Andy Plesser

SAN BRUNO, CA — With 100 million daily video views on mobile devices, YouTube has  has decided to create a mobile video site and  to launch new Apps.

The rapid growth of online video as a viable advertising medium, with marketers seeking uniform publishing environments, is leading to the consolidation of many start-ups, says Ping Li, a partner with Accel Partners.

Tania Yuki, who heads video products at comScore, explains how the company tracks video views through links, tags, and via a panel of 2 million Internet users.   

The consumption of online video news and information clips in the U.S. has doubled over the past 12 months, to 565 million video views in May up from 277 million last May, according to comScore.

While the issues surrounding playing video on a Web browser are "solved," the technology curve around video delivery is increasing and accelerating with the introduction of several mobile platforms and connected TV's.

5min, the syndicator of "how to" Web videos, is expanding to news, starting with gossip news, says CEO Ran Harnevo in this video interview.

No longer depending on video views on their big destination sites, as many as half of premium publishers, including Fox and MSNBC.com, have in place a syndication plan to get their videos seen around the Web, says Scot McLernon, Chief Revenue Officer of YuMe, a video advertising technology company.

Bloomberg Business Week reports that after lagging behind Amazon in online commerce, eBay is the leader in mobile commerce and is positioned for explosive growth.

MSNBC.com is readying the release of its first iPad App — it will feature one show on the cable network, said Mark Marvel, at yesterday's Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable.

In an important development in the way video views and associated in-video ads are tabulated, comScore will count videos and related ads separately, de-linking the two, beginning with the June numbers. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass (via Skype Video) — Brightcove, the big online video services company, has released a comprehensive solution for Android devices, for the mobile Web, and for native Apps.

PALO ALTO, California (via video Skype) — Demand for closed captions on Web videos is increasing as publishers seek audiences in new markets.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif — As more and more publishers seek broad distribution of their videos to other sites via an embed code, many advertisers raise concern over where that video and associated ad will play.

NextNewNetworks, the New York-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, is going to greatly expand its offerings by creating a platform for hundreds of independent video producers.

Last week's Digitas Content NewFront conference was streamed live simultaneously  to several streaming services and sites including Ustream, Justin.tv, Revision3, Ad Age, and Mediapost. 

SAN BRUNO, Calif  — Late yesterday, YouTube launched an ambitious new product to allow users to edited uploaded videos in a range of file formats.  

We caught up with Mark Beeching, Chief Creative Director of Digitas, at the company's Digital Content NewFront 2010 conference in Manhattan last week.  

Loic Le Meur, the French technology entrepreneur who launched Seesmic with the functionality to upload video clips as blog comments, says that his timing was not right. 

Ooyala, the Mountain View, California based online video platform services company, has introduced a new set of reporting and analytics tools including highly localized reporting.

Revision3, the San Francisco-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, has found that over 40 percent of its viewers watch shows on Web-connected televisions.