No-Bull$h!t Social Video: Is “Social Video” Just Another Buzz Word?
Are you at all confused by the term "Social Video?" It's become a bit of a buzz word recently and I thought it would be worthwhile to ask the question, "is "social video" just another internet marketing buzz term or does it represent a Reel trend? For some debate on that, I interviewed social media ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - New Years Edition
I originally intended to skip this column this week, instead replacing it with a year-end "best viral videos" round up that would cover all of the last 52 weeks in hilarious viral action. However, a funny thing happened throughout the week that I should have expected: I kept finding awesome new viral videos that I ...
American Television Alliance Upset Over NBC Super Bowl Streaming Plan
The continued perception that streaming sports online somehow affects the overall TV audience continues unabated. Or, rather, the perception is being used to gain leverage, and no one actually believes that myth anymore. The American Television Alliance, which is a lobbyist group that represents cable, satellite, and phone companies, believes that because the Super Bowl ...
ivi TV Continues Its Fight For The Future Of Internet TV
One of the biggest stories of 2011 is what the future of television will look like as service providers, consumer electronics manufacturers and content aggregators all jockey for the prime position in your living room. One company seeking to help consumers "cut the cord" is Seattle-based ivi, an online cable company, and it's been embroiled ...
Google Plus Hangouts Video Chat Gets Bells & Whistles With New Upgrade
Today Google announced that Google Plus Hangouts video chat is getting an upgrade. As our readers know, Hangouts has long been one of the best features Google Plus has to offer, with up to 10 people in a single video chat at once--we're even holding our monthly ReelSEO writers' call on Hangouts. And now some ...
How to Be a Web Video Spokesperson: The Orabrush YouTube Marketing Story - Part 2 of 4
In Part 2 of our series on the Orabrush YouTube marketing story, I interviewed Orabrush Spokesperson Austin Craig to talk about how he became the company’s spokesperson for their highly popular YouTube channel. (You can read Part 1 here). Austin shares several tips for others who are considering being a web spokesperson or web personality ...
NASCAR And Facebook To Give You A Ride In Sprint Cup Championship
Do you like NASCAR? Do you like Tony Stewart? Do you think he's going to finish ahead of Carl Edwards and take the Sprint Cup Championship? Wouldn't you just love to be in one of those cars hurtling down the track at approaching 200 miles per hour, seeing what Stewart sees? NASCAR's Facebook page is ...
Starcraft Finals Streaming Live On YouTube
YouTube has been making waves recently with their live broadcasting, notably a Coldplay concert a few weeks ago. And this weekend YouTube is live-streaming the Starcraft finals through the Major League Gaming channel. There are thousands of gamers at the Rhode Island Convention Center playing Starcraft 2 vying for $600,000 in prizes, with a $50,000 ...
Sony Cutting The Cable For You? Aiming For A Sony Online TV Service?
Remember when I was writing about Sony the other day, well really it was about Google TV and stuff, but I mentioned that Howard Stringer, the Sony CEO, was talking about big R&D in a new TV. Well, some speculation has launched into what that will be now and it seems that they want to ...
Current TV To Create New Series From Vimeo Documentary Contest Winner
It seems to be online video contest week as I've got two assignments about online video contest platfoms and now Vimeo is launching a contest. The new partnership between Current TV and Vimeo is looking for some crowdsource action to kick off a series of documentaries.
DBG Offers New Premium, Curated, Video Content Library Platform, CLiP
DBG announced they have a new premium video content offering and so I sat down with Matthew Corbin. Matthew was the driving force behind DBG’s recently-launched Content Library Platform (CLiP), an innovative take on content syndication and publisher partnerships. The new offering is part of DBG's plans to be the digital network of the future (their ...
HD? Bah! UHD (Ultra High Definition) to Offer 33 Million Pixels
You all think you are so special with your HDTV, cameras, projectors and whatever. That's nothing compared to ultra high-definition television which seeks to offer around 16 times more pixels than standard HDTV screens today.
Tragedy Goes Viral - IndyCar Series Deadly Crash On YouTube
Sometimes human beings are strange. Like when tragedy hits, such as 9/11, and despite the sadness and shock and grief... they can't help but seek out video of the event. That happened yesterday, when the Indy Racing League saw a spectacular crash claim the life of one of their most promising drivers, as 33-year-old and ...
My Video Lifestyle - No Cord Cutting But Wireless, 3D, HD, Fast, Flexible & Complex
I've recently received a bunch of really cool gear here at the home office and need to talk about it. But first I had to assemble it all into a usable and versatile system that then allowed me to watch video from just about any source. This is sort of a review of the equipment ...
Ooyala Goes Social, Everywhere with New Offerings
I had a couple meetings with Ooyala lately to talk about all the cool new stuff they have got going on like Ooyala Social, Ooyala Everywhere and of course the Motorola Mobility investment and what it might mean for us as much as for them. This is some really interesting stuff which is why it ...
