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Jan
26

FORA.tv in Conversation with Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser [Video]

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Yesterday FORA.tv’s CEO, Blaise Zerega, spoke with Andy Plesser (Founder, Beet.TV) to discuss new membership offerings, distribution partnerships, and plans for expanding FORA.tv’s position as the leading destination for intelligent video programs.

Watch the video interview below, or visit Beet.TV

Passing over 3.5 million video streams per month, FORA.tv has been working hard to provide more engaging video content to a fast-growing audience. Recent syndication and distribution deals with partners like TiVo, Blip.tv, Hulu, Boxee, Dailymotion, and 5min, have helped users around world access high profile events like The New Yorker Festival, WIRED Conference, and the entire Fall season of LIVE from the New York Public Library.

“We’ve recently introduced two paid offerings,” says Zerega. The first is called Premium Events, a “pay-per-view access to the lives stream and/or on-demand viewing of a conference or a live public event.” While a top-level event can cost thousands of dollars to attend, FORA.tv offers the online viewing experience at a much lower price. The second offering is a membership model called FORA.tv Plus(+). If you join FORA.tv as a member you get “all carrot, and no stick” with no advertisements, high quality viewing, downloads of the video program, and discounts to select premium events.

Zerega briefly mentioned plans to unveil a new platform called “Partner Generated Content (PGC)” that will make it easier for “great universities, conferences, and untapped sources of smart video” to get visibility on FORA.tv. The idea is to automate the process for hundreds of valuable sources to distribute their content on FORA.tv’s network.

Much of FORA.tv’s success it attributed to efforts to engage in consistent dialog with our users on social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. We appreciate your support and feedback, so please let us know how we can further improve your video viewing experience!

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  • Rick Marcus

    I love many programs of Fora.TV, but there are many times when the speaker is pointing at something on a drawing, or computer screen, but I don’t get to see it. I had to stop watching “Visions of Vision: Art, Math and the Brain”, because because it was extremely frustrating to try to figure out what was being pointed at. I would have loved to see this lecture. I would much rather never see the lecturer than not see the output of the lecturers computer. Is there any way to see these lectures along with the output of the lecturers computer screen?

    It is ironic that this lecture is about how we see and we are prevented from seeing important visual information.

    Thanks very much for producing FORA.TV. I really appreciate it!!

    Rick Marcus