Why didn't Adap.tv go public? It had intended an IPO, though the public was generally unaware of that.

Relles, YouTube's head of program strategy, talks about how to make a video viewers will share. 

It’s been almost three weeks since publishing group Future discovered that hackers were attempting to exploit a vulnerability in the online forum of its PCGamer site.

Yahoo is planning the debut of five new series in September, "binge" style, so viewers can watch an entire season in one sitting.

Sometimes YouTube posts humiliate the subjects. When news sites use the footage to point to the problem, they also perpetuate it. News organizations should learn how help obscure the identity of individuals by using YouTube’s face blur tool.

Television is no longer the only game in town for distributing and watching video. The Internet and the social web have provided content creators and advertisers with a cost-effective way to distribute video. "Social" video is video that is influenced - in any part of the pipeline, from production to distribution - by social media. For audiences, discovery is no longer about flipping through channels or a TV guide, it's about listening to friends' recommendations and glancing at social media feeds.

In its quest to make online video more interactive, easy to maintain, and ultimately more useful for businesses, Boulder, Colo.-based FlixMaster announced today that it's changing its name to Rapt Media. The company originally targeted its platform at both enterprises and mainstream users, but it quickly found that its audience was more experienced than it expected. As FlixMaster, it developed a platform that made it simple for businesses to put interactive video on the web and play it across devices (the company just announced support for the iPhone and Android).