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Speculation On What YouTube’s 6th Year Might Bring

Monday was apparently YouTube's birthday.  Tuesday was mine.  I'm in the mood to wax poetic. It's very trendy this week to write flowery editorial articles about YouTube's positive cultural impact over the last five years.  It's hard to let an anniversary like this one—especially one ...

Viral Video Nostradamus - Flash Mob, Baseball Prodigy and Dancing Kids

Viral Nostradamus is our companion piece to the weekly Viral Round Up articles, and takes a look at the opposite end of the viral life cycle.  The goal is to try and discover new videos that have viral potential, and predict their ability to skyrocket ...

Viral Video Nostradamus - Star Wars, Prom Dresses and Golf Gods

This is the second installment in a series of posts where I try and predict what videos might soon go viral—a sort of companion piece to the weekly Viral Round Up, where we reverse-engineer viral success stories to see what made them work.  You can ...

Viral Video Nostradamus?

This is the first of an experimental new series I'm currently calling Viral Nostradamus.  A sort of companion piece to the Friday Viral Round Up, this series takes a look at viral success from the opposite end of the process.  Rather than discussing videos that ...

Legal Online Video and Fair Use - Sharing Versus Ownership

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today.

The YouTube Video Revolution Turns 5 - Happy Anniversary

5 yrs ago today Chad Hurley registered a URL. Today, more than 20 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube.  If it wasn't for YouTube (and Google I suppose), we might not be as far down the road as we are with online ...

The Impact of 2010's Live Streaming State of The Union Address

As if you were not already aware, tonight's State of the Union is bound to make history—perhaps more for its presentation and interactivity than for the contents of its message. A few weeks back, I breathlessly raved about how YouTube was going to live stream ...

11 Predictions for The Online Video Industry In 2010

Everyone is giving their predictions for the Internet marketing and online video space in 2010 and I thought I'd better jump on the bandwagon with my 2 cents...  Granted, I certainly have some more insightful predictions that I could provide but I figured it's New ...

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 ...

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?

Predictions With Local Online Video Marketing - Interview With Topix

I interviewed Chris Tolles, CEO of the online news portal Topix, on his predictions for how video will mature into the local landscape, and its impact for audiences and businesses.

CIMA Survey – Video and Search Receive Highest Results

I interview the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association's (CIMA) partner analyst Troy Mastin about their newly-released 7th Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey, and we discussed what the findings say about the emphasis that agencies are giving to online video and search marketing for business.

The Next Wave for Online Video - SES San Jose 2009

Along with the fact that ReelSEO is prud to be an official media sponsor for SES San Jose 2009 and ClickZ's Video and Social Media Strategies Forum, I am happy to announce that in addition, I will be speaking at SES on Tuesday at 11:45am-12:45pm ...

Digital Agencies and Client Challenges With Video – CIMA Recap

I recently covered the Chicago Interactive Marketing Associations' panel discussion – Creative, Technology, Media, and Analytics. The panelists of senior industry leaders debated on how creative, technology, media & analytics are converging more in interactive video marketing; and how agencies can overcome the limitations of ...

Creative Media Agencies and Video SEO – CIMA Interview

This Thursday June 18th I'm covering the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association's (CIMA) event titled "Creative, Technology, Media, and Analytics." I recently interviewed several of the scheduled panelists, about their research and opinions on the business direction they see online video taking, agencies' and marketers' opportunities ...