Video Contests for Small Businesses: Intuit’s SMB Video Throwdown
Recently an old friend of my from my college days contacted me about a video contest his son and daughter in-law were finalists in, and he asked me if I would vote for their videos on the site. Turns out the contest was hosted by intuit, the company well-known for their personal and small-business finance software ...
Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO
The good folks over at Small Business Trends have compiled a quick list of how not to get fleeced by your SEO company. Since we at ReelSEO feel no one should ever get fleeced we thought it was worth mentioning here. SBT's list includes looking out for things like too many keywords, too much bold ...
BrightRoll Launches Video Impact for ROI Tracking
BrightRoll, best known for their branded video advertising network, has launched a new service called Video Impact. Video Impact is designed to measure the effectiveness of online advertising on retail sales and comes out of feedback from 150 advertising executives that BrightRoll polled in their 2009 Spring Online Video Advertising report. Now that the economy ...
Online Testing for Video Ads Is Not Common Practice
Marketing Sherpa has released a new report talking about the testing of ads prior to placement online is fairly uncommon. If you take a look at the chart you can see that only around 33% of those using video ads online actually test the ads and only an amazing 3% actually test video in a ...
Code of Best Practices In Fair Use for Online Video - Remix Culture
The American University School of Communication's Center for Social Media has released a report on what constitutes fair use of copyrighted video and material online. It is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. ...
Video Blogging Gets Easy - WordPress Steps Up With VideoPress
A picture is worth a thousand words. According to Grant a video is worth millions. So when the content management system (CMS) that is used in millions of websites around the planet switches over to video you can expect billions of words to be transformed into video.
Hulu Vs. Nielsen The War of Numbers
According to the New York Times, Hulu is angry, angry with Nielsen. ComScore, who probably doesn't even like Nielsen considering their past, sides with Hulu. Hanging in the balance are the true traffic numbers of Hulu and the reputations of all involved. The problem gets interesting when you look at the wide gap between the ...
Videosurf Announces Search and Video Lookup APIs
VideoSurf recently announced some new APIs are ready for everyone to tinker with. Videosurf is a video search engine that covers some of the largest video site like Hulu, ESPN, YouTube and more. The two new APIs they've announced are Video Search and Video Lookup. Here's a quick rundown of each: Video Search API - ...
Strong Online Video Growth To Drive StudioNow's Business
StudioNow predicts both massive and rapid growth in online video ads and content creation for their business in the near future. CEO David Mason says that their business is expected to quadruple in 2009. Alongside that he said that Robert P. Sherry has joined the company to guide StudioNow's rapidly expanding network. Sherry will take ...
Attributor and TubeMogul To Build Viral Video Metrics
Not totally unlike the CDC and WHO, we need to know how well viral videos do out in the wild. Enter Attributor and TubeMogul. While neither is tasked with the health of the Internet using population, they have combined forces to begin tracking viral video growth, life and death... you know, the Viral LifeCycle (I ...
VUDU, Brightcove To Deliver Content To Set Top Box
Two big names now getting together to offer one big service. Brightcove, a leading video delivery platform and VUDU a home theatre digital content provider, have hopped on the couch together to put some ad-supported digital content onto set top boxes everywhere. Through the agreement, Brightcove customers will not be able to offer their content ...
Flip Ultra HD Camcorder Test Review Video
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blinkx Teams With Miniweb
blinkx announced today that they are working on a technology integration with Miniweb. This will help everyone get their interactive videos and web-styled adverts on television. Miniweb will use Blinkx video search and other features as part of its online platform. What this means is that both broadcast and internet video search will be available ...
EveryZing Zings Into NBC and Money
Everyzing whom you might know from such great products as ezSEO, their integrated multimedia SEO solution for connecting audio and video content to the major web search engines and ezSEARCH, their integrated universal site search solution, enabling multimedia content to be indexed and searched just like any web document have come into some money and ...
How To Produce "Business-Quality" Online Video On A Small Business Budget
Can businesses today really create sustainable revenue and long-term profit around regularly publishing professional-quality online video, and keep their production costs well below the standards of broadcast-quality? Yes, if they're willing to be what I call "videoratis" - a video professional and publicist skilled at more than one job that relates to their business and ...
