Heck yeah! The leaves aren't falling but baseball is wrapping up (come on Brew Crew!) and now football has begun! So while you're drinking that early morning bloody mary, preparing for the big game, here's some news to keep you up to speed with the online video industry. (GO PACK GO!) Tablet Video Viewing on the Rise We already know that tablets are being used more and more for video viewing, but LongTail took it a step further and broke down the statistics on what they've seen with JWPlayer and Bits on the Run.

YouTube has been pretty consistent about actively updating platform features and tools that make advertisers’ and content producers’ jobs easier. Recently, YouTube expanded custom thumbnails to more partners, enabled TrueView InStream for mobile, and gave partners the ability to swap out their usernames with their Google+ profile names. Still, many advertisers lay their heads upon their pillows at night and dream of the features that have yet to roll out… Read on for a list of the functionality and tools we hope for, and please add to the wish list in the comment thread below

A zombie horde shuffled its way to the top of Unruly’s Global Viral Video Chart last month.

Yesterday, on the Google Mobile Ads blog, Phil Farhi, group product manager at YouTube, announced that TrueView in-stream video ads have expanded their reach to mobile devices. TrueView in-stream videos can appear on YouTube Videos (Watch pages on YouTube), on video publisher pages in the Google Display Network (includes YouTube), and on video publisher pages ...

Yesterday, on the Google Mobile Ads blog, Phil Farhi, group product manager at YouTube, announced that TrueView in-stream video ads have expanded their reach to mobile devices. TrueView in-stream videos can appear on YouTube Videos (Watch pages on YouTube), on video publisher pages in the Google Display Network (includes YouTube), and on video publisher pages ...

On Friday, I talked about the

World records shattered every day, 10 million tweets sent during the Opening Ceremony alone and an ongoing brouhaha over the overbearing branding restrictions, you would think one event would dominate Unruly’s Global Ads Chart during July. But it is not the Olympics that sparked the most social video buzz across the globe last month - it is the upcoming US Elections.

There is a war brewing up on Capitol Hill where the government is becoming increasingly impatient with Internet giants who have been dragging their feet on a "Do Not Track" option which would allow Internet users to take control of their personal data and offer them a way to opt-out of data collection for advertising and other reasons. It could mean some serious loss of audience, behavior and demographic tracking for online video advertisers as well as Federal legislation.

In the past I've written much about the pretty amazing technology that allows you to basically scan through video and pull out people, places, things and even

Over the past two weeks, Chris Atkinson and I have looked at the Olympic Partners who are spending money on video ad campaigns in “ Brands Race for Olympic Gold in Social Video Buzz With Unruly's Brand Tracker Infographic ” and “ Social Marketing Success for Brands: Socialbakers Shares Recipe in Time for London 2012 Olympics .” This week, let’s look at who is making money on YouTube from all of the London Olympic ads. YouTube recently made it easier than ever for more creators to earn revenue from their videos and become YouTube partners . As a result, over 1 million channels on YouTube now part of the partner program, according to Tim Shey, Director, YouTube Next Lab.