Visible Measures, a video analytics company that is also a video network, on Tuesday said it had raised $21.5 million in new funding, bringing its total funding to date to $65 million. The new funds will be used to expand the company's video advertising platform.

AOL's Huffington Post Media Group on Monday launched HuffPost Live, a new live streaming news network that aims to heavily involve its users in the creation and dissemination of news.

AOL on Friday unveiled version 2.0 of its connected TV app, which it is renaming AOL On, after the video hub the Web giant launched earlier this year. Among other things, the relaunch features a new design and interface that makes it easier for advertisers to insert pre-rolls within the app and across AOL's various platform partners.

AwesomenessTV, one of the new channels launched this summer as part of YouTube's 100 channels initiative, has secured $3.5 million in funding from a group of investors led by MK Capital, a venture capital firm that has invested in other original YouTube content makers, including Machinima, the number one channel on the video-sharing site.

You're not alone if you're wondering why Apple is dropping its YouTube app from forthcoming versions of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system. Predictably, neither company is saying much, but speculation is rife among analysts and industry execs that Google actually wanted the iOS-YouTube deal between the companies to expire.

Affectiva, a Massachusetts-based startup whose technology measures emotional response through a Web camera, secured $12 million in Series C funding in a round backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Digital Growth Fund and Li Ka-shing's Horizon Ventures, with participation from existing investors.

The most surprising thing about Unruly Media's Global Ads Chart for July, which measures the ads that received the most shares during the month, is that only one of the ads in the Top 10 can be directly tied to the 2012 London Olympics. That would be P&G's "Best Job" spot, which was shared nearly 47,000 times in July, despite being released in April.

Most marketer and agency executives anticipate increasing their digital video advertising spend this year, according to a new study from Advertiser Perceptions -- and a good portion of the momentum will come from the combined deployment of video creative across TV and digital platforms.