This week, we have another tip from our friend and “viral video genius,” Kevin “Nalts” Nalty

Normally, if you’re on a mobile phone, you don’t want to be bothered with video ads. On top of that, most big networks are now going to bandwidth capping, even on their so-called ‘unlimited’ data plans

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

Nielsen is getting into the cross-platform campaign tracking business. It should have been clear that they were working on it after last month’s report with YuMe . Now, they say they’re ready to roll out a new reporting service that will cover both TV and online ads with a standardized rating

Givit, the consumer cloud service for private, personal video sharing, has cut a deal with Cisco to safeguard all those Flip videos you uploaded to Flipshare before they dropped the ax on the Flip camera. So stop frantically trying to download them all. Actually, Givit has far more to offer than just that, but that’s their big news this week.

After firing warning shots over the bows in terms of copyright infringement lawsuits, the two biggest Chinese online video firms Tudou and Youku have decided that they should merge, instead.

Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation.

This is just a quick note, mostly because there just aren't a lot of details to share with this story--but it's still pretty cool news. Google engineer and Google Plus team member, Shana Gitnick, has shared a new Google+ feature that should make video fans happy: the ability to record a video with your webcam and share it on Google Plus with the click of a button. So now instead of syncing a YouTube video or uploading a video from scratch..

I interviewed Senior Counsel for Vimeo, Michael Cheah, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Vimeo is running messages on January 18 th (today) highlighting the issue and will invite users to tell Congress to reject SOPA.

This week in our look at the Reel Web we talk about how mobile viewers are watching our videos longer than desktop views are and how Facebook dominates Twitter in video sharing. Also, we review YouTube's new "Slam" voting feature and what they're doing to start fixing the publishing issue that's all too common for content creators.