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Professional YouTube Translation in 36 Languages Now Available

YouTube is teaming with professional services Gengo and Translated.net to bring strong foreign language translation capabilities to your videos. After you upload English captions, you'll have the ability to "Request Translation" in your Video Manager, and you can either invite friends to translate or go with the pros.

The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing YouTube Closed Captions for E-commerce [Step-by-Step Tutorial]

The emergence of YouTube as an e-commerce selling tool has been well documented on ReelSEO as far back as 2010 with "Video E-Commerce and Video SEO for Retailers". Many experts have blogged about using the power of YouTube to promote products and burnish brands. My ...

Online Video Viewing in Latin America is Evolving, Rápidamente!

comScore just put out some numbers for Latin America in regards to online video. I figured it's entirely possible that some of our readers have interest in the region and so I compiled a couple releases to take a look at how online video viewing ...

Translate Your Closed Captions into 300+ Languages with YouTube's New Translation Tool

If you make videos that are universal, that is, not confined to English-speaking countries, it will do your videos a world of good to be able to provide a number of languages so that almost anyone in the world can enjoy them.  We've covered in-depth ...

List of HTML5 Capable Video Players & Destination Sites

While one might think that every Tom, Dick and Harry video player is now HTML5 capable, you'd be wrong. Well, not totally wrong as most are. So here's a list of some of the more popular HTML5 video players.

HTML5 Video SEO to Get Easier with Track Element Standard (WebVTT)

The track element has a lot of uses but for the ReelSEO audience, I think one of the best will be the ability to attach a ton of metadata to those HTML5 videos that we're all starting to publish. Sure, it is meant for other ...

Why Adobe Really Dropped Their Mobile Flash Support

Many, especially the zealous Apple supporters, would have you believe that Apple killed Flash. In reality, it's HTML5 that might be the ultimate demise of Flash, but it won't be this year and probably not next year either. A recent article at TechCrunch took an ...

A Comprehensive List of Online Video Ad Types and Formats, Pros and Cons

The online video advertising offerings continue to expand and I thought I would go through the whole list of them and give some of my thoughts on the pros and cons of each. I won't go too deeply into specific products from ad networks, just ...

How To Easily Create Subtitles & Captions For YouTube SEO - Reel Video Producer Tips #15

Adding subtitles and captions to your videos on YouTube can greatly influence their ranking in search engines. It's one of the best search engine optimizations you can do to increase viewership, gain an audience, and give your videos more exposure. Plus, when you have transcription ...

More Than Half of YouTube Views From Non-English Speakers

An interesting report came from GigaOM on Thursday.  The site was told by a Google spokesperson that 60 percent of their overall views come from non-English speaking people.  They got that information from looking at the overall viewers who pick another language as the site's ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Soccer & Art

It's almost time for the weekend, and since we're heading into that back-to-school time of year, many of you probably have big plans. But before your power through the work day to get to those plans, you might need a little fuel to get you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digital Video and The Global Village - How To Craft Your Video for International Audiences

Asia is home to 40% of the Earth's internet users and China alone has almost a third more people online than the US.  With the internet population growing at a greater rate in developing and emerging markets than in the West, the opportunities for marketers ...

Google TV vs. Apple TV – A Side-By-Side Comparison – What’s What?

Mark thought it would be cool to have a resource article about Google TV. I thought it would be cool to have one about the Apple TV (no, not really). So we compromised (or rather, I snuck off and wrote this instead). Instead of just limiting ...