Live Streaming Video Is Growing By Leaps & Bounds
Online video is incredibly popular, and owes a good deal of that popularity to its on-demand nature---users can watch what they want, when they want. However, there's a growing market for the exact opposite type of video content: live streaming. Live streaming video is maturing at a pretty impressive rate, as several events this week ...
YouTube Beats Facebook & Twitter For Educational Social Video Potential
Well, it's official. YouTube is better than Twitter. At least... it is where education is concerned. That's the word from college professors who participated in a new study by Brabson Survey Research Group and Pearson, who overwhelmingly saw more value for secondary education in YouTube's video-sharing portal than they do in Twitter's microblogging platform.
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Explosive Amateur Footage
If I showed you the list of potential videos for this week's round up, you guys would certainly begin to worry about me. I have a problem. I can't stop finding, collecting, and watching online videos. Thankfully, my responsibilities here at ReelSEO allow me to mask that addiction as "research." So now, in the name ...
Blogworld & New Media Expo 2011 New York Is Fast Approaching
It seems like only a few weeks ago Blogworld Las Vegas was going on, and I was home with pneumonia instead of hanging with new media people at the after parties. But in truth, that was more than five months ago. So it should come as no surprise that Blogworld & New Media Conference is ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
Major worldwide catastrophes and global news events have a way of swooping in and completely dominating the viral video world, and the situation in Japan is living proof. Videos of the earthquake in action, videos of the tsunami's devastation, and videos of explosions at the nuclear plant have gone viral in record numbers this week, ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
I wrote yesterday about the discovery problem with online video. There's so much video being uploaded at such a rapid pace that it's literally impossible for every video to have an even chance to be found. The average viewer has neither the time nor the inclination to go searching through all the raw video uploaded ...
YouTube Getting Into The Live Sports Streaming Game
YouTube is actively pursuing deals with professional sporting leagues around the world in a bid to bring more live streaming sporting events to the video site. A Bloomberg report yesterday claims Google is in talks with "most sports leagues," including the NBA, the NHL, and multiple European soccer leagues to show live games on YouTube.
The Weekly Online Video News Reel: The Lethargic Edition
I have to admit that I'm tired. Sure, we all get tired, even superheroes. So let's make this short and sweet, yet still super, right?! Sometimes there just aren't enough of us to go round here at ReelSEO and things slip through the cracks. Today I'll try to catch everything that almost slipped by.
Network, Learn and Succeed with Search Marketing Expo West
If you're marketing via search engines online, then you need to consider attending an expo that will help you get the most of those campaigns. Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West will feature more than 60 sessions on search engine optimization (SEO), paid search advertising (PPC), social media marketing, local and mobile search, landing page conversions ...
The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons
The landscape of viral video is constantly changing. If you don't like the current most-popular video that everyone's talking about... just wait a few minutes... something else entirely different will come along. Anyone has a shot at success, from the brands to the little guys. Videos can go viral the day they're launched, or two ...
Dailymotion Announces Curated Video Hubs for Current & Emerging Events
Online video has proven to be a sought after content type during breaking news stories, natural disasters, or other current events. However, the very nature of breaking news makes it tough to find video of a specific event as the news of that event is still breaking, because it's lost amid the billions of other ...
Skype Live Mobile Video Chat App To Be Announced CES 2011?
Like most tech companies, Skype will have a presentation to make at the upcoming CES show, and it's been rumored to be a mobile video-related feature and potentially available via 3G vs. Apple's Facetime, which is currently only available via WiFi. The company is being a bit of a tease today over at its What's ...
How Women Connect and Engage With Online Video - Nielsen Research
Nielsen did some research recently and had a webinar about how women are connecting with online video. I wasn't able to get into that webinar but I was able to download the video. I thought it curious that there would be such a massive difference between women and men in regards to online video so ...
4.5 Hours of Video Viewed Per User at Google, 5.4 Billion Video Ads in November
ComScore dropped their monthly Video Metrix on us the other day and I've just been so busy that I couldn't get to it until now. All that research I was doing myself was taking up some time. But here we are, just a couple weeks left in 2010 and online video is as powerful as ...
Google Releases Annual Zeitgeist Report, An In-Depth Look At The 2010 Year In Search
Last week we took a look at what some search engines were saying about the most popular queries of 2010. All the major search engines typically release a recap of the year's most popular keywords and search phrases, and Yahoo, Bing, & AOL did so last week. Google obviously enjoys being different, so they waited ...
