Andy Plesser

While pay–per-view has become pervasive for live sports, Amazon’s on-demand service and adult entertainment, subscriptions and micro-payments are emerging for online video publishers. 

A mash-up video of the Christine O’Donnell campaign a spot, in which the candidate denies being a witch, has reached some 250,000 views today (10/18) in its first day. It is among the top ten most watched on YouTube.  (See the clip below.)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass — Despite the growing demand for HTML5, and its deployment by many big online players, its commercial introduction is premature as there is no standard for the new technology, says Philippe Le Hegaret, leader of effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to establish standards for HTML and SVG.

The emergence of Web video is a "bigger deal than people realize" and it is a "reinvention of the spoken word" in profound ways, says Chris Anderson, "Curator" of the TED conferences and hugely successful Web series TED Talks.

Videoegg's recent acquisition of blog company Six Apart, forming a new company called SAY Media, means that content creators can now monetize content through a sophisticated ad network and brand advertisers can reach a global audience comprised of some 340 million uniques monthly impressions, says Matt Sanchez, CEO.

While there is consumer interest in high-end 3-D TV's, the costs for the TV's,  3-D Blu-ray players and glasses is slowing adoption, says Ross Rubin lead technology analyst at the NPD Group.

Chris Anderson, who leads TED, the New York-based, non-profit global conference/online video business, says that advertising is "broken" and he wants to help fix it by cultivating creativity on Madison Avenue.

NEW YORK — With last month's acquisition of online video syndictor 5MIN by AOL, sites publishing of 5MIN videos, including the giant video sharing site Dailymotion, could soon begin to publish content from  AOL owned and operated properties. 

With President Obama signature this afternoon, online video content creators will be among those required to provide closed captioning, as part of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessiblity Act.

PARIS — Digitas, the global interactive unit of media giant Publicis Groupe, has a dedicated agency for Nissan in Europe, called DNA/Digitas (Dedicated Nissan Agency).

In a profile of Mediagazer editor Megan McCarthy just out in the American Journalism Review, VentureBeat executive edtor and former boss Owen Thomas calls her "the cyborborg of news, the borg queen of the blogosphere."

NEW YORK — With last month's launch of the new Twitter Web page, selected beta users have been able to embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo. 

Today's news from Nielsen about the fast growth of Android to become the most popular mobile operating system in the U.S. owes much of its success to the support of Verizon Wireless, says Ross Rubin, lead technology analayst at the NPD Group.

Viewdle, the facial recognition company with its origins in the Soviet military, has closed a $10 million funding round  with the the BlackBerry VC fund and Qualcomm, David Kaplan at paidContent reports on the deal this morning.

Last month, VideoEgg, the online video ad network announced it was buying SixApart, the big blog platform company which operates Movable Type and TypePad.

While Google’s Android OS has been has been a huge hit for handsets, thanks in part to subsidization in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless, there will be no sort of carrier support for Google TV. 

PARIS — Dailymotion, the big global video sharing site, has been developing tools for content discovery including "hubs," areas of content around themes and personal interest.

NEW YORK — The "currency" of online advertisnig will shift from the current CPM model of cost per impression, to a "cost-per-view" model in which advertisers only pay for the ads which are watched, says Google's Barry Salzman, head of media and platforms for the Americas in this interview with Beet.TV

Vimeo, the video sharing site favored by independent content creators and an increasing number of consumers, is developing an iPhone App, according to a report on NewTeeVee.

In its rankings for video views in August for the U.S., comScore has found that the San Francisco-based video ad network Brightroll has served up nearly 470 million video ads, ranking second to Hulu for most ads served.