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The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons: Short Films & Fakes

It's that time once again--Friday morning, to be exact--when I provide you with a list of some of the best viral videos I found and read about throughout the week. Some are branded advertisements, some are artistic projects in nature, and of course some are ...

Newspapers Rock Online Video, Smoke Broadcasters in Uploads

Brightcove again teamed up with TubeMogul to take a look at online video and its usage, including engagement and discovery, which they've published as the Q4 2010 Online Video & the Media Industry Quarterly Research report. As Team America might say... Quarterly Reports! F-Yeah! (Mark will love ...

AOL Video to Offer Comedic CliffNotes Videos, Kill Educational Reading Altogether

I have been doing some fair amount of coverage on the latest AOL Video initiative. Yesterday I reported that they had purchased GoViral over in the UK which creates and distributes branded video. Now today, AOL Video announced new original online content thanks to Mark ...

Run and Gun Video Production Strategies for Video Marketing

Some marketers find themselves in a situation ripe for shooting video, but are required to do so with little or no time for preparation or pause. This is what is referred to as “run and gun” video production. To help explain this type of shooting (which is becoming more common for video marketers looking to capture real-time quality content), I interviewed three notable video production professionals.

Giving Users Brand Choice Is Key To Video Ad Success On Short Form

The Pool, a unique research initiative made of people from Publicis Groupe, publishers and advertisers, aimed to identify optimal ad models across emerging media platforms recently put out some new research that says giving consumers the ability to select the ads they see is vital ...

The Sunday News Reel - External Edition - Week of 19-26 Sept, 2010

I've gone further this week and split the Sunday News Reel into two pieces. This External Edition will focus on news out in the world that we didn't write about here at ReelSEO. We'll probably never catch everything, so if we miss something, drop us ...

Metacafe Survey Suggests Short-Form Professional Video Content Still Rules

Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc., in conjunction with Metacafe, has released the results of a new online video survey, and you'll be happy to know that online video is still very popular, especially with young people.  Phew.  I was getting worried there.

The Three Types of Online Video for Business

So much has changed about the way we absorb information in the past few years. Can you even remember what accessing the Internet was like ten years ago?

Online Video Viewing Trends

Metacafe recently commissioned a study to find out who in America is watching online video, how much and what kinds. The results were just released and might be surprising.

Self-Service Video Production Platform Review – Interview With AditAll

http://www.reelseo.com/self-service-video/8104/ ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews AddItAll.com's Arthur McKinley on the advantages for marketers to use a self-service video platform for content and video advertising.

Turning Video Value Into Real Wealth - Interview With Shelly Palmer

I recently interviewed Shelly Palmer of Advanced Media Ventures and host of MediaBytes last week after his Digital Media Boot Camp at the recent ad tech conference in San Francisco. I asked Shelly about the challenges for monetizing video content into a sustainable business model, ...

Will It Blend (for 50 Bucks)? The 'budget Myth' About A Popular Viral Video Campaign

One of the myths with viral video marketing perpetuated by both search marketing pundits and mainstream media is an example they give about a wildly successful viral video campaign, claiming it was done with only chump change, so anyone else with just their own creative ...

Online Video Viewers Have Short Attention Spans - New Tubemogul Research

As you likely already know, Tubemogul is an excellent tool/service that we recommend at ReelSEO for online video distribution and analytics. Because they have great technology, great partners, and a ton of video producers using their system, they often release excellent research reports that detail ...

Public Domain Video Footage for Online Video Marketing

If you're looking for some new creative ideas on buzz marketing with online video, check out the Internet Archive, a virtual digital library of public domain (i.e., free) video content. While its primarily used for research and educational purposes, some companies are drawing from its ...

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 ...