Grant Crowell is a regular contributor for ReelSEO and a professional consultant and developer in the online marketing space. Grant’s regular coverage for ReelSEO includes video in SEO (VSEO), social media optimization (SMO), how-to’s and tips, and legal issues for online video. Feel free to contact Grant here.
Controversial YouTube performer Evan Emory is back on YouTube. The singer gave his first public music performance yesterday on a local radio station, sharing new songs he composed while in Muskegon County Jail in Michigan. The video has now appeared on his own YouTube channel and is being publicized on the radio station’s Website.
The following is a list of all 2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates and their official YouTube channels. This list includes all individuals to date who have registered or formally declared their candidacy for President of the United States in 2012, have formed an exploratory committee, or are considered as potential serious candidates.
The age of forgetting is now over. Online video with social media has become the perfect vehicle for keeping the behavior of politicians on public record for everyone, forever. Because of the recent events in Congress, I am compelled to share some recent examples of social video disasters from some high-profile politicians; along with my ...
Should the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which has been the basis for rulings around copyright infringement with online video and all other Internet content, have a 2011 makeover? I interviewed New York intellectual property attorney Robert W. Clarida about some of the problems with the existing 13-year old standing federal law, and who’s ...
I interviewed Tom Dickson, CEO of Blendtec, responsible for one of the most popular YouTube video shows of all time and a pioneering example of how to be social with video in your own business. Tom shares his advice he has for others who want to duplicate their own success with their "WillitBlend" YouTube series. ...
Want to connect with the youth market, which uses the Internet very different from adults? Then who better to get inside of the heads of the lucrative teen market segment than entrepreneurial teenagers? I interviewed Daniel Brusilovsky, one such successful genY/millennial tech entrepreneur with accomplishments in the mobile video space. We talked about on how ...
In the final part of my interview with web video curation expert Steve Rosenbaum, we share some recommendations for you to gather and organize rich and relevant video content from multiple sources for your website – which can improve your search visibility and link popularity, and help you be a trusted source in your area ...
I continue my interview Steve Rosenbaum, founder of the video curation service Magnify.net and author of Curation Nation. Steve has been in the video curation business for decades professing for years that curation is the most effective way of marketing with video; and we share some examples of businesses who are actively doing video curation ...
What exactly is “curation” and how does it relate to web video marketing? To find out, I spoke to several curation experts. They explain why they consider it the best way to blend work relationships between machines and human beings to deliver rich and relevant video content to your audience; and why those who expect ...
This week I had the opportunity to present at the Mediabistro Social Media Optimization Conference, with my presentation titled, “Social Video Optimization: Real Opportunities, Success Stories, and Winning Strategies.” Check out my Slideshare presentation and some highlights from the presentation on what social video optimization is about, and how it’s our present and future of ...
We recently discussed the definition of "social video," and looked at why it's on the rise. For a closer look at how businesses can use social video, I interviewed my fellow videologist, Steve Garfield. He talks about how businesses can be successful by combining their social media marketing and video activities, and the warns of ...
What exactly is “social video advertising?” Is it better than traditional online video advertising? What are the ways to optimize a social video advertising campaign? To help answer these and other questions, I enlisted the expertise of Dan Greenberg and Chris Schreiber of the social video marketing company, Sharethrough.
I interviewed Chris Quigley, Co-founder of the buzz marketing company, Viral Ad Network, about why and how companies should engage in social causes using video. Chris also shares the special benefits that social video campaigns can have for charities, and we add some of our own tips for businesses on how to do their own ...
If you follow any popular Web personalities and their online video channels, you might be surprised to learn they may be paid to have brand messaging worked right into the video. I interviewed a broker who matches brands with web celebrities (aka, “Webstars”) and places their clients' brand messages seamlessly into the celebrity’s actual video creative for ...
When it comes to video marketing, there are two legal defenses in U.S. for using somebody else’s copyrighted work in your video without first receiving expressed permission, those being parody and fair use. In my continued “Is My Video Legal?” video series, I feature a special Q&A between a video marketer and a lawyer to ...
