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ANAHEIM, CA  – In January online video startup Chill, previously a platform for watching videos together with friends, relaunched as a social video discovery platform, allowing users to collect and share their favorite videos from across the web.  This week, five months after relaunching, the company announced an $8 million funding round.

BOSTON — Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video recommendation platform for publishers has raised a new round of $10 million, the company announced this morning.

Discovery Communications has officially accquired web TV network, Revision 3. The online video service may soon dictate part of the channel’s analogue content, depending on show and audiences says its digital chief officer, J.B. Perret, in this interview with Beet.TV

PARIS — UbiQ, a new digital media and entertainment conference will debut in Paris this  coming week with several highlevel speakers including Randi Zuckerberg, Machinima’s Allen DeBevoise, Ooyala co-founder Sean Knapp and some 60 others who will be part of the conference at the historic Palais Brongnairt.

Social media guru, Neal Mann says, using new technology alongside Twitter is an excellent way of verifying tip-offs from followers, in this video interview with Beet.TV

Verizon FiOS is increasing download speeds to as fast as 300 Mbps to residential customers, the company announced today.

Original video programming service WatchMojo.com racked up 40 million video views last month and reached about 15 million to 20 million unique viewers, said Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, CEO WatchMojo, in an interview with Beet.TV. We caught up with Karbasfrooshan for an update on the company's deal-making and expansion.

Jim Breyer, the uber venture capital partner with Accel Partners, will be one of the three keynote speakers at the three-day Brightcove PLAY customer conference in Boston on June 25-27.   Also keynoting will be Brightcove CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire, and veteran tech journalist Erick Schonfeld, the company announced today.

Howcast, the four-year-old 'how-to' video producer and distributor, has redesigned its site. organized around topics, with related video served up on its pages.

TEL AVIV – Israel-based video start-up Magisto is simplifying video editing with a platform that analyzes and edits video automatically. In this video interview, Magisto CEO Oren Boiman discusses the difficulties of video editing and why today more than ever there is a need for an easier solution.

LONDON (via Skype Video) — The Associated Press, a leading provider of video news for broadcast and online media, has upgraded its news gathering and distribution and will be offering broadcast and online clients news video in HD beginning May 30, says the AP’s Mark Davies, Deputy Director of International Video in the AP’s London […]

Presented by Topics to be explored will include the changing shape of video journalism; the opportunities and challenges in reaching new audiences through search and discovery; the promise of live news via the Internet; new technologies for distribution and effective monetization strategies. The program will be comprised of a series of one-on-one conversations as well […]

PRESENTED BY     Please join a small group of leading digital news executives for a discussion about online video news distribution, monetization and discovery.  The MSNBC.com Digital Cafe, Monday, June 4, 30 Rockefeller Plaza (upstairs from NBC Store, S.E. corner of buildling) 5:00-7:00 p.m.  Guests welcomed at 5:00. with session from 5:30 to 6:30, […]

Although a vast majority of professionally produced video is watch on a PC or Mac, the Xbox has emerged as the second most widely used viewing platform, besting the iPad, iPhone and Android devices, according to video advertising technology firm FreeWheel in an industry report.

TEL AVIV — One of the biggest issues that brands and businesses face when using online video to market their products is converting viewers into action takers.  Viewbix aims to solve this problem with an interactive video solution that enables creators to add interactive apps to any video to increase engagement and encourage action.

Machinima, the highly popular YouTube channel about video games and gamers, will soon raise a funding round of about $30 million and Google will be an investor, reports Peter Kafka in All Things D.

Taboola, the New York/Tel Aviv-based video discovery company, which has many top U.S. publishers as customers, has announced a significant expansion in Germany with the the newspaper network OMS.

The New York Times has launched a branding program using online video as the medium for the first time.   The campaign launched this week on several sites including Salon, Gothamist, Bloomberg and Comedy Central.

AOL Video/HuffPost Media, has become a major player in video news, passing both CBS News and Fox News in video views, according to February comScore numbers. 

Presented by:   London, June 15 8:30 – 13:00 GMT Hosted by the BBC Worldwide The fast-evolving state of digital video will be explored in a half-day conference at the headquarters of the BBC Worldwide. Topics will include the proliferation of digital devices and the emerging monetization opportunities for broadcasters and publishers. Keynote speakers include: […]