Nielsen just put out the March 2012 numbers of smartphone penetration in the US and for the first time, it’s topped 50%. That means an estimated 150 million

I got an advance sneak peek at Ooyala's Video Index for Q4 2011 , and I didn't even have to beg! Every quarter, Ooyala looks at more than one billion analytics pings a day, follows the viewing habits of over 100 million unique viers and then sums it all up in nice tidy packages every quarter for the industry.

I like analytics, analytics are cool. If they were a hat they'd be a fez, because fezzes are cool.

I always send various videos that I collect throughout the week for this column to friends and family, and it usually gives me a pretty good indication of whether or not the column has a good cross-section of different video types and tones. And this week, one video stood tall above all the others as a universal crowd pleaser--but you'll have to read on to find out which one it is. Gifted & Talented Everyone's special in their own way--at least that's what they taught me growing up

Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar , an online video hosting & delivery platform,

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 .

After YouTube's latest updates yesterday to the Browse page, many of you probably spent some time casually playing around with it to see what's new. If you did, you might have come across some of the selections in this week's round up of the best viral videos

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.

I originally intended to skip this column this week, instead replacing it with a year-end "best viral videos" round up that would cover all of the last 52 weeks in hilarious viral action. However, a funny thing happened throughout the week that I should have expected: I kept finding awesome new viral videos that I wanted to share. So here we are again after all...

Netflix has made an upgrade to their mobile app for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad, and this update is especially good news for owners of the latter: the new Netflix app is optimized for use and viewing on the iPad, and it looks pretty slick. I know, I know... this isn't exactly breaking news--the update happened several days ago.