Mogulus recently launched in beta and offers people the ability to create their own personalized internet TV channel that can be made up from their own content, live video and from other videos around the web.

The company was founded by Max Haot, former founder and CEO of Interactive Content Factory, a software firm incubated within sports and media firm IMG and was later sold to Verizon Business.

Mogolus has raised about $1.2 million in angel funding, including about $1 million from a “New York-based based Swiss private investor”

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WallStrip is an internet video blog that showcases hot trends in business and stocks at all time highs. The show is hosted by the talented female presenter Lindsey Campbell.

It is rumored that CBS is in the process of acquiring the company for $5 million with Lindsey Campbell being pitched as one of the major reasons for the acquisition. Lindsey could become the internet hostess for CBS’ online shows.

Roo is an online video network that offers turnkey services to website publishers, content producers and advertisers to help them take advantage of the broadband video phenomenon.

Roo has completed a private equity financing with gross proceeds of $25 million, in a common stock transaction. The participants in the transaction are accredited institutional investors, the majority of which are existing investors which include media giant News Corp.

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ScanScout is another video ad-broker start-up promising to deliver relevant in-context advertising for online video broadcasters.

The company has just closed $7 million in its first round of institutional funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from existing angel investors, Ron Conway and First Round Capital.

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MetaCafe will be taking a similar approach to advertising as YouTube by inserting static text-based adverts within video clips on its website.

MetaCafe has partnered with Adap.tv to provide these adverts. Adap.tv is a new online video advertising platform that has just launched publically. The company allows publishers and advertisers to match relevant advertising with online video content.

Adap.tv’s partnership with MetaCafe is very substantial given that MetaCafe is one of the leading video sharing sites and has an estimated 20 million visitors a month.

Those of you living in the UK may have noticed that Virgin Media has recently taken over Blueyonder and is going on an all on assault to become the ultimate media provider in the UK.

Virgin has launched a quadplay package with internet, digital TV, broadband and mobile phone in one subscription, which includes access to virgin’s on-demand IPTV channel, Virgin Central.

Virgin is giving NewsCorp’s BSkyB, the leading TV subscription service in the UK, a good run for its money.

In fact Virgin placed a wasp so far up BSkyB’s ass that BSkyB pulled its Sky channels from the Virgin Media package.

Joost, the new internet TV platform from the makers of Skype and Kazaa, has secured a whopping $45 million dollars in financing from five selected parties.

Investors include CBS, Viacom, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures. Press release follows: