entered into a multi-year agreement with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan to manage and distribute a broad range of video services.

WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of film makers and videographers are using a "still" camera to create video images of extraordinary quality. 

WASHINGTON — CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year.