Dailymotion announces the addition of multiple innovative video-based advertising options, augmenting the company's existing menu of ad formats and integrated branding opportunities. This announcement confirms Dailymotion's format-agnostic approach of delivering a range of options to allow advertisers to pick the format that best fits their communication needs.

Dailymotion's new advertising options include:

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ExerciseTV has partnered with thePlatform to grow and expand the video offerings on its fitness destination site. thePlatform is working with ExerciseTV to publish free web video workouts, clips, and download-to-own fitness titles in support of the fitness network's online storefront.

ExerciseTV boasts over 5 million views a month for its television on-demand offering and is one of the only places online where consumers can purchase and then download workouts to their PCs, iPODs and other portable video devices. Overall, thePlatform is handling the publishing and management of ExerciseTV's original library of over 200 download-to-own fitness titles featuring many of the nation's most popular trainers. The partnership will help ExerciseTV expand its viewership by syndicating the programmer's original content to other destination sites. In addition, ExerciseTV has customized the look and feel of the site's Flash-based players using thePlatform's mpsPresent Player Development Kit.

USA TODAY LIVE announces a new line-up of television and online projects for 2008. USA TODAY LIVE will partner with Fuse, the national music television network, VERSUS and MOJO HD on a variety of series-based programming, in addition to continuing to create regular online video features for USATODAY.com.

City Limits Fishing is a six-part weekly series on VERSUS which highlights places where anglers regularly catch limits of fish in not so far-off, exotic destinations. City Limits Fishing will travel to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Chicago, Tampa and Sacramento showing secret places within cities where the fishing is world class. The show premieres Friday, Feb. 15.

MTV Networks unveils its targeted online syndication strategy, announcing partnerships with select, first-class online video sites to deliver a vast library of short and long-form video content from MTVN's popular music, kids and family, comedy and pop-culture brands. These sites include Dailymotion, GoFish, imeem, MeeVee and Veoh, and join AOL, Bebo, Comcast's Fancast, Joost and MSN to comprise MTVN's portfolio of online syndication partners.

MTVN's targeted online syndication strategy will enable the company to build dynamic relationships with its partners across the globe and work closely with them to enhance their content offerings. The company will collaborate with each site to engage users, co-market and optimize MTVN's programming line-up, and use filtering technologies to ensure copyright protection. All of MTVN's partner sites will carry individual channels for each participating MTVN brand, streaming ad-supported video clips free to the consumer. Like MTVN's own branded websites, the partner sites will enable global audiences to embed MTVN clips on their own blogs, social networking pages or websites.

Sony Pictures Television debuts the first of several YouTube Brand Channels at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show. The first of the ad-supported Channels will be The Minisode Network.

With its launch on YouTube, The Minisode Network, which delivers approximately five-minute versions of popular television shows, will grow from 18 to 21 series with the addition of "Married, With Children," "Newsradio" and a new animation block. Additionally, TMN has begun acquiring programs from other companies, including a recent deal with World Events Productions, distributors of "Voltron" and "Saber Rider."

DivX and Veoh announce an agreement that will bring Veoh’s leading Internet television service to viewers through the DivX Connected platform. The partnership will enable consumers to easily access many of their favorite Web videos from Veoh on a variety of consumer electronics devices.

Under the terms of the agreement, Veoh will make some of its most exciting and unique video content from its popular Veoh.com site accessible on DivX Connected devices, extending the content experience beyond the limits of the PC and into the living room. The first DivX Connected device available to consumers from D-Link is presently for sale online in the UK, France, and Germany and will be released in the US in 2008.

Macrovision and CinemaNow have integrated their technologies to enable consumers to acquire premium video content and download it directly from CinemaNow to a Macrovision-enabled consumer electronics devices such as digital television sets, set-top boxes, and network attached storage devices.

With this technology integration, consumers can expect to register their Macrovision-enabled hardware at CinemaNow.com, allowing them to watch one of the largest online selections of movies, TV shows and music videos on their television by using the selected device. Macrovision’s technology will also enable the devices to find, stream and playback other personal content stored anywhere on the home network.

