SMBs Articles

Animoto Videos Now With Text Overlays - Upgrade or Upsell? The Fine Print

A while back, I wrote about Animoto and its potential applications for both consumer and SMB video creation and sharing. Well Animoto is still working on innovations for their product and have come round to the "text + video = good" camp. With the inclusion ...

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 ...

Free Holiday Web Video Advertising Tips and Discounts From Jivox

Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps small and medium-sized businesses reach local customers, today announced a promotion that will assist Main Street businesses reach more customers with their holiday ad campaigns. Between today and December 31, 2008, advertisers that spend $500 with Jivox ...

The Brightcove 3 Interview: Merging Video SEO Technology With Strategy

In an earlier article we covered Brightcove's announcement of their new video online video platform - Brightcove 3.  Brightcove's Senior VP of Marketing and Strategy, Adam Berrey, talks with ReelSEO's Grant Crowell on the new version's improved features for Video SEO, their newly-added "Basic" edition ...

Pre-made / Stock Video Ads Are NOT Video SEO!

Some online vendors have promoted to their customers video search engine optimization solutions, simply by allowing them to assemble stock footage from their digital media library – and with no unique video content produced at all.

Innovative Lawyers Use Online Video To Get New Clients

Previously, we had covered some interesting research regarding the power of online video for attorneys and lawyers.  According to the research presented, consumers are more apt to choose an attorney that offers an online video on their website. Specifically, consumers typically visit an average of ...

Online Video Has Significant Influence On Sales of The Bling Bling

Isn't it exciting to be involved in the online video space when it is so obvious that the power of online video to drive action both online and offline is going to forge a bright future for the medium?  Here is just another example of ...

Jivox Launches New Online Video Ad Platform for SMBs

Jivox, the online video advertising service that helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reach local customers, today announced that Jivox AdSlate 3.0, the latest version of its online video ad platform, is now live. Jivox combines a self-service video ad creation tool, proprietary targeting technology, ...

Television Ads To Video SEO - The Comcast-Mixpo Partnership

Mixpo, an online video advertising company for small-to-medium businesses and Comcast Spotlight, the advertising sales division for Comcast cable, yesterday announced the their partnership allowing Comcast Spotlight to turn clients' existing on-air video advertising assets to online video ads, using the Mixpo video publishing platform. ...

Adjusting The Local Picture - The Online Video Opportunity

There is no question that online video is hot. YouTube has standardized and popularized it while broadband penetration has enabled it. Users love it, advertisers are starting to love it more and more, and now search engines love it too. Video's attractiveness as an ad ...

Wellcome To Online Video for Real Estate - Interview With WellcomeMat

We have spent a good amount of time covering some of the popular local online video platforms focused on providing online video marketing and production services for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), including Turnhere, SpotRunner, Mixpo, and others.  One of the more recent companies ...

StudioNow Gets Tapped for Local Online Video for SMBs

StudioNow, the premier online source for creating and managing professional-quality videos at affordable prices, today announced an agreement with Citysearch, the leading online local guide, to shoot, edit and create local merchant videos for Citysearch.com. Under the terms of the agreement, Citysearch will make online ...

Google Video Apps for Business

Google on Tuesday plans to unveil a corporate version of its YouTube video sharing service called Google Video for Business.

Animoto Officially Launches After A Successful Year In Beta

Remember that cool company Animoto that we wrote about a while back. The one that let's you make your own videos but slapped the logo on at the end? The same company that is still on my Facebook page with my 30 second video from ...

Spot Runner Overview - Cross-Media Video Marketing

Originally focused on providing affordable, high-quality television advertising solutions for local businesses, Spot Runner has quickly risen to become a comprehensive cross-media advertising solutions provider. They are currently the only company that I am aware of which provides a fully integrated advertising solution that includes ...