Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar , an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up . But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time I roll back into Vzaar and see what’s what.

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Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week.

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – YouTube Update Edition

The box office is booming this January.  It looks like the studios are finally figuring out that the month doesn’t have to be a movie wasteland.  Either that, or they’ve gotten extraordinarily lucky.  Underworld: Awakening managed $25 million last weekend, but helping the box office tremendously were the surprise returns of Red Tails at $19 million.  So far, the views for the online movie trailers have been a decent gauge for the weekend haul, but this weekend presents some challenges.  This weekend is led by The Grey , followed by familiar Katherine Heigl picture One for the Money , and the negotiation thriller Man on a Ledge .

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Hollywood Video Marketing – Online Movie Trailers For Friday, January 27

During my recent tour of Machinima, I got a chance to talk to a lot of great people, including company CEO Allen DeBevoise.

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Content As Marketing – Video Advertising & Monetization With Machinima’s Allen DeBevoise

Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly – one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they’re announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to delivery. To go along with that they are also talking today about the Future-Proof Video program that offers automatic preparation of Vid.ly videos for new formats/devices as they enter the market

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Future Proof Your Online Video Library With Vid.ly Integration with Encoding.com

And you all thought that Verizon was just aiming to cover its own customers and network with content?

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Verizon Working On Video Content Delivery System

While I’ve been doing some prognosticating of late, I’m not the only one, nor am I probably the most informed, so it’s always interesting to see what others are predicting for the year to come. The Videomind blog over at Ooyala had some interesting things to say and some of them, even lined up with what I said.

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VideoMind Predicts Top Online Video Trends Of 2012

I polled the big brains in the industry to get their thoughts on how 2011 went down with regard to online video advertising, what they thought went as expected and what came out of the blue, what trends were strong and what will continue going on into 2012.

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2011 Online Video Advertising Year In Review – Industry Leaders Reflect

With Facebook’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) expected early next year, the company is attempting to further monetize the social media site and its user base in order to make the stock even more appealing to potential investors. In an effort to further increase advertising revenues, Facebook is expected to begin displaying Sponsored Stories Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

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Facebook Adding Sponsored Stories to News Feeds

Some interesting information that was sent to me recently pertains to how favorable online game players are toward sponsored videos so that they can continue to play a game for free. Then again, the study was done by SponsorPay and they are a provider of that sort of video advertising service so, you’ll need a fairly strong grain of salt to swallow this data.

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Sponsored Videos Gaining Ground In Video Advertising For Online Gaming