Topic - Online Video & political
YouTube Direct Connects Users and Media Organizations
We all have video cameras or video-capable mobile phones and that means new ways to see what’s happening in the world. Not only for you but for others as well. We get a eyewitness views of the events as they unfold and now, we can do it through YouTube.
“Fair Use” Legal Update – What Online Video Professionals Should Know
Listen to my podcast interview with intellectual property and new media attorney David Adler to hear about recent developments with a popular case today involving the battle between fair use and copyright protection, and what it can teach us about detecting and preventing clear-cut copyright violations in online video marketing.
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Politicians Still Getting Schooled On How Viral Videos Work
In a move reminiscent of the Lebron James/Nike slam dunk scandal, United States Representative Baron Hill (Democrat, Indiana) attempted to stop an individual from recording his health care town hall meeting on September. Part of his reasoning had to do with YouTube:
“Now the reason I don’t allow filming is because usually the films end up on YouTube in a compromising position.”
How YouTube Destroyed the Village of Carpentersville, Illinois
Do you know if your municipal government is online video-friendly, or video-hostile? I get extra ranty for this week’s podcast-and-article combo, exposing my former residence of Carpentersville, Illinois – 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago – perhaps the only local government left in the entire state (and perhaps the entire United States) with an actual hostility for online video, and how that willful ignorance ruined its chances for business growth, increased unemployment, and making it a laughing stock nationwide.
How the Rocky Mountain News put Video SEO Hair on my Chest
Some people are saying newspapers are dying, but one of them gave me my own “birth” into online video marketing and video search optimization. I speak of the Rocky Mountain News, the oldest newspaper in Colorado, which published its final edition on Friday, February 27, 2009. Almost exactly 3 years earlier to the date, their media coverage on myself set me on the path to doing my first documentary video project– an “excellent mistake” that got me to where I am today in online video marketing for the masses.
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Watch Today’s First Presidental Press Conference On Hulu
Online video site, Hulu, announced Monday that it will stream President Barack Obama’s first formal press conference Monday night at 8 p.m. EST. According to the company, the live stream will run until its conclusion and then it will be made available for streaming on the site thereafter.
Search Inside Obama Inaugural Speech Video – Delve Search Inside Technology
Delve launched a pretty cool little tool today that they announced on their blog which allows users to search inside the video of President Obama’s Inaugural Speech. To do this, type in your search into the searchbar in the player just above. You will see a heatmap presented on the player with matches. To jump to a portion within the speech, click on the heat map.
Fighting IP Extremism with Online Video – The Lawrence Lessig Interview
We caught up with Professor Lawrence Lessig, founder of Stanford Law school’s Center for Internet and Society, and the opening Keynote Speaker the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 conference for “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”. We asked Professor Lessing if he believes there is significant IP extremism (i.e., legal restrictions) with online video content for both amateur and commercial use, and what video-specific solutions does he see in his proposal of a “hybrid economy” – protecting freedoms for video amateurs while producing incentives for video professionals.
The President’s Weekly Address Video Is Search Engine Optimized
Ok, so he isn’t President just yet, but that hasn’t stopped US president-elect Barack Obama from starting change already. Obama has changed the Democrats’ national weekly address and has released it as an online video, search engine optimized and all.
It seems that either Obama’s team either knows what they are doing with online video (IE, has been reading ReelSEO.com 
or they just got lucky… Not only are they releasing these the videos on YouTube, AOL, MSN, but they are also making it available on Change.gov as a High-resolution, Quicktime format movie file. I wonder if they have a Video sitemap. In addition, they actually have the correct Title tags, URL convention, etc…
Video search “buzz” for presidential candidates’ names closely matches vote results
Many data surveys were publicized during the 2008 election comparing the online popularity of candidates in the social media space, including for video content. But does online buzz match really match up with offline conversions, in this case – voting patterns for presidential candidates? When it comes to YouTube video buzz, new evidence shows that may very well be the case.
Pop Culture Nostalgia, Politics, and Online Video Marketing
Two notable made-for-online video commercials endorsing Presidential Candidate Barack Obama, featuring television and movie stars from the early 60’s to the 80’s, have shown some excellent of what makes reprising pop culture icons’ roles a viral success with online video marketing. ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell and Bob Sandidge share their discoveries on the key ingredients in successful pop-political viral videos that SMBs can take advantage of in their own online video marketing campaigns.
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“Advergaming” in The Presidential Race – The Emerging Video SEO Opportunity
For nearly the entire length of the Presidential campaign neither candidate was doing any notable online video marketing tactics outside of their own YouTube channel. That changed in the past couple of weeks, when “virtual billboards” for Barak Obama starting appearing in popular Xbox 360 games online play option – This is what is referred to as video game advertising, or by industry insiders as “advergaming.” While it may present an emerging Video SEO opportunity, it does come with a new set of challenges, especially for future political campaigns.
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