Developer Edgar de León has introduced a new video blogging plugin for WordPress, WebTV.
WebTV is designed to let you attach a video to a post and upload it to most popular video distribution sites, including YouTube, Vimeo and Blip.tv. After your video is uploaded and processed, WebTV get and inserts the embed code from the [...]

This video, via Gideon Shalwick (Become a Blogger) offers a fairly in-depth look at 7 ways to optimize your YouTube videos.
7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos

Create outstanding content
Optimize your YouTube Channel
Use keywords cleverly and in the right places
Add URL’s in the right places
Link to your videos from where ever you can
Provide plenty [...]

The iPhone 3GS video revolution is here.
Google has announced that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased by 400% since last Friday, when Apple’s new iPhone 3GS went on sale.
According to Google, the jump from the iPhone 3GS is part of a larger trend, driven by three things:

new video-enabled phones on the market;
improvements that [...]

Media analyst Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the steady stream of photos, Twitter posts and videos coming out of post-election Iran:
I’m always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that … this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been [...]

Internet users viewed a record 16.8 billion online videos in April, representing an increase of 16 percent…..since March!

YouTube Product Manager Ryan Junee shared an interesting stat today: YouTube users are uploading 20 hours of video every minute, on the average:
In mid-2007, six hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Then it grew to eight hours per minute, then 10, then 13. In January of this year, it became 15 hours [...]

New Media Age is reporting that video giant YouTube is working on a plan to offer popular full-length television shows to viewers in the United Kingdom. Talks are said to be underway between YouTube and British TV networks Channel 4 and ITV, and with Sony Pictures, for rights to stream those companies’ programs.
NMA calls YouTube’s [...]

Andrew Baron, creator of groundbreaking video podcast Rocketboom unveiled his latest project, Magma, on Monday night at the NY Video 2.0 meeting. Magma is a video site - and a “trending topics” site - and a social community site, all in one place.
Baron explains that Magma is “is an entry point for online video”. The [...]

YouTube is cracking down on content creators whose “branded integration” [that is, product-placement, or promotional] deals haven’t been given the go-ahead from the video site.
According to Mediaweek, “the company issued written notifications to several producers … reminding them that according to its Terms of Service, users are not to post commercial videos on YouTube without [...]

Thursday, entertainment empire Disney fired a loud salvo in the struggle to unseat YouTube as the king of online video. Disney, parent company of TV network ABC, announced an agreement to join forces with free online video service Hulu.com.
Disney will join Hulu’s other content partners, NBC Universal, and News Corporation, as well as Providence Equity [...]