Microsoft is looking to expand the amount of video advertising on its Xbox 360 console and its video entertainment partner apps including ESPN, CBS, Gamespot, Last.fm, Manga Entertainment and MUZU.TV who all joined the new Xbox LIVE Run of TV Apps program. The ads are aimed at engaging the social, game-playing and video-watching audience on ...

This week on the Reel Web, we cover 10+ minutes worth of online video news and trends from the past week including, a new program for YouTube partners that aims to provide free promotion, Google+YouTube integration, research on the power of video for link-building, Xbox, and more… Free Promotion Program for YouTube Partners Clearly everyone ...

Boxee had already announced that they were going to to stop supporting the computer application, available for PC, Mac and Linux, they had made. But they never mentioned they were going to completely remove it from their site, yet, that is exactly what they've now done. Boxee is now focusing solely on the Boxee Box hardware since they believe that the future of the digital living room is not the PC.

This week there's a lot of little news along with a couple big news items, including what Mark Burnett is doing with his upcoming reality TV shows to make them more social and interactive and the new YouTube app for Xbox Live. We look at both of these, especially the new YouTube app and several of the implications it has for the future of online video consumption and those who create online video.

This is absolutely no surprise whatsoever, but Nielsen measured the video streaming habits of game console users and came up with data that is pretty much expected: more video was watched on gaming consoles this year than ever before .

If you have an Xbox 360 and are in the Xbox Live preview program, you can now be a beta participant in YouTube's new app for the console .

This week ReelSEO dominates the news for the online video world! We're excited to launch the Sucky Video Awards , which is going to be fun and educational for all of us! We also released a brand new white paper last week titled, " Online Video 101 for Small Business: A Beginner's Guide to Promote Your Company, Engage Prospects, and Acquire Customers. " It's written by our good friend, Kevin Nalty, or Nalts, as he's known on YouTube.

So the new Xbox dashsboard is available and with it came some updated video streaming apps for Hulu Plus and Netflix . The updates fixed a lot of things that I had talked about as being problems like getting so deep into a menu that you had to pick up a controller to continue.

I have been writing about all the big changes with the Xbox for some time now in regards to IPTV and this is the big day, the day when it all launches

So it has come to pass, Verizon will offer TV channels through the Xbox 360 as one of the Xbox LIVE TV channels. However, it seems sort of useless if you're already a subscriber or if you're interested in coughing up a bunch more cash as an existing Xbox 360 owner. Verizon has stated that next month they will begin offering 26 channels through an app on the Xbox 360 for subscribers.