We are very excited to introduce you all to a project we’ve been dreaming of and planning for quite some time here at ReelSEO! So far most of our online content has been delivered through this site, a text medium, which is great — we love it! But being a site about online video, we’re pumped to start delivering some of that content to you through video, as well. The Reel Web: News, Tips, & More Below is our first episode of The Reel Web, a weekly series that will highlight online video news from the previous week, both from our own site and from other places around the Internet. Each episode also includes a Creators Tip that gives you advice, ideas, and suggestions for those of you who create online videos

Data from MeFeedia found that 69 percent of mobile video is available in the HTML5 video format.

Web video marketing works better than other digital communications because the audiovisual content engages a viewer from both a sound and a sight perspective.

Web video marketers need to weigh the benefits of hosting video content on free video sharing sites against the risk that the video site providers can pull content at any time.

Movie-makers and advertisers working together on developing ad-sponsored short-form videos for the web.

The Grass Valley Redevelopment Agency has hired a Colorado-based consultant to incorporate online video into a digital marketing strategy designed to attract more visitors from northeast of Sacramento, California and northwestern Nevada.

New video captioning services may ultimately improve the video seo experience.

In order to effectively use online video content, web video marketers need to invest in video search engine optimization (SEO) to reach viewers and benefit from social media sharing.

It’s been quite some time since Google Adwords starting looking at new ad formats via their AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative , well it seems like it is paying off as just last Thursday they announced a whole new ad format called Media Ads . The initiative is working to bring all manner of new formats that bring more relevant ads to the SERP pages making the ads more useful etc. Essentially they want to better match the ads with the searchers so that everyone is happier all around

It seems that Hollywood has finally realized how popular this online video thing is, and they’ve started digging further and further into sites like YouTube and Vimeo to find their next big hit. Not too long ago, I wrote about Epic Meal Time , and how they were shopping their own extreme cooking show to the networks and getting some interest. Those guys aren’t the first, and they won’t be the last.