Holy mackerel! That’s a whole lotta online video ads man! In fact, it’s actually 20% of all videos viewed online roughly. That is if you remember that those ads are actually intersecting pieces of video content which then gets tallied as multiple videos by comScore . So really, it’s quite possible that there were really just 9.5 billion videos that were chopped up into four pieces by the 9.5 billion video ads

America Online is getting deeper into the online video act with the AOL On Network, a destination that will bring 320,000 videos and will feature 14 content channels. Along with the announcement comes the news that AOL will also be behind 7 new original series, several of them produced by Michael Eisner’s Vuguru production house.

Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it’s comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters

Big numbers continue to accumulate for online video according to comScore who say some 181 million Americans watched more than 40 billion videos in the month. Good for us! In the standard charts there's little movement, like always.

There’s a lot of speculation on the future of online video in this week’s round up, on everything from cable to Hollywood to advertising to TV. We also recap all the rest of the week’s biggest stories in the world of online video, including news articles, opinion pieces, tips, and more.

Content is hard to come by, or rather it was. Several initiatives in the latter half of this year are creating curated, syndicated premium video content feeds that can give publishers added video content as well as new monetization options, and AOL has just announced theirs: The AOL Editors Room

Mobile video usage is growing fast among consumers and big video sites like AOL Video are implementing mobile solutions as a result. In part two of our interview with AOL Video’s SVP Ran Harnevo, he shares tips with the New Media Minute for how video sites can migrate their videos to mobile platforms as well, drawing on his experience at AOL Video and Huffington Post. Migrating To Mobile Online Video Platforms Click here to watch the video.

Yahoo, who changes their mind far more than, well… wants in on the online video deal, again. It almost seems like they got wind of what AOL was planning and said “Ooh! ooh! Us too!” Their on again, off again love affair with online video just seems like it is once again, going to end in heartbreak for the aging web portal and those who pay it any attention. Hey, having just returned to America after 6 years in Europe, I know it’s hard to get back into the dating scene and Yahoo doesn’t seem too afraid of trying once again to court (read lure) online video viewers back to their site

Wow, remember when AOL Video was just a tiny little project that had almost no content, no real driving force apparently and not all that many viewers? Well, maybe they had some viewers, but I wouldn’t have considered them the place to go online to get new web series

The placement, context, and library surrounding online video is critical to success in growing video views, said AOL Video’s head Ran Harnevo in an exclusive interview with the New Media Minute.