Biographical Information
Andy Plesser
Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV
Andy began his love affair with filmmaking in high school when he directed films about teenage life. After studying filmmaking in college, he became an Associate Producer at CBS TV. Following his work in television, he entered the public relations business, working for several firms before forming his own in 1992.
His firm, Plesser Holland Associates, has a variety of clients, including CBS Interactive, CNET.com, and various universities.
Although Andy remains a principal of the PR firm, Beet.TV operates separately with its own staff and resources. Beet.TV is not a platform to publicize the public relations firm’s clients, but client interviews may be featured and fully disclosed in the post when the subject matter is editorially relevant.
Andy was named a Streaming Media All-Star in 2010.
Articles for Andy Plesser
Vimeo Launches Spanish Language Version; Others to Follow
01 Oct 2012
Video-hosting site Vimeo has launched a Spanish translation. More translations will follow, says the company's CEO in this video report.
Orange Has Global Plans for IPTV Expansion with Dailymotion
11 Nov 2011
France's Orange will use Dailymotion to create video markets in areas where it's not a service provider.
Dailymotion Now Streaming Live News from Al Jazeera, BBC, and Bloomberg
31 Jan 2011
Dailymotion has integrated with news portal Livestation to deliver live streams from Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the BBC, France 24, the United Nations, and NASA.
Video: Cisco Expects 12 Billion Connected Devices by 2014
08 Jan 2011
At CES, Cisco's director of video solutions talks about the company's new Videoscape offering and its aim to deliver video to as many connected TVs and devices as possible
W3C's Le Hagaret Says Developers Are Finding Better Performance with WebM
06 Dec 2010
The head of the W3C's video standards group cites community "sentiment" finding that WebM outperforms Ogg in terms of "bandwidth and quality"
BBC Worldwide Developing Richer Content Verticals
01 Dec 2010
By focusing on specific content verticals like travel, BBC Worldwide is looking to continue to grow its footprint outside the UK
Akamai: Video Apps Offer Advantages Over Traditional Streaming
22 Nov 2010
Video apps offer bandwidth and security benefits, says Akamai president David Kenny, but don't mean the death of streaming
Google TV in Action
19 Nov 2010
Product manager Salahudding Choudhary offers up a demo of how Google TV facilitates searching of broadcast and web programming