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Custom YouTube Thumbs Finally Roll Out, Mood-Based Video Recommendations, & More [The Reel Web #54]

This week on the Reel Web we look at the updates YouTube has made in the past week including the roll-out (finally) of custom thumbnails for all monetized users, some experimenting with mood-based video recommendations, their new politics destination channel and more.  Additionally, we cover ...

Panasonic Creates Cloud-Based Video Production Network with Aframe

Panasonic is ready to offer production houses the power of the cloud with its new Panasonic Production Network which will integrate Aframe's web-based video production service so that creators can collaborate online and get professionally-made video content out quickly. It's not a video editing suite ...

How to Tag & Title Your Videos for Search: The New Media Minute Farewell Episode

This is the last and final farewell episode of the New Media Minute. Today's episode is focused on the age-old question for those involved with online video - what best practices can one follow to make sure videos are easily discoverable in search? I interviewed ...

How Machinima Generates Content Through A Filmmaker & Directors Community

On my recent trip to Machinima headquarters, I got a chance to speak with CEO Allen DeBevoise. One of the things I was interested in talking with him about is how Machinima goes about generating their wide range of online video content. Turns out they ...

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 ...

SocialCam App To Offer Mobile Video + Social Video Sharing

Justin.tv is willing to learn and adapt to their users behavior. For example, the live-streaming video app they launched in 2010 was used by a lot of customers, but not for live video. In fact, over 90% of the video uploaded using the app was ...

Make Your Facebook Video Stand Out With Captions & Advanced Video Tags

More and more users are sharing video through Facebook, whether by dropping in links or uploading their own clips. Facebook is the fastest-growing referrer of video traffic, and users are beginning to upload videos to the site in higher numbers as well. And now a ...

How to Successfully Integrate Video into Social Media Marketing for Business

I interviewed Dave Evans, Social Media Expert and author of the best-selling book, "Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day" as well as "Social Media Marketing: The Next Generation of Business Engagement," about what he considers to be the special advantages to integrating video with ...

DailyMotion Expands Video Discovery, Localization and Player Features

DailyMotion is working on implementing better ways for their users to discover video content on DailyMotion. Apparently, what they had just wasn't working (which might explain their serious lack of stringency in what is acceptable as a view, having just scraped the bottom of the ...

10 Reasons Facebook Video Marketing Is Valuable for Business

ReelSEO Grant Crowell interviews Social Media Examiner's Michael Stelzner, host of Facebook Success Summit 2010 taking place live and online Oct 5th – Oct 26th, about the increasing power for businesses to do video in Facebook, along with sharing some exclusive Facebook video tactics and business success stories.

90% of TV Shows Were Freely Available Online Last Season

According to recent research by Clicker, that's the fact of the matter. 90% of 2009-2010 broadcast TV was on Internet. It makes me wonder what the other 10% was and if they include places like PBS and C-SPAN.

7 Tips for Adding Website Videos That Sell Products

The widespread availability of broadband and the purchase of YouTube by Google in October 2006 have made online video one of the fastest growing trends on the web in the past three years. Not surprisingly – it's fun, entertaining and accessible - from both a viewer's and ...

EveryZing Moves To RAMP Focus On Content Optimization

Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search discovery through speech to text recognition technology and they are now moving beyond video

Youtube Optimization Tips From Youtube's Matthew Liu

ReelSEO caught up with Matthew Liu, Product Manager for YouTube for a quick on-camera interview about best practices for optimizing videos published to youtube. http://www.reelseo.com/youtube-optimization-tips-from-youtube/

Wistia Embedded Video Metrics – The Video Solution for SMBs?

I review the video sharing application and project management service, Wistia, and talk with CEO Chris Savage on how they are positioning themselves as an affordable top-tier business solution for the SMB crowd.