YouTube Trends Reveals Top YouTube Videos Around The World
Lest we Americans forget, YouTube is a global enterprise. We've seen in the past couple of years, but especially this year, how the film industry doesn't rely as much on domestic box office to measure its success anymore. YouTube has been entering new territories and it's important to remember that when we make videos, we ...
The Online Video Explosion In Brazil Has Advertisers Paying Attention
Last week, Advertising Age published a piece about the growth of YouTube in Brazil. It's a stunning and rapid growth, and one that's getting the attention of advertisers from around the world. Combined with the recent moves in that market from Poptent and Netflix, it's just one more piece of evidence that there's a video ...
Warner Bros Signs Deal With LOVEFiLM For International Streaming
Warner Bros is continuing its big online video moves with a new partnership with LOVEFiLM, a leading European film subscription service, combining the benefits of DVD rental by post and, more recently, watching movies online via the LOVEFiLM Player. Something like the European Netflix.
Netflix Stock Drops 40% In One Day On Heels Of 800,000 Subscriber Loss
Yesterday, Netflix let the world know that they'd lost almost a million subscribers. Today, the shareholders reacted to that news the way that shareholders tend to react to terrible earnings news: they sold the stock. Netflix stock dropped a whopping 37% by only 9:39am Eastern Time this morning, in what Bloomberg says is the single ...
YouTube Space Lab: Space Experiment Competition For Teens
It's official. YouTube is now officially going to outer space, with a competition geared towards students aged 14-18. The competition involves kids sending in their ideas for experiments to be performed on the International Space Station. Six regional winners will be selected to go to Washington D.C., where each will be taken on a zero-G ...
So Long, Qwikster, We Barely Knew You
After a summer full of pratfalls and missteps, Netflix is on a roll lately, making good decision after good decision. First, they continued expansion into international markets like Latin America. For U.S. users, they've added tons of great new content deals for content like AMC's top shows (Breaking Bad & The Walking Dead) and Dreamworks ...
Hulu Web Series The Confession To Go International With Sony
Back in May the popular Hulu web series The Confession, starring Kiefer Sutherland and John Hurt, got picked up for a movie deal from Image Entertainment. Now comes the announcement that the series is getting international distribution courtesy of Sony Pictures Television. The Confession will now play on several platforms in 125 countries, and Sony ...
Viral Video Chart: The Best Branded Viral Videos Of August 2011
August saw the triumphant return of some familiar faces to the global ads chart – only this time bigger and better. New, more ambitious commercials featuring the stars of some of the most successful campaigns of 2010 dominated August’s top 20.
Netflix Launches Streaming Service To Latin America, Mexico, & The Caribbean
The push toward international customers in streaming online video continues. Last week we saw YouTube roll out its Movies service for streaming film rentals to Canada, and Hulu extended its service into Japan. And now Netflix is officially open for business in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Multilingual Video SEO: Go Global By Marketing Video In Multiple Languages
Trying to optimize your videos can be like an art-form at times, but what happens when you want to go global? With foreign language use online growing at phenomenal rates, more and more video producers—amateurs and professionals alike—are choosing to go multilingual. And it certainly makes sense. A recent Eurobarometer survey found that 9 out of ...
Global Video Ad Chart: The Best in Branded Viral Video for June 2011
It has been an action-packed month for branded viral video on the global ads chart. After the melancholic commercials and PSAs of May, the pace quickened and the mood lifted in June, with stunt driving, a lightsaber duel and even giant birds being fired out of huge catapults on to exploding pigs.
Branded Crowdsourced Video Expands As Poptent Opens Brazil Office
Poptent, a crowdsourced video production company catering to brands and ad agencies, is growing. They're also expanding into new regions, with a brand new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new office is designed to serve the company's growing international customer base, and represents the rapid adoption of crowdsourced video production by Fortune 500 companies ...
Vancouver Riot Videos: More Proof The Future Of News Is Social Video
I am a huge hockey fan--I might have mentioned it before. So obviously I watched Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals last night on NBC. Boston won, and had the game in hand pretty much throughout, despite the fact that it was an away game for them playing in Vancouver. I went to bed ...
When Online Videos Become The News - Droid 3, Tattoos, & Soldiers
Every week there are videos that go viral, only to then be picked up by hundreds of news outlets and turned into an actual news story. I’m not talking about a news site simply sharing a video that they’ve noticed is getting popular—everyone does that. No, I’m talking about when a video grows beyond the ...
Ooyala & YuMe Team Up For Video Ad Management Platform
Ooyala has been steadily growing a base of happy customers with their online video management tool. They provide custom video players, video distribution, deep analytics, and also video monetization options through ad network relationships. And now, with a new just-announced partnership with YuMe, Ooyala is also able to offer an even easier ad management platform ...
