After firing warning shots over the bows in terms of copyright infringement lawsuits, the two biggest Chinese online video firms Tudou and Youku have decided that they should merge, instead.

The Hollywood Reporter have cited a source that says Google has made some regulatory filings that look like a pre-cursor to a pay TV system and would see Google filing for “cable TV franchise licenses” in Kansas City (both MO and KA). So the way I see it is this, cable operators and MSOs are not going to be too happy with Google trying to muscle in on their territory and clogging their bandwidth with great video content

I’m in the United Kingdom this week to speak at SES London, which is being held again at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. I’ll be speaking on Thursday, 23 February, about “Developing a Video Optimisation and Marketing Campaign.” No, that’s not a typo. On this side of the pond, the Brits spell “optimisation” with an “s” instead of a “z.” In Old Blighty, soccer is called “football.” And British beer is served warm

Back in April I wrote about YouTube channel karminmusic, whose cover of Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" had gone viral. That same video went on to land in the top ten most viewed videos of the entire 2011 year, but was far from the musical duo's only hit

YouTube is trying really hard to make YouTube.com your new TV. Instead of turning on the television and flipping through the 338 channels, they're hoping in the near future you'll just open a browser and go to YouTube...

I wrote this morning about how the future of online video marketing can be glimpsed just by watching what the band OK Go is doing with video --creative, envelope-pushing, inventive, etc. Another way brands and companies are expanding the definition of what the "video experience" can be is through interactive video.

Back in the day, when people actually visited video rental places, movies that either had a short life in theaters or went straight to video basically had to hope the millions of people sifting through the new release shelves would find their video cover and hope that its lack of familiarity would go overlooked.

We've posted a lot of great infographics over the years. The format, which typically combines statistical information in a fun animated layout, is very popular. People enjoy learning important statistics, but no one wants to feel like their in school

During my recent tour of Machinima, I got a chance to talk to a lot of great people, including company CEO Allen DeBevoise. One of the topics we spent some time discussing is video advertising and video monetization--how Machinima makes money from their videos and how the future of "content as marketing" is very bright indeed.

Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to delivery.