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Firefox to Stop Pushing WebM and Give in to H.264? What's that Mean to You

It's a dark day indeed for online video, H.264 has seemingly won the war without any real battles being fought. Google has yet to remove H.264 from Chrome and now someone high up at Firefox has pretty much stated that they're throwing in the towel ...

Google Doesn't Like Likes: YouTube Adopting +1 Button Instead?

YouTube is about to join the fold of Google+ in a more tightly knit and cohesive way. No longer will you be able to simply Like a video, now you'll be giving it a +1 according to recent reports of a big switch over at the ...

comScore Says Almost 22 Million Brits Touched By Video Ads In January

They always seem a bit behind, comScore, not the Brits. Considering that it's almost mid-March and we're just getting UK numbers for January. It's all part of their "one press release per day so as not to confuse journalists" mentality. No really, someone said that ...

MPEG DASH Gains Industry Support As "Streaming Media Standard"

Well, it seems some companies, including Netflix and Microsoft, have got together behind a single format for media streaming. The format, MPEG DASH, now has its own Promoters Group. DASH, or dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP, was just finalized in November and allows for, obviously, ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Borderlands 2 Edition

Another week, another fantastic assortment of hilarious and entertaining viral video hits. There were bridges blown up, mysterious snow circles created, impressive acapella work, movie trailers, and a host of other popular video clips. Since there is a host of valuable marketing information and strategy ...

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 ...

Schema Markup For Video: An Overview Of Schema.org VideoObject

Yesterday, Google officially announced support for schema.org video markup. What does this mean?  Well, it's good news for publishers and it may eventually make video indexing issues, a thing of the past. In this post, I'm going to explain why this is important and exciting for video publishers, ...

Tablet Video Viewing On Fire - Ooyala Q4 2011 Video Index

I got an advance sneak peek at Ooyala's Video Index for Q4 2011, and I didn't even have to beg! Every quarter, Ooyala looks at more than one billion analytics pings a day, follows the viewing habits of over 100 million unique viers and then ...

Video Search Online Versus Connected TV Search & Discovery?

ReelSEO's own Mark Robertson spoke last October at the Streaming Media Europe conference in London. He was on a panel with some great folks like Vanessa Vigar & Thomas Dvorak--all moderated by Streaming Media's editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen--called Search, Recommendation, & Discovery. And now we have the video of ...

LG Hedging Its Bets With Two Connected TV Platforms

LG would not be where they are if they had always placed all their eggs in one basket and that was never more evident than it was when I visited with them at CES. Aside from a stunning, and I mean stunning OLED TV they're working ...

Hang Out With President Obama On Google Plus Hangouts

President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy... someone you could hang out with, even. Most of us never get to meet a sitting U.S. President, let along hang out with one. But today, in just a handful of hours, you can do just that ...

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 ...

Greed & The Crumbling Dream Of A Video Promised Land

Danny Sullivan is a pretty smart dude. If you're not familiar with him, it probably means you haven't dabbled much in SEO. And when he wrote yesterday about paying Rupert Murdoch three times for the same piece of content, it really got me fired up. ...

Start The Year Off Right With Treepodia's Product Video Best Practice Guide For 2012

If you dabble at all in product videos for any reason, and you have a list of New Year's Resolutions, you should consider adding one more. I know, I know... you're already struggling to keep the ones you have. But this one's easy, I promise, ...

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 ...