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YouTube Super Bowl Pre-Game Show Brings in Tide, HowCast, FoodWishes and Comedy

The Super Bowl has historically been the best day on the calendar for the advertising industry. Not only is it usually the most watched TV event of the year but the ads have become as much a part of the attraction as the actual football ...

How-To Make How-To Videos: An Eager Audience Awaits Your Skills and Knowledge

This may not be any surprise to those who work in the realm of video and the internet in general, but "how-to" is one of the most important and sought-after phrases in the world of search.  Awhile back, we talked to Touchstorm and KBS+P, media ...

Howcast Guides Viewer Interest & Discovery with New Site: CEO Jason Liebman Provides Insight [Interview]

Probably the most unheralded videos on the web are how-to videos, and yet, they are some of the most popular.  And it's easy to see why: no longer are people having to rely on written instructions, which can be confusing or be missing vital information, ...

2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Offer Lessons in YouTube Marketing Strategy

Internet marketers can learn a lot of lessons about YouTube marketing strategy by watching the 2012 Republican presidential candidates.  For example: Should you use an influence-the-influencers strategy or a mass marketing strategy to reach the 158.1 million U.S. Internet users who watched online video content ...

YouTube Partner Channels Added To comScore Video Metrix for July 2011

With the July 2011 report, comScore has expanded their monthly video metrix, which tracks online video services and viewers, to include what they call "Select YouTube Partners" (see table below). What that sounds like to me is that they are NOT including all of the ...

Online Video Predictions for 2011: Are You Ready for The Storm?

Friends, online-video is going to be a fun storm in 2011 as the drama has just begun. It's the first official business day of 2011, and that prompted me to awaken at 3:00 a.m. with great curiosity. I spent 4-plus hours diving into dozens of ...

How To Promote your Business With Holiday Video E-Cards

Compare these holiday video greeting cards and learn how you can use holiday video ecards and video greetings to promote your business.

The History of Online Video In A Nutshell or Rather, An Image

So, Mark passed along this really cool "History of Online Video" image made by the Visual Lounge at TechSmith and The Blog Herald put together this pretty cool (and really large) image that traverses the previous five years of online video history. Since the image ...

Howcast Announces YouTube Contest To Find Their First Official Company Vlogger

Do you want to be a vlogger?  Well, good for you!  It's an expanding field with plenty of room for new participants—and it's also pretty fun.  Some of the most popular and successful YouTube producers are vloggers.  But what if I told you that you ...

The Sunday News Reel: Video Related News In Review - Sept 26 - Oct 3, 2010

Chris is taking the weekend off to catch up on some technical things (really he's just fiddling with computer hardware, playing video games and catching up on sleep) so I'm here to cover for him. This week saw a lot of talk about Apple TV ...

Howcast Knows How To Build A Next-Generation Media Company

Learning how to do things can be challenging and complicated, but with the rise of online and mobile video, it's become easier to learn by watching instructional video content. The old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words," holds true for videos, which can ...

Instructional Videos and SEO Advantages – The Howcast Interview

In our continuing series on marketing with instructional videos and how-to video websites, ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Sanjay Raman, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Development for Howcast. Sanjay talks with Grant about the special SEO benefit with instructional videos, and some special tips for ...

List of Video Sharing Web Sites and Destination Sites Like YouTube - Share Your Videos

One of the top viewed pages on ReelSEO is that of a post that I put out with a resource list of video sharing sites. I took the time to update the list, and add a bunch more – more than 300 video sharing websites ...

blinkx Partners With Howcast for Online How-to Videos

blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with Howcast. Howcast.com is the latest addition to blinkx's ever-expanding collection of how-to video sites, including ExpertVillage.com, Growing Wisdom and HowTo.tv. Through these partnerships, viewers now have an extensive library of visual aides to ...

Metacafe Is The Leading Destination for Independent Online Video Content

Metacafe solidified its position as the world's leading independent online video site with 37.1 million unique monthly viewers worldwide and 7.4 million unique monthly viewers in the U.S. during the month of August, as reported in the recently released comScore Media Metrix data. Worldwide, traffic ...