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Insider Tips for YouTube Video Marketing Success: Exclusive Interview

Want to know the secrets to success on YouTube? Then you'll want to watch Daisy's exclusive New Media Minute interview with YouTube exec Bing Chen (in charge of Google & YouTube Creator Initiatives and Entertainment Partnerships) who offers insider tips and secrets regarding how to maximize ...

YouTube Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Success: SMX West

Over the past year, YouTube has dialed up
its efforts to help marketers with new features, tutorials, "howcasts," and other useful goodies. Jeff Martin, TouchStorm's Director of Search Marketing, joined the panel at SMX West 2011 for the session, "YouTube Tools & Techniques for Success." Jeff shared ...

The YouTube Black Hole: Where Good Videos Go To Die

We're missing out on a ton of great videos, and something has to be done about it. I've been thinking a lot about video curation lately. It's Nalts' fault, really—he's the one that got me started off down that line of thinking with his awesome ...

6 'Secret' YouTube URLs To Help Boost Audience Interaction

Most of us know how to link to a video on YouTube, or even to a channel, group or a playlist. This is often as simple as copying the URL from your browser's address bar and pasting the link wherever you need it. There are ...

The Week’s Best Viral Videos & What We Can Learn From Them – 10/29/10

It's time again for another recap of the week's best viral videos.  In addition to naming some of my favorites from the last seven days or so, we'll also try and dig a bit deeper to find a lesson—some nugget of inspiration or advice we ...

YouTube Marketing Tips for Partners: Use Annotations and Playlists To Get More Views

YouTube knows that their future success lies in the success of their current users.  If they want to be profitable, they need all their users to do well and enjoy the experience—not just the viewers, but the advertisers and partners as well.  If YouTube video ...

Behind-the-Scenes With Coincident TV – Tying Content Together in Creative, Interactive Ways

Coincident TV, like Qoof, wants to make your video content more interactive. However, unlike Qoof who was aimed more at eRetailers, Coincident TV is aiming to bring more content into the video viewing experience and integrating other content as well. I did not get to ...

YouTube's 6 Reasons Why HTML5 Won't Replace Flash, Yet

YouTube agreed with us on several points lately. We're not sure if they knew they were doing it or not but they have. The main point is that while HTML 5 is cool and has a lot of potential, it's not going to replace Flash ...

YouTube Embraces HTML 5 Video, Experimentally

YouTube recently stated that they want to help push HTML 5 to the forefront and have begun a more robust experiment to use it on their site. You have to opt-in to beta program in order to see the HTML 5 pages and there are ...

YouTube and Google Patent Game Technology for Web Video

Yes, Google and YouTube are getting in the games industry. And why not? They're already in a slew of other online service industries, so why not one more. But this one is special because it's using web-based video. Not only that, but it takes otherwise ...

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week's Viral Successes -12/07/2009

It's time for another Viral Round Up, where we examine recent viral video successes and break them apart so we can learn what made them tick.  Let's dive in:

How To Customize YouTube Player Embeds - Tips and Tricks

Last month, I spoke on several panels at the PubCon conference about online video.  In one session, titled, "Best Practices for Video Creation, Integration & Marketing," I focused my presentation on how to best integrate online video in a website.  There was a lot of information covered ...

Video Project Planning and Management - Market7 Review

Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a range of product packages to help you get all ...

Online Video Subtitles Increase Video Viewing By 40% - Research

In addition to the fact that subtitles can assist with accessibility and discoverability, subtitles can also increase the amount of time that a user spends watching a video by almost 40 percent.  In fact, where subtitles appeared, 80 percent more people watched the entire video ...

How To Get Featured On YouTube - See Your Video Featured On YouTube

The video is titled "How do you get featured on YouTube?" Simply put, the answer is - Put some honey out for those "Busy Youtube Bees." Seriously though, create great content and interact with the community. "But I heard there's like a magic formula or something.... the truth.... Youtube only pays attention to what the community is doing" There are, of course, some best practices and tips that you can follow and we will continue to do our best to provide you with all the honey you need.