Earlier this year, Justin.tv, the San Francisco-based live video site, dialed back its relationship with Akamai to serve its enormous live video traffic in-house, Evan Solomon tells Beet.TV in this interview.
The company has 250 servers in four locations in the United States and a fifth planned for the U.K.
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Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.
Max told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington earlier this month that live video would comprise as much as half of the video watched in five years.
His comments came after Stokes Young, [...]
Interactive pre-roll ads are four times better in engaging consumers than standard pre-rolls do, video ad network ScanScout told Beet.TV, citing the success from a recent Vaseline campaign run across its network.
The Vaseline campaign generated more engagement than typical pre-roll ads because of the interactive features, said Bill Day, CEO [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Stung 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. last week. (At 2:00)
"It's been very stark to see how eager the'" [...]
Vizu, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a means to measure the value of online video advertising, has raised an addition round of $6.8 million in venture funding.
Here at Beet.TV, we believe that the true value of online video advertising is not properly measured by either video views [...]
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If you missed our live roundtable from Washington yesterday, you can watch when you want right here: Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable
Below is the live blogged by Daisy Whitney. AP
5:24: Bye Beet.TV [...]
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 or on our Livestream channel.
Olivia [...]
On Tuesday (12/1) in Washington, Beet.TV will gather an extraordinary group to talk about online video and its role in the evolving news environment.
The line-up for Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable includes political strategist Joe Trippi and Obama Campaign video producer Max Harper along with editors and executives from CBS [...]
