OVGuide.com identified the top destinations for the month of May. The majority of the most popular sites, search terms and genres all consist of long-form content, highlighting the trend that online video viewing is on the rise and continuing to increase in popularity.

Find out the results for May after the jump.

Signiant announces that the National Hockey League has deployed its digital media distribution technology as part of a strategic plan to super-serve avid fans with video content. Using the technology, the NHL will quickly and easily acquire behind-the-scenes content shot in the field, providing a unique video experience to fans via NHL Network Online, and deliver very timely game highlights to NHL arena Jumbotrons. As a result, the League can highly engage its avid fans with video content, as well as expose them to more events taking place League-wide.

The NHL boasts 53 million of the most passionate, technically sophisticated fans in North America, and the League is seeking to capitalize on two marketing opportunities: making NHL.COM the premier online destination to super-serve avid fans with video content from games and behind-the-scenes; and to generate increased interest in events taking place beyond a fan’s local market.

The official UEFA website for the UEFA European Football Championship launched its video service for the forthcoming final tournament - allowing fans worldwide to follow matches live and on demand by downloading highlights and full match reruns.

The video offering is available now on http://video.uefa.com, and the three available options are:

• Matchpack at EUR 1.99 - this includes access to any of more than 8,000 individual matches from the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA European Under-21 Championship, and UEFA European Football Championship since 1992. Users will have access to stream or download highlights or replays of full matches, and can also browse through key match events.
• EURO2008 Pass for EUR 19.99 - this package includes all of the 31 matches in the UEFA EURO 2008 tournament, and users will be able to access full match reruns and highlights.
• Also available are additional annual subscription options with access to All UEFA football season matches, with or without UEFA EURO 2008 matches.

Spike.com has unveiled its groundbreaking new online platform for men. The totally redesigned site, launching on Friday, May 30, offers visitors a new cutting-edge look and feel. Spike.com will feature deeper content channels, a high resolution and full episode video player and advanced social networking. In addition, the new site will feature a slate of original content including a development deal with Playboy.com.

The site marks the full integration of two popular MTVN Web properties: SpikeTV.com and viral video pioneer IFILM. Announced last year, the merger of the two sites into a comprehensive, social multimedia experience with a "Spike Editorial Filter" is designed to further strengthen the network's reach to the coveted 18-34 male demographic.

Amazon.com will launch a streaming video service in the next few weeks to augment its digital offerings, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday.

Jeff Bezos, speaking at The Wall Street Journal's three-day D: All Things Digital conference taking place north of San Diego, did not elaborate, and a company spokeswoman would not provide more information.

The Seattle-based company has been beefing up its digital media offerings in order to better compete with rivals such as Apple, which dominates the category with the popular iTunes music download service.

Sparked by increasing broadband penetration and rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, over-the-top video has seen phenomenal growth in very recent years. A new study from ABI Research forecasts the number of viewers who access video via the Web to nearly quadruple in the next few years, reaching at least one billion in 2013.

Increasingly, the methods used to deliver this content are changing, in order to reduce the strain on broadband networks. These include content distribution networks that cache content closer to the user, peer-to-peer networks which leverage users’ PCs, and hybrid networks which combine these two approaches.

AOL announces the next steps in its ambitious global expansion effort with the international launch of AOL Video. The new offerings will let consumers find and watch millions of videos in Canada, India and Taiwan without having to visit multiple websites. Additional plans are underway to launch video portals in the United Kingdom, France and Germany in the fall. The portal launches build on the success of the international launch of the Truveo video search engine, which recently unveiled sites in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey and United Kingdom.

With significant growth in the Chinese market, the forecasts for User-Generated Video use and revenue have shifted upward since last year, reports In-Stat. And with expectations of higher quality content and increasing file size maximums, the demands on bandwidth will likely continue to grow at a faster rate than the number of files/videos served, the high-tech market research firm says.

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

• Total worldwide UGV revenue is expected to eclipse US$1.19 billion by 2012.
• 160 billion UGV served videos are forecasted for 2012.
• Individuals who use mobile phones to participate in online video sites are most likely to contribute to the market.

StumbleUpon announces the addition of six new content providers to StumbleVideo, including: College Humor, Funny or Die, Vimeo, Dailymotion, veoh.com and vbs.tv. These six new sites are added to StumbleUpon's current list of content providers including YouTube, Google, MySpace and Metacafe.

Launched in December 2006, StumbleVideo discovers videos based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more. Each video on StumbleVideo has been discovered and rated by StumbleUpon's fast growing community of 5 million users.

PBS has chosen thePlatform to power its new online video initiative that will significantly increase the amount of PBS video available on both pbs.org and local PBS station web sites. PBS will use thePlatform, to publish and manage its national broadband video programming on its web sites, including pbs.org, pbskids.org, pbsparents.org, and pbsteachers.org. The agreement also allows PBS to enable online video distribution of national programming to PBS member stations and their respective Web sites. In addition, local PBS stations will have access to thePlatform's publishing system and video player technology to publish locally-produced content to their individual Web sites and to make it available to other local PBS stations.

DivX and Revision3 announce an agreement that will bring Revision3’s hit online shows to television viewers through the DivX Connected platform. The agreement will enable consumers to easily access many of their favorite Revision3 channels like PixelPerfect and Diggnation on any DivX Connected device. Revision3 offers a number of online channels featuring compelling, original video content. Through DivX Connected, Revision3 will be able to extend the audience for these popular programs beyond the web and into the living room.

Aniboom has grown its network of branded internet channels through partnerships with five key online video platforms, bringing its animations and cartoons to an online audience of more than 140 million viewers. Aniboom content is now available online via Dailymotion, Metacafe, Veoh Networks, blip.TV and blinkx. The expansion of Aniboom’s online network follows the company’s massive success with the Aniboom-branded channel on YouTube, which has garnered more than 15 million views in its first eight months. The newly-increased online reach of Aniboom content is a boon for the company’s community of independent creators across the globe, who will see an enormous boost in the exposure given to their animations, the buzz they build for their careers and the revenues they share with the animation network.

Vusion announces its formal company launch, leaving behind its stealth-mode name of 'Jittr Networks'. Vusion will deliver the industry's first end-to-end online video distribution service capable of providing the scalability and reach to serve true HD and DVD quality video to 95 percent of all broadband consumers.

The high bandwidth fees and limited reach of current content delivery technologies has made streaming video a loss leader for even the most highly trafficked web properties. Vusion's technology has been designed to answer the great demand among media companies and content providers for an end-to-end service to efficiently monetize assets through the delivery of high-quality video over the standard Internet.

ClipBlast! unveils ClipBlast! Playbox, a detached, cross-platform viewer frame that can play video from sources across the Video Web. ClipBlast!’s patent-pending Playbox technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering video content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities.

ClipBlast! Playbox can be launched from a web page by clicking on text and image links. When launched, Playbox “floats” on top of the page, and can be dragged and positioned as the viewer chooses. As Playbox is launched, users can watch, save and send videos; expand to full screen; see other video recommendations; and continue to scroll through web page content while the video plays without ever leaving the site.

VancouverIAM.com is set to change the way internet TV and video journalism is created and the way Vancouverites interact with and view their city. VancouverIAM.com is a unique online platform and new destination for people who want to know what's going on in Vancouver. It provides Vancouverites with the tools and support to become video journalists, Internet TV and film producers, and active commentators on local politics and everyday issues about life in Vancouver. VancouverIAM.com is also providing specialized Internet TV channels to a range of local organizations that already include Vancouver Film School, Greenpeace Canada, Women in Film & Television Vancouver and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.