Online video site Viddler has announced a new plugin for WordPress 2.5 (currently in beta testing) that lets you browse for and embed videos directly from WordPress. Here’s what’s new in this version: Dashboard widget You can now watch, and help promote, our daily featured videos right from within the WordPress administration dashboard. There is […]

comScore has updated its Video Metrics offerings, adding the UK, France, Germany and Canada to its current US offering. Of the five countries currently reported by comScore Video Metrix, online video had the highest reach in Canada, where 19 million viewers viewed a video online in December, representing 89 percent of the total online population […]

Wizzard Media is working together with Adobe to distribute video content from their network through the new Adobe® Media Player. Launched today, the Adobe Media Player is the first application built on Adobe AIR software, a cross operating system application platform that extends rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. The first installment of video […]

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0 software, a app built on Adobe AIR that could significantly change the world of Internet media. Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform media player that is being distributed by Adobe, but that can also be distributed as a “branded” player by publishers. Major television […]

Video on flickr just got official – at least if you consider an announcement by puppets to be official. The service is limited to pro accounts and videos are limited in length to 90 seconds. Here’s what flickr has to say about the 90 second limit: Video on Flickr grew out of the idea of […]

YouTube and C-SPAN have partnered to launch a program to allow voters the opportunity to voice their views on the issues most important to them in the 2008 election. YouTube Voter Video on C-SPAN is encourages voters to respond to the question “What issue in this election is most important to you, and why?” From […]

  The Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California is expanding its reach, using YouTube to bring things like the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest (above) to the world.  “The purpose of a fair is to celebrate and showcase the community. Fairs are social events and social media is perfect for fairs because of this. We’re inviting folks to […]

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]

Video search company blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx BBTV, a new online television service that leverages blinkx’s speech and visual recognition technology to deliver Internet television with contextually linked information. blinkx BBTV enables users to instantly browse or interact with online sources related to what they are watching, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB […]

YouTube has introduced a new analytics tool to provide YouTube publishers on how their videos are being viewed. Today we’re releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos […]