Worth Repeating - Grab The Free Ebook, The Social Video Blueprint, Today
Most businesses, brands, and marketers are looking for social media activity around their video programming these days, whether the videos themselves are traditional ads or more content oriented. But for a video to truly "go social," it's got to be designed from the ground up to actually deserve that social buzz. While it's definitely an ...
Stupeflix Reworks Video Creation API Access To Commoditize Video Creation
Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says ...
Automotive Social Media Marketing Relies On Online Video
It's virtually impossible to be in the automotive space and not have to rely on online video for promotion. While Twitter and Facebook are important to the automotive industry to get the word out on new products, shows, trends and news, online video brings out the enthusiasts. The true enthusiasts - those who are so ...
Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up
Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up. Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the ...
Boxee Live TV Adapter - Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late?
Continuing the trend of screen convergence, Boxee has released the USB Live TV dongle for its Boxee boxes along with version 1.5 today. For those that don't want a full-on premium TV subscription, but do want local channels, can now get that along with your online video entertainment without the need to buy an all ...
The Future Of "Branded" Content - Katalyst Media Launching YouTube Channel
Katalyst Media was founded by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg in 2000. It began as a simple film/TV development home; Kutcher's Guess Who and the company's most recognizable property, Punk'd, were produced under Katalyst. In 2005, they added a social media division, and what they specialize in is a form of branded content, the kind ...
Now You Have No Choice But To Sign Up For Google Plus
Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well. You can tell by how much they've leveraged their other properties to promote it, like YouTube videos, Google home page messages, rolling in Google Plus results into the standard SERPs, etc. But now they've taken the boldest step yet: tying Google Plus sign-up to new Gmail ...
Custom Facebook Fan Pages For Video Marketers With myChaptr
Social is a gigantic part of the online video marketing equation--at least, if you're doing it right it is. For individual video creators, that can mean a lot of your work time is spent on Facebook instead of making videos. For video marketing consultants or agencies--those with many clients, each of whom needs help marketing ...
Do Social Media & Social Video Really Exist?
In Part 2 of my interview (PART 1 HERE) with Jason Falls co-author of “No BullShit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing, we passionately discuss what’s good about social media today, what’s BS, and what needs to change for doing truly “social” business.
No-Bull$h!t Social Video: Is “Social Video” Just Another Buzz Word?
Are you at all confused by the term "Social Video?" It's become a bit of a buzz word recently and I thought it would be worthwhile to ask the question, "is "social video" just another internet marketing buzz term or does it represent a Reel trend? For some debate on that, I interviewed social media ...
Video Marketing Done Right - Google+ Teases Google Map Video Game
Google is hoping that games can do for Google Plus what they did for Facebook--get people hopelessly addicted until they're spending every waking moment playing social network games and annoying friends with automated status updates based on meaningless gameplay objectives. Um... sorry... guess I have some personal issues on that particular subject. Now where was ...
Boxee Hooks Up With Facebook To Make Live TV Social
Boxee will give you the ability to share what you're watching straight to Facebook with a new expansion of the integration of the service into its software. Those of you with the Live TV dongle attached to your Boxee Boxes will be able to share without leaving the TV program. I managed to catch a ...
YouTube Is Social Media - How Machinima Targets YouTube's Social Power
I had the pleasure of spending some time at the Machinima LA Offices not too long ago, and I got to talk to a lot of great people about all the different facets of life at Machinima. One of those was Allen DeBevoise, the CEO. We talked about how social activity plays into the long ...
Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn't Extend To Videos
So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account. The idea, to hear Google tell it, is to make the search results more personalized and more useful to each user... to help them find more meaningful and engaging content. There's only ...
Google+ Strategy For Taking On Twitter & Facebook: Choke The Life Out Of Them
You've probably seen the news that Google Search is now infused with more personalized content from your Google Plus and Picasa accounts--I say you've probably seen the news because it's everywhere. They're calling it Search Plus Your World. I'm not interested in rehashing the details you have probably already read about. Besides... the real news ...
