ReelSEO Posts from October, 2008

Online Video Dictionary - Review of Wordia Video Dictionary

Wordia n. Pronunciation: ˈwərdia-ə,hī- 1) A website dedicated to allowing users to create videos to be used as definitions of words. Self-proclaimed ‘democratic visual dictionary.’ Owned by awesome television; half television production company, half software company, led by television development producer Edward Baker. What is it? Alright, for the better definition of Wordia I’ll sum ...

MediaMelon Launches New Video Overlay Network (VON)

Even thought HD video is still a ways off in terms of being available to the masses online, strong progress has been made recently by some companies with a goal of efficiently delivering HD video via IP networks to millions of consumers.   MediaMelon is one of these networks who's goal is to improve the ...

Brightcove's New Video Platform Available Now - Brightcove 3

Back in July, we posted that Brightcove had launched a new version of their online video publishing platform in beta to selected customers.  Today, they have made the platform, "Brightcove 3" available to all.  The new platform is much improved from an SEO standpoint.  Amoung other enhancements, their new platform offers the ability to integrate ...

New Collective Interactive Online Video Based Think Tank - The Big Think Coming Soon

Big Fuel, the consumer engagement agency, launched today The Big Think, the first collective interactive video think tank that aggregates market voices to help answer the big question, "What do consumers want?" Today's consumer is more selective than ever, as the average person is literally bombarded with more than 5,000 branded messages per day - ...

The First Contextual Ad Platform To Leverage Image and Video Recognition Technologies Launched Today

Eyealike, a visual-based search innovator, today announced Eyealike VisualAd, the world's first image and video-based contextual advertising platform for social networks and rich media websites. With a unique ability to recognize facial features, skin color, hair, gender and age, as well as objects like logos or product images, Eyealike VisualAd can serve highly targeted ads ...

Viral Video Marketing Survey Demonstrates Growth, Popularity and Need for Benchmarks

A new report released today from online video seeding firm Feed Company shows 70% of ad agency and media buying executives plan to increase budgets for viral video marketing in 2009. The "Viral Video Marketing Survey: The Agency Perspective" culled insights on viral video marketing trends from 40 executives at major advertising agencies and media ...

Search Marketing Expo East – Video Search Engine Optimization Recap

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Grant Crowell of ReelSEO has an audio clip from his coverage of the SMX East conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City earlier this week, from October 6-7th.  Listen to Grant offer his Video SEO perspective on the following SMX sessions: Search Marketing and Social Media Marketing for Newspapers and Magazines, What's ...

Dailymotion Launches High Quality Video Player

Dailymotion, the world's largest independent video sharing site, today announced the launch of a new player that will provide improved video playback quality for Dailymotion’s users around the world. The release of the new Dailymotion HQ video player provides Dailymotion’s global audience of over 37 million (comScore June 2008) unique visitors with the best possible ...

The Obama-Ayers Video SEO "Terrorist Connection"

Little did I realize that an innocuous video I did of former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers nearly 2 years ago and put on YouTube is now being shown on cable news stations and circulated by hardcore McCain supporters to support their claim that Democratic Presidential Candidate Barak Obama pals around with terrorists. One thing I've ...

Video SEO Tip: Optimize Your YouTube "click-to-action" Link (part 2)

When I first posted a Video SEO tip on how YouTube's click-to-action buttons can be duplicated by anyone with their own YouTube account for every single video, responses we got were that it sounded too good to be true, or that it was just meant for YouTube's partner sites, or that maybe it might be viewed ...

Online Video Mixing and Publishing Network Eyespot Shuts Down

3 years ago, an online video startup, Eyespot, raised $3.7 million in funding for its online video editor and mashup tool. Earlier this week, co-founder David Dudas announced on twitter that eyespot was being shut down.

BitGravity Launches An API for High-Definition Web Video

BitGravity, Inc., a leading provider of next-generation Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for interactive broadcasting, today announced the new release of its patent-pending Advanced Progressive(TM) application programming interface (API), which provides extensive control over progressive downloads within Flash. This new API enables developers to inject advertising, automatically adjust bitrates, add virtual clips and other additional advanced ...

Study - Engaged Online Video Viewers Pay Attention To Ads

When it comes to advertising, not all online video viewers are created equal, according to a new commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Veoh Networks. Released today, “Watching The Web: How Online Video Engages Audiences” reveals that while some online video viewers still only “snack” on short clips, there exists a large ...

Internet Video Ad Campaign Helps Young Americans Do Their "DUTY"

Thought it would be worthwhile showing you a unique online video marketing campaign titled, "Time for a Change."

How To Create Click-to-buy Links In YouTube – for FREE

YouTube has now begun placing click-to-buy links beneath its videos, as part of a larger plan to offer an e-commerce platform to all its partners. However, YouTube partners are typically large and well-established companies, leaving out the 99.9% of businesses and individuals of this opportunity. Fortunately, we have a tip on how anyone can create ...

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