comScore
The number of people watching Facebook videos has fallen sharply in the last couple months, according to the latest comScore estimates.

Google, thanks to YouTube, remains far ahead in the No. 1 slot with 150 million viewers in … Read more

All Things D
The video news startup code-named Planet Daily unveiled its real name -- NowThis News -- and announced a strategic partnership with BuzzFeed today.

The so-called "CNN Killer" (does CNN even need a killer at this point?) also announced its executive team:

• General Manager Eason Jordan, former CNN chief news executive
• Editor-in-Chief Ed O’Keefe, former ABC News digital executive producer
• Managing Editor Katharine Zaleski, former Washington Post executive director of digital news

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WSJ.com | WSJ news release
Since news organizations are paying all that money for journalists to carry around iPhones, why not put them to better use?

The WorldStream page updates live as new clips come in every few minutes.

The Wall Street Journal is launching a new streaming-video product that does just that. The Journal today announced WorldStream, which will "consist solely of footage captured on smartphones by Dow Jones and Journal reporters and editors ... Each video is under a minute, and all footage is reviewed by an editor before being posted to the stream." (more...)

The New York Times and BuzzFeed announced today that they’ll be collaborating on video coverage of the 2012 conventions.

Jim Roberts, assistant managing editor of the Times, thought of the idea shortly after talking with BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith at a Times social media panel. Throughout the past several months, Roberts has started following BuzzFeed reporters on Twitter and has admired what they've done from afar.

"I think they have really good ears, and that they know where the social conversation is going," Roberts said in a phone interview. "I also think they’re good at understanding what the audience is interested in. I hope that they can help inform what we do."

The videos will include segments with Smith, as well as other BuzzFeed staffers covering politics. BuzzFeed and the Times will also collaborate on segments for TimesCast Politics, a twice-weekly live show that launched last month.

Collaborating with a legacy news organization lends fresh legitimacy to BuzzFeed, a site that has been gaining attention for hiring Web-savvy journalists and publishing more serious news coverage than it once did.

Smith said he's “thrilled and honored” to collaborate with an organization that “values online reporting.” Smith left Politico to join BuzzFeed in January of this year. At the time, he said, "I’ll be trying to help build the first true social news organization." (more...)

The Wall Street Journal
"Unfriended: The Facebook IPO Debacle" a nearly 10-minute-long video directed by indie filmmaker Naftali Beane Rutter, "marks the beginning of an effort to produce longer, more in-depth videos" at The Wall Street Journal, writes Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray in a memo to staff. The video, set to frenetic, brassy music (some of which was also composed by Naftali Beane Rutter), tells the story of Facebook's star-crossed initial public offering through interviews with WSJ staffers like Francesco Guerrera and Chris Ling, a retail investor whose account was zeroed out after his order for Facebook stock got botched.

The Journal is expanding its video offerings, Murray writes, including a weekly political show, and its WSJ Live service is coming to Xbox. Last September, analyst Ken Doctor wrote about WSJ Live, a high-CPM, "internal aggregation," free product. "If you run a broadcast company, WSJ Live should send a chill down your spine," Doctor wrote. "How did these print guys do moving pictures better than us?"

The New York Times, another newspaper serving New York City, recently placed its videos on Hulu, a potential second home for its long-form videos. And the Huffington Post is planning a live-streaming television network, HuffPost Live, which will reportedly launch in July. Murray's memo and the Facebook video appear after the jump. (more...)

Read it Later
Apps like Read it Later have made it easier for people to save not just longform articles, but longform videos. New data released this morning show that video saves on Read it Later increased by more than 138 percent from January 2011 to January 2012.

The median length of Read It Later’s top 1,000 saved videos was nearly 30 minutes. Of the top 1,000 videos, 32 percent were more than five minutes long. (more...)