Real Networks has put together a quick history of digital file formats for video. While they glaze over the pre-digital era (which would have probably been really interesting) they did dive deep starting in 1984 with the first digital video standard

Sorenson makes some pretty great software and video services and have a large user base. So they decided to ping the user base and see what kind of trends are ongoing in terms of video file formats and usage within that user base

It’s a dark day indeed for online video, H.264 has seemingly won the war without any real battles being fought. Google has yet to remove H.264 from Chrome and now someone high up at Firefox has pretty much stated that they’re throwing in the towel as well. Honestly, it makes sense.

Captions were introduced by YouTube in 2006, and according to a blog post today there are 1.6 million videos that have uploaded caption files. That’s… pretty pathetic, considering the huge boost for video SEO that captions can bring ( I’ve ranted about the under-use of captions before ). Considering the vast number of videos on the site, 1.6 million is barely a blip on the radar

Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State of HTML5 Video .

What do you get when you combine a $500,000 online video buy with a $2.6 million TV campaign? A 14% percent boost in reach, an 18% jump in frequency and an 11% reduction in the cost of the impressions. Or so says YuMe, the online video network that partnered with Nielsen to study effectiveness of a cross-platform campaign

The Jun Group put out a fantastic infographic today and it's all about one of our favorite subjects: social video.

The Plex Media server and client are available for all manner of devices including Mac, iOS, Windows, Android and now, Google TV. That means you can pretty much set up one media server and then access it on just about any device you might have and want to get that content on. Plex Available On Google TV From the blog post over at Plex: As you all know, unless you’ve been living under a tech rock, Google is pushing out Google TV 2.0 with support for Google Marketplace, and Plex is one of the 50 companies launching an app with the release.

Wow, talk about an abundance of video ads. First, Google announced that it's TrueView, a family of formats that give viewers choice and control over which advertisers’ messages they want to see and when, is now pushing 18 years of video ads per day . On top of that impressive number, YouTube has also announced that 50% of all in-stream YouTube ads are skippable

YuMe has released its video advertising metrics report for the third quarter of 2011, so I thought we’d take a look at the findings to see if we can put our finger on the latest online video ad trends.