Media

Owen Thomas, who has been the editor of tech/gossip blog Valleywag for the past two years, will be Managing Editor of NBC Bay Area , one of a new series of regional online sites created by NBC Universal.  The site is in beta.

The small number of U.S. newspaper with online video operations, are seeing 27 percent of their online revenue coming from video ad sales, according to a research report released today by Borrell and published in Editor & Publisher by Jennifer Saba.

LAS VEGAS — With newspaper and other media sites going multimedia, the AP is finding fast-rising demand for its online video news products, Bill Burke who heads up global online video for the AP tells Beet.TV

Analysis by Daisy Whitney*Senior Producer, Beet.TV Today’s Hulu-Disney partnership raises the question of whether Hulu and YouTube are engaged in a head-on battle for eyeballs and advertising.

NEW YORK — CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon.

Seattle-based Wetpaint, a Web publishing platform for smaller companies and individuals hopes that the recent announced shuttering of Yahoo's GeoCities will provide a big biz dev opportunity.

Associated Content, a online publishing platform has raised an new $6 million venture round, TechCrunch is reporting tonight.  

Earlier this year, Conde Nast launched individual sites for its magazines, expanding beyond what had been a handful of topic-centric portals.  This was the transformation of CondeNet to Conde Nast Digital.

SeeqPod, the multi-media search engine which grew out of research at the Lawrence Livermore Labs as a biometric search engine,  which has raised the ire of the music business, is about to be sold to a "major media company," founder Kasian Franks tells Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired's Epicenter. 

National Pubic Radio has had the highest ratings period in its history, some 20.5 million weekly listeners for its news programming, according to a report by Arbitron published last month in the Washington Post. 

With 1000 videos in the archives and more than three million video streams viewed since Beet.TV launched three years ago, I am mighty proud of our progress. 

Big trial gets underway on Friday (4.24) in San Francisco about the DVD-ripping program from RealNetworks called RealDVD.  Hollywood is not too pleased with the $30 program which allows you to rip and save unlimited number of DVD's to a PC.

It's great to see that Zadi Diaz, co-creator of Epic Fu, has landed a sponsorship deal with Puma.

Visitors to video sites now exceeds users of Web-based e-mail, according to a report released today by The Nielsen Company.  The study reports on monthly unique visits to various Web sites and online applications.

LAS VEGAS — In an effort to deliver the same experience for HD online video streams for consumers with different bandwidth connections, the industry is embracing a technology called "adaptive streaming."  

While an entire industry has been created to measure the impact of conventional advertising on brand perception and purchasing, there is very little methodology around the impact of online video advertising.

Great to see the success and recognition for CHOW, the San Francisco-based foodie site created on a shoestring  by Jane Goldman as a print publication back in 1997 then sold to CNET in 2006 when it launched online.

Conde Nast, which had organized most of its content on big, themed portals, has created new Web sites for most of its individual titles.  This is part of the transition from CondeNet to the new entity Conde Nast Digital, which was announced in January.

In what could be an important development for producers of premium content, YouTube is planning ways to charge for some videos, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments during this afternoon's earnings call.

Banner ads on YouTube for the SarahPAC, the political action committee formed to advance the 2012 presidential candidacy of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin, are getting some unexpected exposure on YouTube.