future Articles

The future is the indefinite time period after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently exists and will exist can be categorized as either permanent, meaning that it will exist for the whole of the future or temporary, meaning that it won’t and thus will come to an end. The future and the concept of eternity have been major subjects ...

YouTube's Mad Tinkering Equals A Loss Of Views? What Exactly Is Going On?

For those of you who don't know: YouTube is like those people you know who are always doing something to their house.  They can't just live in the house and be happy, they have to change the floors, or redecorate, or add a room.  And ...

Video Transforms Advertising: Learn How at the Online Video Advertising Summit & Save with ReelSEO

Our friends over at VideoNuze are holding the Online Video Advertising Summit in New York on Tuesday, June 19.  If you would like to go, you should know that the Early Bird Discount expires this Friday at 6 PM Eastern.  Readers of this site can ...

Break into Primetime with Adobe's New Integrated Video Platform

So, as I previously mentioned, I chatted with Adobe about their Project Primetime and its new features which they've just unveiled. Ashley Still, director of product management for video solutions at Adobe (whew!) talked with me about what is coming to Primetime, what it's all ...

Two Largest Chinese Video Sites To Merge, Make Waves In America?

After firing warning shots over the bows in terms of copyright infringement lawsuits, the two biggest Chinese online video firms Tudou and Youku have decided that they should merge, instead. Sound like big news? Well, Youku seems ready to spend something like $1 billion on ...

Google Pay TV Project Aiming At Screen Convergence Or Cable Subscribers?

The Hollywood Reporter have cited a source that says Google has made some regulatory filings that look like a pre-cursor to a pay TV system and would see Google filing for "cable TV franchise licenses" in Kansas City (both MO and KA). So the way ...

Unruly’s UK Ads Chart Similar, But Different From Global Ads Chart

I'm in the United Kingdom this week to speak at SES London, which is being held again at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. I'll be speaking on Thursday, 23 February, about "Developing a Video Optimisation and Marketing Campaign.” No, that's not a typo. On ...

YouTube Takes Karmin From Zero To Music Stars In 10 Months

Back in April I wrote about YouTube channel karminmusic, whose cover of Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" had gone viral. That same video went on to land in the top ten most viewed videos of the entire 2011 year, but was far from the ...

Is YouTube Trying To Erase The Past? Browse Page Eliminates Date Filter

YouTube is trying really hard to make YouTube.com your new TV. Instead of turning on the television and flipping through the 338 channels, they're hoping in the near future you'll just open a browser and go to YouTube... and surf their millions of "channels" instead. ...

"Look Around" With The Red Hot Chili Peppers Interactive Music Video

I wrote this morning about how the future of online video marketing can be glimpsed just by watching what the band OK Go is doing with video--creative, envelope-pushing, inventive, etc. Another way brands and companies are expanding the definition of what the "video experience" can ...

Sometimes Movies Don't Need A Big Screen, They Just Need Any Screen

Back in the day, when people actually visited video rental places, movies that either had a short life in theaters or went straight to video basically had to hope the millions of people sifting through the new release shelves would find their video cover and ...

YouTube Promotional Website, One Hour Per Second, Is The Future Of Infographics

We've posted a lot of great infographics over the years. The format, which typically combines statistical information in a fun animated layout, is very popular. People enjoy learning important statistics, but no one wants to feel like their in school. Infographics are a way for ...

Content As Marketing - Video Advertising & Monetization With Machinima's Allen DeBevoise

During my recent tour of Machinima, I got a chance to talk to a lot of great people, including company CEO Allen DeBevoise. One of the topics we spent some time discussing is video advertising and video monetization--how Machinima makes money from their videos and ...

Future Proof Your Online Video Library With Vid.ly Integration with Encoding.com

Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly ...

Vimeo Fights SOPA, Supports OPEN Act To Curtail Online Video Piracy

I interviewed Senior Counsel for Vimeo, Michael Cheah, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Vimeo is running messages on January 18th (today) highlighting the issue and will invite users to tell Congress to reject SOPA. 

Every Brand Will Be A Studio: Philosophical Musings On The Future Of Video

I think I'm going to write an e-book... call it "Drop Out Of College & Learn Video." I had this revelation after an email chain with ReelSEO writer, Chris Atkinson. See, Chris and I are not only co-workers, but we've been friends for more than ...