Andy Plesser

DailyMotion, the Paris-based video sharing site which enjoys considerable popularity in Europe, has been making progress in the United States, registering at number 17 in comScore's ranking of U.S. video sites in December.

5Min, the creator/syndicator of instructional Web videos registered a whopping 30.5 million video views in December, according to a report on TechCrunch.

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week.

BrigthtRoll, one of the biggest of the video ad networks has raised $10 million in new funding, hit profitability and its reaches over 53 million viewers monthly , according to a story by Paul Boutin in Venture Beat.

Syndicastor is helping some 80 broadcast news operations create some 30,000 online clips per month.  Clips are made available to the station's sites and various video sites including AOL, YouTube and Brightcove.

Seattle’s thePlatform, a high-end online video services provider to cable and broadcasters, is aiming its sites on a broader range of customers with today’s announcement of a new publishing system. 

In Las Vegas last week at the NATPE convention, Daisy caught up with Ross Levinsohn, former digital chief at News Corp and now a venture capitalist at Fuse Capital.

Robin Sloan, formerly a top online strategist at Current TV is headed to Twitter to manage media partnerships, he announced on his blog.

Ooyala, the two-year old online video services company, is putting a big effort around its live streaming platform.  It will get considerable  exposure with the live streaming of the Grammy Awards pre-show, the "red carpet" and back stage activity.

LAS VEGAS, FreeWheel, the video advertising platform, is off to a strong start, with new customers in Turner and and VEVO, the company announced earlier this week at the NAPTE convention. 

Break.com, the Los Angeles-based video portal for young men, has expanded into social games, the company announced earlier this week.

Howcast, the two year-old producer and distributor of how-to short form videos, is on track to reach profitability this year, co-founder and COO Daniel Blackman said in this interview.

Kyte, the video services platform, has announced significant improvement to its user interface and range of services.

Justin.tv has changed its user interface which it hopes will be easier for users to users.  The company made the announced earlier today.

Recent moves by YouTube and Vimeo to preliminarily embrace HTM5, a technology for publishing video directly onto Web pages, using an open source code, has been generating a lot of excitement, but not from the Mozilla Foundation which manages the Firefox browser.

Brightcove, the big online video services company, has announced an initiative to enable its customers to participate in the much anticipated initiative known as "TV Everywhere."

Ustream, one of the big live streaming video sites, announced on Friday that it is beginning a pay-per-view scheme on some of the sites channels. 

Google co-founder Sergey Brin conceded in an interview that Google’s management lacks "emotional intelligence," said the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, author of the best-selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it."

This is no joke:  JibJab, the video site which got its name from funny political video cartoons, is the second fastest growing media property on the Web, according to a report just released by comScore.

Earlier today, Brightcove, a providers of video publishing and distribution services, debuted its live platform in streaming a news-making speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the topic of Internet Freedom.