TurnHere and Beet.TV partner to bring new media news from around the world

TurnHere and Beet.TV have partnered up to bring more new media news from around the world to Beet.TV viewers via spot-news segments shot by the TurnHere filmmaker network.  Beet.TV is a leading new media news blog and will use this new partnership to double the number of video segments produced each month.  TurnHere's global network will allow Beet.TV to shoot in far-flung places such as Toyko, Tel Aviv and London as well as cover more industry events across the country.

Here's TurnHere's CEO Brad Inman talking with Beet.TV founder Andy Plesser about the deal.

TurnHere is excited about this opportunity to work with Beet.TV to extend Beet.TV's innovative coverage of the movers and shakers in the new media space.

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Under terms of the agreement, TurnHere will create original video news content for Beet.TV on location in the United States, Europe and Asia. TurnHere will provide on-the-ground video production support to Beet.TV, enabling it to gather interviews and report news stories with digital influencers around the world. TurnHere’s distributed filmmaker network streamlines the production and distribution of news content around the world and decreases the costs typically associated with traditional broadcast film crews by spearheading a new form of online news reporting and content delivery.

The collaboration will double the video content on Beet.TV to approximately 60 segments per month. Beet.TV, a leading video blog and producer of technology and media news video, will tap into TurnHere’s global network of more than 3,500 independent filmmakers to shoot the original video news segments.

“Our relationship with TurnHere adds great value to our operation as it allows us to quickly scale the scope and depth of our online video content,” said Andy Plesser, founder and CEO, Beet Media LLC. “TurnHere’s proven approach to online video production and distribution will provide considerable value to our offering and help us widen the amount of informative video that we can deliver to viewers.”