IBM’s second global online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services -- such as social networking and videos -- on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits.

The survey, which was conducted with 2,800 people in six countries -- Australia, Germany, India, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. -- also shows that people are willing to get personal with advertisers by sharing information about themselves if it results in targeted incentives that match their lifestyle. This presents companies with significant advertising revenue opportunities among today’s informed and empowered consumers.

blinkx reached a new growth milestone: with an index of over 32 million hours of online TV and video and more than 420 content partners, blinkx gives users a single point of access to the largest and most diverse array of rich media content on the Web.

AT&T launches the public beta of VideoCrawler, an innovative new Web application designed to provide a better way for people to search for, organize and share online videos and other multimedia content. Developed in collaboration with Divvio, VideoCrawler indexes hundreds of millions of video clips from thousands of sites, with new sites and millions of clips added every day. Enter a search term and you’ll receive consolidated results from across this vast index. From there, you can organize your favorites into collections, which you can choose to keep private or share with others via the VideoCrawler site or social networking widgets.

MGM and YouTube announced a multiple channel commitment that kicks off with "Impact," a channel dedicated to promoting MGM's VOD high octane action programming, and "American Gladiators", a channel which showcases highlights and full episodes from the classic show that took America by storm during the 1980s and 1990s.

Brightcove and Conde Nast Publications announce a corporate-wide deal enabling the publisher to use the Brightcove online video platform to launch advertising-supported video initiatives across the company's websites. The first Conde Nast websites to launch with Brightcove include Wired.com, Portfolio.com, Glamour.com, Parade.com, and Self.com.

Nielsen Online finds that all four television networks enjoyed month-over-month growth in online video viewers in September, coinciding with the season premieres of many popular and new television shows. NBC.com had the largest increase in video viewers, growing 312 percent month-over-month, followed by FOX Broadcasting and ABC.com, with 165 percent and 105 percent growth, respectively.

MySpace and Auditude have partnered with MTV to enable advertising opportunities within audience-uploaded videos across MySpace. Through this relationship, Auditude provides the opportunity for advertising to be inserted across a suite of MTV Networks’ most popular video content uploaded to MySpace, including clips from MTV and COMEDY CENTRAL, among others. This agreement enables all parties – publishers, content owners, advertisers, and fans – to benefit from the organic distribution of premium video on the Web.

CBS.com leads all other TV Network Web sites in unique monthly viewers (6.1 MM), video streams (44.4 MM) and minutes streamed (143 MM), according to comScore Video Metrix (Sept. 2008). This marks the second consecutive month that CBS.com has led the other broadcast networks in metrics across the board. CBS.com also experienced double digit growth in unique viewers month over month (16%) and year over year (60%), and triple digit growth in streams over last year (107%).

Clipta has secured $500,000 in financing through Angel investment. In addition, Clipta also revealed it has successfully implemented the advanced self-learning deep Web crawler technology that will propel the company toward its goal of indexing one billion online videos worldwide by 2010.

Clipta.com has operated as one of the fastest growing worldwide video search provider since its first release in May of 2008. Over six months, Clipta's servers indexed approximately 35 million videos. Based on dramatic growth in online video and with the onset of Clipta's new deep crawling technology, Clipta expects to meaningfully index all searchable and available online videos.

comScore released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that 25.9 million German Internet users viewed more than 3 billion videos online in August 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first video tracking service introduced in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become a leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in Germany.

AOL will adopt Brightcove for online video content management, publishing and video playback throughout the AOL Network. This partnership will combine AOL's video content offerings with Brightcove's market-leading online video platform. Beginning in early 2009, AOL Programming and AOL Video (http://video.aol.com) programming partners will use Brightcove to deliver video to the millions of people who visit AOL sites each day. Brightcove's integration with AOL's global advertising platform, Platform-A, will also expand opportunities for content partners to monetize video with online advertising.

NYTimes.com launches a new video platform that introduces video into more sections of the site and provides enhanced user functionality. This new platform emphasizes The Times’s strong commitment to video as an important journalistic medium. Players, now using a high-definition format, are available on the home page, article pages, in blogs and in the video library, making video an even more integral component of the NYTimes.com experience.

BroadbandTV tops YouTube Canada's Entertainment Most Viewed Charts this past month by taking spots at #1, #2 and #4 and YouTube Global Entertainment Most Viewed Charts this past weekend by taking spots at #4, and #6.

BroadbandTV's YouTube portfolio includes 20 channels with more than 7000 premium uploaded video assets. All together, BroadbandTV's content licenses garner more than 13 million monthly views. With a dramatic 17% month over month growth rate, BroadbandTV is creating a large and valuable inventory of contextually relevant advertising impressions. Advertisers can choose which video content they would like to have their ads associated with.

Limelight Networks has expanded into additional Switch and Data sites to provide 100% availability, and fast and reliable delivery for its customers’ rich digital media. The announcement was made at Limelight’s Digital Media Innovation Forum, held today in, Phoenix, AZ.

MediaMelon launches its Video Overlay Network, an application-layer software-enabled network to significantly improve the profitability of online videos for content distributors and their service providers while also enhancing the consumer viewing experience.