Streaming Mobile Video Service Qiks Into Beta
Qik.com has been ‘qiking’ around for some time but now they’ve kicked things into high gear and have opened up for a public beta. San Mateo, CA based Qik, which is pronounced ‘quick’ strangely enough, are makers of a mobile phone application made to allow users to stream video straight from their mobile phones to ...
Research - Most Popular Video Sites and Categories
Last week, Tubemogul released new research that proves the current dominance of Youtube and demonstrates that videos on Youtube receive more views on average than other video sites, regardless of category. The research also demonstrates that while this is currently the case, other sites like Metacafe are quickly gaining momentum. For those of you that ...
General Advice and Concepts for Video Search Optimization
Glenn Pingul, a friend of ours, and the VP of Marketing at Mixpo, wrote a great post this week on iMediaConnection.com that offers some great general advice and tips to help with video search engine optimization (SEO). Glenn offers some general advice that help with online video marketing tactics and offers some background with regard ...
Tracking Video Ad Performance – Interview With Eyeblaster's Amit Rahav
With increased demands by companies for better measurable results with their marketing and ad spending, online video is the fastest-growing of all the ad formats - making up an greatly-expanding portion of the ad spend ($775 million in the US alone in 2007 - up 89% from 2005 - according to eMarketer), and predictions by ...
Blinkx Private-Label Video Search Services
Video search engine blinkx is the latest video search platform to join the recent trend of video search engine companies who have launched private-label video search services and offerings (Truveo, Youtube, Pixsy, etc..). The new service, dubbed "Red Label," will allow other websites to utilize blinkx video search technology to provide a complete video search ...
80% of Internet PCs Are Ready for HD Video
Just last week, Flash Player senior product manager Justin Everett-Church announced on his blog the newest Flash Player penetration stats. According to the updated penetration stats, 81.7% (in mature markets) of internet connected PCs now have Flash Player 9.0.115. As you may already know, the newest release of Flash player 9 brought the Flash Player ...
Google Adds Speech Recognition To Video Search
At the Official Google Blog, Google announced the availability of a new speech recognition tool for video search. This tool is limited in that it only searches through a set of political videos however it shows a good preview of things to come. The Google Election Video Search Gadget was released in the form of ...
Hi-Res, Self-Service Video Production for SMBs
Animoto, is a web-based application that, with the click of a button, produces videos using images and music that a user selects. Using their patent-pending Artificial Intelligence developed to think like an actual editor & director the service is aimed at consumers and businesses alike. Self-Service Video Production For Business: In late June 2008 they ...
Your Information Is Safe - Youtube Viacom Update
"...We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users' viewing histories and we will not be providing that information. Read the official legalese here. In addition, Viacom and the plaintiffs had originally demanded access to users' private videos, our search technology, and our video ...
75% of US Internet Users Watched Online Video In May
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released May 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 45 percent versus year ago. Fox Interactive Media Increases Market Share In May, Google Sites once again ...
Veoh Launches Behavioral Targeting for Online Video Ads
Veoh Networks ( www.veoh.com), the world's most comprehensive Internet Television service, today announced the launch of a new behavioral targeting system that allows marketers to connect with Veoh viewers based on their video viewing passions and interests. The new system, which is currently in beta, combines video consumption, searching, browsing and community activity data from ...
Mobile Video Apps for The IPhone - Mobile Video IPhone Applications
Apple’s iPhone is changing the way we do, well, just about everything these days. With the release of the 3G version things are really heating up in the mobile market. The 3.5″ 480×320 pixel display makes for a great portable platform for video and with either 8GB or 16GB there is ample space to store ...
Online Video Gets $8 Billion From Investors So Far
Michael Learmonth posted an article last week that outlines the amount of money that has been poured into online video companies and platforms for the last several years: 2005: $1.764 billion 2006: $2.117 billion 2007: $2.009 billion 2008: $453 million - data from DowJones VentureSource Just back in March, we posted that investors had already ...
HTML 5 Video Element - New Open Video Format Tags
HTML is of course the major language of the web. Over time the web grows into new areas not previously envisioned by W3C and the holders of the HTML protocol so from time to time they must bring out a newer, up-to-date, version of the language. The current version of HTML is 4. The next ...
Acrobat Pro 9 – The Video SEO Advantage
SearchEngineLand.com has a feature article today by ReelSEO's Grant Crowell on the latest release by Adobe of their Acrobat line of software. "Acrobat 9 may be the first all-inclusive software program that can implement, distribute and event optimize video for search results, into a user-friendly and inclusive software platform. That's a big plus for most search ...
