Andy Plesser: VIDEO: With Deep Pockets, SB Nation is "Building a Great Media Company"
With a fast-growing digital spports news business and investment backing from Accel Partners, Comcast, and Allen & Company, SB Nation is aiming to be a "great media company" in various content verticals, CEO Jim Bankoff tells Beet.TV in this interview.
Andy Plesser: Turmoil in the Middle East and the Ascension of YouTube News, Olivia Ma has the Backstory
With dramatic footage published today from violent demonstrations in Syria, YouTube is again displaying its role in giving the world a view of breaking news which is largely unseen by the cameras of mainstream news organizations.
Andy Plesser: ABC News Reports "Limitless Demand" for Video News — But the Challenge Is How to Scale Content
Video news is being consumed by more people than ever before. The challenge, says Paul Slavin, is to create more video that is inexpensive, economical and high quality.
Andy Plesser: Newsy, Mobile Video News Innovator, Has $1.5 Million in New Funding
Newsy, the Columbia, Missouri-based video news start-up, has raised $1.5 million in new funding to allow it to expand with original programming and to...
Andy Plesser: Ogilvy Mather Chairman Sees Uptick in Ad Spending
Marketers are ready to spend money in 2011, buoyed by the economic turnaround that's finally reaching the advertising business, said Shelly Lazarus in an...
Andy Plesser: Happy Birthday Mediagazer: Congrats to Megan McCarthy, the New Doyenne of the Media Scene
On a freezing Manhattan night in February, virtually all of the media industry's top reporters, blogger and editors showed up for drinks with a newly...
Andy Plesser: Arianna Huffington: We Won’t "Mess with" TechCrunch or Engagdet: Tim Armstrong Has Big Plans for Video
As the Huffington Post merges with AOL, the company will leave its successful brands to operate as independent entities. Arianna Huffington, who will be...
Andy Plesser: The Contextualization of Video in Story Pages Drives Consumption at the New York Times and for MSNBC.com
More and more publishers are moving videos from a video section "gallery" into article pages, and this move is bringing increased viewership, says Stokes...
Andy Plesser: The "Wow Effect" of Apps for Video News Producers: They Can "Reinterpret and Reinvigorate Brands," CNN’s Mike Toppo
The power of Apps for video news producers is profound, allowing them to "reinvent" themselves to consumers says CNN.com's Mike Toppo, Senior Director for...
Andy Plesser: The "Wow Effect" of Apps for Video News Producers: They Can "Reinterpret and Reinvigorate Brands," CNN’s Mike Toppo
The power of Apps for video news producers is profound, allowing them to "reinvent" themselves to consumers says CNN.com's Mike Toppo, Senior Director for...
Andy Plesser: Journal Register’s Localized Video News Strategy is Driving Profitability, CEO John Paton
After considerable anticipation and disappointment around the value of video for newspapers, one big publisher has found profitability by utilizing low cost cameras, a decentralized...
Andy Plesser: #NotToBeMissed: Arianna Huffington, Keith Olbermann @paidContent NYC March 3
paidContent is putting on an extraordinary, one-day digital media conference on March 3 in New York at The New York Times Center. We will be...
