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The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Considering that I just shared some of my best viral video discovery websites with you yesterday, it's entirely possible you've seen some of this week's featured videos already. Tons of quality viral hits this week covering a variety of genres and topics. We have some ...

Canon 5D Mark III: The Ultimate Feature Request List for DSLR Video

For little more than a year now, I have been making video marketing productions using two Canon DSLRs as my weapon of choice: a 5D mark II (for its ability to do bokeh-porn) and the 7D (for those smooth Glidecam shots at 50 or 60 ...

YouTube's Crowdsourced Film, Life In A Day, Premieres This Thursday

We've written a lot about Life In A Day here at ReelSEO, and with good reason.  It is, to my knowledge, the very first Hollywood film created from video clips shot by amateurs.  That gimmick alone would make the movie worth checking out, I believe, ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

This is getting ridiculous.  There are simply too many great videos--funny ones, shocking ones, videos that amaze--to squeeze into this once-a-week column.  I'm going to have to start doing a "Best Viral Videos of the Midweek" article or something.  This week I have so much ...

Hear This: Sound Advice for Better Quality Video Interviews

Unless you have your own Hollywood style crew with technicians for every specialty- camera, lighting, sound, script, makeup, grip etc..., you're more likely to be doing everything yourself on a shoestring budget. Have you ever gotten a great looking interview that shocked you with how mediocre ...

How To Prepare for An On-Camera Interview - Tips for The Video Interviewee

You're going to be shot - so what should you do to prepare? No, we're not addressing whether you should carry firearms when going into a questionable neighborhood, or driving on L.A.'s crazy freeway system. We want to show what to consider if you are going to ...

Ridley Scott's Life In A Day YouTube Movie Gets A Trailer

Producer Ridley Scott's YouTube movie, "Life In A Day," which we've talked about before, is anything but a traditional Hollywood film.  It was shot by thousands of amateurs, has only a loose plot or theme, and will be released online instead of in theaters.  But there ...

Vimeo Increases Upload Limits To 5GB for Paid Members

Vimeo has always been a home for creative individuals and independent filmmakers.  In fact, they've almost gone out of their way to avoid courting just any video creators, specifically focusing on members of the artistic community.  And today they've announced a change to their service ...

The Top Viral Video Marketing Lessons Learned From 2010

2010 was a spectacular year for viral video, as more people than ever uploaded, watched, and shared videos online. While it's virtually impossible to know what innovative videos await us in 2011, we can find some clues in a trip down memory lane. What can we learn from the year in viral video that might give us an edge in the year ahead?

Web Video Production Advice for Aspiring Filmmakers - Interview With Demand Media

We caught up with Jay Holzer a few weeks back and he was gracious enough to chat with us for a bit about online video.  He is the Senior Director of Video Production at Demand Media, the publisher of websites like eHow, Cracked, LiveStrong, and ...

Vimeo Video School Offers Free Video Production Training - Learn How To Produce Better Videos

Video-sharing website Vimeo has recently launched something called Vimeo Video School, a sort of online university for video creators.  Specifically, it aims to be "a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos.”  Oh, and it's completely free. A free, online, video ...

Money Never Sleeps As Oliver Stone Invests In Online Video Platform

There's plenty of room in the online video space for all sorts of platforms, products, and services.  It's easy to see YouTube as the big dog--and they are--but plenty of other video solutions exist for businesses, and many of them are thriving.  And when you're ...

AOL Gets Serious About The Power of Online Video Content

I just saw this press release (even though I was done working for the day mostly) about AOL and the creation of AOL Video. I thought, well, that's timely (in that I saw it, not that they've waited so long to get it done).  You ...

Amazon Goes Hollywood With Amazon Studios – Filmmakers and Screenwriters Wanted

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell I interviewed a spokesperson from Amazon.com's new online business, Amazon Studios to learn about the program's new business model for discovering and paying new filmmaking talent with an eye on making big motion pictures. But do they plan to expand beyond feature length-films, and offer these same business opportunities and incentives to web-based video producers as well?

YouTube Replaces Home Page Moderators With Algorithm, Winks At Google

Aspiring YouTube filmmakers will be happy to learn that it recently got a little bit easier to get your videos featured on the YouTube home page.  A little.  It still won't be easy, but the process has definitely been demystified.