This week on the Reel Web we discuss AOL’s announcement about “AOL On,” their new video service that will host all of the videos from their service and also feature some new original shows.

Andy Stack, a YouTube product manager, today announced on The Official YouTube Partners & Creators Blog that YouTube has teamed up with Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to enable users to link directly to project pages on these platforms through annotations. Kickstarter

When I was a kid, baseball was my favorite sport… to watch, play, or follow. I wasn’t very good at it, but I played it for more than 10 years.

Over the weekend, a rebel sympathizer smuggled me a new copy of Version 2 of the YouTube Creator Playbook.

There are several services that let you customize the YouTube player's embed code and the actual YouTube player itself.

This week's online video news was dominated by web series talk. For instance, we have a retrospective on the BMW web series, The Hire, which was way ahead of its time. We also have some articles about a new Tom Hanks web series, the future of branded video content from Coke, and a story about a YouTube star signing a big new deal

This week we answer a viewer's question about how to make your videos interactive with pop-up videos, subscription links, clickable videos and such. First, create your video with whatever text, image, or video clip you want to be clickable in your video. Then, after it's uploaded to YouTube, go to add those annotations respectively

When Common Craft pivoted their business into a educational video subscription service , a bit of a void was left in the universe.

The YouTube Creator Playbook is an awesome guide to follow when making your videos.

Sometimes it takes months and months, maybe even years, for a new YouTube channel to build up its audience. Other times, however, it's clear that the creators have done their homework and kept their finger on the pulse of what's hot in online video