long-form Articles

How TWiTtv Added Live Video & Grew Their Audience 20%

First there was a radio show. Then there was a podcast. Eventually Leo Laporte turned on a webcam and TWiT.TV was born.  Now Leo is trying to grow into a sort of CNN-for-technology. With the rise of online video Leo believes that he can now ...

Web Video Audience Development Strategies With Jim Louderback CEO of Revision3

Revision3 is one of the most well-known Internet television networks, and it's run by a very energetic guy named Jim Louderback.  As part of our chat with him back in October, we asked him to talk a bit about what Revision3 is doing differently, in ...

How Women Connect and Engage With Online Video - Nielsen Research

Nielsen did some research recently and had a webinar about how women are connecting with online video. I wasn't able to get into that webinar but I was able to download the video. I thought it curious that there would be such a massive difference ...

Giving Users Brand Choice Is Key To Video Ad Success On Short Form

The Pool, a unique research initiative made of people from Publicis Groupe, publishers and advertisers, aimed to identify optimal ad models across emerging media platforms recently put out some new research that says giving consumers the ability to select the ads they see is vital ...

Viral Video vs. Episodic Video - Are They Mutually Exclusive?

What do you do when someone you like and respect writes something that you think is way off base?  Jim Louderback wrote a pretty interesting article over at AdAge yesterday, and it's the kind of thing I have to weigh in on.  In a piece ...

Changes In How Video Will Get To Online Viewers

eMarketer released a new report today on Video Content and Syndication: Long-Form Content on the Rise. In it they cite a variety of reasons why video consumption is up, obviously better syndication options being one of them but another was users' comfort with online video.

Metacafe Survey Suggests Short-Form Professional Video Content Still Rules

Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc., in conjunction with Metacafe, has released the results of a new online video survey, and you'll be happy to know that online video is still very popular, especially with young people.  Phew.  I was getting worried there.

Households That View Online Video Devote 33% of Entertainment Time To It

Well, well, well.  Some very cool data coming out this week from One Touch Intelligence, which is a provider of "intelligence solutions for companies in the communications industry.” They've done a study on American households and their entertainment viewing habits—with a specific eye toward Internet ...

2010 In-Stream Video Advertising Predictions - Interview With Google

Grant Crowell interviews Ari Paparo, Group Product Manager of Advertising Product for Google, about his forecast shared at the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association's 7th Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey, that in-stream video advertising will be “huge” in 2010, thanks to growing adoption by media sales agencies of Internet Advertising Bureau's (IAB's) development of video ad standards. Will this open up video ad serving to more businesses on the smaller scale?

Online Video Viewing Trends

Metacafe recently commissioned a study to find out who in America is watching online video, how much and what kinds. The results were just released and might be surprising.

The Death of User-Generated Online Video Content?

AccuStream iMedia Research believes that the end of the user-generated content era is close at hand as outlined in their recent report Pro Online Video Views 1998–2012. Last year, they say, there was a 25% increase in prodfessionally produced content on the web. This content ...

IAB Focuses In On Long-Form Web Video Ad Standards

Underscoring the urgent need for advertising standards in the online video business, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is launching its first effort this week to develop best practices for ads in TV shows on the Web. The IAB effort centers on "long-form" Web programs, including full ...