Last week's acquisition of LiveRail by Facebook was the latest in a busy year of M&A deals and financings in the video industry. Across the spectrum of advertising, content, distribution, mobile and management/publishing, bigger industry players continue positioning themselves for the online/mobile video future, while innovative startups filling key needs continue getting lots of attention from investors.

I keep pretty close track of all the activity on VideoNuze and below is a summary of the 2014 video industry M&A and financings that I'm aware of (apologies in advance, I'm sure I've missed a few; if so, send over and I'll update). I've included links to appropriate coverage or press releases.

M&A Deals (listed by date)

July 2 - Facebook - LiveRail

June 24 - Opera - AdColony

June 19 - Twitter - SnappyTV

June 19 - Google - mDialog

May 20 - Samsung - ShelbyTV

May 18 - AT&T - DirecTV

May 6 - ExtremeReach - BrandAds

May 2 - Kaltura - Tvinci

April 24 - Fandango - Movieclips

April 2 - AwesomenessTV - BigFrame

March 24 - Disney - Maker Studios

March 6 - Comcast - FreeWheel

Feb 24 - Rovi - Veveo

Feb 13 - Comcast - Time Warner Cable

Feb 10 - Conversant - SET Media

Feb 6 - Ericsson - Azuki

Jan 29 - TiVo - Digitalsmiths

Jan 6 - Brightcove - Unicorn

(In addition to these confirmed deals, there were also rumors YouTube intends to acquire Twitch and that VEVO is shopping itself.)


Financings (listed by size)

AT&T - Peter Chernin OTT venture ($500M)

Kaltura ($47M)

Zefr ($30M)

Tastemade ($25M)

Machinima ($18M)

Wochit ($11M)

Genesis Media ($10M)

MiTu ($10M)

Boxfish ($7M)

OwnZones ($5.9M)

Jivox ($5.8M)

Young Turks ($4M)

Vidible ($3.35M)

Vessel (undisclosed)