streaming media Articles

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, “to stream”, refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.
A client media player can begin playing the data (such as a movie) before the entire file has been transmitted. Distinguishing delivery method from the media distributed applies spec...

Video As An Effective Sales Tool - Interview With Sorenson

At the Streaming Media West show a few weeks back, we interviewed Eric Quanstrom, VP of Marketing and Strategy for Sorenson Media.  Eric talks with Grant Crowell about a common theme that a lot of discussion was centered around at Streaming Media, namely, monetization of ...

3 Principles for Creating E-Commerce Video That Sells

With the holiday shopping season in high gear, I'd like to spend some time this week focused on web video for e-commerce. I'll start things off with an interview I did at the Streaming Media West show with my friend Justin Foster, Co-Founder of Liveclicker ...

Video Demos Increase Sales Conversions At Zappos.com

At the recent Streaming Media West 2009 show, Rico Nasol, Content Team Senior Manager at Zappos.com spoke on the video commerce session about what they're doing with video and how effective it is. It's so interesting that we had to talk about it as well. ...

JW Player 5.0 Launches With Some Huge Upgrades

At Streaming Media West a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeroen Wijering, one of my "heroes" in the online video space. I know, I know - hero? Seriously Mark? Yes! Jeroen is the creator of the most popular open source video player around, ...

Benjamin Wayne of Fliqz On The Importance of Video SEO

Online video solutions provider Fliqz has just launched a new search engine optimization service for its customers along with a whitepaper all about hosted video SEO.  We caught up with Benjamin Wayne, the CEO of Fliqz, at the Online Video Platform Summit and asked him ...

Streaming Media West 2009 Recap With Dan Rayburn

As you may already know, we were delighted to be a part of this year's Streaming Media West conference and satellite conference, the Online Video Platform Summit.  In addition to my participation on the panel session titled, "Optimizing Video Search and Discoverability," Grant Crowell and I ...

Succesful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies

I'm at the Streaming Media West conference today in San Jose, CA and thought I would attempt some live blogging from this morning's session titled, "Successful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies." 

Watch Streaming Media West and Online Video Platform Summit Keynotes Live

We're just about to head over to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose, CA. For the first time in the history of this important conference, everyone will be able to watch parts of the conference live, both here on ReelSEO (below) as well ...

Streaming Media West and Online Video Platform Summit Podcast Coverage!

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson give a podcast preview the 2009 Streaming Media West Conference – The Business & Technology of Online Video, Tuesday November 17 – Thursday November 19, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California.

Streaming Media West 2009 - Discount for ReelSEO Readers

Just a quick note to all readers... Streaming Media West - the leading online video industry conference & expo - is offering a $100 discount until FRIDAY, November 6 to attend Streaming Media sessions.

Media Myth Busters: Urban Legends of User Experience

Prabakar Sundarrajan, CTO and co-founder of Ankeena Networks talks about the online video delivery experience, myths, and expectations. The new media user experience, specifically video, leaves a lot to be desired.  With the huge growth of online media, end-users are able to view their media ...

Reel Video Discovery and Video SEO Webinar

The 'Reel' Story on Getting your Online Video Discovered - video SEO webinar. This is the video presentation on Video SEO from Mark Robertson, founder of Reel SEO.

On Video Cloud 9 - Video and Cloud-based Computing

Video can sometimes require a large amount of resources. So it's no wonder that with the ever-increasing popularity of cloud-based computing that someone realized it might be a good way to go with online video. This past week, FierceOnlineVideo published a good post that looks ...

Announcing The First Ever Online Video Platform Summit

I'm pleased to announce to the ReelSEO community the Online Video Platform Summit, a new two-day single track event held in conjuction with the annual Streaming Media West Conference and Exhibition on November 18-19th in San Jose, Calif. The Online Video Platform Summit was born ...

Video SEO Webinar - The "Reel" Story On Getting Your Online Video Discovered

I'm pleased to announce that I will be participating in an upcoming FREE Video SEO webinar produced by Streaming Media magazine and StreamingMedia.com.  Dan Rayburn, EVP of Streaming Media, will be moderating the event and I'll be presenting along with Marcien Jenckes, Co-President of Grab Networks. The webinar ...