The Basics of Web Video File Formats and Video Containers
Does all the technical jargon about digital video file formats drive you bonkers? Join the club! Confusion over video file formats is probably the single biggest hang-up for people wanting to upload video to the web. The good news is that with just a little bit of basic knowledge, you shouldn’t have any trouble.
Viral Video Round Up - The Draw of Destruction and The Power of Teamwork
Some weeks are more difficult than others for me when it comes to finding quality viral success stories to include in my weekly Round Up. This week was easy… so easy it became hard, because there were too many stories I wanted to tell and not enough space for all of them. Very few branded ...
Will John McCain's Surge Into Online Video Result In Victory?
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell reviews Senator John McCain’s new user-generated video strategy on his website – the “video supporter wall” – being touted by his campaign as a key feature to winning re-election in the contested and heated Arizona Senate race. What lessons have been learned since their 2008 online video trouncing from team Obama?
Cablevision To Offer New PC To TV "Sharing" Service
Cablevision, one of the nation’s larger cable television providers and the provider for New York City, is announcing a new service that I kind of like the sound of: Internet on your TV without the need for an extra box or gadget.
Speculating On Reasons for Online Video's Unprecedented Surge In 2009
Will Richmond over at VideoNuze published an interesting article yesterday pondering some possible reasons for the meteoric rise in online video’s popularity in 2009. The article starts with a graph that shows a jump of nearly 124% growth in total views last year. The previous best improvement in one year was 2008… which had 46% ...
5 Tips for Using Online Video To Market Your Small Business
For small businesses, getting noticed online is a challenge, particularly when competing with big brands with large marketing departments and seemingly endless marketing budgets. But more and more local companies are finding success cutting through the clutter with online video. Statistics show that video improves online visibility and drives more action online than plain images ...
Google/YouTube Drop Support for IE6 - Good Riddance!
Internet Explorer 6 is finally going to die, I hope. Lots of official bodies are stating that users should move off of the browser and onto either a newer version or a different browser altogether. Google first announced the Docs, their browser-based productivity service, will drop support for version 6 of Microsoft's browser in a ...
YouTube Sells Out Home Page, Profitibility On Horizon?
The YouTube profitability watch continues and they have helped fuel the rumors themselves stating that the home page on the site was sold out in Q4 2009. I wonder if they have a waiting list for that?
Smile, You're On IPad Video Conference?
It seems that the Mac technical wizards at MacRumors have unveiled some pretty handy, yet unconfirmed, features of future iPads and iPhones including video conferencing via a front-facing camera.
Streaming Production and Flash Delivery Workshop - March 23rd
Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you're on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server? If any of these questions apply to you, there's a training seminar next month ...
Harnessing Off-Site Videos To Increase E-Commerce Visibility
Videos' impact on search rankings has been discussed here rather extensively in the past. A few months ago we interviewed Search Engine Marketing and Optimization veteran Bruce Clay who helps clarify the importance of on-site videos for search rankings.
Legal Online Video and Fair Use - Sharing Versus Ownership
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today.
Obama Administration's YouTube Contest Stumbles Out The Gate
Saying that you’re hip doesn’t necessarily make it true. The federal government’s web directory, USA.gov, is hoping kids and teens are the key to growth and success. So they’re doing what any brand hoping to leverage that demographic would do: they’re holding a YouTube contest.
New Opportunities for Web TV Shows - Media Minute
Remember when I told you the future of TV was international? Now we're seeing even more evidence of that trend because the popular Web series Break a Leg just sold the licensing rights to its show to Fox Italy, marking a big step for Web producers looking to graduate to the TV set. Another possible ...
List of Royalty Free Online Resources for Video Production
We here at ReelSEO like to do things on the cheap when we can. Not because we're cheap but often because video production costs can spiral out of control if you're not careful. Here's a list of available resources on the web for royalty free media including images, video, music and more. Now just because ...
