By Mark Sweney: A senior ITV (LSE: ITV) executive has said that the broadcaster had “no plans” to do output deals to put its programming on video-on-demand aggregation services such as Hulu, YouTube, SeeSaw and MSN Video Player. The ITV director of online and interactive, Ben McOwen Wilson, told a…

Khris Loux is the founder and CEO of Echo, a commenting platform. He tweets at @Khrisloux. With leadership from its founders and a significant infusion of cash from investors, Twitter has created an innovative no-charge service for users and industry-standard APIs for developers. But more recently, access to its data…

Web video ads and analytics provider VideoPlaza of Stockholm is taking a €3.5 million first proper funding round to solidify its European efforts. The outfit can place ads of various formats in online videos powered by 15 different video platforms, and then offers metrics to help advertisers plan and understand…

What direction is the book industry heading? Penguin Group subsidiary Dorling Kindersley Books prepared this video on the “end of publishing” for a sales conference and it was reportedly such a hit that the company decided to share it with all. Naive? Wise? Somewhere in between? (via Mashable and the…

Hang on - weren’t publishers falling over themselves in the rush for e-reader salvation? The Association of Online Publishers, in this video with its members, has found many execs are neither glowing nor certain about the e-reader opportunity in 2010…

Public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from indexing Times Online, the most serious of Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspapers. The news site, which is due to go behind a paywall this spring and which had already…

By Randeep Ramesh: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other websites that carry news they do not produce should be taxed and the money generated used to prop up local newspapers, says a report which warns control of the media is concentrated in too few hands. The Commission of Inquiry into the…

Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010’s The Truth About Subscriptions, who…

News Corp.. (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch celebrates his 79th birthday with a cameo on his own Fox Business Network. Among the topics ... the newspaper ad model not dead yet (if we were Gawker we’d have to follow that with “neither am I”); iPad will attract more…

Web newspaper views may be petering out, but the broadband boom of that last few years has left us with one big growth opportunity in particular - sticking ads against online videos. The Association of Online Publishers says its members, in a “straw poll” at a recent AOP event, are…

We said 2009 would be an annus horribilis for newspapers - and that’s exactly what happened. Total annual revenue at just five of the UK’s leading regional newspaper groups fell from £2.05 billion to £1.54 billion through 2009, according to our calculations now that the results are in. That’s £509.7…

Ashley Highfield is getting to reboot his online video ambitions after all, after concluding MSN UK’s catch-up TV pilot presents a rich enough commercial seam to tap full-time. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) acquired licenses for 300 hours of BBC Worldwide and All3Media shows for a trial service last summer, a year…

On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s Kings Place HQ. The forthcoming HTML5 standard’s Google-backed video feature now poses a potential challenge to Adobe’s dominant Flash video standard, and is a key piece…

News aggregator Daylife will begin reselling pictures posted by users of London-based citizen-photo journalism site Demotix to create an “open image wire service.” The arrangement is an expansion of Daylife’s existing image programs. Last fall, Daylife began partnering with Getty Images—which is also an investor in Daylife—on products that lets…

Newspapers have blamed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for their woes, and Google, in turn, has helped remind newspapers that they did a pretty good job of digging their own grave. The latest Googler to weigh in on the business is Chief Economist Hal Varian, in a speech to the FTC today.…

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…

On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s London HQ. In this video, I ask the Financial Times’ lead online product manager Stephen Pinches about the the paper’s video strategy, which gets over a…

Big media chasing money isn’t new. That they’re coming to the oil-rich desert nations of late, is. More specifically, at the call of Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC), the cash-rich media and investment company owned by the local government, they’re converged here for the next three days, at the man-made…

Last week, David Levin, the CEO of B2B publisher United Business Media (LSE: UBM), said that print now only represents “a very thin sliver” of its profit (just five percent), despite still publishing 109 paper magazines. Digital investments, meanwhile, are continuing to grow—even if this hasn’t yet translated into a…