Topic - Online Video & publishing
YouTube Movie Rentals in the Works
YouTube recently announced that they would be testing a video rental service via their site. As a “Beta Test,” they’ve partnered with Sundance Film Festival and have five films available. It seems they will be available for rent until the end of the month.
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 Year’s Eve and we should all be relaxing… So, here we go:
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.
Internet Video Publishing Advice, Best Practices and Tips
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking on several panels at PubCon 2009, an industry trade show put on by WebMasterWorld that is programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners. My favorite, was a session titled, ”Best Practices for Video Creation, Integration and Marketing”
EveryZing Moves to RAMP Focus on Content Optimization
Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search discovery through speech to text recognition technology and they are now moving beyond video
Sorenson Squeeze 6 – Total Video Workflow Solution?
Today Sorenson Media announced the launch of the latest update to their video encoding software program, Squeeze 6. Read my interview with Sorenson’s CEO and President Peter Csathy on why his company is billing this update, the first in over a year, as “first total video workflow solution” for businesses. (Click the play button at the bottom of this post to listen to our podcast for my initial review of the software.)
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What to Consider when Shopping for an Online Video Platform
These days the pickins are abundant in the online video platform space, with over 60 pure-play, on-demand online video platform providers (OVPs) offering businesses top-to-bottom video solutions including content ingestion of any format, encoding to multiple formats, storage, content management, monetization, analytics, and playback in customized video players that match and perpetuate your brand via viral features such as email, embed code, permalinks, and posting to your favorite social site.
YouTube Expands Insights With Audience Break Down
YouTube really wants you to have the information you need to be successful and so they are giving away some interesting information in Insights for Audience.
Video Delivery Network – Sorenson 360 (Part 2)
A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of speaking with Eric Quanstrom, VP of Marketing for Sorenson Media about their online video delivery network, Sorenson 360. In part 1 of my interview, I asked Eric about what their company believes are the essentials for any business to have in mind when selecting a video publishing and delivery solutions provider. In this 2nd part of my interview, I follow up with questions about the actual features and pricing plans of their new video delivery network.
Online Video and Brand Guidelines – Challenges and Tips
In this podcast episode, I discuss my experiences with companies’ brand standards policies, and how video marketers can understand and follow them (as well as protect themselves) when producing, publishing and promoting video online for business.
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List of Online Video Platform APIs
As most of you know, an online video platform provides companies with video hosting and delivery services among various other features and functionality that can vary (analytics, ad networks, HD support, etc…). Many of these online video platforms (and there are just too many right now in my opinion but that is another post entirely) offer an API (Application Programming Interface.) An API exposes the features and functions of a platform thus enabling others to seamlessly integrate core video functionality within their own applications.
The M&M Show – Mediaite and Magnify Do Video Together
Magnify.net is a white label video platform, and they’re growing. Pulling in big names like The Weather Channel, Bicycling and New York Magazine has shown they certainly have something to offer. Now, they’ve scored another hit.
