Media

CAMBRIDGE, Mass (via Skype Video) — Brightcove, the big online video services company, has released a comprehensive solution for Android devices, for the mobile Web, and for native Apps.

PALO ALTO, California (via video Skype) — Demand for closed captions on Web videos is increasing as publishers seek audiences in new markets.

NextNewNetworks, the New York-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, is going to greatly expand its offerings by creating a platform for hundreds of independent video producers.

We caught up with Mark Beeching, Chief Creative Director of Digitas, at the company's Digital Content NewFront 2010 conference in Manhattan last week.  

Revision3, the San Francisco-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, has found that over 40 percent of its viewers watch shows on Web-connected televisions.

Eric Feng, founding CTO of Hulu, is leaving the big online video company to join the Kleiner Perkins Kaufield & Byers as a partner, the company announced on its blog earlier today. 

Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites.  There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network, up 233 percent from the normal demand at this time.

An online campaign for Kraft's Philadelphia Cream Cheese, starring celebrity chef Paula Deen, has enlisted some 5,000 women to contribute their own homemade videos about using cream cheese.

The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women’s interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington says in this interview with Beet.TV.

LOS ANGELES — With 300,000 downloads, NPR is one of the most popular Apps for news and is demonstrating the popularity of radio on the iPad. 

LOS ANGELES — The Huffington Post, one of the first publishers to integrate Facebook Connect and the first to publish a Twitter edition, will soon integrate with LinkedIn, says the HuffPo's CEO Eric Hippeau in this video interview.

LOS ANGELES — The Wall Street Journal has just published the first excerpt of Steve Jobs on stage with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at All Things Digital.

Spectacular line-up for the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference kicking off on Tuesday (6/1) night in Rancho Palos Verdes, the seaside town near LA.

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE has some 23 million subscribers with two million watching concurrently.  With such a big, engaged audience, Microsoft has created a hybrid media environment for advertisers seeking to reach 18-34 year-old males.

Television stations are aiming to offer new Internet ad opportunities this year, especially surrounding search and hyper-local opportunities, said David Lebow, CEO of Internet Broadcasting, during a recent interview.

Ooyala, the Mountain View-based online video services company founded by several ex-Googlers, is providing customers the ability to publish YouTube clips into the publishing system and on an Ooyala player.

Two tech blog powerhouses, TechCrunch and GigaOM, are readying ambitious original online video programming.

LOS ANGELES — Cable operator Cox announced that it is rolling out a new program guide for its customers that integrates linear channels,

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rachel Maddow's Wednesday night, news-making interview with Rand Paul–Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Kentucky–has gotten over 500,000 online video views in just twenty four hours, making it one of the most widely seen online news clips.

LOS ANGELES — While much of the industry's attention was on yesterday's announcement of Google TV, a small Georgia based company has been making considerable progress in bringing IPTV to the living room by integrating its service with existing cable gear.