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In creating video content it is essential to know your video audience.

This week, we have another tip from our friend and “viral video genius,” Kevin “Nalts” Nalty

As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more.

After a week or two off for the holidays, we're back with the first online video news round up of the new year. What were the biggest stories in video over the first week of 2012--what were you talking about? In our collection, we've got some exciting predictions for online video ad spend, a host of stores on streaming content providers, and a whole lot more.

This week ReelSEO dominates the news for the online video world! We're excited to launch the Sucky Video Awards , which is going to be fun and educational for all of us! We also released a brand new white paper last week titled, " Online Video 101 for Small Business: A Beginner's Guide to Promote Your Company, Engage Prospects, and Acquire Customers. " It's written by our good friend, Kevin Nalty, or Nalts, as he's known on YouTube. It's full of great content to help any business know how to effectively use online video to promote services, products, or even branding, including what to do and what not to do.

Just over a week ago, YouTube completely and radically changed their layout and overall site design. But if you thought the big changes and announcements were done for a while, you were wrong, because YouTube spent this week pushing out several more changes like a brand new Video Manager, new premium content channels, and the acquisition of a new music licensing service.

For most of our readers, video is something you deal with on a daily basis: shooting, editing, writing, marketing, etc.

This week's look at the Reel Web highlights several news stories surrounding YouTube's $100 Million investment into new premium content channels and the perspectives and opinions that go with it.

Some weeks we are just on fire, and able to cover most of the important breaking stories in the world of online video. Other weeks, our site crashes and we spend entire days just trying to get it back up . This past week was one of the latter