Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Revision3 is experimenting with offering more shows live as well as on-demand, the company's CEO Jim Louderback told us at the recent Beet.TV online video roundtable in San Francisco.

LONDON — As publishers seek to maximize revenue around online video, many are studying consumer attitude towards the number of in-stream ads they will accept.  

LONDON — The Guardian newspaper has been innovating with online video since 2006, has invested heavily in video operations in its new headquarters, and is finding traction with its own brand of journalistic video.

SAN FRANCISCO – The advertising business finally has the data, tools, and analytics to measure cross-platform reach and frequency across mediums, said Mike Bologna, director of emerging communications at GroupM, when I caught up with him at the 4A's conference earlier this month.

Kaltura, the open source online video services company, has launched a site to provide resources around HTML5.  The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, and the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura announced this morning.

AUSTIN — We caught up with digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW this weekend to get his take on the whole "free" movement around content.  He tells us that "free everything is a fantasy."

LONDON — VideoPlaza, the Stockholm/London-based online video advertising platform, has raised $5 million in its first venture round, the company announced today.

Late last year, Capture Your Flag, a new online video site that chronicles the leadership philosophy and strategy of emerging leaders, launched in beta with some 500 clips.

Want to know what new media players to keep an eye on? The marketing technology firm Bunchball is generating major buzz in the media and advertising business for its tools and services centered on engagement.

LONDON — The BBC’s iPlayer, a destination site for BBC news and entertainment programming, is enjoying rapid growth in the U.K.  Unique monthly visitors reached 6.3 million in February, according the most most recent data compiled by Nielsen.

SAN FRANCISCO — Television consumption is going to explode in growth over the next several years thanks to online and mobile video. That’s the conclusion of Jeff Cole, director of USC’s Center for the Digital Future, who studies media habits of consumers all around the world.

AUSTIN — YouTube Rental, the video sharing site's nascent pay-per-view service that launched in January with a handful of independent films, is becoming a paid platform for creators of education, travel, and entertainment programming, according to YouTube's Sara Pollack.

LONDON — STV, the digital arm of Scottish Television, is gaining 10 percent of new registered users through its integration with Facebook Connect, according to Alistar Brown, who heads new media for the company.

PALO ALTO — Facebook has 80,000 sites using Facebook Connect in addition to the 500,000 applications on Facebook, according to Ethan Beard, who heads up the company's developer network.

SAN FRANCISCO — While the Webisode is not dead, many of the big media players who had made sizable commitments to creating Web-original entertainment content, have thrown in the towel.

LONDON — Reuters, which produces and distributes news videos to many of the world's broadcasters and top news sites, is working on a plan to syndicate videos from third-party content producers, said Greg Breitchman, Global News Editor of Reuters, at Beet.TV's online video summit.

Video views in February jumped 42 percent in February to 152 million, making CNN.com the fastest growing video site among the top 10 in the U.S, Nielsen just reported.

SAN FRANCISCO–NBC Local recently launched a beta site called Feast.  It combines ratings from top sources including the NYT.com, Zagat, and Yelp to determine overall rankings of local restaurants.

LONDON — The Guardian, which has been offering its API as a syndication tool since last year, has just made that offering much deeper with the release of information from elections going back to 1992, according to Stephen Dunn, who heads technology strategy for the newspaper.

LONDON — In August, Josh Tyrangiel, then managing editor of Time.com and now editor of Business Week, told Beet.TV that long-form journalism on the Web is "not working."