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Viral Video Genius Quits Day Job for Online Video

"Viral Video Genius" Nalts, well known in the online video world as one of YouTube's most prolific viral video creators and YouTube comedians, led two separate lives until last week, when the two worlds recently collided and he was outed as a Consumer Product Director ...

How To Produce "Business-Quality" Online Video On A Small Business Budget

Can businesses today really create sustainable revenue and long-term profit around regularly publishing professional-quality online video, and keep their production costs well below the standards of broadcast-quality? Yes, if they're willing to be what I call "videoratis" - a video professional and publicist skilled at ...

Can User-Generated Video Work As A Business Model? Interview With Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Wikipedia CEO and Co-Founder Jimmy Wales at the adtech conference and asks: Can consumer-generated media (CGM) work as a monetizeable business model for video like it has for text? What are the challenges with incorporating video into public Wikis? And, can ...

Hulu Is Growing Faster Than YouTube - Online Video Usage Trends for March

According to new research released from Neilsen Online, almost 10 billion (9.6B) video streams were viewed in March of this year by an estimated 130M US web users.  This represents almost a 40% (38.8) increase year over year from March 2008 and is an increase ...

Where Do People Discover Videos Online? Online Video Discovery Research

There are many ways in which people discover video online; videos embedded on blogs, video search engines, major search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, MSN), email, and social networking, to name a few.  In February, our friends over at Tubemogul released some new research which helps to ...

Online Video In Asia - China, Japan and Korea Poised To Push Online Video Development

China, Japan and Korea will drive the next wave of online video development, according to Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa). China will draw further attention as it emerges as the largest wired broadband market in the world with 190 million connections in ...

Optimizing Video Press Releases – The Greg Jarboe Interview

I recently interviewed Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder of the public relations and search optimization agency, SEO-PR, about his professional client work on optimizing video in press releases, including for news wire services. Greg is also speaking at SES Chicago 2008 on several sessions, includingTurning ...

Distribution Deals Help Google Increase TV Ad Inventory

As of September Google has been selling time through Google TV Adwords for NBC advertising inventory. The announcement was made on September 24th on the Google offline ads blog. Again they've made another deal, this time with Bloomberg TV. Starting November 6th Google started allowing ...

Internet Video In Korea Eclipses The DVD

I read an interesting item on Bloomberg the other day about how Warner Brothers is scaling back its DVD operation in South Korea because of rampant illegal movie downloading. But at the same time it is greatly expanding its authorized Internet movie distribution. In Korea, ...

The Obama-Ayers Video SEO "Terrorist Connection"

Little did I realize that an innocuous video I did of former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers nearly 2 years ago and put on YouTube is now being shown on cable news stations and circulated by hardcore McCain supporters to support their claim that Democratic Presidential ...

Video In Social Economy – Interview With Lemonade.com's CEO Tom Zawacki

We caught up with Tom right after his session at ad-tech Chicago: The Banner is Dead: Digital Advertising Strategies in the Age of Earned Media, which played to a packed house. In our audio interview, we discuss with Tom why search marketers need to be paying attention ...

KoldCast TV Sponsors Controversial Web Video Series

With 17 successful episodes under their belt, the controversial break-out web series, Midwest Teen Sex Show (MTSS), has landed its first major sponsor with KoldCast TV.  The series, which has been airing on-demand on several video web sites and on KoldCast TV since its Beta ...

Online Video News Search Study - Is The Business Case Made?

Report released by DoubleClick Performics, "Searching for Online News." The report consists of survey findings among 500 consumers conducted in mid-May, offering a look into how consumers interact with online video news – more specifically, how they search for it, how they engage with it, and how effectively they find the news video relevant to their search experience.

The key findings of the report – There is a significant use of the Internet for video news viewing, consumers rely heavily on Search to find news online, and video with news search makes for higher engagement levels with consumers.

Grant comments on whether the data helps or hurts the SEO professionals and online marketers looking to make the business case for optimizing news video performance and distribution on the web.

Kids and Teens Consume Most Online Video Content

Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today announced that per person, kids consumed more streams than those over 18, and spent more time watching online video from home in April (see Table 1). Kids 2-11 viewed an average of 51 streams and 118 ...

Online Video Continues To Soar - Research

New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66 percent in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs. The numbers from comScore Inc. underscored a problem being discussed by network executives this ...