In this week’s Reel Web, we discuss several online video trends and updates from the past week including: more updates and changes at YouTube, Comscore’s most recent stats around online video consumption, Viacom’s interest in social tv, and a

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

The adage ‘Content is King’ is now becoming something of a cliché, rolled out regularly to prove the author’s understanding that it’s not just hits that count, but how people perceive your message and what they do with it, turning viewers from passive observers to willing propagators of your content is obviously crucial. A central component of this – creating a synergy between online video and social networking- to the extent that your audience become co-curators in your campaigns. Coca Cola & the “Content 2020 Project” – Video + Social Marketing There is a pressing need to go one step further than simply making an interesting or entertaining sales pitch.

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

Teens are a key demographic for a lot of brands and companies, so understanding what they are doing is vital to getting into their heads. Turns out, according to new research from Pew Internet, what they’re doing, is video based. Perhaps more than any other demographic, teens have embraced online video with a full 27% ..

Poptent is known as a crowdsourced video production and social community platform for video creators, a nifty way for aspiring filmmakers and video producers to get experience shooting videos for a number of major brands, while keeping video production costs low for the client. Today, Poptent announced a new full-service video production unit called Poptent ...

We’ve written several times about Google+ and the first thing that I noticed when Google+ launched, was that you could easily connect your Google Plus account to accounts online, like: Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and even Orkut and Yelp – BUT, not YouTube.

The growth of social activity in conversations and check-ins around TV programming has grown by about 91% year over year, according to a study by social TV tracking service Trendrr.TV . The company also uncovered several interesting trends regarding social activity. Meanwhile, electronic program guides are starting to incorporate social buzz about shows, such as the iPad app from TV listings service Veronica Magazine in Holland, which might prove an interesting template for how to weave social buzz into a program guide

YouTube is about to join the fold of Google+ in a more tightly knit and cohesive way. No longer will you be able to simply Like a video, now you’ll be giving it a +1 according to recent reports

Over the last year a lot of online video editors have popped up and so it was time for us to put together a list of everything that we could find with some basic information so you have a single source for comparing all of them. There will be no opinions in this, it's all just straight information about each of the services. This list is more for end-users.