CIO recently published an article about how the poor economy might positively effect the video resume industry. Here is the article.

My thoughts about video resumes are fairly public and can be found in a 3 part series titled "Why Video Resumes Won't become Mainstream"
Part I
Part II
Part III

That being said and semantics aside, I agree that the influx of more than 500,000 candidates into the marketplace in just November alone will likely help boost "video in hiring" videos.