Mediashift Focuses on Online Advertising

In case you haven’t clicked on every link in our blogroll (but why haven’t you?), head on over to Mark Glaser’s MediaShift blog. Mark spoke to a number of industry leaders about the state of online video advertising, and I must say that its one of the most balanced pieces you’ll get to read.

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AdMeld Grabs $5 Mil

Congrats to OVW friend Ben Barokas, CEO of AdMeld, for raising $5 million from the Foundry Group and Spark Capital.

PaidContent called the group “Stealthy,” in their reporting of the funds, and as someone close to the AdMeld team, I can assure you that has been their intention. Without tipping too much, AdMeld will be leveraging [...]

NY Video 2.0 Meetup

In case you couldn’t make it, here’s what you missed. Presenters included Hulu’s Kevin McGurn, Move Networks’ Bob Bryson, Boxee’s Avner Ronen, MediaMerx’s Tejpaul Bhatia,and Matt Cutler from Visible Measures.

TubeMogul Top 40: At Least Someone’s Counting

TubeMogul released their ranking of the top 40 sites using their service. While the results are interesting, as Andrew points out they tell a far from complete story. Still, the list shows a clearer picture of independent online video traffic than anyone else has released to date.

Vimeo News: Traffic, Visualization, Meetup

Vimeo is always fun to watch because they clearly have a lot of fun with what they’re doing. Vimeo Director of Development Andrew Pile announced on his blog that the company recently served over one million videos in 24 hours, and the company “has quadrupled in size in pretty much every dimension in less than [...]