Video Search

EveryZing, a Boston-based video search company, has raised a $8.25million venture round from GE and has completed an extensive agreement to provide universal search solutions to  several NBC Universal online properties.

Tagging a video properly is an art form and it’s also one that can be abused by creators to generate search hits.

StumbleUpon has separated from eBay, which acquired the company two years ago to become a startup.  Co-founder Garrett Camp will be CEO of the newly independent enterprise. Kara Swisher has the story at All Things Digital.

The OVGuide.com is an extremely well organized and informative listing of thousands of online video sources. 

I interviewed Alex Castro, founder and CEO of Delve Media, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable earlier this month.  Alex explains the value of Delve in a field filled with big, established competitors. 

Google’s Marissa Mayer is profiled by Laura Holson in Sunday’s New York Times.  The senior exec, who is in charge of look, feel and usability of the world’s biggest search engine, tells the Times she is not leaving the company and says, “people don’t understand me.”

In what is probably the first time a presidential speech has been automatically transcribed by a software program, msnbc.com used a voice-to-text solution from Nexidia to transcribe last night's address to Congress by President Barack Obama. The online news site got the Obama transcription up in 15 minutes after the conclusion of  the speech, we […]

SeeqPod, the search engine that crawls the web for "playable search results" like music–including pirated files–is under fire from the record companies again.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Tuesday’s speech to Congress by President  Barack Obama made for a big news day at msnbc.com with some 54 million page views and 2.5 million video views, according Omniture SiteCatalyst numbers provided by msnbc.com.  (The numbers for viewing the speech are expected to […]

Blinkx has introduced a new set of buttons to its interface, allowing users to customize their video selection, Stephen Shankland of CNET News.com reports and has a review.  Here's the company's press release on the news.

White label video SEO service EveryZing is working to reinvent video advertising the same way Google AdSense reinvented text advertising, CEO Tom Wilde told Beet.TV.

Interesting to learn about a development at Pixsy, a video search and syndication company, which is now introducing a way for publishers of premium content to distribute their clips via embed codes and make money.  Not sure how this well work out, but as videos are widely shared, it would be extremely helpful for publishers […]

Nexidia, the Atlanta-based company which provides video search software, has an agreement with msnbc.com to crawl, "listen" and create text metadata around msnbc.com video clips.   The first implementation is on the msnbc.com Inauguration Player page.  The page provides a great deal of multimedia clips going back to FDR.  I've pasted a screen shot here.

YouTube leads Yahoo! as the world's second biggest search engine according the the latest numbers from comScore released on Friday.  It is a different sort of search engine of course, as the queries are for videos.  Seeking to monetize all that traffic, late last year YouTube launched "Sponsored Videos," a program modeled after and managed […]

Video search engine Truveo has released an updated version of its  iPhone application, Beet.TV has learned. The application, first launched in July, allows users to access videos in Apple-friendly formats from major sites including CNN, NBC, HBO, The Discovery Channel, and YouTube. In November, I interviewed CEO Peter Kocks about the then-forthcoming updates, and he […]

Joost, which Portfolio previously described as going “from superhero from life support,” is attempting a comeback, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy writes today. Part of its revamping includes its new iPhone application, which I interviewed CEO Mike Volpi about from his London office via Skype earlier this month. I republished the interview here. —Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

It’s a technique long used by cable programmers, including MTV: keep videos in rotation in an ongoing, 24-hour telecast.  The cable programmers knew that new viewers tune in at different times and are likely to find programming by chance.  The same concept should be applied to web videos, says Max Haot, co-founder and CEO of […]

The search solution Kosmix has raised $20 million in a funding round led by TimeWarner, the company announced today–an impressive feat in today’s economic climate. Andy interviewed Kosmix Co-founder Anand Rajaraman in New York earlier this year, and I republished the interview here.

On-demand web video service Joost’s new (and free) iPhone application, launched Monday, streams its entire online library of 45,000-plus videos to users on WiFi networks, according to CEO Mike Volpi. A large portion of the library will be available on 3G within a month: “The technology is basically ready,” he says. Volpi spoke to me […]

Video search works, particularly around professionally-produced content.  Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of  Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search engine, told TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld in this segment from the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable that his company is serving ads on 80-90 percent of professionally produced content and on 10-20 percent on user-generated content.  The ads are both […]