Andy Plesser

Here is our chat with Raj Amin, CEO of HeathiNation, the producer and distributor of consumer health videos.  He talks about syndication strategies for his company and opportunities for other publishers. Andy Plesser  

Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based online video platform is expanding into Australia and hiring senior executives in the region, the company announced earlier this week.

Vimeo, the video sharing unit of IAC has over four million registered users and has 30 million monthly unique visitors, nearly doubling those numbers over the past six months.

Justin.tv, the big consumer site for live streaming, has just launched an Android app for creating live streaming.  According to Evan Solomon,  VP of marketing, it is superior to current offerings from competitors Qik and Ustream.

Earlier this month, Vimeo, the IAC-owned video sharing site, announced an integration with Roku.  More than just featuring videos and providing search, the implementation is highly personalized, very Web like.

Taboola, the video recommendation engine which is used by publishers to provide "related" or "recommended" videos at the end of clips, has introduced a system for publishers to offer up recommended video thumbnails at around text articles.

As publishers consider creating mobile video Apps vs maximizing their mobile Web for video, Apps provide a valuable, persistent connection with the most loyal and valued fans.

Vimeo, the fast-growing IAC unit,  is throwing a two-day online video festival and awards program to celebrate the community of video creators.

Vizu, the San Francisco-based advertising analytics company, has created a system to track the "brand lift" of online video ads.

Cisco, ramping up its efforts around online video management services, has purchased Boston-based ExtendMedia for an undisclosed sum, Cisco announded today.

Cisco's Eos, a hosted digital publishing solution, is now powering 67 web sites and delivering a total of 11 million monthly page views to customers, a Cisco spokesperson has told us.

Los Angeles-based Machinima, the fast-growing video gaming video site, uses YouTube as its primary publishing platform and gets nearly 130 million monthly video views.

Earlier this year at the Streaming Media East Conference, I was interviewed by videoblogger/online video evangelist Larry Kless.

While much of buzz about video streaming has been about Netflix, Amazon has around four times as many videos available — and provides TV shows the next day and movies the day a DVD is shipped.

San Francisco-based web video syndicator AlphaBird is handling syndication services for Warner Studio 2.0 Web originals, the company announced today. 

Brigthcove, the big online video platform company, announced that its customer base has doubled this year, is expanding rapidly and hiring key executives.

While camera phones and mobile devices have been used by news reporters to shoot and send video for some time,  the BlackBerry has been mostly a communications tool.  With a more sophisticated video camera on later models, this could change.

Vimeo, the online video site, a unit of IAC, will now provide video distribution to the television set via Roku, the companies announced today.

Tremor Media, the New York-based video ad network, had 450 million video ad views in July, according to the comScore report.

Magnetic, the New York-based search retargeting firm, has linked with the giant online video ad network BrightRoll for a video ad retargeting program, the companies have announced.