Video Sharing

TED, the annual California gathering of movers and shakers in society, politics and business, is a completely closed affair, invitation only and very expensive.  Since 2006, speeches from conference have been edited and presented for free as short episodes online onto a site called TED Talks. 

Checking out the new White House blog, we saw the YouTube clip of the President Barack Obama’s  Inauguration speech. Looks good.  But we wonder if all the White House videos will be hosted by YouTube.

Social networking site Bebo, which AOL purchased for $850 million last year, is now hosting video on its site, the company announced today.

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 […]

Here is the live stream of CBS News continuous coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama.  View this as full screen  — hit the rectangular icon in the control box.  Looks great. This player was created by CNET and is not the player for CBS News.  CNET is a unit of CBS Interactive. — Andy […]

Consumption of news and politics videos on YouTube increased by over 500 percent last year, according to Olivia Ma, News Specialist. Olivia made these comments at the YouTube news media conference in Washington last Monday.  Surely the Olympics and the presidential campaign were key drivers.  The Associated Press, the world's largest media organization, has been […]

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 […]

Motionbox, the New York-based video sharing site which has a subscription model, has gotten a third venture round of $6 million, Jason Kincaid of TechCrunch reported tonight.  Along with the investment is a management shake-up with Chris O’Brien assuming the title of Chairman and Josh Grotstein becoming CEO.  A little over a year ago, Chris […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.  On Sunday night at American University, YouTube recognized the five finalists and winner in the Project Report competition, a new journalism award for short video documentaries. Co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, the assignment was for "non-professional" video journalists to report on underreported communities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the Google offices in Washington, D.C yesterday, Andy interviewed YouTube’s Head of News and Politics Steve Grove about the site’s new Congressional Web pages. There are separate pages for the House and for the Senate, and the offices of all senators and representatives can start their own channels. Andy blogged about […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  YouTube has just launched a site for all members of the U.S. Congress.  The New York Times reported on the development today.   I am at the Google offices in Washington where I just interviewed Steve Grove who heads politics and news for YouTube.  We spoke about a number of subjects including the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A five-minute film titled "Abilities" about a California community for disabled adults by San Francisco filmmaker Arturo Perez, Jr, has been selected as the winner of Project Report, an award from YouTube and the Pulitzer Center for best video journalism from non-professional journalists.  The winner was announced earlier this evening in Washington, […]

YouTube has been encouraging aspiring video journalists to post videos to Project Report, a YouTube channel which is part of the expanding role of media and journalism on the mega video sharing site.  The channel is also a revenue generated for YouTube with marquis sponsorships from Sony VAIO and Intel. With the assistance of the […]

How-to video site 5min has made its VideoSeed distribution platform, launched last month, a free service for site publishers, Beet.TV has learned. We are the first to break this news. The move is win-win: site publishers can add related video content to their sites for free, and 5min expands the number of monthly uniques its […]

In June, YouTube announced a category of content creators called Reporters.  The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, which has made a decision to place many of its news clips on YouTube, has found a growing audience.  Since it began in March, it has over 12,000 clips up as of today.The AP is finding […]

Just about a year ago, Beet.TV broke the news that msnbc.com would be the first television network- affiliated online publisher to allow its videos to be embedded.  That strategy has been adopted by virtually all the U.S. news sites as well as Reuters.  Charlie Tillinghast, president at msnbc.com, told me that instead of sending viewers […]

Most media companies will do deals with YouTube in 2009, ending what has been a confrontational relationship for many, expects Michael Learmonth, staff reporter at Advertising Age and veteran reporter of digital media, having worked for the Industry Standard, Reuters and Variety.  Michael recently blogged for the Silicon Alley Insider.  Michael thinks that the ownership […]

Adobe's Flash platform continues to expand its domination of the world of online video distribution.  Industry researchers say that Flash is on 99 percent of Internet connected desktops in "mature markets."  Since September, some major video publishers moved to Flash including MLB.com, MySpace Music, DirecTV and Sunday Night Football/NBC Sports. At the Beet.TV Online Video […]

Kaltura, the company which provides an open source video platform that allows the public to edit video in a "Wiki-like" environment, just announced its first, prominent media company implementation with Public Television’s flagship Station, WNET/Thirteen New York.  The Kaltura player is being used first on Worldfocus, the show about international events. It is featured on […]

Young Woong Ha, aka "Hero," a three-year old Korean who speaks no English, has become an Internet sensation by singing Beatles songs.  His rendition of "Hey Jude," sung in his diapers while clutching an acoustic guitar, is the number one viral video hit on on MySpace, Beet.TV has learned.  The clip has garnered 5.7 million […]