A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire
Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail's Bits on the Run has announced they're going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they're not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire's freemium service which ...
Google Android @Home Precursor to Skynet, Terminators?
In the Terminator universe, Skynet was the all-encompassing hivemind of the robot revolution. It basically gained self-awareness and then spread itself to every machine with a processor and memory. Well, it seems that Google is a agent of humanity's destruction as it wants to hook all your appliances together via Android@Home. Since I've been an ...
Welcome to Show Business: Are You Sure Your Webcast Plays By the Rules?
Producing webcasts or online video series for marketing purposes can be a dream come true for creative types who love working with like-minded people. If you want to use professional talent or popular music within these webcasts, however, it can quickly turn into a nightmare if you don’t take into consideration the “show business” unions ...
PBS Picks RAMP for Expanded Video and Content Navigation
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, just chose RAMP as its service of choice for video navigation and search. I hope RAMP gave them a good deal since public broadcasting is likely to lose much of its Federal Funding if certain members of the US Government have their way. The new service allows users to search ...
Legal Guide to Online Video : What Web Video Publishers Need to Know
I interviewed David Michail, an attorney specializing in media, entertainment, and technology law. David talks with me about some of the important legal issues today for video marketers publishing on YouTube and online video in user-generated content, copyright, defamation, trademark, and otherwise objectionable material.
Can Collaborative Online Video Creation Go Mainstream? Stroome Hopes So
Are you familiar with Stroome? I was introduced to the service this week, and I think they might be onto something. Stroome is a collaborative video editing service, where users can share clips or partial videos with friends and other members in order to get their help, and videos can be collectively edited by the ...
Vimeo Finally Launches iPhone App & It's Totally Worth The Wait
Vimeo has been working on an iPhone app for a long time, determined to make it as good as possible. And from the sound of it, they've succeeded, which means the wait has been worth it. Today Vimeo has released a free iPhone app that allows users to watch Vimeo clips on their phone. More ...
Reel Quick Clips: Mid-Week Online Video Industry News
I finally found a name I like for what really amounts to me clearing out my inbox of things that might be of interest, but aren't interesting enough for me to write a whole article on. Welcome to Reel Quick Clips, a mid-week catch up on some things going on in online video. Cool, right?
Affected By Google's Recent Algorithm Change? Tell Them!
Google made waves last week with a pretty major update to their algorithm. Perhaps you read about it? At least 12% of all search queries had their results affected by this update. The goal? To remove some of the so-called "content farms" from the top of the rankings. In the process, though, it appears that ...
Another Video One Bites the Dust, VBrick Acquires Fliqz
News of more consolidation within the online video platform space came earlier this week with the announcement that Emeryville, CA-based Fliqz has been acquired by enterprise IP video pioneer VBrick. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Wallingford, Conn.-based VBrick announced that it has acquired the assets of Fliqz, and will merge Fliqz's SaaS-based online ...
Closed Captions Help RAMP Up Video SEO & User Engagement
If you've been reading ReelSEO for some time, you'll know that closed captioning for web video can be a powerful way to increase reach and an excellent way to help search engines more easily understand, and rank your web video assets. Not only that, but with the signing of the 21st Video Accessibility Act, some ...
The Weekly Online Video News Reel: The Lethargic Edition
I have to admit that I'm tired. Sure, we all get tired, even superheroes. So let's make this short and sweet, yet still super, right?! Sometimes there just aren't enough of us to go round here at ReelSEO and things slip through the cracks. Today I'll try to catch everything that almost slipped by.
Do Video Production Professionals Now Need To Know Social Video Marketing?
I interviewed several video production pros and friends of ReelSEO: How important is social media for your business? Do you need to know and do it for your own marketing purposes, or your clients’? Learn what social media marketing activities they’re doing with their own business and for the types of clients and customers they ...
Online Video Market Matures & Consolidation Continues: Triple-Play Acquisition: KickApps, Kewego and Kyte
For anyone who has been following KIT digital's acquisition strategy, it's no secret that KIT has been on a buying spree over the last year purchasing online video technology companies. So, it should come as no surprise that the Prague-based video management solutions provider announced a triple-play OVP acquisition this past Monday, of New York ...
Weekly Web Video Industry News Reel - The Egyptian Edition
Hello Reel Believers, welcome to the end of another week and the beginning of a new one. Time is flying and we're already at the end of January. Next week my Green Bay Packers take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl! In the meantime, here's the news round up for the week.
