It seems that Google and YouTube have quietly added some new features to the embed player in an effort to help drive channel subscriptions and off-site sharing. We take a look at some of these features that were noticed by a member of ReelSEO staff. There are several new, key features in the embedded video player for YouTube that seem geared toward helping boost Channel Subscriptions and off-site sharing.

The Web Video Marketing Council and Flimp Media have put together their quarterly report, Q4-2011 Online Video Marketing Survey and Video Email Trends Report and it has some interesting results I thought I would talk about.

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

YouTube is changing again! AGAIN??? Yup. This week’s Reel Web will dive into some of the recent and pending changes at YouTube along with discuss general online video commentary around video monetization, how to respond to an unexpected viral success, and how online video will play a major role in political campaigns this year, especially Obama’s.

Nielsen is getting into the cross-platform campaign tracking business. It should have been clear that they were working on it after last month’s report with YuMe . Now, they say they’re ready to roll out a new reporting service that will cover both TV and online ads with a standardized rating

ESPN is going to catch the brunt of my wrath on this topic today, by virtue of hitting me with three autoplay video ads that started upon the page load. But they’re far from the only publisher to do this.

There’s an old adage in the marketing and business world… no one wants to see how the sausage is made.

After firing warning shots over the bows in terms of copyright infringement lawsuits, the two biggest Chinese online video firms Tudou and Youku have decided that they should merge, instead. Sound like big news

Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says Jean-Francois Boudier, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO, access to the API was dependent on requirements definition, commercial proposal, negotiation, contracts, signatures, etc.

This is just a quick note, mostly because there just aren't a lot of details to share with this story--but it's still pretty cool news. Google engineer and Google Plus team member, Shana Gitnick, has shared a new Google+ feature that should make video fans happy: the ability to record a video with your webcam and share it on Google Plus with the click of a button.