Media

The appointment of Anthony De Rosa, a product manager at Reuters who quickly became the company's Social Media editor, is "the most amazing (journalism) story around," says Jim Impoco, Executive Editor, Thomson Reuters Digital, in this inteview with Beet.TV.

Howdini, one of the biggest "how to" video players, has served some 70 million video views for cake recipies for Betty Crocker, says Alison Provost, CEO and founder of parent company TouchStorm. 

Here on the streets of Manhattan last week, we spoke with Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor of All Things Digital,  about her Loeb award and her definition of blogging (it’s the same as reporting, she says).

As more video is being produced and consumed on the Web, the marketplace for file footage is becoming a growing profit center for Hollywood studios, news organizations and sports leagues.

ABC News is producing a multimedia offering of text and video reporting in the form of a video book, or "vook," for the Apple iOS devices, Android and Nook Color. 

SAN FRANCISCO (Via Skype Video) — Yidio, the online video guide which claims 10 million users, is launching today a personalized Twitter and Facebook feed for its users called Yidio Alerts.

FremantleMedia, the big Los Angeles-based television production company, producer of the hit global franchise,"Idols," is expanding its original Web offering with the "World's Greatest Mom," starring Daphne Brodgon, a stand-up comic and creator of the "Cool Mom" video blog.  

SAY Media, is building its own "vertical networks" of original content, including the fashion and pets categories, through the acquisition of Dogster and by building new content around fashion celebrity Jane Pratt.

It's been a busy few weeks for Blip.tv, the big New York-based video site for eposodic programming.  It went through a complete site redesign, becoming an entertainment destination site, and bulked up its roster of orginal programming with a new distribution agreement with The Collective.

ABC is the only television network with an App for episodes for the iPad.  Since the launch, the App has been downloaded two million times and 28 million episodes have been streamed, says Albert Cheng, EVP for Digital Disney/ABC Television.

With the launch of the Heidi Klum site and video series, Aol is not creating a new "show" per se, but a branded "experience," says Jeff Levick, President of  Global Advertising and Strategy, as he explains in this interview with Beet.TV.

As part of the New York Times new paid subscription program, the paper is seeking greater "engagement" with readers, says Denise Warren, General Manager of the NYTimes.com in this interview with Beet.TV.

Digital consumption is growing at the Wall Street Journal Network, where some 200,000 subscriptions to mobile Apps, tablets and eReaders have been sold, according the General Manager Alisa Bowen.

Yahoo has 26 Web original programs, and claims the most traffic for nine out of the top ten Web's original shows.  

With its origins in a dedicated terminal as a wire service, later expanded into a broad offering of text stories on the web, Bloomberg.com has become a multimedia financial and general news site with its redesign introduced a few weeks ago.

Rebecca Paoletti, who was Yahoo's head of video for North America, is readying a major young men's video site and content distribution play.

My Movie Pitch is a program to solicit movie ideas in a sixty-second pitch, launched in conjunction with the Tribeca Film Festival in a program by  American Express. 

After years of development, with successes and failures, "Internet video is finally working," says Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Recent weather events in the United States have driven video consumption on Weather.com in a big way, says Samantha Shoemaker, Online Video Product Manager.

SeatGeek, the New York-based marketplace for premium tickets for sporting and entertainment events, is driving revenue for big publishers including Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily News and others, says co-founder Russell D'Souza.