Andy Plesser

BrightRoll, the big San Francisco-based video ad network, has launched an online ad exchange for video. 

Brightcove, the big online video platform has switched to Akamai as its primary content delivery network, both companies have announced.

EPIX, the premium cable and online video distribution company, has inked a deal with Netflix to bring feature films to the Web far sooner, as soon as three months from theatrical release.  

While marketers are trying to figure out whether or not original "branded" Web video provide a return on investment, some marketers including Kraft are seeing significant results, Ad Age reports today.

MyDamnChannel.com, the online video entertainment producer, has received a $4.4 million B round of venture funding, the company announced today.

The landscape for mobile Apps for the iPhone and Android has changed so rapidly that some of the biggest publishers, including msnbc.com, are outsourcing the creation of their Apps to a Seattle-based company called Zumobi.

BrightRoll, one of the big online video networks, has created an online video exchange for advertisers and publishers to buy and sell online video inventory.

Palo Alto-based Gigya, which started out as widget company, has become a "social optimization" solution for media companies seeking to connect their content into several social networks.

Dailymotion, the big Paris-based video sharing and entertainment site, has seen traffic in North America grow to 13 million monthly unique users from just 8 million last year.

New York-based online video platform company Twistage has been gaining traction in addressing the needs of companies' internal "enterprise" needs for online video management.

Limelight, the big content delivery network, has purchased Delve Networks, the Seattle-based online video platform company. 

With release of the film Dinner for Schmucks, Paramount Pictures engaged MyDamnChannel.com to create a promotional channel for the the movie.  It launched earlier this week.

Ran Harnevo, CEO of the big online video syndicator 5MIN, says that without a syndication strategy, there is no direct ROI around video for content producers.

BBE, one of the earliest video ad networks, is the designated video ad network working with the Publicis Vivaki unit on an industry standardization program called the Pool

New York-based Kantar Video, a unit of the London-based media behemoth WPP, will launch a comprehensive video analytics and syndication service in September.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund is about to close a $100 million investment fund for China and plans to raise $150-250 million new fund for other markets by the end of this year, said John Albright, co-managing director of the Toronto-based VC firm, in this video interview.

Elemental Technologies, the Portland, Oregon-based company that quickly transcodes videos for the Web, has received a $7.5 million round of funding from Disney's Steamboat Ventures and other earlier investors.

LONDON — The Guardian newspaper has been in the forefront of managing, interpreting and publishing government data as a new form of content — and business.

Rob Glaser, chairman and founder of RealNetworks, now a partner with Accel Parters, says the quality and the form factor of the iPhone 4 could be suited better for video than text.

Viewdle, the visual recognition software company with origins in the Soviet military, has received a venture round from the RIM's BlackBerry Fund, says John Albright, co-managing partner in this exclusive interview with Beet.TV.