They announced it today thru emails to everyone in the beta testing program and at the NYC meetup.
We haven't ever used in video programming and have no plans to-and there seems to be no ill effects from letting the system choose the featured video for subscribers. We originally thought that our normal featured video (our monthly main show) would have lower views since it's no longer the featured video to everyone, but it's been more successful than any others with over 80k views in the first 30 days.