The animated GIF, those quirky, short moving images introduced way back in the day by CompuServe in 1987, are making a comeback, thanks in large part to the easy conversion from video to the GIF, format explains David Karp, founder and CEO of Tumblr, in this interview with Beet.TV

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Ustream, the widely popular live web streaming site, has been quietly moving into a full-service, video solutions provider for small customers and big enterprises and media companies, says David Gibbons, VP for Product Marketing, in this interview with Beet.TV.

Some customers for the Ustream video platform include Cisco, Dell and...

BOSTON - Taboola, the video recommendation platform, widely deployed on many publisher news sites, is now on mobile devices, on the apps of Time.com and several Hearst U.K. publications, says Adam Singolda, CEO, in this interview with Beet.TV

We spoke with him about the growth of Taboola and...

BOSTON - Akamai has expanded its analytics offering to include new functionality to track the individual viewer experience and consumption history, explains Noreen Hafez, senior product marketing manager, in this interview with Beet.TV.  We spoke with her at the Brightcove PLAY customer conference earlier this week.

She explains the value...

BOSTON - The Weather Company has launched the first Twitter video program for an advertiser, the Home Depot, says Mike Finnerty, VP, Web Products, in this interview with Beet.TV. The program with Twitter, which drives views of "how to videos," was announced last month at the Weather Company's...

Photobucket's mid-April site relaunch aims to provide users with a single hub for all their photos and videos -- in their original size, says David Toner, VP of marketing for Photobucket. Once photos are uploaded to the site, users can share, edit and post their photos to any website.

The...

BOSTON - Brightcove, the big video services company, announced today a full-blown, live streaming platform. The company allows the live file to be uploaded to the cloud and and then encoded into as many as 20 live renditions, says founder and executive chairman Jeremy Allaire in this interview...

The New York Times, long a pioneer in producing feature video for the Web, is readying a significant expansion of its video news programming, says Times veteran editor Rick Berke, who has the new title of senior editor and director of video content development.

In this interview with...

LONDON - Programmatic online advertising technology isn't yet good enough, and will never match human salespeople for brand ad sales. That's according to BBC Worldwide's strategy and operations VP for global advertising sales, Tom Bowman.

"There are some websites that have gotten rid of their salespeople," Bowman told me during...

AOL is registering rapid growth in video views, now ranked second to YouTube in monthly views according to comScore, thanks in large part to the editorial "DNA" of putting videos in nearly all stories, says Ran Harnevo, SVP for Video at AOL, in this interview with Beet.TV recorded at the...

With the involvement of highly creative television producers, talent and the enthusiasm of marketers, this year's Digital Content NewFronts marks the "birth of a new, popular medium," says Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the IAB, the global industry trade organization for the digital publishing industry, in this interview with...

The Huffington Post, which has expanded to a number of countries including Canada, Italy, the U.K., France and most recently to Germany, will launch in Japan next week, says Roy Sekoff , founding editor of the Huffington Post and president of HuffPost Live, in this interview with Beet.TV

LONDON - SoundCloud, the Berlin-based sound sharing site, sees 10 hours of audio uploaded by users every minute, says Eric Wahlforss, Founder and CTO. "It's very much like YouTube or Instagram," says Wahlforss. "On Instagram you share a photo, on YouTube you share video, on SoundCloud you share audio."

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Says Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, the biggest news at the company's NewFront event is the integration of AOL's inventory with the big, universal video ad buying platform called Mediaocean with video ad serving firm FreeWheel. We spoke with him at the end of the presentation.

More on the AOL/Mediaocean/FreeWheel...

LONDON - WPP is eying investments and acquisitions around technology platforms which power media buying, says CEO Sir Martin Sorrell in this interview with Beet.TV. He says we are now "maths men not Mad Men," a reference to the popular television show about advertising. In this extended conversation taped at...

LONDON - The Financial Times is using video to increase its profile, says Josh de la Mare, global editor for Financial Times Video. Beet.TV spoke with him in this video interview at the Financial Times headquarters.

FT Video is beginning to use journalists who have typically focused on writing,...

LONDON - We delighted to be in town to cover the FT Digital Media Conference this week.

Media luminaries to speak include Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner; WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell; Thomas Rabe, CEO of Bertelsmann and several top media industry innovators.

For an overview on the conference, we...

Events like the upcoming NewFronts will play an important part in driving digital video from a $4.1 billion business to an $9 billion business over the next three years, says Jordan Bitterman, Senior VP at Digitas in an interview with Beet.TV, citing recent benchmark figures from eMarketer. On the eve...

The much anticipated convergence of television and digital video ad buying agencies is becoming the norm in the U.K. where media agencies have consolidated video and television buying operations -- and where as much as 30 percent of television advertising is now being bought for digital devices.  These are some of...

With a global television network operation in place, Bloomberg News is using video clips from its shows as well as Web-only videos to produce some 200 clips per day, signaling a new "digital first" approach, says Chris Berend, executive producer and head of digital video at Bloomberg, in a video...