Media

VideoEgg,  the San Francisco-based online video-advertising network, hit $24 million in revenue and reached profitability last year, CEO Matt Sanchez tells Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch.

Google sends nearly four billion clicks per month to news providers, according to Josh Cohen, project manager at Google News.

LAS VEGAS, NV –  Yahoo has expanded the scope of its "Connected TV" with several new television and consumer electronics manufactures and expects the platform to be in as many as 5 million Internet-enabled television sets by the end of June, we have learned.

LAS VEGAS  — Earlier this week at CES, an industry consortium of Hollywood studios and technology companies called DECE announced a plan to make digital files of premium content portable between different digital devices.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–Google's Chrome has reached 40 million active users since the Windows beta release in September 2008.  Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney visited Google headquarters to speak with Google spokesman Eitan Bencuya about developments with the new browser. 

Ryan Tate over at Gawker reports that AOL is in discussions to acquire the big social media/tech blog Mashable.

Twitter has become a useful reporting tool as well as a big driver of traffic to paidContent, the influential digital media blog.

For several years, digital executives in Hollywood have been developing a format to allow consumers to purchase digital files of films and watch them on various devices.

KickApps, social media platform provider, has begun to offer publishers a premium services tool for video publishing. The New York-based company is among the first companies to use Adobe's new open source media framework.

In 2010, online advertising will modestly recover, content "farms" will grow,  the IPO pipeline will open a crack and media M&A will increase as media companies look to buy and targets have "rational" valuations, says Rafat Ali, Editor & Publisher of paidContent.

Getting site visitors to click on videos is a challenge for publishers.  Many, including the Atlantic Monthly, are finding better success when videos are embedded in stories, rather than in separate video sections.

Just as Google Maps allows users to put images onto their sites, there will be an open API for Google's "Fast Flip," Google's Josh Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Do a Google search for your favorite (embattled) celebrity or hot news story and the results will likely include Web sites, articles, recent blog posts, and FriendFeed and Twitter updates.

The fast-changing media landscape, topics spanning the emerging "content farms," payment schemes for online video, micro-payments for news content, and the impact of mobile and e-books, will be addressed at the paidContent media summit in New York on February 19.

The NFL is finding growing viewership to its cable network and online site.  Saturday night's New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys had 10.1 million views on television and over 1 million streams of the game online, both records, the NFL announced tonight.

Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.

Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.

Authors and publishers have been using online video to build engagement with readers and to find new ones.   With traditional book publicity opportunities and store signings on the wane, having an online strategy is a necessity.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — YouTube recently added automatic captioning to its videos, in a move that has far-reaching implications for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, international users, and publishers who seek increase search optimization.

Video teleconferencing, long an expensive technology, hidden inside the enterprise firewall, is becoming a pervasive social media platform.