Screens Are Everywhere, Boosting Demand for Quality Content: VideoElephants Daniel Harrison Beet.TV

AMENIA, N.Y. – Video screens are found almost everywhere from people’s households to car dashboards to billboards to bus stops to airline seats to gas pumps to ride-share vehicles to waiting rooms. This proliferation is driving a need for fresh content, especially programming that’s supported by advertising.

“We are in the age of massive consumption of video. There is more content being created, more consumption by more audiences than ever in more media channels and in more environments,” Daniel Harrison, general manager of monetization at premium-video provider VideoElephant, said in this interview at the Beet Retreat Berkshires with Beet.TV contributor Rob Williams.

Unlike other forms of content such as text or still photos, video typically is more expensive to produce. VideoElephant seeks to help video distributors to manage their costs by providing them with content, and even selling advertising for them.

“This is what VideoElephant is primarily focused on, which is solving for …