Twitter has become a useful reporting tool as well as a big driver of traffic to paidContent, the influential digital media blog.

I spoke with editor and publisher Rafat Ali about how his company is using Twitter.  We caught up in his...

For several years, digital executives in Hollywood have been developing a format to allow consumers to purchase digital files of films and watch them on various devices. 

The industry has lined up in a group called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google recently introduced real-time search functionality to Google searches on PC's and also on the iPhone and Android devices.  

Earlier this month, our Daisy Whitney visited with Google's Dylan Casey for an explanation...

Just as Google Maps allows users to put images onto their sites, there will be an open API for Google's "Fast Flip," Google's Josh Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview.

Fast Flip, which is still in beta in Google Labs, is a...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Do a Google search for your favorite (embattled) celebrity or hot news story and the results will likely include Web sites, articles, recent blog posts and FriendFeed and Twitter updates.

The search giant recently...

Justin.tv, the big live Web video site, which says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.

This would mark...

Video teleconferencing, long an expensive technology hidden inside the enterprise firewall, is becoming a pervasive social media platform.

New York-based Paltalk, a provider a live conferencing platform, allows up to 10 participants to be live...

David Payne, former chief of CNN.com, has been working his start-up called ShortTail Media, which aims to help publishers increase revenue by integrating television advertising the online experience.

In beta since this summer, the company is...

Comcast's much anticipated launch of its its "TV Everywhere" service, which allows subscribers to Comcast to watch selected videos on their computers, has gone live in beta, today.

The company has just announced a number of television shows and films which have not been...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Creating quality, enduring online video news content doesn't need to be expensive, but it has to be done with skill and credibility.

It is the skilled video producers who will emerge in this new ecosystem of online...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Whether user generated  video from the new YouTube Direct will create valuable content for its launch partners including the Washington Post, NPR, Politico and the Huffington Post is too early to say.

But UGC can...

WASHINGTON, DC --  To succeed with monetizing online video, media companies need to better understand their audiences --  but they don't, said Caroline Little, former CEO of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive who is now CEO of the Guardian News & Media, North...

Saul Hansell, the veteran technology reporter and columnist for The York Times has left the paper to join AOL's new "Seed" unit, a mostly automated news site. 

The site been getting some mixed notices lately from some media...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Climbing back from  the 2008 election losses, Republican members of Congress are uploading videos to  YouTube in much greater numbers than Democrats.

Here's what YouTube's Olivia Ma told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington, D.C....

Reuters, long a powerhouse in providing content to the news to the online world, is making a push as a destination site with its redesign which went live last night.

Editor in chief David Schlesinger made the announcement. ...

Tom Brokaw, in one of his first comments on the just announced Comcast/NBC merger, says the prospective merger would be "a good thing."

His comment comes in at 2 minutes into this interview

In a deal just announced, Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, will buy a controlling stake in NBC.  The deal will take a a year to close and will surely be subject to strenuous regulatory review, notable from the FTC.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Olivia Ma, news manager at YouTube, will be one of the media luminaries to speak at today's Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable here in Washington, D.C.  See the list below.

Check out the Webcast from 4-6pm ET, right here on Beet.TV...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- With smart phone sales outpacing PC sales, mobile devices represent "the future of media" and video producers will soon begin to produce videos for the small screen first,

in a "total reversal" of platform-specific programming, says Kevin Lynch, Chief...

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month , we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster...