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.

While I've been doing some prognosticating of late, I'm not the only one, nor am I probably the most informed, so it's always interesting to see what others are predicting for the year to come. The Videomind blog over at Ooyala had some interesting things to say and some of them, even lined up with what I said. In a nutshell they basically saw five big trends that would push online video in 2012.

Ooyala put out a kickin new infographic I thought I would drop on you as I was just contemplating the other day what the Kindle Fire might do for online video consumption and thought it might, pardon the pun, kindle some renewed viewing. Hey it's almost a holiday today, I can get away with a pun that bad no? Anyway.

That might be the most number of uses of the word video in a title by me, ever. The VideoMind Video Index is a quarterly report that will offer everyone an insight into what's going on in the world of video and, I quote,

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 interviewed Ooyala co-Founder and President of Products’ Bismark Lepe, on today’s release of their new Facebook video analytics solution, allowing publishers to track Facebook users engaging with their online video across audience segmentations in real time. Could we be getting a glimpse of the future of web video usability, marrying real-time web video analytics with in-depth audience profiling? Already fresh off their announcement earlier this week of their “Social TV” program for Facebook , Ooyala today announced their Custom Analytics with Business Dimension Reporting program, which they say will allow publishers to track demographic and psychographic information with Facebook connect

I had a couple meetings with Ooyala lately to talk about all the cool new stuff they have got going on like Ooyala Social, Ooyala Everywhere and of course the Motorola Mobility investment and what it might mean for us as much as for them. This is some really interesting stuff which is why it took two meetings! Ooyo Goes Moto –

Ooyala, whom I need to speak with about something else and who should email me (yeah, I know it works because I’ve done it before), put out a pretty rockin new infographic on Friday which talked about video consumption. I just happened to stumble upon it when I was looking for info on their Ooyala Social (which I also need to talk to them about) which adds a bunch of social features to the HD streaming video experience (like Hulu has, sort of like LeanIn provides, etc)

This week went by incredibly fast, and if you’re like me… you just couldn’t get to everything you really wanted to do. These days, there’s so much online video news, it can be hard to keep up with it all

Leanin today announced the launch of something the company calls the first of its kind: a social video player. The Leanin service is a hosted solution, integrates smoothly with YouTube & Facebook, and aims to help brands better understand video engagement through an arsenal of custom analytics and viewer data points.