Andy Plesser

No longer depending on video views on their big destination sites, as many as half of premium publishers, including Fox and MSNBC.com, have in place a syndication plan to get their videos seen around the Web, says Scot McLernon, Chief Revenue Officer of YuMe, a video advertising technology company.

Bloomberg Business Week reports that after lagging behind Amazon in online commerce, eBay is the leader in mobile commerce and is positioned for explosive growth.

MSNBC.com is readying the release of its first iPad App — it will feature one show on the cable network, said Mark Marvel, at yesterday's Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable.

In an important development in the way video views and associated in-video ads are tabulated, comScore will count videos and related ads separately, de-linking the two, beginning with the June numbers. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass (via Skype Video) — Brightcove, the big online video services company, has released a comprehensive solution for Android devices, for the mobile Web, and for native Apps.

PALO ALTO, California (via video Skype) — Demand for closed captions on Web videos is increasing as publishers seek audiences in new markets.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif — As more and more publishers seek broad distribution of their videos to other sites via an embed code, many advertisers raise concern over where that video and associated ad will play.

NextNewNetworks, the New York-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, is going to greatly expand its offerings by creating a platform for hundreds of independent video producers.

Last week's Digitas Content NewFront conference was streamed live simultaneously  to several streaming services and sites including Ustream, Justin.tv, Revision3, Ad Age, and Mediapost. 

SAN BRUNO, Calif  — Late yesterday, YouTube launched an ambitious new product to allow users to edited uploaded videos in a range of file formats.  

We caught up with Mark Beeching, Chief Creative Director of Digitas, at the company's Digital Content NewFront 2010 conference in Manhattan last week.  

Loic Le Meur, the French technology entrepreneur who launched Seesmic with the functionality to upload video clips as blog comments, says that his timing was not right. 

Ooyala, the Mountain View, California based online video platform services company, has introduced a new set of reporting and analytics tools including highly localized reporting.

Revision3, the San Francisco-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, has found that over 40 percent of its viewers watch shows on Web-connected televisions.

Stewart Alsop, veteran venture capitalist, ex-tech journalist, and Apple watcher, says that Apple is developing a smart search architecture and is embedding its newly acquired Siri technology into all its devices and content.

Eric Feng, founding CTO of Hulu, is leaving the big online video company to join the Kleiner Perkins Kaufield & Byers as a partner, the company announced on its blog earlier today. 

Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites.  There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network, up 233 percent from the normal demand at this time.

An online campaign for Kraft's Philadelphia Cream Cheese, starring celebrity chef Paula Deen, has enlisted some 5,000 women to contribute their own homemade videos about using cream cheese.

It was four years ago today that this blog had its first big scoop:  Robert Scoble, the ground-breaking video blogger and social media evangelist at Microsoft, would leave to join a Silicon Valley start-up.

Firefly Video, a sister company of Tribal Fusion, has been getting traction with an interactive video takeover product for marketers, including Hyundai.