interactive video Articles

The term interactive video usually refers to a technique used to blend interaction and linear film or video.
Since 2005, interactive video has increased online as the result a number of factors including:
Because users are often reluctant to pay for online content, it is perhaps unsurprising that many of the new online interactive videos (including all the examples given below) are either sponsored content or part of advertising campaigns. A number of these pieces of these have wo...

Popcorn Framework Brings Interactive Video To The People's Choice Awards

A few weeks ago, we discussed Mozilla's interactive video framework, Popcorn.js, an HTML5 application that will allow for content creators to provide context links and information to their videos.  It was test-driven with documentary films.  Now, with the support of content optimization company RAMP, and ...

A List Of Online Video Contest Platforms

Online video contests are growing in popularity and complexity and are now far more savvy than the upload a YouTube video and get people to like it ,etc. A crop of online video contest platforms have sprung up and more are coming all the time. ...

Interactive Mobile Video Ads - Tapjoy Offers Ad Choice & Real-Time Bidding

Mobile video ads, ad choice, real-time bidding and interactive video ads on mobile? It's like, my visions of the future have come to pass! Tap your toes for Tapjoy, they seem to be on the verge of something as epic as that peanut butter and ...

Orcs Must Die: YouTube Annotations & Interactive Video Marketing At Its Best

As many of you know, I am a gamer. I am proud of that fact because not only is it my hobby, but also my job as I am a video game journalist. But every once in a while something happens in that arena that ...

The Social Video Blueprint, Part 5: Social Video Case Studies & Examples

Welcome to Part 5 of our ongoing Social Video Blueprint series. In the last three installments, we've looked at how social video differs from traditional video advertising campaigns. Content is valued over ads, views are valued over impressions, and shares carry more weight than clicks. ...

New Offering from Auditude/Innovid Partnership Boosts Video Ad Engagement

Engagement is a key factor in online video advertising and Auditude and Innovid have teamed up to give you some extra punch in that regard. On the one hand, Auditude is all about video advertising and monetizing online premium video content. Meanwhile, Innovid is all ...

Google Uses Interactive YouTube Video Game To Hype Nexus S

I love when YouTube advertising content gets interactive. Granted, it's usually a large brand with deep pockets commissioning interactive videos, and not yet something the average amateur filmmaker can accomplish on their own, but they offer a glimpse of what online video's future might look ...

Custom Interactive YouTube Channel Teases New J.K. Rowling Project "Pottermore"

Harry Potter author, J.K. Rowling, is about to launch something new. It's called "Pottermore," and unfortunately, I can't tell you any more than that. Not because I'd have to kill you, but because I don't know. Nobody does. While Rowling has apparently already stated that ...

Social Video Works: Viewers Watched 800 Million Branded Videos In 2011

As brands get more creative with online video offerings, and more savvy in promoting them through social media and other outlets, a funny thing is happening: viewers are watching more ads. Take pre-roll and display ads out of the equation completely, and viewers have still ...

Mobile Video Is Rapidly Changing The Shopping Experience: LiveClicker Study

Of all the many ways to use video for business purposes, one of the more intriguing and exciting is video commerce: integrating video into our shopping habits. And I'm not talking exclusively about e-commerce, either, but also ways that video is being molded into our ...

Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda 2 Interactive Video Ad Slices Up YouTube Page

One of my favorite types of branded online video content is the fake out, where a seemingly-normal YouTube page is revealed to be a full-page Flash animation or some other marketing trickery. We've seen Wario break the page apart. We've seen Stallone blow it to ...

Rhythm Reports 36% Growth in Q1 Mobile Video Advertising

Rhythm New Media have put out their Q1 2011 Mobile Video Ad Report and there are some very large numbers in it that show mobile video advertising is on the up and up and is definitely poised to continue that growth trend. Of course, those ...

Pharma and Retail Top Video Advertising Completion Rates Says PointRoll

PointRoll delivers interactive video, rich media, social and mobile advertising. Their report on 2010 Rich Media Benchmarks is mostly about display ads. However, there is some small portion of it about video which I found interesting. For example, Pharma video ads (for whatever reason) reach ...

Mid-Week Online Video News Reel March 30th

It's Wednesday once again and time for me to clear out the email inbox and catch you up on some stuff that I have been tracking in the industry. Plus, it helps me keep my inbox at a manageable size and get everyone a little ...

The Online Video Weekly News Reel - Nothing Edition

Nothing odd or otherwise noteworthy to report. Or rather there is and I just don't feel like it. It's Sunday and I want to get to some gaming as I'm currently playing Batman Arkham Asylum which I picked up on a Steam sale for $7.50 ...