Topic - Online Video & interview
The Threesome Technique for Online Video Interviewing
How did I get inspired to dream up and post this? It came to me one day when my girlfriend suggested that I video record a three-way. I was all excited. Then she said to me, “Grant, I meant with you, someone you interview professionally, and your videographer.” That left me disgusted. (But not disgusted enough to not share what I learned from my video experience – read on…)
Web Video Hosting is a Maturing Market – Episodic Interview
At Streaming Media West 2009, I spoke with Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Founder of Episodic, which recently launched as an online video platform in a crowded market for both live and on-demand content. The San Francisco, California-based company has been around for two years but has kept relatively quiet in stealth mode building the platform.
The Future of In-Stream Video Advertising for Yu and Me
Last month, we spoke with Jayant Kadambi, Co-Founder and President of YuMe, about their platform for video advertising and monetization, how best to measure the performance of video advertising, and the future of in-stream video advertising as it pertains to small and medium sized business advertisers.
Video Monetization via Pay Per View – Ooyala Interview
I Interviewed Bismarck Lepe, Founder and President of Products for the online video platform Ooyala, about how their solution also allows content providers to make money from their “premium” video content via subscription models and pay-per-video (PPV) models – or what I refer to as, “video for sale.”
Is an Open Source Online Video Platform Right for You?
I Interview with Ron Yekutiel, Chair, Co-Founder & CEO of Kaltura, and he gave his best sales pitch on why he says you should do an open-source online video platform (particularly theirs, of course.;-) But is an open-source video platform solution what you need, or for that matter, is it something that you can actually handle? Read-on…
Video Search Engine Optimization Tips from Truveo
Here’s another one of our interviews from the Streaming Media West 2009 show. In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and VP at AOL Video. I asked Pete if he could provide some tips for our audience with regard to video search engine optimization.
Video SEO vs. Traditional SEO, Misconceptions & Opinion
A few weeks back, I was asked by Jeff Boudier, VP Business Development for Stupeflix, if I would be willing to answer a few questions about Video SEO for their blog. You can view the whole interview here, but I thought that I would like to provide a few of my thoughts to ReelSEO readers. Id love to know your thoughts.
Jeremy Allaire of BrightCove – Video will be Ubiquitous
Grant Crowell, our podcast talent here at ReelSEO, interviewed Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Brightcove at the Streaming Media West 2009 show and talked with the online video industry thought leader about his company’s vision that “video would become as ubiquitous and pervasive as text on the web.“
Video is an Effective Sales Tool – Interview with Sorenson
At the Streaming Media West show a few weeks back, we interviewed Eric Quanstrom, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Sorenson Media. Eric talks with Grant Crowell about a common theme that a lot of discussion was centered around at Streaming Media, namely, monetization of online video.
3 Principles for Creating E-Commerce Video that Sells
With the holiday shopping season in high gear, I’d like to spend some time this week focused on web video for e-commerce. I’ll start things off with an interview I did at the Streaming Media West show with my friend Justin Foster, Co-Founder of Liveclicker and founder of the Video Commerce Consortium. In this interview, Justin talks about what he considers to be an ideal framework for e-commerce merchants to follow when looking at producing video content that sells.
Online Video in Affiliate Marketing – The Vast, Untapped Domain?
To coincide with my own speaking event at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference on Dec 9th, I interview Shawn Collins, co-founder of the Affiliate Summit, the leading industry conference for affiliate marketing, author of Successful Affiliate Marketing for Merchants, and publisher of the Affiliate Tip blog.
JW Player 5.0 Launches with Some Huge Upgrades
At Streaming Media West a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeroen Wijering, one of my “heroes” in the online video space. I know, I know - hero? Seriously Mark? Yes! Jeroen is the creator of the most popular open source video player around, the JW Player. If it weren’t for the JW Player, I dont know if we would be as far along as we are with online video. He is also the Co-Founder and “Visionary” at LongtailVideo and Bitsontherun. I was able to talk to him in advance about the launch of JW Player 5, which launched just the other day.
