Media

Traffic to Newser, the news aggregator, has dramatically dropped from a peak of 1.6 million uniques to 565,000, reports Zach Steward in the Nieman Journalism Lab, siting Quancast numbers.

Seems like a bunch of guys like watching a video mix of humor, sports and and attractive women that Heavy.com is serving up.  comScore just reported that traffic to the site jumped 41 percent in July to 5.3 million uniques.

Online video is both hugely different from television and brings more value to TV, CNNMoney.com Anchor Poppy Harlow told Beet.TV earlier this month.

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses.

NEW YORK, NY — TIME.com relaunched its video pages today, with a larger/HD player, integration with social media, and video sorting under "most popular," "this week," and other categories.

NPR has expanded its mobile offering with a new iPhone application including audio and text transcriptions, paidContent reported last night.

Staci Kramer at paidContent reports that Journalism Online, a new company which manages subscription and paid transactions for online publishers, has "letters of intent" from over 500 newspapers.

Nielsen's report on video traffic showed more astounding growth for YouTube, with 7 billion videos streamed to 100 million unique visitors. For us, the big news is the arrival of Blinkx to number 10 site with 85 milllion video streams. (See table below)

Big jump in traffic in July for ABCNews.com.  According to Nielsen, the site has passed the NYTimes.com and FoxNews.com in traffic with over 16 million unique visitors.

REDMOND, WA — MSNBC.com,  the first major video news organization to provide sharable videos, has found booming usage of its videos off its site, notably on the Huffington Post.

The age old question in Web video is what type of ads work best. To reach a true consensus on the best ad formats, online video should learn from the cable business.

REDMOND, WA — Adoption of Microsoft Silverlight streaming tools are on the rise, including use by France TV, Microsoft’s Senior Director Tom Honeybone told Beet.TV during an interview at Microsoft headquarters.

Rafat Ali, over at paidContent. reports that tech media impresario Alan Meckler, is selling his tech media business, including Internet.com for $18 million.

While the monetization models for online news are emerging, there will an upside for  highly valued, niche content, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managing editor of TIME.com

SEATTLE, WA — Internet TV provider thePlatform has an advantage over its competition because it's owned by Comcast. 

NEW YORK, NY — Blip.tv's content creators could land on-air on NBC in New York thanks to a slew of new distribution deals the video-sharing service struck last week, including one with NBC Local Media.

Extend Media is aiming to capitalize on the buzz surrounding TV Everywhere with the launch of a new platform to help multichannel providers deliver TV programming online, the company announced today.

A media company needs at least a three-year runway before it can take off for profitability, and that’s the goal for the new video destination Take180.com, the site’s general manager Chris Williams told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest in early July.

YouTube's "News Near You," a recent addition to the YouTube news page, organizes local news sources as a strip of thumbnail images.  YouTube has organized hundreds of news sources into news "portals" in 100 U.S. cities, we have learned.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif — There’s more money to be made in creating communities for programming online than making the content itself, Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest.