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AOL Places Huge Bet On Web Video Programming & Curation

America Online is getting deeper into the online video act with the AOL On Network, a destination that will bring 320,000 videos and will feature 14 content channels. Along with the announcement comes the news that AOL will also be behind 7 new original series, ...

Video is Now Working: Publishers & Advertisers Get it, and Taboola is Proof

The video industry is growing fast. According to eMarketer video advertising on its own is considered to have the fastest growth trajectory versus all other online ad formats and is expected to surpass rich media display in terms of total ad spending. As David Hallerman, eMarketer principal analyst put it, "...the growing ...

AOL Editors Room Gives Editors New Online Video Resources

Content is hard to come by, or rather it was. Several initiatives in the latter half of this year are creating curated, syndicated premium video content feeds that can give publishers added video content as well as new monetization options, and AOL has just announced ...

Wide Range of New Original AOL Web Series Coming Soon

Wow, remember when AOL Video was just a tiny little project that had almost no content, no real driving force apparently and not all that many viewers? Well, maybe they had some viewers, but I wouldn't have considered them the place to go online to ...

Despite Summer`s Arrival, 178 Million Watch an Average 16.8 Hours of Online Video in June

Hi everyone, hope your summer is going well. I know, it's a non-standard way to start an article talking about statistics, but I wanted to get off on the right foot. Also in that vein, I wanted to give you some information that I've received ...

BrightCove, 5Min Media Team for Online Video Syndication

Brightcove and 5min Media (part of AOL) have strengthened their relationship to give Brightcove users access to the entire 5min video library. If you have a Pro of Enterprise account at Brightcove, you can now publish 5Min content through your dashboard and participate in upcoming ...

AOL Gets Serious About The Power of Online Video Content

I just saw this press release (even though I was done working for the day mostly) about AOL and the creation of AOL Video. I thought, well, that's timely (in that I saw it, not that they've waited so long to get it done).  You ...

The History of Online Video In A Nutshell or Rather, An Image

So, Mark passed along this really cool "History of Online Video" image made by the Visual Lounge at TechSmith and The Blog Herald put together this pretty cool (and really large) image that traverses the previous five years of online video history. Since the image ...

Kantar Videolytics - Track, Syndicate, Optimize - An In-depth Review

Kantar Videolytics recently trotted out a long list of premier partners which included some of the major players in online video (Brightcove, Brightroll, Adap.tv, LiveRail, Tremor, ScanScout, you get the picture) for their new Videolytics (video analytics) offering. So what better reason to get on ...

AOL Continues Video Expansion with 5Min Purchase?

Rumors today state that AOL will buy 5min.com (which I recently used for a weekender). This after they just penned a deal with Google for search and more intense video cooperation. Oh and they brought out Cambio earlier in the year.

5 Crazy Things You Can Learn From 5min of Online Video

It's the weekend and so we here at ReelSEO want to wind down and take it easy. Something came across our desk late Friday that talked about 5min.com and Answers.com teaming up. The deal is that 1,000 questions on Answers.com have been done up as ...

Over 1 Billion Videos A Day In December (2009) Says ComScore

According to the comScore Video Metrix report, there were over 33 Billion videos streamed in December 2009. That's more than a Bilion a day. Who came out on the top for the month?

The 2009 Media Minute Award of Excellence Goes To...

At this time last year in the New Media Minute, Daisy Whitney picked five new media companies to watch in 2009: Kaltura, My Damn Channel, Quantcast, 5min and Boxee. They all had good years and made news, but only one can be the winner of the first ever New Media ...

What's Next for Media In 2010 - Media Minute

What's the next big thing in new media? To answer that question, Daisy Whitney of the New Media Minute turned to Bill Tancer, author of of Click and the research guru at online audience measurement firm Hitwise.

Personalized Video Discovery and Monetization - An Overview of Taboola

Taboola.com is one of an ever-growing list of video aggregation services. So why should you be reading about it? Well they do a little more than some of the others. Not only are they organizing the videos for the users to find more easily, they're ...