Truveo's index has exceeded 100 million online videos. By way of illustration, if each of these were a DVD and stacked one atop the other, the pile would reach nearly 75 miles high. Based on current growth rates, Truveo expects the online video universe to reach one billion searchable videos by 2009.

For the past four years, Truveo has operated one of the largest and most comprehensive video search engines on the Internet. During this time, the Truveo search engine has been continuously scouring the Web, tracking videos that have become available online.

VODone welcomes the Regulations on the Administration of Internet Audio-Visual Program Service, promulgated by The State Administration of Radio, Movie and Television and Ministry of Information Industry on 29 December 2007, that will formally come into force starting from 31 January 2008.

According to the captioned Regulation, any application related to the engagement of Internet audio-visual program services, including production, editing, integration and provision of audio-visual programs to be made available to the public through the Internet, as well as uploading and broadcasting internet visual program services for them, will be limited to state-owned enterprises or companies held by an SOE.

msnbc.com debuted the beta version of its new video player. The new player provides both consumers and advertisers with an immersive and visually compelling TV-like viewing experience with a large, high-quality video stream, nearly instantaneous video start, and a full screen viewing mode option.

With the introduction of the player, msnbc.com is redefining the online video experience by making it easier and more enjoyable for consumers to watch and discover video news stories. Consumers now have more control over their video experience, and can use the news menu-style navigation tools to browse and shift seamlessly between each video segment. Msnbc.com's new time-based ad serving also gives consumers the ability to watch several different video clips without seeing another ad for at least three minutes.

MTV and Paramount Pictures are unleashing "JACKASS 2.5," the first-ever, studio-backed feature streamed in its entirety online. JACKASS 2.5 will be made available for free courtesy of BLOCKBUSTER at blockbuster.jackassworld.com beginning December 19th through December 31st, 2007. To mark this unprecedented event, Johnny Knoxville delivered a special message to the media on jackassworld.com, a new site and joint venture of MTV Networks and Dickhouse Productions that officially launches February 9th, 2008.

JACKASS 2.5 is every bit as unbelievable as the preceding movies, combining stunts, pranks and all new lows. JACKASS 2.5 includes never-before-seen footage and interviews, and features long-standing cast members Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Steve-O, Ehren McGhehey, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Preston Lacy and Ryan Dunn.

ClipBlast! Version 3.0 released. Acting in effect as a “remote control for the Video Web,” the new release represents a major enhancement of ClipBlast!'s video search platform, with improvements that promise a richer, easier and more relevant experience for advertisers and content providers and the video viewers they aim to reach.

At the heart of ClipBlast! 3.0 is the Intelligent Index, which matches the content of the ad with the content of the video. Rather than relying exclusively on the content provider's description and metadata—which can be subjective or even nonexistent— ClipBlast!'s Intelligent Index uses proprietary

Truveo has unveiled video search sites for seven additional countries: Australia, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia and Turkey. This expansion establishes Truveo’s presence in 16 of the top 20 Internet countries and enables it to better serve its rapidly growing base of worldwide users.

Each new Truveo international destination features popular, high-quality video of regional interest and allows users to search and discover videos in their native language. These sites join Truveo’s rapidly growing family of video search sites, which also include: France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Nielsen Company and Digimarc Corporation launch a new service 'Nielsen Digital Media Manager' that will enable media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user generated content sites to monitor and manage the distribution of media content across the Internet.

Nielsen Digital Media Manager will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to establish an industry-wide rules-based solution to copyright security and to assure copyright compliance. By providing a more reliable way to track content, the service will help clients realize the value of their digital content, promote the expansion of Internet-distributed media and facilitate a number of revenue streams, including ad-pairing, e-commerce, royalty reporting and others.

Scripps Networks has selected Maven to power its online video offerings. The highly scalable Maven Internet TV Platform and industry-leading video advertising system will enable Scripps to quickly deliver and monetize branded video content throughout the company’s Web sites and broadband channels.

Scripps Networks will leverage the Maven Internet TV Platform to easily manage and distribute hundreds of hours of short- and long-form lifestyle video through seamless integration with existing content management systems. Maven’s syndication features will speed video feeds and enable the publication of a multitude of customized players, helping Scripps further strengthen its leading lifestyle brands throughout its own sites and other online communities.