In this week’s Reel Web, we discuss several online video trends and updates from the past week including: more updates and changes at YouTube, Comscore’s most recent stats around online video consumption, Viacom’s interest in social tv, and a

A funding round of $35 million went to Machinima, one of YouTube’s most visited sites , to the tune of 1.6 billion views last April, and a lion’s share of the funding came from Google.

Comscore just released a study of online video engagement in Germany , and the results are a continuing testament to the growth of online video outside of the United States.

It’s taken awhile for Google-owned YouTube and Google-owned Google+ to get the two married properly.

Probably the most unheralded videos on the web are how-to videos, and yet, they are some of the most popular.

This week the Reel Web covers a lot of topics including YouTube’s venture into providing premium content, the stats on video sharing apps on mobile devices as well as a couple quick resources on monetizing your videos and looking at your video analytics. Click here to watch this video. YouTube Planning Premium Content Subscription – YouPayWall?

I’m tracking several things coming from Adobe presently.

A year ago, I stuck my neck out and defended Demand Media’s approach to developing great content down on the content farm .

Google-owned YouTube appears to be considering a subscription-based service for premium content, according to the New York Post.

This week on the Reel Web we discuss several video news items from the past week… Google Hangouts On Air launch to all users, the purchase of Revision 3 by Discovery Communications, Amazon looking for original video shows, and more changes