Media

CBS has been rapidly expanding its online efforts in several major U.S. markets by integrated its local owned and affiliated television and radio stations into 15 regional portals, says Ezra Kucharz, President of Local Digital Media.

The location-based ad market is poised to grow from $213 million last year to $2 billion in 2014, according to the latest figures from local market research firm The Kelsey Group.

The Financial Times is enjoying a big rise in digital revenue, the publisher announced on Friday.   As much as 10 percent of new digital subscriptions are coming from iPad users alone, says Richard Edgar, Global Head of Video for the paper, in this video interview with Beet.TV

SundaySky, Tel Aviv/New York-based start-up with 50 employees, using no video camera or production staff, will produce 1.4 million video clips this month for a range of big retail and real estate corporate customers including Overstock.com and the History Channel.

LAS VEGAS –  The iPad App for the New York Times has had 1.5 million downloads since it launched in April, says Ray Pearce, who heads circulation for the newspaper. 

Los Angeles-based Demand Media has cleared the SEC for an IPO and has set its pricing according to  report by Kara Swisher. 

LAS VEGAS, Cisco Systems expects that there will be 12 billion devices connected to the Internet by 2014 and plans to deliver video to many of these devices through Cisco Videoscape, says Murali Nemani, Director of Video Solutions in this interview with Beet.TV

LAS VEGAS – While much has been said about the aging population for network news, the distribution of news via mobile devices is reaching a younger audience, says Charles Tillinghast, President of the MSNBC Digital Network, in this interview with Beet.TV

The newly expanded Dealbook section of The New York Times, is adding several video elements to its offering in an effort to capture the "character-driven drama" of Wall Street, says Mac William Bishop, Video Producer, in this interview with Beet.TV

Foodspotting, the fast-growing, San Francisco-based social platform for sharing favorite food dishes has 100,000 iPhone registered users who have uploaded 250,000 dish reviews, with 10,000 uploaded every week.

MONACO —  Qlipso, the Los Angeles based video sharing site, which allows users to interact around videos with friends in “private rooms” with videos and their own avatars, claims 14 million unique monthly viewers.

Despite many well established sources for financial journalism, The New York Times will expand its newly revamped Dealbook property with more data features, video and reporter hires, says Jeffrey Cane, managing editor in this interview with Beet.TV.

While most of the the major video sites and online video services providers are providing HTML5 support, primarily for Apple iOS devices, Blip.tv is going to adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, says Justin Day, co-founder and CTO in this interview with Beet.TV

MONACO, Côte d'Azur — In their efforts to establish a presence on Facebook, eight-of-ten of the world's biggest brands, including Coca Cola, P&G, Unilever are now using an enterprise solution from New York-based Buddy Media, CEO Mike Lazerow said in this interview with Beet.TV

The Huffington Post has registered 26 million unique monthly visitors in the United States, a record for the site, according the comScore November data for the "Newspaper Sites."  (See below.)

SAN FRANCISCO  – Metacafe, one of first and biggest online video destination, has been building various special interest areas including one for movie fans.

CBS News, long a major presence on television, has had a modest online presence, widely trailing industry online news giants MSNBC.com and CNN.com – as well the websites of ABC News, Fox News and the BBC.

While not a conventional news organization, Denver-based Examiner.com  may be the world’s largest by the sheer size of its writing stable and the amount of content being produced.

New York-based Big Think, which launched in early 2008 with seed capital from Lawrence  Summers*, President Obama's Director of the National Economic Council, and other investors including Peter Thiel, is serving some 5 million monthly video views and has reached profitability, says Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO.

SB Nation, a network of nearly 300 micro blogs about professional sports teams in the U.S. and Canada, has reached 100 million page views per month, making it the fastest growing, and one of the largest sports sites, says CEO Jim Bankoff in this interview with Beet.TV