It’s taken awhile for Google-owned YouTube and Google-owned Google+ to get the two married properly.

So here’s yet another feature coming from Google that is bringing video power to virtually everyone.

This week on the Reel Web, we cover 10+ minutes worth of online video news and trends from the past week including, a new program for YouTube partners that aims to provide free promotion, Google+YouTube integration, research on the power of video for link-building, Xbox, and more… Free Promotion Program for YouTube Partners Clearly everyone ...

YouTube is changing again! AGAIN??? Yup.

President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy...

As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more.

Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up . Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the service is to become something parents encourage their children to use.

Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well. You can tell by how much they've leveraged their other properties to promote it, like YouTube videos, Google home page messages, rolling in Google Plus results into the standard SERPs, etc. But now they've taken the boldest step yet: tying Google Plus sign-up to new Gmail accounts

The future of online video sometimes feels like it's only a day away, as major advancements and changes take place every week. This week's online video news round up has all kinds of stories about the future: imminent moves from YouTube on subscriptions and a new player, the future of interactive video ads, and speculation on the battle between Hulu and Netflix. For those articles and all the rest of the week's biggest online video stories, read on..

This is just a quick note, mostly because there just aren't a lot of details to share with this story--but it's still pretty cool news. Google engineer and Google Plus team member, Shana Gitnick, has shared a new Google+ feature that should make video fans happy: the ability to record a video with your webcam and share it on Google Plus with the click of a button. So now instead of syncing a YouTube video or uploading a video from scratch..