Google Chrome To Drop H264 - How Will This Affect You?
Just when it appeared that the online video industry was moving toward a video standard, with H.264 video playback in HTML5 – more chaos ensued with Google's announcement of its plans to phase out support for H.264 in its Chrome browser, in favor of open source formats like its own WebM or Theora. Like shot ...
Why Don't All Video Platforms Display Video View Counts?!
When I was preparing a post about Red Letter Media's Star Wars reviews earlier in the week, I discovered something surprising. Well, it was surprising to me. Blip.tv--where Red Letter's latest video is hosted--doesn't share video view counts publicly on the website. It was important to me at the time, because I was trying to ...
The Sunday News Reel – Week of 11-17 October, 2010
Hey hey! Another week in the books as we wind down summer in the Northern Hemisphere and rapidly hurtle toward lower temps and the holiday season. Here in my part of the world the leaves are falling along with the temps. So it's time once again for your to warm up with a cup of ...
Blip HTML5 Player 5 Times Faster, Full Switchover Soon
I am going to refrain from using all manner of cliche here and simply say, Blip is ready to take its whole site to the next level. Damn, that's a cliche too, isn't it? Hey everyone, Blip.tv says they're going to go full HTMl5 as soon as they can!
The Sunday News Reel: Video Related News In Review - Sept 26 - Oct 3, 2010
Chris is taking the weekend off to catch up on some technical things (really he's just fiddling with computer hardware, playing video games and catching up on sleep) so I'm here to cover for him. This week saw a lot of talk about Apple TV which, while not exactly the ReelSEO coverage area, still could ...
What Is A Video View? What Is Fraudulent? TubeMogul Helps Us Decide
If you read the Reel Weekender thoroughly, like the good readers I know you all are, you'll know that I linked over to Pace Lattin's site, Industrypace.com as he's seemingly being threatened due to his reporting on video ad fraud. Well hot on the heels of that, and quite timely for me, comes new research ...
Video Distribution: Where Should You Upload Your Videos? Online Video Marketing Basics Part 5
This is Part Five of our ongoing series of Online Video Marketing Basics, and it’s long overdue. This series is intended for the novices among us, businesses and individuals who have only recently decided to take the plunge into online video. And for that decision, I applaud you. But you probably still have a lot ...
Blip.tv Pre-Roll Video Ads Offer Downloads On Xbox 360
Blip.tv have taken interactive pre-roll ads to a whole new level in their bid to help Wieden & Kennedy get NCAA Football 11 in the public gamer consciousness. They created a click-to-download pre-roll mechanism that set the demo to download on the Xbox 360 console.
Improving Online Video Creative Use and Monetization
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell asks Harvard Law Professor and political activist Lawrence Lessig, what technical and legal platforms best balance the protection of online video copyrights versus creative expression by others?
List of Online Video Platform APIs
As most of you know, an online video platform provides companies with video hosting and delivery services among various other features and functionality that can vary (analytics, ad networks, HD support, etc...). Many of these online video platforms (and there are just too many right now in my opinion but that is another post entirely) offer ...
Blip.tv Adds More Knobs To Dashboard, Expands Distribution Channels
Blip.TV recently decided that they didn't have enough knobs, switches, levers, buttons and what nots on their dashboard. So they decided to upgrade it and throw in some new things for you to play with. Additionally, since they were doing some work anyway, they decided to expand their distribution options as well. Lucky for you, ...
Online Video Viewing Trends
Metacafe recently commissioned a study to find out who in America is watching online video, how much and what kinds. The results were just released and might be surprising.
Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sharing Sites
So, you've got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here's some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a ...
A New Era In Video Metrics Has Arrived - Tubemogul 2.0
http://www.reelseo.com/tubemogul-new-metricstubemogul-new-metrics/9206/ Larry Kless, founder of Online Video Publishing [dot] com, interviewed Mark Rotblat of Tubemogul back in March where he was given a bit of an advance scoop on TubeMogul 2.0
The Evolution and Equalization of Web Video and Television
Mike Hudack, The CEO of Blip.tv, was interviewed yesterday by Jolie O'Dell (nice) on ReadWriteWeb about how online video and television are evolving together. Revenue models, show length and format, distribution, and consumption are all called into question as the web targets increasingly narrow and engaged niche audiences.
