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SES San Francisco 2011 Fast Approaching - Register Today

It's almost that time again. Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Francisco 2011 is almost here. It's hard to believe it's already been a year since last SES San Francisco, but it has. And now the world's brightest minds in search marketing are gearing up for ...

Online Video Lets You Live Through The Arizona Sand Storm Vicariously

Online video is the new newsroom. Citizen journalists are recording video of breaking news events with smart phones, Flip cameras, and Canon 5D's. They're uploading video in near real-time to platforms like YouTube and Vimeo, and using social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook to ...

Vancouver Riot Videos: More Proof The Future Of News Is Social Video

I am a huge hockey fan--I might have mentioned it before. So obviously I watched Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night on NBC. Boston won, and had the game in hand pretty much throughout, despite the fact that it was an away ...

Google Drops New Video Services at I/O: Android Movie Rentals & YouTube Live Captions

The tech-blogging community has its hands full with all the big announcements Google made at their I/O event this week. There's a new version of Android rolling out to the Motorola Xoom, there's a new cloud-based music storage system, and there are new happenings with ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Frights, Violence, & Laughs

The second half of the week in the online video world has been dominated by the outbreak of tornadoes Wednesday evening in the southeastern United States. The storms were huge, and the videos are incredible and frightening all at once. You can see several amazing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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. ...