Around 1pm (Pacific) today, I should have been watching Coldplay performing live from Spain … in the middle of a bull ring.

I sat down and chatted with Scot Lauren, Chief Revenue Officer with YuMe, about the new list of options they’ve recently made available for online video advertisers.

This week our look at the Reel Web covers a bunch of stories, like YouTube’s update to the layout for “related videos” after you finish watching one. It also appears that YouTube has changed their algorithm back in July and the update does not seem to favor amateur video creators

YouTube Annotations are an important tool for any online video producer on YouTube, but many people either don’t know how to use them nor use them well. This is not a tutorial on how to create annotations on your videos — there are plenty of those around on YouTube already.

I had a couple meetings with Ooyala lately to talk about all the cool new stuff they have got going on like Ooyala Social, Ooyala Everywhere and of course the Motorola Mobility investment and what it might mean for us as much as for them. This is some really interesting stuff which is why it took two meetings! Ooyo Goes Moto –

Video marketing is an incredibly important component of link building, as well as online brand building. While it is important to upload your videos to video sharing sites like YouTube or Vimeo, that doesn’t have to be the only place your target audience can find them. One way to help maximize your videos’ potential reach while providing a valuable boost to your content marketing is to create video blog posts

In the two years or so that I’ve been writing this column, this is by far the highest number of videos I’ve ever crammed inside it. I don’t know if that means there’s more great video than ever out there, or if it’s a sign that my preoccupation with video has turned into an obsession–or both–but either way, you fans of video should have plenty to keep yourselves busy with this morning

I’ve been reading a lot of interesting things in the social TV space these past few days and so I thought I would compile them and share with everyone on how screens are converging and TV is becoming more of a social activity. New services include seeing yourself on TV, checking in with your friends and generally extending the TV viewing experience.

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.

Let’s face it, Hulu’s current ad recommendation engine sucks. No matter what you tell it, it still shows you the same ads, and then just doesn’t give you the option of telling it to not show you those particular ads anymore.