Because YouTube has Google money to spend, the online video destination has an attractive place for people who are already in show business or hope to launch an entertainment career. Recently, the defection of Food Network's Bruce Seidel to Electus' unnamed new YouTube food channel, set to debut in July, hit the news wire and ...
Online videos are the new Super Bowl ads... kind of. Old Spice Man actually started as a cheeky non-Super-Bowl commercial online, timed to generate buzz around the game. Last year, Volkswagen put "The Force" online ahead of the actual game, and it helped generate more publicity for the ad--which went on to be voted one ...
This week on The Reel Web we share with you guys several updates that have happened on YouTube that were overlooked, as well as a complete overhaul that's coming to Vimeo's website sometime soon. We also discuss YouTube's new announcement of having 60 hours of video uploaded to their site every minute and we go ...
Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State ...
President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy... someone you could hang out with, even. Most of us never get to meet a sitting U.S. President, let along hang out with one. But today, in just a handful of hours, you can do just that on the White House YouTube Channel, as President Obama hosts ...
Lately it seems like I'm always finding a great example of branded content. If you're an advertiser looking to make a splash, destroying things to make a point seems to be a good thing to try. With Blendtec, they've blasted off with branded content showing their blenders destroy things you don't put into blenders, like ...
As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more. So if you ...
Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback took to the Rev3 blog this morning and announced a 359% increase in total views and a 53% increase in revenue for the year of 2011. Revision3 made smart acquisitions last year, including the extraordinarily successful Epic Meal Time, and by the end of the year, picked up one of YouTube's ...
Encoding.com just released new numbers pulled from Vid.ly which show that Android is gaining on iOS in terms of video viewing. It's no surprise as the operating system has been steadily stealing market share quarter after quarter and is available on far more different devices than iOS. Since Vid.ly is a universal URL for videos ...
Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up. Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the ...
20th Century Fox has teamed with Big Frame, a YouTube talent company, to produce videos promoting their new movie Chronicle opening on February 3. And Chronicle is the perfect type of movie to get some YouTube promotion, as it is one of the latest films to use this-is-really-happening video, "found footage," very much like Cloverfield ...
After YouTube's latest updates yesterday to the Browse page, many of you probably spent some time casually playing around with it to see what's new. If you did, you might have come across some of the selections in this week's round up of the best viral videos. Most are probably worth watching again, but I'm ...
