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Education Videos Are Ridiculously Fun On YouTube With Vlog Bros, VSauce, & CGPGrey

Recently, YouTube announced their new educational channel lineup as part of their original channel initiative.  No doubt, learning is going to be more fun than it ever was when I was a kid.  But YouTube already has at least three channels that educate and inform ...

Introducing The 6 New YouTube Educational Channels

YouTube is rolling out six new educational channels focusing on math, science, history, art/culture, and astronomy.  The new offerings are a part of their 100 original content initiative, but recently YouTube has made a lot of strides in being a go-to source for education, with ...

Popcorn Framework Usage Surprises Even Its Creators

Over the past few months, we have followed a couple of exciting new video applications for Popcorn.js, an HTML 5 framework for video.  It was introduced essentially through Wired in October, where documentary filmmakers were able to add interactive links in their films to provide ...

YouTube Channel To Watch In 2012 - Explanation Videos From CGP Grey

When Common Craft pivoted their business into a educational video subscription service, a bit of a void was left in the universe. You see, Common Craft made the absolute best "explanation videos" around--their "Twitter In Plain English" was featured on Twitter's home page for ages ...

Selling Video Online: The Pros & Cons Of Choosing Digital Media

In part 3 of our series on selling video, we're going to look at digital media (you can catch up on our introduction to the series here or Part 2, Pros & Cons of Physical Media, here). While there are still plenty of valid reasons ...

YouTube Looks To Educate With YouTube For Schools

YouTube, in its never-ending quest to be everything to everyone, announced YouTube For Schools on Sunday.  The idea is to get YouTube into the classroom without all the distractions of the other, non-educational videos that can be found on the site, narrowing it down to ...

The Sucky Video Awards: Help Us Find The Worst Web Videos of 2011 & WIN

We spend so much time praising those great examples of quality branded video that it's easy to forget how much bad video is out there. Seriously... some of it really sucks. It's probably part of why author Steve Stockman decided to write "How To Shoot ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Science Edition!

If you're anything like me, you've had a rough week. You were sick, and fell behind on your work, and you could really use a pick me up before jumping into the last day of the work week. If so, you've come to the right ...

9 Tips For Increasing Video Conversions

YouTube might try to wow you with the latest statistics, by bragging that "48 hours of video are uploaded every minute!" However, as a business owner or marketer, that statistic can be discouraging. How will your videos ever stand out from the rest? Will anyone ...

Infographic Charts Political Video Activity On YouTube Town Hall

YouTube Town Hall launched a couple of months ago as a portal for politicians to interact with the voters through online video. Today, the company released a new infographic that charts the Town hall voting performance of politicians across the various issues. It also contains ...

YouTube Videos Exploiting Kids: A Concerned Parent's Outrage

I interviewed popular "Mom Blogger" Jessica Gotlieb, who shared her strong opinions about the YouTube controversy with musical performer Evan Emory and others who behave irresponsibly with online video, and appear to be rewarded for it. Jessica also talks about why parents and communities must ...

Common Craft Introduces Video Subscription Service For Business & Education

Common Craft has been making fantastic "explanation" videos for years. Using a simple, hand-drawn paper animation style, the husband and wife duo of Lee and Sachi LeFever have won multiple awards for their videos, and have worked with some major brands. This week, Common Craft ...

PBS Sees Huge Success With Online Video & Mobile Video Distribution

It's always nice to see when Public Broadcasting succeeds at something. The something in question this time round is embracing online video distribution and then pushing out a massive quantity of it. 145 million videos in June is pretty impressive considering it's the fruit of ...

“Digital Natives” Transforming Online Video, Part 2: Training Digital Citizens

In my continued discussion with Dancing with Digital Natives co-editor Michelle Manafy, we talk about the divide between digital natives and older generations with social media and online video, why digital natives sometimes behave very badly with online video, and some ways parents can get ...

Are “Digital Natives” Transforming Online Video For Better Or Worse? Part 1

I interview Michelle Manafy, Co-Editor of the newly released book Dancing With Digital Natives. Michelle and I talk about how "digital natives" are already transforming the way business is being done, and their increasing impact on the online video industry.