NeuLion announces a new long-term partnership with the American Hockey League to bring a one-of-a-kind online experience to fans worldwide using NeuLion technology beginning with the 2008-09 season.

AHL Live is now available via ahllive.com showcasing high-quality live AHL games not available anywhere else on the Internet. AHL Live offers hockey fans an opportunity to tune into their favorite team with a simple Internet connection. This subscription-based service gives fans an all-access pass to watch live games for the entire season or on a pay-per-view basis, as well as access to live game audio and archived games.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report "The Bandwidth Debate: Video and Net Neutrality" to their offering.

Video is creating huge increases in bandwidth usage. It currently generates more traffic in the US than was transmitted across the entire Internet backbone in 2000. While the Internet is not about to collapse, as video becomes the primary online delivery vehicle for entertainment, news and sports, the system will strain.

Dailymotion launches player that will provide improved video playback quality for Dailymotion’s users around the world. The release of the new Dailymotion HQ video player provides Dailymotion’s global audience of over 37 million unique visitors with the best possible web video and audio experience without requiring any additional bandwidth.

When it comes to advertising, not all online video viewers are created equal, according to a new commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Veoh Networks. Released today, “Watching The Web: How Online Video Engages Audiences” reveals that while some online video viewers still only “snack” on short clips, there exists a large audience of young, influential, engaged viewers who watch a great deal of long-form online video and pay attention to the brand messages delivered to them in online video environments.

YouTube collaborates with iTunes and Amazon.com that offers the YouTube community direct access to buy and download music, games, and other products with a few clicks of a mouse. This is a first step to building a broader eCommerce platform for content partners and users on YouTube.

The YouTube eCommerce Platform will be rolled out on a larger scale over the coming months to allow partners across all industries including music, film, TV, and publishing to generate additional revenue from their content beyond the advertising we serve against their videos. Just as YouTube users can share, favorite, comment on, and respond to videos with a single click, now users can click-to-buy products -- like songs, books and movies -- related to the content they're watching on the site

During a morning keynote at Contentonomics in Los Angeles, Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform, disclosed that thePlatform's clients, as tracked by comScore's Video Metrix, had a combined total of 329 million video views in July of 2008.

Compared to the leading U.S. online video properties, thePlatform's volume of video ranks it third in terms of the amount of video the company manages. However, unlike Google (including YouTube) and Fox Interactive Media (including MySpace), which rank first and second respectively, the video managed by thePlatform is all premium video from leading media companies, nearly all of which is monetized through advertising.

Akamai launches Openvideoplayer.com, a community site and industry initiative intended to facilitate the development and sharing of open standards and best practices for video player applications that support a wide range of advertising technologies.

Leading advertising technology companies, ad servers, video solution providers and platform companies have joined to provide industry best practices for online video player development. Inaugural partners include: 24/7 Real Media, Adobe Corporation, BlackArrow, Clickability, EyeWonder, KickApps, Microsoft Corporation, OpenX, Panache, ScanScout and smartclip.

Dailymotion launches its new localized Canadian site, located at www.dailymotion.com/ca-fr or www.dailymotion.com/ca-en. Dailymotion's Canadian launch will further extend the site's reach in a key North American market. Building on several key international launches this year, the expansion also brings the number of international editorialized homepages to sixteen.

Akamai is powering Metacafe. Late last year, Metacafe implemented a combination of Akamai’s media delivery and rich media site acceleration solutions to optimize the delivery of rich, heavy web pages, videos and dynamic content, in turn creating a 30 percent improvement in video start time. This improvement has contributed to significant growth in both page views and video views on Metacafe, up 44 and 53 percent respectively between January and July 2008.

Truveo’s video search engine provides the most comprehensive results of any major search engine online, according to an extensive study conducted by the search engine team. The study, conducted in August, looked at how well Truveo, Blinkx, Google Video, Microsoft Live Video Search and Yahoo! Video Search covered the top 100 Alexa-rated news, sports, TV, music and movie sites that have video content. The study showed that Truveo covered 86 of those sites; Blinkx covered 20; Microsoft Live Video Search covered 17; Google Video covered three and Yahoo! Video Search covered two.

OVGuide.com unveiled a new search engine that makes finding online video more precise, fast and thorough than other alternatives on the Web. Powered by OVGuide.com's proprietary Relevis technology, the search engine combines technology and human editorial to find the most relevant online video search results on the Web. It is the most accurate solution in the industry as it doesn't rely solely on algorithms and crawling text -- it has the added advantage of the OVGuide.com editorial team, which categorizes each site based on its content.

Mixpo and Comcast Spotlight agree to enable clients’ to turn existing on-air video advertising assets into online video advertising units, using Mixpo’s patent-pending platform. Now, local advertising clients in Comcast Cable markets across the country can take advantage of Comcast’s online advertising opportunities, including placement of online video ads in standard display ad areas on Comcast.net, a top U.S. Website and the portal for more than 14.6 million High-Speed Internet subscribers, or Vehix.com, a leading automotive portal owned by Comcast.

Husky Media launched its latest version, Husky 2.0: a faster, easier and completely restructured version of the Husky Media technology.

Husky 2.0’s new features include:

• Husky Help Mode – Husky’s most ambitious new feature is “Help Mode,” which alerts publishers when there is an error on their page, displaying a message containing the solution.
• Husky In-Page – The Husky “In-Page” allows publishers to show Husky ads inside their pages, as opposed to inside a light-box. This new layout presents publishers with the least-intrusive advertisements possible.
• Husky Fixed Window – Husky has added a “Fixed Window” mode, which is similar to the light-box except for two things: the screen behind the ads is no longer grayed so users can still see what else is on the page, and Husky ads can now stay in the same spot, allowing users to scroll down and see other content further down the page.

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comScore released data from the comScore Video Metrix service, indicating that more than 27.4 million U.K. Internet users (78 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience) viewed 3.2 billion videos online in June 2008. comScore Video Metrix, which was the first to market in the U.S. more than two years ago, has become the leading service for online video measurement and is the only service of its kind in the U.K.

blinkx has selected NeuStar’s UltraDNS Managed DNS Services to augment the performance, reliability, and scalability of the blinkx network infrastructure and to take advantage of NeuStar’s innovative suite of traffic management services.

Unlike other multimedia search engines that attempt to repurpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a combination of patented conceptual search, speech recognition, and video analysis software to efficiently find and qualify online video. Today, blinkx is the world’s largest single index of rich media content on the Internet, with an index of over 26 million hours of s