Andy Plesser

Conviva has raise a series C $15 million venture round, the company announced today.    

Earlier this week, YouTube streamed and promoted the live shows of a few content partners including Rocketboom as part of a two-day pilot program.

Google is playing an increasing important role as a paid media platform for entertainment companies seeking bigger viewerships and cable subscriptions, says Dan Taylor who heads East Coast Media and Entertainment for Google.

The Financial Times has been investing heavily in producing online video programming and has made a "major investment" in building a television news studio in its London headquarters, paidContent reports.

Justin.tv, the big San Francisco-based live Web video site continues to grow with an average of 32 hours of live video streamed and ingested into the system every minute to viewed instantly and for later viewing on demand, says Evan Solomon, head of marketing said in this interview.

ScanScout, the big New York-based video ad network, is getting favorable results for its advertisers, says Jason Krebs, Executive Vice President. We sat down with Jason recently for this update. Andy Plesser.

Here is our chat with Raj Amin, CEO of HeathiNation, the producer and distributor of consumer health videos.  He talks about syndication strategies for his company and opportunities for other publishers. Andy Plesser  

Ooyala, the Mountain View, California-based online video platform is expanding into Australia and hiring senior executives in the region, the company announced earlier this week.

Vimeo, the video sharing unit of IAC has over four million registered users and has 30 million monthly unique visitors, nearly doubling those numbers over the past six months.

Justin.tv, the big consumer site for live streaming, has just launched an Android app for creating live streaming.  According to Evan Solomon,  VP of marketing, it is superior to current offerings from competitors Qik and Ustream.

Earlier this month, Vimeo, the IAC-owned video sharing site, announced an integration with Roku.  More than just featuring videos and providing search, the implementation is highly personalized, very Web like.

Taboola, the video recommendation engine which is used by publishers to provide "related" or "recommended" videos at the end of clips, has introduced a system for publishers to offer up recommended video thumbnails at around text articles.

As publishers consider creating mobile video Apps vs maximizing their mobile Web for video, Apps provide a valuable, persistent connection with the most loyal and valued fans.

Vimeo, the fast-growing IAC unit,  is throwing a two-day online video festival and awards program to celebrate the community of video creators.

Vizu, the San Francisco-based advertising analytics company, has created a system to track the "brand lift" of online video ads.

Cisco, ramping up its efforts around online video management services, has purchased Boston-based ExtendMedia for an undisclosed sum, Cisco announded today.

Cisco's Eos, a hosted digital publishing solution, is now powering 67 web sites and delivering a total of 11 million monthly page views to customers, a Cisco spokesperson has told us.

Los Angeles-based Machinima, the fast-growing video gaming video site, uses YouTube as its primary publishing platform and gets nearly 130 million monthly video views.

Earlier this year at the Streaming Media East Conference, I was interviewed by videoblogger/online video evangelist Larry Kless.

While much of buzz about video streaming has been about Netflix, Amazon has around four times as many videos available — and provides TV shows the next day and movies the day a DVD is shipped.