Metacafe Articles

Video SEO and "Defensive Reputation Management"

In an extension from our original article on online reputation management with video, ReelSEO's Grant Crowell recently interviewed Jordan Glogau, speaker from the Search Marketing Expo East conference in New York earlier this month, on the panel "Search and Reputation Management." Jordan is the SEO ...

Dailymotion Subtitle Capabilities In Multiple Languages

DailyMotion call themselves the world's largest independent video entertainment website (so does Metacafe). However, we have found out that they have just added the ability to put subtitles right into any videos you upload which might propel them into that position. The new feature allows ...

VideoSurf's Up Dude - Radical or Bogus Video Search?

VideoSurf - Just another video Search Engine? VideoSurf states they have taken video search to a whole new level by allowing computers to see inside of the content of videos. The search engine then bases its results on visual identification according to the site and ...

Online Video Press Releases Powered By SpotRunner

MultiVu, PR Newswire's multimedia and broadcast PR company, and Spot Runner, a technology company developing the next generation of advertising services, announced today the launch of the MultiVu™ Spot Runner® MNR, a more affordable, all-in-one solution for planning, producing and distributing videos via multimedia news ...

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 ...

New Online Social Video Networking and Discovery Platform - Have You Seen It Yet?

SeenItYet is a social video discovery platform for people who like to entertain their friends.  It's your source for the funniest new videos from across the internet and it's also a more fun and interactive way to share your favorite videos.

Storybids Auction-Based Online Video Product Placement

If you've got a product to sell then you know how difficult it can be to find the right people to create your campaign and get the word out the way you want it done. You also know that product placement is a viable option, ...

Is Google Universal Search Biased Towards YouTube?

The short answer is....   It certainly seems so!  There was a great post today from Sherwood Stranieri of SearchEngineLand titled, "Is Google Universal Search A Walled Garden?." The nice thing about this article is that the author takes a fairly objective approach, giving Google the ...

Metacafe's New Toolkit for Video Personalization

Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, now enables viewers to personalize their entertainment experiences by adding dialog bubbles, photos, webcam video, clip art, subtitles and more to online videos. These viewers ...

Google Applies "clustering" and Titles To Video Results

Google is now featuring video listings from its universal search results pages in a 2-column, 2x2 format, similar to its format for featuring 2-columns of links of popular websites....

Study - Short-Form Videos Dominate Online Viewing

Frank N. Magid Associates, the world leader in research-based consultation, and Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, today released survey results revealing consumer behavior and preferences in online video viewing. Notably, ...

Research - Most Popular Video Sites and Categories

Last week, Tubemogul released new research that proves the current dominance of Youtube and demonstrates that videos on Youtube receive more views on average than other video sites, regardless of category. The research also demonstrates that while this is currently the case, other sites like ...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within ...

Study of Online Video Viewership Analytics

TubeMogul, announced the results of research today that clarifies how each of the online video sharing platforms supported its distribution platform count online video views. As the study reports, there are various methods that each site uses; some more stringent than others with views counted ...

Adap.tv Helps Publishers Adapt To Video Advertising

This past week at the Streaming Media East conference in New York City, I had the privilege of speaking with the CEO of Adap.tv, Amir Ashkinazi. Prior to forming adap.tv, Amir was a founder and the CTO of Shopping.com. Amir told me all about their ...