Andy Plesser

Digging deep into the online video strategy of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, video producer and strategist Max Harper, 27, explains that success cannot be measured in view count, but by targeted impact.

Hollywood, Calif. — Jordan Hoffner, who directs content partnership deals at YouTube, was the keynote speaker at the NAPTE LATV festival last week.

Brightcove, the big video services company has been making major inroads in Japan with several broadcasters, marketing partners and with investors.

Max Harper, a 27-year old community organizer and filmmaker was a key member of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama who created numerous campaign videos.

Howcast, the New York-based start-up that produces short instructional "how-to" videos, has moved away from an advertising based business to a video producer and syndicator business for a range of corporate and government clients.

Adobe seeks to unify the many flavors of video players with one universal framework, which it calls Strobe. 

A cheap camera, dogged determination, and a smart video blog strategy has created a national dialogue about election form in the United States.

One of the most anticipated developments in Web video will be the implementation of open source video into Wikipedia.

While the open video movement seeks an environment free of licensing fees for software, Adobe is supportive of the movement.

Now that Firefox 3.5 has been released, we will be seeing new sorts of programs for video including Ogg Theora, the open-source, non-Flash program for video.

NewsMarket, a New York based video services company which provides distribution for institutional and corporate video, has merged with the publicly-held MediaLink.

YouTube is broadly launching a program which allows video producers to insert their own promotional overlay ads into their clips.  They call it Call-to-Action overlays.

NEW YORK, NY — The White House has signed an agreement with TubeMogul, an Emeryville, California-based start-up to distribute and analyze web videos, said David Burch, a TubeMogul executive, in this video interview.

Firefox 3.5 has been released to the public.   What does it mean and specifically, what could it mean for open standards for Web video? 

HP's line of fashion-oriented notebooks, designed by Chinese-born, American-based fashion designer Vivienne Tam, are being marketed globally around the world, including China.

Msnbc.com, the first major U.S. news site to provide embeddable videos, is moving to monetize its embedded videos and has a new association with YuMe, the Redwood City, California-based video ad network.

Firefox 3.5, the next big release of the popular browser, will be released to the public on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Mozilla confirmed today.

BoingBoing, the popular and influential blog about culture and technology, has had video for sometime and now it's bigger than ever, literally.

TMZ, the Los Angeles-based Time Warner-owned entertainment gossip site, is getting quite a lot of attention for having first broke the news of Michael Jackson's tragic death earlier today.

News reports today indicate that Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 will be publicly available next week.  One of the most significant elements in the new release is the ability to play web video without a plug-in.