Media

Auditude, the Palo Alto-based online video management company has signed a deal to manage video advertising for Comcast Interactive Media, according to Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee.

This year will be a transformative one for online video as advertisers are routinely buying seven-figure campaigns, says Jason Glickman, CEO of Tremor Media, the big New York-based video ad network.

NEW YORK, February 19 — We are streaming the paidContent:2010 media summit today.  Beet.TV will be be at the event doing a number of video interviews that will be published later today and over the next several days.

Consumers of online video are not adverse to multiple in-stream commercials — and many will embrace a form of micropayments, according to Quincy Smith, former CEO of CBS Interactive  who is now a partner with Code Advisors, a new media boutique investment banking firm. . 

Clicker, the fast growing guide to online video programming, raised an additional $11 million in venture funding, the company announced today. 

NBA Digital reports that it had 4.95 million video streams of the All-Star game on Sunday, February 15, with a total of 17 million views, which is 20% more than last year.  Andy met up earlier this month with Bryan Perez, Senior VP & GM of NBA Digital to discuss the developments in the NBA's […]

PALO ALTO, CA — With more than 400 million worldwide users, Facebook has become a critical partnership platform for media companies including all of the major television networks.

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, Publicis boss Maurice Levy, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt are some of the luminaries who will be heading off to Abu Dhabi next month for a three-day international media summit, the first in the Persian Gulf.

BARCELONA — Brightcove, the big online video services company, will announce today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a solution to bring true Flash video to a number of smart phones. 

Twitter has a deep integration with NBC Sports for its Winter Olympics coverage. You can find Twitter throughout the site and on the "Olympics Pulse" page.  This is the most significant media integration for Twitter to date, but is just one of many to come, according to Chloe Sladden who heads up media alliances for […]

The big upside for publishers around the industry-wide TV Everywhere initiative is the opportunity to serve highly contextual online video advertising to specific subscriber groups, says Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, a video services unit of Comcast.

Running a news organization in heavily censored countries including China and Iran is not easy, nor is it always easy working with U.S. and British authorities, says Sean McGuire, Reuters top global news and politics editor in this interview with Beet.TV.

The comic business is estimated to be a $1 billion business annually, but it’s one of the few media forms that hasn’t yet fully transitioned to the digital world. That may change with the coming influx of Apple iPads and sexy new eReaders.

MILPITAS, CA — With social media usage across Facebook, Twitter, and niche social sites continuing to climb, it's inevitable that a number of start-ups will emerge to piggyback on the opportunity.

Demand Media, the fast growing creator of  instructional online text and video content, has a huge backlog of assignments:  some 150,000 assignments waiting for a network of 7,000 freelance writers, editors and videographers to undertake, according to Steven Kydd, Executive VP of  Demand Studios.

5Min, a small start-up with offices in New York and Israel, backed by Spark Capital, has landed the number 10 spot as most viewed video video property as measured by uniques, according to numbers released by comScore yesterday. 

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week.

Syndicastor is helping some 80 broadcast news operations create some 30,000 online clips per month.  Clips are made available to the station's sites and various video sites including AOL, YouTube and Brightcove.

In Las Vegas last week at the NATPE convention, Daisy caught up with Ross Levinsohn, former digital chief at News Corp and now a venture capitalist at Fuse Capital.

Robin Sloan, formerly a top online strategist at Current TV is headed to Twitter to manage media partnerships, he announced on his blog.