I interviewed TripAdvisor’s Manager of Business & Trade Public Relations, Kevin Carter, who shared with me some of the newer activities their company has been doing to encourage online video marketing with lodging owners, and video participation with travelers. Kevin and I also share our tips on what types of videos travelers want to see, and how lodging businesses can do better online video marketing themselves. TripAdvisor’s Online Video Tools for Travelers and Travel-Oriented Businesses TripAdvisor ® is a popular travel and lodging site offering both trip planning and featuring reviews and advice around hotels, resorts, rentals, flights, cruises, vacation rentals, vacation packages, travel guides, restaurants, and other attractions.

AOL Expands HD Video Offerings to Samsung, Google TV with New App is a post by ReelSEO Video Marketing .

Yahoo! was in online video, then they were out, then they were in and then out…and now, starting in about a month’s time, they’re all in again? It would seem so. Aside from being named in the Hulu bidding of late, they are also apparently shopping around a whole set of original online video content ( says Variety ).

AOL HD is continuing its march into your living room with its latest announcement that it will start pushing content to connected boxes . Now that doesn’t mean that everything will instantly have an AOL video button or app, but so far, they are targeting the major players in the Internet TV device market.

If you’re anything like us, you probably don’t quite have enough time in a single day to get to everything you really wanted to. Articles you meant to read… others you intended to write… and emails–oh, the endless stream of emails. So for a publisher in the online video space, time is a premium

Microsoft has bowed out stating they would not enter into the second round of bidding for Hulu. Apparently, they didn’t like what they saw and chose not to whip out a cool $2B for the video service. Meanwhile, Yahoo! has upped the stakes and Apple is ready to step in?

I somehow landed on the Google Plus social network page when the sign-up process was open, and managed to get set up. Sadly, registration has been closed again already, and the sending of invites has been temporarily disabled. I’ve played around with it a bit today and this evening, and one thing’s pretty clear: video is a big part of Google’s social strategy.