Topic - Online Video & Flip
Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes
Welcome back to the third edition of this weekly series where we examine viral video successes (and sometimes failures). The goal is to reverse engineer the examples to help break apart and identify what factors helped the video go viral. Learning from those who succeeded before us is the surest way to find our own success.
Creating Videos for Business on a Shoestring Budget
Think it’s too expensive to start marketing your business using online video? Think it’s too complicated to start marketing your business using online video? Nope and nope. Use the powerful one-two punch of the Flip camcorder and Animoto to make stunning video on a shoestring budget.
Flip Ultra HD Camcorder Test Review Video
Can a pocket digital camcorder produce “business-quality” online video? In other words, be what I call, a “bizsumer” camcorder? ” The following video is a little test I did using the new Flip Ultra HD camcorder, where I provide some tips on how to get the best image quality out of it, and make up for its poor audio controls.
The Video SEO Creative Vado HD review
Grant Crowell of ReelSEO reviews the Creative Vado HD digital pocket camcorder – is it good enough for serious business use, online video marketing and video seo? Watch our YouTube playlist and see us put it through a full battery of tests, learn about the advantages and limitations of the Vado, and hear Grant’s special tips for Video SEO with pocket camcorders.
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Flip mino HD camcorder review – good or bad for business video?
Billed as the “world’s smallest HD camcorder,” is the Flip mino HD a smart investment for those serious about online video marketing and video SEO? ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell, and video producer and director Bob Sandidge of Creative Core Media, put the camcorder through a series of semi-grueling tests in this podcast review, and a custom mino HD YouTube playlist on the ReelSEO channel in featuring video clips of common business scenarios. Hear what they say is good and bad with the mino HD, and whether its a “thumbs up” or a “flip you off” verdict…
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The Lexus of Video Sharing Social Communities – Test Drive with Openfilm.com
High-Quality, High Resolution, High Ambitions - Openfilm is not YouTube. I think if you were to even call them a YouTube clone you might offend the site’s designers and founders not to mention the content publishers and users. Instead, OpenFilm is more like the Lexus of the video sharing social communities. All shiny and sleek with that new video sharing smell. So let’s fire it up and take it for a test ride.
YouTube Adds HD Video Browsing Option
As we posted previously, Youtube recently updated the UI to add high-definition HD video viewing in a large HD video player. In addition, they have now added a new option to browse HD videos right from the main “Videos” navigation page. I imagine that there have been a ton of searches for high-definition videos since the announcement.
Will It Blend (for 50 bucks)? The ‘budget myth’ about a popular viral video campaign
One of the myths with viral video marketing perpetuated by both search marketing pundits and mainstream media is an example they give about a wildly successful viral video campaign, claiming it was done with only chump change, so anyone else with just their own creative strategy can do it, too – right? That ”budget myth” is Blendtec’s popular WillitBlend video campaign, which prompted one panelist at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 Conference to claim that “the cost to produce it was only $50!” Here’s the story on what the costs actually were, and how the budget myth got spread.
New Performance Based Video Advertising for iPhone Devices
VideoEgg today introduced the first performance-based video advertising for the iPhone -AdFrames for mobile. The new offering enables advertisers to distribute invitation-based, expandable video or rich media ads to iPhone users. Nikon and Ubisoft Canada are among the first brands to leverage AdFrames’ mobile distribution as a measurable way to reach highly engaged consumers.
New High-Definition Camcorder from Flip Video under $250 USD
The maker of Flip Video, the best-selling family of affordable and simple-to-use digital camcorders today introduced its latest breakthrough product: the Flip MinoHD. The world’s smallest high definition camcorder at just over three oz., this remarkably slim camcorder makes capturing and sharing HD video easy and affordable. The stylish Flip MinoHD from Pure Digital Technologies, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video and features Flip Video’s new FlipShare software, also announced today. This advanced on-board software platform allows consumers to plug the camcorder’s signature flip-out USB arm into any computer for easy drag-and-drop video organizing, editing and sharing on YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video or via email.
Viral Video Marketing Survey Demonstrates Growth, Popularity & Need for Benchmarks
A new report released today from online video seeding firm Feed Company shows 70% of ad agency and media buying executives plan to increase budgets for viral video marketing in 2009. The “Viral Video Marketing Survey: The Agency Perspective” culled insights on viral video marketing trends from 40 executives at major advertising agencies and media buying firms including Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Wieden & Kennedy, Digitas, and McCann Erickson. The survey report is available here.
Prototype Optical Network Technology for HD Video Breakthrough
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| This cross section shows the dense array of polymer waveguides in IBM’s demonstrator. On the printed circuit board, the databus of 48 of these waveguides uses a path only 3 mm wide. Previous systems would use four times as much space |
