YouTube Looking To Jump From 200,000 To 7 Million YouTube Advertisers
YouTube has 200,000 advertisers per quarter, but with the new original channels beginning in January of next year, they're looking to attract 6 or 7 million YouTube advertisers as they launch around 100 total in 2012. According to this Beet.TV interview with Lucas Watson, YouTube's VP for Global Sales, the ability to advertise around premium ...
Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript
Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to facilitate that along with all sorts of interaction and animation, ...
Tosh.0 Proves The Power Of Viral Videos & The Need For Video Curation
YouTube officially became the America's Funniest Home Videos of the web when it launched in 2005. With reality shows and programs-making-fun-of-reality-shows being big business, it was only a matter of time before television began to aggregate the best the web had to offer into its own lineup. Within days of each other in June of ...
PBS Picks RAMP for Expanded Video and Content Navigation
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, just chose RAMP as its service of choice for video navigation and search. I hope RAMP gave them a good deal since public broadcasting is likely to lose much of its Federal Funding if certain members of the US Government have their way. The new service allows users to search ...
How to Easily Create Quality Closed Captions & Subtitles for YouTube Marketing
Want to increase user engagement and search engine optimization in YouTube? Then you should consider adding closed captions for YouTube videos, and the easiest way for most people to do that is simply by leveraging your own transcripts. Follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to easily create closed captions or subtitles for your YouTube videos ...
The Definitive Video SEO Guide: SEO Tips & Tutorials for Video
The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO, video search optimization - whatever you want to call it) tips, tutorials, guidelines, presentations, articles, etc.... Learn everything from distribution techniques for VSEO; to MRSS feeds and XML sitemaps for optimizing hosted video for universal search; to YouTube optimization ...
Closed Captions Help RAMP Up Video SEO & User Engagement
If you've been reading ReelSEO for some time, you'll know that closed captioning for web video can be a powerful way to increase reach and an excellent way to help search engines more easily understand, and rank your web video assets. Not only that, but with the signing of the 21st Video Accessibility Act, some ...
New Video Accessibility Law Mandates Closed Captions for TV Shows Online and More
The US Government recently finished work on the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. The thing is 74 pages long, and yes, I read through the whole blasted thing. It's mostly a lot of legal speak for "we think videos made for TV that end up online must have closed captioning," and ...
Should Closed-Captioning of Web Video Be Mandated By Government?
Grant Crowell interviews Josh Miller of 3PlayMedia, to talk about Congress’ recent passing of two bills that will mandate closed-captioning of television programming over to the Internet. We discuss the questions: Will other “professional” online video programs be next? And, is legislation necessary, or will organizations determine that transcription and captioning of video content has a worthwhile ROI regardless of any mandate?
In-Depth Look At YouTube Closed Captions - YouTube SEO and More
A few weeks back, I mentioned that YouTube and Google were indexing YouTube's closed captions and subtitles. In fact, YES - both Google and YouTube ARE indexing videos for text that is contained within closed captions and subtitles. In this post, I would like show you why you should be taking advantage of YouTube's closed ...
Transcribing Videos By Hand Vs. Automated Transcription Tools
In this video, our friend Dave Dugdale compares the time it took him to transcribe a typical three minute video by hand verses using an automatic transcription service. As you likely know, automated transcription services use speech-to-text recognition technologies that at this point, are no where near 100% accurate. But does using an automated transcription ...
Google Rolls Out Automated Captioning for YouTube Videos
Google today announced that they are adding automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube. This is a fantastic step forward for accessibility for deaf Internet users. Says Vice President Vint Cerf, who is hearing impaired himself:
Tools for YouTube Closed Captions, Subtitles and Translations
Web-Based Tools for YouTube Captions DotSub- Any video any language is the motto of this place. No fee, video subtitling site and service in a 'wiki' style. You can view, upload, transcribe and translate all right through the site. CaptionTube - Gives the ability to add closed captions to videos, manually. Then you can export ...
Defining ROI for Online Video: A Fluid and Frank Discussion
Mark Portu, CEO of The FeedRoom, looks back at the first 10 years of online video and offers practical advice on achieving ROI Over the years, we’ve seen Web video evolve from a relatively nascent, one-way mass medium into a popular and far-reaching platform for delivering engaging, online user experiences. Not unlike the Web itself, ...
Flash Video Obsolete With HTML 5? Open Video Standards
HTML 5 <video> tag - It's the end of the world as we know it and Flash feels fine? No, probably not. with the prophesied coming of HTML 5 and the video tag, Flash could be on the very short end of a very long stick and the new messiah for online video could take ...
