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VideoGenie, a San Francisco-based video platform company, backed by Google's Eric Schmidt's venture fund along with others, has developed a solution for consumers to easily upload and share brief video clips on a company's site about its goods and services.

Dailymotion, the French-owned online video site, is the fastest growing of the "top" video sites in the U.S. as measured by monthly video streams. 

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The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the IAB, will finalize advertising standards for rich mobile media by "early this fall," says Anna Bager, who heads the Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence at the IAB.

The New York Times has just released an App for Windows 7 mobile devices.

In the last six months, the number of adults with e-readers has doubled to 12% of the population, but only 8% own a tablet and tablet growth is slowing, according to the latest research from Pew.

While most of the online video ecosystem is fine, "there is a dark side," where some companies artificially increase view rates, while others place inventory in unwanted locations, says Toby Gabriner, President of Adap.tv. 

Electus, the Los Angeles-based television production studio founded by former NBC executive Ben Silverman, is expanding its digital and television offerings, says Drew Buckley, COO in this interveiw with Beet.TV.

LONDON (via Skype Video)  Skype has released an Android App for two-way video calling and SMS messaging. 

The free ESPN App for live sports on the iPad was released in April. When combined with the downloads on the Android platform, the ESPN App has had in excess of 2 million downloads, says Tim Connolly, VP of Digital at Disney/ESPN in this interview with Beet.TV.

Animoto, a company which allows users to create custom videos from a sort of "clipboard" in the sky, has raised $25 million in venture funding.

Social marketing platform provider Roost recently rolled out a free tool for small businesses to track how they’re faring locally with their Facebook marketing efforts, which often include videos targeted to local customers.

While online video advertising spending will increase by nearly 40 percent this year, the big opportunity for marketers is to create "useful" content, says Geoff Ramsey, CEO and co-founder of eMarketer.

Online video advertising is on pace to grow a whopping 52% in ad dollars this year to surpass $2 billion in ad spend, eMarketer recently reported.

NOTTINGHAM, England (via Skype) – British retailer Marks & Spencer is using video on its site and is finding that visitors who watch video stay on the site twice as long, says Forrester Principal Analyst Martin Gill in this interview with Beet.TV.

Last night, TED's Chris Anderson awarded a Special Achievement (RED) Webby Award to Ushahidi, the Nairobi-based crowd-sourcing start-up. He presented it to co-founder David Kobia.

Amr Salama, an Egyptian filmmaker and a central figure in creating the alternative media universe during the revolution in Egypt, is finishing a documentary about the historic events. 

Break Media, the big Los Angeles-based creator of humor programming for young men, is  producing programming for woman, with two shows in the works, says Jonathan Small, editorial chief for the network.

The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV), a national association of video creators, has announced its first awards program for excellence in over twenty categories.

The iPad has "truly become the fourth screen," says Daniel Heaf, Digital Director of the BBC Worldwide, in this interview with Beet.TV.