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Clicker is adding Clicker Mobile and Clicker Social to the roster of ways the LA startup is trying to meet its mission to be the guide to internet video. Clicker Mobile includes free apps for Android (due today) and iPhone (waiting approval) with guides to videos that actually play on…

HP’s Snapfish—which currently is primarily an online photo storage service—is expanding into video with the purchase of video sharing site Motionbox. HP (NYSE: HPQ) says it will integrate Motionbox’s platform, which lets users upload, edit and share their personal videos, into its own Snapfish Home Video service, which has some…

YouTube will dole out $5 million in grants to some of its top video uploaders in its latest move to up the quality of clips on its site. The site says in a blog post that while many of its contributors “have been able to produce incredible videos” and “generate…

Webisode syndicator Next New Networks celebrated its one-billionth pageview last week—three years after opening its doors. The New York company’s stats show that getting viewers hasn’t been a problem: It claims more than 65 million views per month across its 25 networks, 50 original series and 8,000 webisodes; the video…

Nearly 2.3 million people tuned in to TMZ.com’s live stream of Lindsay Lohan’s day in court on Tuesday, July 6, in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel sentenced the troubled starlet to 90 days in jail and 90 days at an in-patient rehab program. That’s by far the…

YouTube’s latest attempt to get people to watch more videos is a service called Leanback, which keeps on playing a selection of full-screen clips until you tell it to stop. YouTube calls it “effortless viewing” and users don’t have to select anything. Instead, the non-stop lineup is determined by a…

YouTube is giving its mobile site an overhaul, which is designed to bring much of the functionality of the YouTube website to the mobile version, which the company now says gets more than 100 million views a day. In a blog post announcing the changes, YouTube says the new mobile…

Move Networks, the heavily-backed online video technology company, has been put up for sale, after it had difficulty raising additional cash, according to various reports. A company representative hasn’t responded to our inquiry yet. The company confirms it has retained a financial advisor to evaluate “strategic alternatives, including a possible…

The news that Hulu was finally unveiling a subscription service broke during a press gathering at Google’s Chelsea Market. A few minutes earlier, Baljeet Singh,YouTube’s senior product manager was discussing an ongoing beta test of an “ad-skipping” button that the Google-owned video site expects to fully release by the end…

Bitbop, Fox Mobile’s subscription-based TV program showcase, has made its debut on Research in Motion’s BlackBerry this week and is now preparing to begin beta tests on Google’s Android system. The beta will launch in two weeks, Joe Bilman, Fox Mobile’s EVP, Global Products, told paidContent in an interview. In…

Extreme Reach, which sells a digital platform that advertisers can use to deliver their video ads to TV stations and websites, has raised $9 million in a second round of funding. Extreme Reach says that since its start two years ago it has delivered ads from “several hundred” ad agencies…

Last week, AOL (NYSE: AOL) began talking up its plans for a stripped down “super network” content strategy. This week, the company is unveiling a “superstar network” that will serve to promote its entertainment offerings in partnership with the production company run by tween sensation The Jonas Brothers, the NYT…

The first big leadership change in Hulu’s young career: Eric Feng, the founding CTO and SVP of audience recruited by CEO Jason Kilar from Beijing to help create the video portal now known as Hulu, is leaving media for green tech. Feng will be a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield…

Electus, the branded content studio run by former NBC exec Ben Silverman, has released a sponsored series from its recent partnership with comic actors Jason Bateman and Will Arrent. The two stars, late of Fox’s too-quirky-for-primetime Arrested Development, are running their own mini-branded content studio within Electus called DumbDumb. The…

Two reports out today suggest big shifts in how people are interacting with online video content: —eMarketer says that while online video watching overall continues to increase, streaming and downloading of full-length content—like movies and shows—is increasing at a much faster rate. In fact, the research firm says the percentage…

Herb Scannell, the former MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) executive who went on to start online video producer Next New Networks, has been named president of BBC Worldwide America. It’s been almost two years since Scannell stepped down as CEO of Next New to become the online video company’s chairman. Scannell…

Publicis Groupe’s digital unit VivaKi is opening its online video research initiative, The Pool, in China with a long list of marketers and content sites. The Pool launched in the U.S. only in January ‘09 and this makes China the second market to be included in the project, which is…

News Corp.‘s digital focus rests primarily on ways to make money from extending its TV programming, movies, newspapers and other properties, said News Corp (NYSE: NWS). COO Chase Carey in a talk with Paley Center’s Max Robins. At the other end of the company’s digital spectrum is MySpace, which continues…