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Gmail Launches Live Video Recognition for Motion Gestures

Google has for years, been working to develop and perfect certain recognition technologies for use with multimedia (video, images, audio, etc...).  Their speech-to-text recognition technology has improved vastly over the past several years (thanks in part to Google 411) and has been rolled out within YouTube for ...

YouTube Stars Rhett & Link Land IFC Deal for Reality Show

It seems that Hollywood has finally realized how popular this online video thing is, and they've started digging further and further into sites like YouTube and Vimeo to find their next big hit. Not too long ago, I wrote about Epic Meal Time, and how ...

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 ...

In-Depth Look At YouTube Closed Captions - YouTube SEO and More

A few weeks back, I mentioned that YouTube and Google were indexing YouTube's closed captions and subtitles. In fact, YES - both Google and YouTube ARE indexing videos for text that is contained within closed captions and subtitles. In this post, I would like show ...

How To Optimize YouTube Videos - YouTube Optimization Tips

Last week I had the privilege of speaking, along with Lane Shackleton of YouTube, at the Dallas Fort Worth Search Marketing Association. The topic was YouTube - why YouTube, and how to market YouTube videos, optimize YouTube videos, and advertise video content on YouTube so ...

YouTube Enables Auto-Captioning for All Videos - As Expected

YouTube, the leading destination for video sharing online, has announced today that they are rolling out their Auto-Captioning service on all videos.  In a press conference at their San Bruno campus, their Director of Product Management, Hunter Walk, gave a walkthrough of the technology for ...

Transcribing Videos By Hand Vs. Automated Transcription Tools

In this video, our friend Dave Dugdale compares the time it took him to transcribe a typical three minute video by hand verses using an automatic transcription service. As you likely know, automated transcription services use speech-to-text recognition technologies that at this point, are no ...

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 ...

The Next Wave for Online Video Search Optimization

Mark Robertson reviews the SES San Jose 2009 session titled "The next wave for online video" which he spoke at along with Gregory Markel of Infuse creative and David Burch of Tubemogul. Learn about Video SEO from the expert at ReelSEO.com

OmniVideo - The Future of Online Video Monetization and Discovery - Interview With James McQuivey of Forrester - Part 2

The following is Part 2 of our interview with James McQuivey(Ph.D.), Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research.   In Part 1 of our interview, we covered some background on James as well as some of  his thoughts regarding the future of video consumption. In Part 2 (below), ...

Image and Speech Recognition In Video SEO: The Digitalsmith Interview

I interviewed Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the video publishing platform and indexing solutions provider Digitalsmiths, Ben Weinberger, on how their combination of  image interpretation and speech recognition tools can enhance search results and SEO campaigns for businesses of all sizes.

EveryZing Launches Metadata Generation SAAS for Multimedia SEO

EveryZing, a leading video search and SEO services provider that we have covered many times in the past, today has introduced one of the coolest new services that will essentially provide multimedia publishers with an automated SEO solution for multimedia content.   This new service, named MediaCloud, ...

IYP Video SEO With YouTube – The Yellowbook Interview

Early last month, The Internet yellow pages company Yellowbook announced the launch of a new YouTube channel, exclusively for their customers with video ads produced by Yellowbook, with optimization of those video pages for YouTube and Google search results. Today we interviewed Patrick Marshall, Chief ...

GAudio Launches - Google's Sexy Audio Indexing for Video Search

Back in July, Google announced the availability of a video search tool that would search within a subset of Youtube political videos that had been analyzed using speech-to-text recognition technology. Speech-to-text recognition can be a powerful way to index and better understand the actual video ...

Video SEO for Local Television Shows – The PermissionTV Interview

Many broadcast television shows marketed for general consumer audiences are now providing web-based complimentary versions - a good means of expanding their audience and increase advertising revenue. But can a web-based version also be successful for local television shows? Matt Kaplan, VP of Solutions and ...