Andy Plesser

San Francisco-based web video syndicator AlphaBird is handling syndication services for Warner Studio 2.0 Web originals, the company announced today. 

Brigthcove, the big online video platform company, announced that its customer base has doubled this year, is expanding rapidly and hiring key executives.

While camera phones and mobile devices have been used by news reporters to shoot and send video for some time,  the BlackBerry has been mostly a communications tool.  With a more sophisticated video camera on later models, this could change.

Vimeo, the online video site, a unit of IAC, will now provide video distribution to the television set via Roku, the companies announced today.

Tremor Media, the New York-based video ad network, had 450 million video ad views in July, according to the comScore report.

Magnetic, the New York-based search retargeting firm, has linked with the giant online video ad network BrightRoll for a video ad retargeting program, the companies have announced.

BrightRoll, the big San Francisco-based video ad network, has launched an online ad exchange for video. 

Brightcove, the big online video platform has switched to Akamai as its primary content delivery network, both companies have announced.

EPIX, the premium cable and online video distribution company, has inked a deal with Netflix to bring feature films to the Web far sooner, as soon as three months from theatrical release.  

While marketers are trying to figure out whether or not original "branded" Web video provide a return on investment, some marketers including Kraft are seeing significant results, Ad Age reports today.

MyDamnChannel.com, the online video entertainment producer, has received a $4.4 million B round of venture funding, the company announced today.

The landscape for mobile Apps for the iPhone and Android has changed so rapidly that some of the biggest publishers, including msnbc.com, are outsourcing the creation of their Apps to a Seattle-based company called Zumobi.

BrightRoll, one of the big online video networks, has created an online video exchange for advertisers and publishers to buy and sell online video inventory.

Palo Alto-based Gigya, which started out as widget company, has become a "social optimization" solution for media companies seeking to connect their content into several social networks.

Dailymotion, the big Paris-based video sharing and entertainment site, has seen traffic in North America grow to 13 million monthly unique users from just 8 million last year.

New York-based online video platform company Twistage has been gaining traction in addressing the needs of companies' internal "enterprise" needs for online video management.

Limelight, the big content delivery network, has purchased Delve Networks, the Seattle-based online video platform company. 

With release of the film Dinner for Schmucks, Paramount Pictures engaged MyDamnChannel.com to create a promotional channel for the the movie.  It launched earlier this week.

Ran Harnevo, CEO of the big online video syndicator 5MIN, says that without a syndication strategy, there is no direct ROI around video for content producers.

BBE, one of the earliest video ad networks, is the designated video ad network working with the Publicis Vivaki unit on an industry standardization program called the Pool