In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm /ˈælɡərɪðəm/ (originating from al-Khwārizmī, the famous Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī) is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning.
More precisely, an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Starting from an initial state and initial input (perha...
For those of you who don't know: YouTube is like those people you know who are always doing something to their house. They can't just live in the house and be happy, they have to change the floors, or redecorate, or add a room. And ...
We've talked a lot about how to optimize views on your YouTube videos, and we went over a lot about what the YouTube Creator Playbook says about YouTube Analytics. But maybe after you have a video that gets some good views, you start seeing a ...
This is the last and final farewell episode of the New Media Minute. Today's episode is focused on the age-old question for those involved with online video - what best practices can one follow to make sure videos are easily discoverable in search? I interviewed ...
Notice anything new around YouTube lately? One of the most common complaints I hear about YouTube is that the Related & Recommended videos section lacks a certain accuracy—too many videos suggested that viewers ultimately don’t find interesting (or even related). But with a new update, ...
As advertisers, we often wonder where exactly all those impressions are going when we do a placement and more importantly, are people really seeing them. Now, YuMe is giving us answers to those questions with their new video ad Placement Quality Index, announced today. The ...
YouTube is trying really hard to make YouTube.com your new TV. Instead of turning on the television and flipping through the 338 channels, they're hoping in the near future you'll just open a browser and go to YouTube... and surf their millions of "channels" instead. ...
YouTube seems to have adopted Google's talent for slipping in quirky new ad placement algorithms with barely a note on the fridge about what's going on. In my job with an online competitive intelligence (SpyFu) company, I often hear about the sudden changes on the ...
The final section of the YouTube Creator Playbook focuses on making your video social. When you first begin uploading videos, you are looking for an audience, which likely won't be very big at first. You have to build one, and building an audience takes interaction ...
Raystream tells me they've got a new proprietary video compression that can chop down the size of streaming HD video an average of 70%, without a loss of quality. You know me, I'm skeptical about numbers that large so I did some further investigation.
At the point where you have made a lot of videos, there is a point where organizing select videos into playlists becomes a great way to entice new viewers and fans alike to watch multiple entries in one sitting. Playlists are another word for "Greatest ...
According to Searchmetrics, YouTube.com was the biggest winner of the recent Google Panda Update, dubbed Panda 2.5. Supposedly, this means the "SEO visibility of the domain" improved 10% on Sept. 28, 2011. But, before you do anything, you might want to take a look at ...
A few weeks ago, we discussed Mozilla's interactive video framework, Popcorn.js, an HTML5 application that will allow for content creators to provide context links and information to their videos. It was test-driven with documentary films. Now, with the support of content optimization company RAMP, and ...
Annotations are an often overlooked aspect of YouTube videos. They can lead the viewer to a number of actions, whether it's directing them towards other videos you've created or brings attention to a call-to-action such as liking, favoriting, subscribing, or commenting. However the annotations are ...
In Part 1 of our coverage of the YouTube Creator Playbook's metadata section, we discussed the general overview of how titles, tags, and descriptions help people find your video through YouTube's search engine. We also talked about how good metadata isn't the main way people ...
One of the great mysteries among those who don't work inside Google headquarters is how a search engine decides who the cool kids are on the Internet. The top few links you get from a search engine are also going to be the ones that ...
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