ReelSEO Posts from November, 2009

Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes

It’s time for another Viral Round Up—our weekly look at the latest viral success stories as we attempt to reverse engineer them to see what made them work.

Since I missed last week’s Round Up, we’ll actually look at more videos than normal this week.  Call it my tangible apology, like the flowers I sometimes buy my wife.

Google Rolls Out Automated Captioning For YouTube Videos

Google today announced that they are adding automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube.

This is a fantastic step forward for accessibility for deaf Internet users.  Says Vice President Vint Cerf, who is hearing impaired himself:

Video Project Planning & Management – Market7 Overview

Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a range of product packages to help you get all your creative from talent to post-production in the same place and on the same page (or in the same frame?).

EveryZing Moves to RAMP Focus on Content Optimization

Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search discovery through speech to text recognition technology and they are now moving beyond video

Univision/YouTube Partnership Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think

Did you see the headline earlier this week that YouTube had struck a deal with Spanish Television Network, Univision?  If you’re a typical American, you might have passed right over it.  Maybe you noted it mentally, but figured it wasn’t terribly important to you since you don’t speak Spanish.

The deal actually seems pretty important to me for two big reasons:

Kaltura Grows a Longtail

Everyone remembers that Kaltura makes the first open source online video platform right? The Kaltura Community Edition. Well now they’re beginning to expand that with new deals, this time around it’s with LongTail video, the open source video player.

YouTube Continues Search Engine Domination – up 31% YOY

Is anyone still wondering if search is important for video?  In November of last year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo for the first time in total U.S. search queries, making it the 2nd largest search engine in the U.S. next to only its owner, Google.  Ever since then, YouTube has continued to dominate the search space when you look at the total number of search queries.

Nalts’ Cuddly Tips & Strategies for YouTube Video Success

Viral video is dead. Long live low production values. The cheaper the better. Don’t cuddle it to death, let go of your brand persona.  Those are the sage words of Kevin Nalty, who is an online video strategist, a career marketer, and a YouTube star with more than 100 million views of his videos.

Succesful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies

I’m at the Streaming Media West conference today in San Jose, CA and thought I would attempt some live blogging from this morning’s session titled, “Successful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies.” 

YouTube Direct Connects Users and Media Organizations

We all have video cameras or video-capable mobile phones and that means new ways to see what’s happening in the world. Not only for you but for others as well. We get a eyewitness views of the events as they unfold and now, we can do it through YouTube.

Watch Streaming Media West & Online Video Platform Summit Keynotes Live

We’re just about to head over to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose, CA. For the first time in the history of this important conference, everyone will be able to watch parts of the conference live, both here on ReelSEO (below) as well as on Streamingmedia.com, courtesy of livestream.  Coverage will start today with the opening keynote from Bill Stone, president of FLO TV at 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST.

YouTube Adds Support For 1080p Full HD Video – Sweet

This is easily the best news in weeks for video producers:  YouTube is now supporting true HD 1080p.  Yes, you read that right.  You can now upload 1080p HD videos to YouTube and share the glorious high definition quality with your friends.