C-Level Execs Turn To Web Video for Business Information
Forbes Insights, in association with Google, announced the release of a new study today called, "The Rise of the Digital C-Suite: How Executives Locate and Filter Business Information." The study is of 354 C-level and top executives at major US companies with annual sales in excess of $1B and is designed to shed insight into how these ...
Open Video - What Is Open Source Video All About?
http://www.reelseo.com/open-source-video/10929/ What is Open Video and an introduction to the Open Video Conference - a two-day gathering of global leaders in technology, business, public policy, art, and activism to explore the future of open video on the web.
Watch A Video, Save The Planet
Every once in awhile something crosses my desk (which is currently in Dubrovnik, Croatia) that doesn't deal with metrics, controversy or anything heavy. This, is one of those times. I got an email from Heidi at Ripple Effect Communication on something she thought I might be interested. She was right, I'm interested.
7 Tips for Successful Viral Video Production and Distribution
The focus below is specifically on tips for *viral* video success - how to produce and distribute a video that will get people talking about and sharing the content - i.e. viral video. In other words, these are suggestions for how to get your video *shared* in the viral sence. For this reason, the focus is split ...
You Want To Host Your Own Live Online Video Show?
Who doesn't have dreams of creating their own video show and pushing it out to the masses, getting it picked up by a major media outlet and having it turn into their 15 minutes of fame? Heck, even I do!
Creative Media Agencies and Video SEO – CIMA Interview
This Thursday June 18th I’m covering the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association’s (CIMA) event titled “Creative, Technology, Media, and Analytics.” I recently interviewed several of the scheduled panelists, about their research and opinions on the business direction they see online video taking, agencies’ and marketers’ opportunities and challenges with greater client acceptance of online video into ...
Youtube Adds AutoSharing - YouTwitFace Is Now Real
For those of you that may have missed it, a few weeks back, Conan O’Brien, on his Tonight Show sketch called “In the Year 3000,” predicted that in the future, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook would merge and create “one super time-wasting site called ‘YouTwitFace’.” 1 week later, the folks at Youtube made this prediction a reality with ...
Recession and State of Online Video Industry Limit Adoption
More amazingly obvious research has been done by someone. This time it's been shown that the recession is the direct cause of an emerging, not fully tested way of marketing your company and product not being rapidly adopted. I know, you're all shocked and appalled and can't believe it, but apparently of it's true. What ...
Video + SEO = Best Practices for Video and E-Commerce
Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the first annual Liveclicker Video Commerce Summit in Seattle, WA. I was asked to discuss and present video search engine optimization and to help educate the audience on best practices for publishing online video in a search engine friendly manner. The title, was Video + SEO - ...
How To Fix Aspect Ratio On Youtube Videos - Remove Black Bars
Long, long ago, YouTube was 4:3 only. Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn't fit the player window properly). So here are a few ways that you can change the aspect ratio ...
Five Launches Syndicated Player With Brightcove Platform
Five, the UK broadcast company, has taken the plunge into online ad-supported video for embedding on other websites. They are the first broadcaster in the country to do so and look to lead the way for catch-up viewing on the web.
Open Video Conference - Watch The Live Coverage
http://www.reelseo.com/open-source-video/10929/ The Open Video Conference is a two-day gathering of global leaders in technology, business, public policy, art, and activism to explore the future of video on the web.
Online Video Is Key To Automotive Industry Recovery?
If you're to believe recent statistics into an automotive recovery then you might believe that social media and networking are going to help. Or you might believe that billions of taxpayers dollars are actually driving any potential recovery for the US automakers. Your choice really. Eric Franchi recently published an article at Online Video Insider ...
Flash Video Obsolete With HTML 5? Open Video Standards
HTML 5 <video> tag - It's the end of the world as we know it and Flash feels fine? No, probably not. with the prophesied coming of HTML 5 and the video tag, Flash could be on the very short end of a very long stick and the new messiah for online video could take ...
Creating Persuasive Interactive Video for E-Commerce
There’s been a lot of buzz recently in the blogosphere surrounding the use of interactive elements to drive up the performance of video, so it begs the question - how should video interactivity be applied to e-commerce video? The answer, I believe, is that interactive techniques should be applied to video when shoppers are both highly motivated to ...
