Posts Tagged ‘Andy Plesser’

Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser caught up with MSNBC Digital Network president Charles Tillinghast at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Tillinghast touted HTML5 video as the most widely utilized platform.

Mac William Bishop, video producer for The New York Times‘ DealBook, spoke with Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser about the financial section’s video expansion plans and his approach to financial video news reporting.

Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi spoke with Beet.tv founder and executive producer Andy Plesser about its integration with the Zagat iPhone app. Foodspotting’s iPhone app has 100,000 registered users who have uploaded 250,000 dish reviews, and a beta version of its Android app launched a few days earlier.

Jeffrey Cain, managing editor of The New York Times‘ Dealbook, told Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser the financial section will be expanded, adding more data, video, and reporters.

Dealbook creator and editor Andrew Ross Sorkin spoke with Donya Blaze about launching and growing Dealbook in a Media Beat interview earlier this month.

MTV Networks is eyeing the return of the mobisode, as executive vice president for digital Dermot McCormack spoke with Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser and said the programmer would will repurpose existing video and create new content in 2011 aimed at mobile devices, due to the explosion of smart phones and tablets, as well as improved connectivity. The video of the interview follows after the jump: Read more

Blip.tv co-founder and chief technology officer Justin Day told Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser the online-video site will adopt HTML5 as its standard player for the Web and other platforms, replacing Adobe’s Flash.

Day told Beet.TV HTML5 runs within the browser without a plug-in, and “faster.” Beet.TV uses Blip.tv as its principal video player. Read more

Video site Big Think launched in early 2008 and now serves about 5 million video views per month and, according to co-founder and CEO Victoria Brown, has reached profitability. The site began with seed capital from investors including Lawrence Summers (currently President Barack Obama‘s director of the National Economic Council) and Peter Thiel, as a “YouTube for ideas,” in the words of co-founder Peter Hopkins, and it is now branching into education (launching a paid offering for colleges and universities) and research (providing reports to hedge funds).

Brown spoke with Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser:

SB Nation reached a milestone in November: 100 million page views. Jim Bankoff, CEO of the network of nearly 300 professional sports blogs, spoke with Beet.TV founder and executive producer Andy Plesser about SB Nation’s recent series-C venture round and expansion plans:

Reuters will ramp up its efforts in the United States, as Thomson Reuters president of media Chris Ahearn told Beet.TV founder and CEO Andy Plesser news providers are not “satisfying the needs” of the country’s publishers and broadcasters.

Ahearn also said during the interview at Monaco Media Forum that facts and solid reporting are not commodities and will increase in value for his company and its customers, adding that India and China represent two more growth markets for Thomson Reuters.

Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser caught up with the winner of a journalism award whose work has had more than two million views on YouTube. The Project Report competition, co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center, featured “non-professional” video journalists reporting on under-reported communities. In addition to the views on YouTube, Arturo Perez takes home a $10,000 grand prize which will fund a new documentary.

Video here…