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YouTube Beefs Up Partner Video Blocking Ability

It is making the rounds on the webosphere that YouTube has implemented two new buttons on the partner interface that pertain to blocking of videos.

Video Marketing Strategy: Hosted Versus Posted Video

When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a ...

Greg Jarboe - IP Extremism Vs Fair Use With Online Video

At SES San Jose 2009, I spoke with Greg Jarboe, President and Co-Founder of SEO-PR, about some common legal questions and issues with regard to online video.  Greg talks about "IP extremism" – the increase of attorneys' knee-jerk legal reactions – including cease-and-desist orders and ...

Video Heatmaps, A Breakthrough for Sales Teams?

Grant Crowell of ReelSEO reviews Wistia's Video Heatmaps feature for their web-based video marketing, sales, and collaboration application.

How To Fix Aspect Ratio On Youtube Videos - Remove Black Bars

Long, long ago, YouTube was 4:3 only. Then the age of widescreen came and so they changed everything to 16:9. This left many videos in a square peg oblong hole situation (as in the video just doesn't fit the player window properly). So here are ...

Viral Video Marketing Disasters: How NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice Failed

Viral videos today are a great opportunity for profitable marketing. Yet so many people in traditional advertising today are missing the point of what makes a viral video successful. ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson give their review of this past week's episode of "Celebrity ...

PixelFish Emerges As Top Provider for Video Ads In Google TV

PixelFish, a leading provider of affordable and effective video production capabilities and video ad solutions, has emerged as the top choice of advertisers looking for a specialist to produce their ad for Google TV Ads. Nine months after the launch of the Ad Creation Marketplace ...

Evenhere Video Overlays Put The Product In Your Hand

So you're watching some show or video and see something really cool. Your mind begins to wander and you can't help but think 'how and where do I get one of those?' Well that's exactly where Evenhere.com comes in. Their service allows you to bookmark ...

Intel and Adobe Team To Optimize Flash Technology for Web TV Processors

Adobe and Intel recently announced that they will work to extend the Adobe Flash platform for the Intel Media Processor CE 3100. This means a better Flash experience in set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and other AV connected devices. With the Flash platform's high-definition capabilities and ...

YuMe To Serve Ads In Adobe's Media Player and Adobe TV

YuMe, the leading online video ad serving platform and the largest dedicated video ad network on the Web, announced today that Adobe has selected YuMe as one of its vendors to serve video ads into downloaded content from Adobe® Media Player (AMP), as well as ...

Online Video Advertising Industry Report for Q3 2008

Online video ad network, LiveRail recently released a complete report of the online video advertising industry titled, "State Of The Industry Report for Q3 2008″. This exhaustive report (below) highlights both the growth of online video advertising as well as the challenges with online video ...

Mixing Video SEO and Social Marketing – The Blendtec Interview

One of the more well-known success stories with online video marketing is Blentec - a small company that took what people would think to be a standard generic product (a blender) and make the most entertaining and engaging video content on the web today. ReelSEO's ...

Katalyst Media - Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg Talk About Online Video

Open Source and Proprietary Internet Video Codecs

Internet video broadcasting is rapidly becoming the medium of choice for delivery of video entertainment and news. There are no geographic limitations or technical licensing requirements for broadcasting on the Internet, which allows any individual to produce and distribute multimedia to a global audience. Content ...

Vtap Launches Personalized Mobile Video Sharing

Veveo.com's Vtap mobile video platform will today launch its video sharing service, comprising over 150 million clips. It describes the service as 'a fun, new and easy way for consumers to see and share the best of web video from any source, tailored to their ...