This week the Reel Web covers a lot of topics including YouTube’s venture into providing premium content, the stats on video sharing apps on mobile devices as well as a couple quick resources on monetizing your videos and looking at your video analytics. Click here to watch this video

Chicago is the third largest media market in the U.S.

Popular sports blogs are getting in on the YouTube original channel action, too.

One of the more frustrating aspects of our On Demand culture is that some of the best moments in sports history aren't available to watch on YouTube.

This year, NBC made history by allowing the Super Bowl, one of the biggest events on TV in most years, available online.

When history looks back on this week in the viral video world, the only thing they'll remember is the Super Bowl and all the various online video buzz the commercials generated.

It's that time of year again, when two teams square off for the ultimate crown in professional football. At the same time, advertisers will be squaring off for their own annual Super Bowl competition

The original channels are coming in fast now.

Right after Yahoo! announced Tom Hanks' web series, Electric City , another announcement came in that they would be teaming with CollegeHumor to produce a sports prank web series called Blindsided .

It was a pretty big week for online video fans, as CES 2012 kicked off and a wave of new video gadget announcements began. We also heard some big predictions from key companies at CES, like YouTube, who said that soon 90% of all web traffic will be video. But something else happened this week that maybe didn't get as much press: brands and individuals and small businesses and artists used the power of online video to reach new fans and spread their message