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Best Online Video Ad Campaign: Google's Nexus S Unboxed By Ninjas

I love video advertising that skewers the typical YouTube experience. I love when ads like this one for The Expendables or this one for Tipp-Ex appear on the surface to be standard YouTube videos, only to then make use of the entire screen, revealing themselves ...

Interview with Tim Nordwind of OK Go - Band, Videographers or Transmedia Geniuses? - Part I

I was very fortunate to manage an interview with Tim Nordwind from the artistic collective known as OK Go (Part 2 Here). Alright, many of us know them as a music band, some of us know them for their viral videos. As far as Tim ...

Goodbye Yahoo Video Uploads - Yahoo Shifts Away From User-Generated Video Content

Techcrunch is reporting that Yahoo Video is making some major changes in the wake of the company''s layoffs this week.  Specifically, they seem to be doing away with user-generated content altogether.  The upload utility is gone, and users are seeing a special message at the ...

Video Resumes Are Most Definitely The Wave of The Future

I read an outstanding article by Megan O'neil over at Social Times entitled Are Online Video Resumes The Wave Of The Future? Using a great example video, she wonders aloud if it might become the standard moving forward.  Is video the next big evolution in ...

YuMe Expands Video Ad Offering, Interactivity

YuMe offers all manner of video advertising options from something as simple as a branded players and overlay banner ads on top of video to more interesting and interactive offerings. Today they announced three new in-stream video ad units: Lights Out, SideKick, and Expanded View.

NYU Professor Implants Video Camera In Skull As A Statement About Surveillance

I've been known to trumpet the viral power of a video that shows the viewer something they've never seen before.  Acts of great physical ability or eye-popping talent have a way of going viral faster than almost any other variety.  And now that theory is ...

Following Google’s Lead for A Super Obvious and Powerful Video Marketing Tip

While researching possible article topics today, I ended up going down a rabbit hole of my own making over at the main Google blog.  See, I started by reading a post about the new Nexus S smart phone, which will run the much-hyped Gingerbread version ...

In-depth Review of ButoTV Video Platform: Interactivity Meets Simplicity

Online video platforms (OVPs) are springing up all over the place. It's like the Dawn of Web 2.0 all over again and Buto.tv (prounounced boo-toe I think) is getting in on it as well (and have been for some time). However, they might be taking ...

Brightcove 5 Enhancements Create More Robust and Efficient Platform

Brightcove put out the newest major release of their online video platform. As I've been immersed in several different OVPs of late I was looking forward to all of the new features that they've got going here and I'm going to try and get in, ...

How The HTML 5 War Has Been Won, By Adobe and Kaltura

Many people out there think that a war was brewing. That it was us versus them, that one thing is better than the other and that, in Highlander style: There can be only one. Adobe proved them all wrong this week by incorporating Kaltura's HTML5 ...

Cool Keyboard Shortcuts To Scrub Through YouTube Videos

Saw this over at Gizmodo (they got it from Reddit) and figured if I had never heard of it, then the chances were good you guys hadn't either.  Apparently there are secret keyboard shortcuts you can use while watching a YouTube video to make it ...

YouTube Marketing Tips for Partners: Engage The YouTube Community for Audience Growth

YouTube is wrapping up their wonderful "Tips for Partners" blog series, and I'm sad to see it winding down, because it's been fantastic.  Their last installment said the series would "run several weeks," but now it's ending after a total of four.  After covering a ...

Behind-the-Scenes With Coincident TV – Tying Content Together in Creative, Interactive Ways

Coincident TV, like Qoof, wants to make your video content more interactive. However, unlike Qoof who was aimed more at eRetailers, Coincident TV is aiming to bring more content into the video viewing experience and integrating other content as well. I did not get to ...

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 ...

Viral Video Lessons Round Up - Wordplay, Time-Lapse, and Rare Storms

Welcome to another Viral Video Lessons Round Up.  It's our attempt to have some fun by watching some of the week's biggest viral hits.  But we also attempt to learn something.  By reverse-engineering these clips—analyzing them to see if we can determine why they got ...