ReelSEO Posts from November, 2009

Tools for YouTube Closed Captions, Subtitles and Translations

Web-Based Tools for YouTube Captions DotSub- Any video any language is the motto of this place. No fee, video subtitling site and service in a 'wiki' style. You can view, upload, transcribe and translate all right through the site. CaptionTube - Gives the ability to add closed captions to videos, manually. Then you can export ...

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.

2010 In-Stream Video Advertising Predictions - Interview With Google

Grant Crowell interviews Ari Paparo, Group Product Manager of Advertising Product for Google, about his forecast shared at the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association’s 7th Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey, that in-stream video advertising will be “huge” in 2010, thanks to growing adoption by media sales agencies of Internet Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) development of video ad standards. Will this open up video ad serving to more businesses on the smaller scale?

YouTube Has Begun Testing "Skippable" Pre-roll Ads On Videos

YouTube has begun testing “skippable” ads on videos.  But before you get offended as an advertiser (“What?!  They’re letting people skip my ads?”) or get excited as a user (“Hooray!  They’re going to let me skip ads!”), you should probably know that this is research and not necessarily a new permanent feature. What YouTube—Google, really—is ...

Streaming Media West and Online Video Platform Summit Podcast Coverage!

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson give a podcast preview the 2009 Streaming Media West Conference – The Business & Technology of Online Video, Tuesday November 17 – Thursday November 19, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California.

Google Gets Juiced Up On Caffeine But Not Til 2010

Caffeine, what was once just a sandbox at Google for those who have too much time on their hands, take SEO as the word of god or write about this sort of thing is ready to stream into the veins of the internet after the holidays.

Livestream Helps Stream Live Video To IPhone

Yes you can now, thanks to Livestream and their Procaster application, stream live to the iPhone. Well actually you have to stream to your iPhone website and then iPhone users can pick up the streams from there.

YouTube Fine-tunes URLs and HTML Embed Code

YouTube has always been embarrassed by its unsightly URL format where it was using an ampersand instead of a question mark. Now it's fixed that problem so it's time to rejoice

Building Your Personal Brand In A Media Reality

Even if you love your corporate job, you should build your personal brand. That's the advice of Gary Vaynerchuk, the multi-million dollar businessman, uber-popular video star and now New York Times bestselling author. In his latest book "Crush It," Gary evangelizes his philosophy on how to build your own brand equity.

YouTube Taps Into The Crowd To Promote Hunger Awareness

I sure do love it when the world of online video collides with a good cause.  Luckily for me, that seems to be happening more and more lately.  In fact, it’s downright encouraging to see so many charities and nonprofits embracing viral marketing and blogs and social networking.

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes - 11/07/2009

It’s time again for another Viral Round Up (it’s actually a day or so past the time for another Viral Round Up, and I’m hoping you’ll forgive my tardiness). As usual, the past week offers us several examples of viral success—some intentional, some accidental, and all holding valuable lessons for us video marketers.  Let’s dig ...

uSocial Is Selling YouTube Views - Should You Buy YouTube Video Views?

uSocial, the company that has created controversy regarding their services in the past, is at it again.  You might remember them as the company that sold Diggs for your Digg submission, friends for your Facebook account, and followers of your Twitter ramblings.  Now they’re offering a new service: views for your YouTube video.

BitGravity - A Cool, Quick Embeddable Player + Major Content Delivery Network

Need to embed a video in a site super-duper fast? Why not try the 3 form version of Bitgravity Player 6. Give it a video URL, width and height and you're all set. But is it truly that easy?

YouTube Beefs Up Partner Video Blocking Ability

It is making the rounds on the webosphere that YouTube has implemented two new buttons on the partner interface that pertain to blocking of videos.

Streaming Media West 2009 - Discount for ReelSEO Readers

Just a quick note to all readers... Streaming Media West - the leading online video industry conference & expo - is offering a $100 discount until FRIDAY, November 6 to attend Streaming Media sessions.

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