YouTube Removing Subscribers & A New YouTube Player On The Way - The Reel Web #22
In case you're just now recovering from all the recent changes YouTube has made to their system, it's time to brace for another round of major changes. This time they'll be removing some of your subscribers from your channel's subscriber count if the subscriber's account is old, inactive, hasn't been linked to a Google Account, ...
The ReelSEO YouTube Creator Playbook Index
The YouTube Creator Playbook is an awesome guide to follow when making your videos. Covering every section of it was enlightening and maddening all at once. The Playbook offers great information, and then forgets that not everyone can do some of the things they suggest (custom thumbnails are the bane of the Playbook's existence). Overall, ...
New Google Universal Video Search Thumbnails Spotted = More Visibility
So, this morning while in my hotel at SES Chicago, I received a tweet from a good friend, Tim Cross, that at least in the UK, Google has rolled out, or is testing, new Universal Search video thumbnails... AND, it's good news in that they have increased the size of video thumbnails by 45%. It ...
How To Optimize YouTube Thumbnails To Attract Viewers - The YouTube Creator Playbook
Now it's time to get into the mind of a movie poster designer and create images for your video that are appealing to increase the chances of someone clicking on it. Usually, you're going to watch the video and find that compelling image that sums everything up and use that. This is the section of ...
5 Video SEO Tips to Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown
I liked Grant Crowell’s article, “5 Reasons the Latest Michele Bachmann Political YouTube Video Sucks!” And I want to get on the bandwagon by providing five video SEO tips to help consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren beat US Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts next year.
Google Previews Video Within Search Results - Free Screening: Take II
Google has been giving users "instant previews" in the search engine results pages (SERPS) for some time allowing users to click a little blue magnifying glass symbol next to each result to see a cool little overlay that shows a preview of the resulting website content. Google has now rolled out this same functionality for ...
PBS Picks RAMP for Expanded Video and Content Navigation
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, just chose RAMP as its service of choice for video navigation and search. I hope RAMP gave them a good deal since public broadcasting is likely to lose much of its Federal Funding if certain members of the US Government have their way. The new service allows users to search ...
Entertainment Weekly Teams Up With YouTube To Power Video-Based Fall TV Preview
I used to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly for many years, and the Fall TV Preview is, without a doubt, one of the best issues of the calendar year. The magazine breaks down all the new and returning shows from the networks and major cable stations, including interviews, photos, and behind-the-scenes gossip. If you’re a television ...
YouTube and Ridley Scott's Life In A Day Project Releases Raw Submission Footage
I’ve been following the Life in a Day project for some time now, because it’s incredibly fascinating to me. The project—a joint venture between YouTube and Hollywood producer Ridley Scott—asked YouTube users to film upload footage of themselves going about their normal daily routine, and aims to use the submitted videos to create some kind ...
Does Uploading Videos To YouTube Cannibalize Website Video SEO?
To YouTube or NOT to YouTube, that is the question for e-retailers pushing e-commerce product videos. Is posting product videos on YouTube complimentary or counter-productive to e-commerce business goals? ReelSEO’s Mark Robertson shares his thoughts about the “YouTube cannibalization theory,” and offers some valuable tips for “hosted and posted” video strategies.
YouTube Overhauls User Interface for Browsing Videos
YouTube has rather quietly rolled out a new interface/design to the Browse section of the site, and it’s a pretty big improvement in my mind—but I’ve been known to complain about Browse before.
YouTube Testing New Video Player, AJAX Editing and Suggestions?
One of the ways that major websites test possible new layouts and features is through random select live testing--where only a handful of users are shown the new look while the rest of the public sees the familiar one. And I think that may be going on over at YouTube. It appears that the video ...
Google's Official Reference Guide for Video Sitemaps
Last month, I interviewed Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, on the subject of Google Video Sitemaps. Matt told us that Google was starting to take a much closer look at video sitemaps and he advised that all video publishers begin to explore video sitemaps. Today, Im excited to tell you that Google has announced a ...
Quick Tip: How To Get YouTube Thumbnail Images
The other day, when I was editing Jeremy's weekly viral video roundup post, it occurred to me that it would be nice to display a thumbnail image for the post, taken from one of the videos in his review. I thought I'd write a short post to show you how to easily pull thumbnail images for a YouTube ...
Optimizing Video Thumbnails for Google Universal Search
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell shows how to optimize image thumbnails for your video content, as they appear in Google's blended search results.
