Brightcove announced a new program today for Video Cloud Pro and Enterprise customers. It’s something that was a trend last year I think.

So you’ve gotten pretty good at this online video thing, and now you want to start thinking about monetizing your content. But that can act as a roadblock for many video creators and businesses who aren’t sure what all their options are for making money from video content.

For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others. But as more and more television and film content moves online, the owners of the copyrights (typically studios or production companies) have started to see the potential in launching their own competing services--like Ultraviolet--and it threatens to end or hinder licensing rights. So the streaming companies have been forced to do the only natural thing in response: start creating their own content so they won't have to rely on licensing agreements.

Zediva had an interesting business model, buy a bunch of DVD players and get a bunch of DVDs for rental. Give users access to a DVD and a player and stream the video to them. Unfortunately, the big bad movie studios didn't like that and sued them into oblivion.

YouTube seems to have adopted Google’s talent for slipping in quirky new ad placement algorithms with barely a note on the fridge about what’s going on. In my job with an online competitive intelligence (SpyFu) company, I often hear about the sudden changes on the Google side. Since I'm usually the one at the company creating and putting content on YouTube, it’s usually me who finds the changes on the video end

One of the biggest stories of 2011 is what the future of television will look like as service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and content aggregators all jockey for the prime position in your living room. One company seeking to help consumers "cut the cord" is Seattle-based ivi , an online cable company, and has been embroiled in a lawsuit with broadcasters seeking to stop it from rebroadcasting their content online. Earlier this year in February, a New York federal judge ruled that ivi was infringing on broadcasters copyrights by not paying retransmission fees and ordered ivi to shut down.

One of the headaches that YouTube has been having is keeping music copyright holders happy when someone posts a video of a song cover or has a song playing in the background.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for online video platform

There’s a lot of speculation on the future of online video in this week’s round up, on everything from cable to Hollywood to advertising to TV. We also recap all the rest of the week’s biggest stories in the world of online video, including news articles, opinion pieces, tips, and more

I keep telling you, whether or not you believe me, that Netflix is doing a lot of things right lately.