Brightcove announced a new program today for Video Cloud Pro and Enterprise customers.

It’s a dark day indeed for online video, H.264 has seemingly won the war without any real battles being fought. Google has yet to remove H.264 from Chrome and now someone high up at Firefox has pretty much stated that they’re throwing in the towel as well.

So you’ve gotten pretty good at this online video thing, and now you want to start thinking about monetizing your content.

For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others. But as more and more television and film content moves online, the owners of the copyrights (typically studios or production companies) have started to see the potential in launching their own competing services--like Ultraviolet--and it threatens to end or hinder licensing rights

Zediva had an interesting business model, buy a bunch of DVD players and get a bunch of DVDs for rental. Give users access to a DVD and a player and stream the video to them

Zediva had an interesting business model, buy a bunch of DVD players and get a bunch of DVDs for rental. Give users access to a DVD and a player and stream the video to them.

YouTube seems to have adopted Google’s talent for slipping in quirky new ad placement algorithms with barely a note on the fridge about what’s going on. In my job with an online competitive intelligence (SpyFu) company, I often hear about the sudden changes on the Google side. Since I'm usually the one at the company creating and putting content on YouTube, it’s usually me who finds the changes on the video end.

One of the biggest stories of 2011 is what the future of television will look like as service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and content aggregators all jockey for the prime position in your living room. One company seeking to help consumers "cut the cord" is Seattle-based ivi , an online cable company, and has been embroiled in a lawsuit with broadcasters seeking to stop it from rebroadcasting their content online

One of the headaches that YouTube has been having is keeping music copyright holders happy when someone posts a video of a song cover or has a song playing in the background.

About a week ago we talked about how Disney movies were going to be available for rent on YouTube, and everyone rejoiced at the affordable ease-of-access of Disney's library that the deal would bring.