Topic - Online Video & social video

MySpace + Hulu = YouTube Rival?

According to something I just read over at CNET, Rupert Murdoch is ready to create an online video monster, or at least to reshape MySpace into an ‘entertainment hub.’ How will he do that? By partnering the site up with Hulu.

SES San Jose 2009 Offers New Focus on Social Media & Video

The Search Engines Strategies Conference & Expo (SES for short) has got some big names lined up. It was recently announced that on 11 August,  Clickz, Google and YouTube will hold an event (no not for Christophor Rick’s Birthday…though it’s the same day) in conjunction with SES that will be focused entirely on Social Media and Video Strategy.

Kristin Kovner, the Industry Marketing Manager at YouTube, posted the following on the Youtube Biz Blog,

“We’re excited to be a part of this first-time ever event. SES is one of the best places for businesses to learn about search; now that YouTube has millions of searches each day, it’s only fitting that ClickZ and SES are expanding the agenda to include a full day dedicated to video and social media.”

What?  That is right, an entire day will be dedicated to Social Media and Video Strategies.  Yipee.  I’m going.

Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sharing Sites

So, you’ve got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here’s some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a hurry.

Now, I didn’t say they’d be free and instead of separating them out pay/free I’m just going to give you a good long list of them. I haven’t played with all of them so I can’t vouch for how cool, fast or stable they are. This is more like an informative piece that you can use as a starting point for research on how to get your videos published online with the quickness.

Myspace and Fox Let You Report

MySpace has teamed up with FOX News Channel and announced an exclusive partnership on MySpace uReport at http://www.myspace.com/ureport. The partnership, the first between MySpace and FOX News, gives the global MySpace community the ability to share their citizen journalist produced content with the MySpace community, as well as have the chance to be featured on FOX News.

The First Ever “Tweetable” Video Ad – 12seconds Launches the 12′o’mercial

Add a new online video unit to the ranks of pre-rolls, post-rolls and overlays: the 12-second Twitter spot. Video-sharing site 12seconds has launched the “12omercial,” a tweetable, embeddable sponsored video ad, with electronics giant *LG* and software startup Xobni as its first paid advertisers. The ads come with built-in analytics, link back to a landing page, and run in a special branded player on the 12seconds site.

The Lexus of Video Sharing Social Communities – Test Drive with Openfilm.com

High-Quality, High Resolution, High Ambitions - Openfilm is not YouTube. I think if you were to even call them a YouTube clone you might offend the site’s designers and founders not to mention the content publishers and users. Instead, OpenFilm is more like the Lexus of the video sharing social communities. All shiny and sleek with that new video sharing smell. So let’s fire it up and take it for a test ride.

List of Video Search Engines & Video Search Web Sites

After many hours of clean up, I am pleased to present a brand new and updated, 2009 list of video search engines and video search sites – below. I encourage you to bookmark this post as I’ll be updating it every now and then.

All in One Video Plugin For Wordpress – Upload, Host, Edit, and More

Kaltura has recently released version 2.1 of its Wordpress plugin, the All in one Video Pack. This plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher allows you to do a great deal of things with Wordpress and rich media including the ability to upload or import a video into your post. You can even record it straight from your webcam to the post if you so wish.

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 strategy can do it, too – right? That ”budget myth” is Blendtec’s popular WillitBlend video campaign, which prompted one panelist at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008 Conference to claim that “the cost to produce it was only $50!” Here’s the story on what the costs actually were, and how the budget myth got spread.

Hulu Delivers Primetime Online Video to Social Networks

For the first time and for free, social network users will be able to embed and watch entire seasons of popular shows on their MySpace.com and Facebook pages using SplashCast’s “social TV player” technology. As more TV viewers continue to find their favorite shows online, Hulu, an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites for free, anytime in the U.S., is teaming with content syndication service SplashCast® to distribute primetime television on MySpace.com and Facebook. Whenever new episodes are available on Hulu, SplashCast automatically syndicates the content directly to a viewer’s social network pages. Viewers also have access to the entire network of premium channels after installing a single SplashCast player. Additionally, viewers will be able to meet and interact with other fans watching the same shows.

Verizon’s Interactive Video Sharing Service and Mobile Social Network

FunMobility, a leading provider of innovative wireless community and media services, today announces the launch of America’s Best Mobile Flix(TM) (aFLIX), the first interactive video sharing service and mobile social network, on Verizon Wireless. aFLIX will enable Verizon Wireless customers to easily create unique mobile video experiences and share user-generated content with other mobile phone users across multiple carrier networks.

Video search “buzz” for presidential candidates’ names closely matches vote results

Many data surveys were publicized during the 2008 election comparing the online popularity of candidates in the social media space, including for video content. But does online buzz match really match up with offline conversions, in this case – voting patterns for presidential candidates? When it comes to YouTube video buzz, new evidence shows that may very well be the case.