[tag]ClipSyndicate[/tag] announced the beta launch of their updated video publishing platform today, which enables the easy syndication of video content for Web site publishers and content providers. If you’re a video content provider, you can reach a larger audience of viewers through online syndication of your content, and if you’re a Web site publisher, you can draw from a large source of video content to host on your site.

ClipSyndicate stores and serves the video content, delivering to your site a thumbnail image, headline and link that pops open a ClipSyndicate player. It’s not quite as seemless a user experience as serving embedded video clips directly from your site, but it allows ClipSyndicate to serve advertising from their player, which is apparently the foundation of their revenue model. Pricing for Web Publishers includes a  “free service” in which you share in whatever ad revenue your traffic drives, or a “paid service” in which you can extend your own ad sales by selling advertising for the ClipSyndicate network.

One useful feature of the new ClipSyndicate platform is SmartChannel, which lets you save a set of video content search parameters that you can export to an RSS reader for automatic alerts on new content, or to publish straight to your site authomatically.

 You can sign up for the beta at the ClipSyndicate site.