One of the busiest individuals in show business just added a new medium to his schedule. Radio personality, television host, and America’s spiritual heir to Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest (who’s eponymous production company is behind hit television series like Keeping Up with the Kardashians , Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution , Shahs of Sunset , The Wanted Life , and Montecito ) just inked a deal that will have him incorporate more digital projects into his already overloaded bandwidth

The highly-coveted YouTube Live Stream is being made available to Congress. How will politicians use this new tool to their advantage? Will they use it at all?

The IAB has a study that shows that 45 million unique visitors from the USA watch Online Professional Online Video.

Stillmotion continues to give great storytelling advice in Part 2 of their instructional video series being played on Vimeo's Video School.

Ray William Johnson left Maker Studios back in October 2012, and then...things got ugly. Johnson is claiming that Maker Studios is holding his AdSense account and won't give it back. And now that the original contract has expired, he says he still hasn't gotten it.

Hank Green, one half of the Vlogbrothers, wrote a very good piece on the YouTube Original Channels Initiative, a full year after the program came to be and delivered at best mixed results.

[Click for latest NewFronts News ] Last year Hulu, AOL, Microsoft Advertising, Digitas, Yahoo!, and Google/YouTube joined forces to chart new territory in media through the Digital Content NewFronts .

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In our round up of the weekly news stories in online video we learn that Netflix now has more U.S. subscribers than HBO and how their new package aims for more family friendly subscription service. We are excited about the first Google Glass apps to be announced as well as wondering what took a hacker so long to jailbreak the device.

From April 29th-May 3rd, 18 online video distributors will take the stage all over New York for Digital Content Newfronts , where they will attempt to pitch their upcoming content to advertisers and the media. Here at Tubefilter, we’ll be running through some of the presenters and taking our guesses as to what they will be showcasing