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YouTube Improves Video Uploading to Give You More Control

YouTube is making minor improvements to uploading. You will now get an e-mail notification when your video has finished uploading. Also, YouTube is going to play the waiting game with public videos and only publish when you're ready so you can put in all your SEO before it goes live.

How to Copyright Your Video Content Online & Protect Ownership [Creator's Tip #65]

Being that most of us are career marketers or video professionals, copyright protection, ownership, trademarks, fair-use and other legal matters that relate to the internet can be a bit confusing to understand.  How should one go about copyright protecting video content for the web?  How ...

YouTube Custom Thumbnails and Tags Made Easier with New Upload Features

So in the midst of testing out a brand new YouTube, creators have also been given a few more things to work with during their video uploading.  These are some minor changes, but they add convenience to the process.  Announced on the YouTube Creator Blog, ...

How to Shoot and Edit Video on your iPad, for Free

Sometimes I get this wild idea that I think I should be able to do all sorts on things on the cheap, as in, free. This time round, I decided to see just how intricate I could get in terms of a video that was ...

Vimeo Announces Custom Thumbnails, Dropbox Integration For Video Sharing & Uploading

Awhile back we published a long list of tools that help you send large files, like video, over the internet.  One of those, and actually by far and away the most popular one, is Dropbox.  Well, exciting news for Vimeo users: you can now use ...

List of Cloud-Based Video Encoding Tools and Services

With the rise of software-as-a-service (SAAS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) I thought it was about time we started compiling a list of web-based video encoding options. This is not a list of online video platforms but rather a set of places that you can upload a ...

A List of Online File Sharing Tools to Send Large Files (Like Video)

There are loads of sites that allow you to send large files like video over the internet, bypassing the file-size limits of your everyday e-mail provider.  In general, many of these are the same, but some allow larger sizes than others, some use a cloud, ...

Teens Embrace All Facets of Online Video from Creation to Consumption

Teens are a key demographic for a lot of brands and companies, so understanding what they are doing is vital to getting into their heads. Turns out, according to new research from Pew Internet, what they're doing, is video based.

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 ...

Setting the Pace In Next Gen YouTube Marketing

Mark Robertson, the Founder of ReelSEO, and I will be speaking about "Next Gen YouTube Marketing” at SES New York on Mar. 21, 2012. We also spoke about "Next Gen YouTube Marketing” at SES Chicago on Nov. 16, 2011. And we spoke about "Next Gen ...

YouTube Captions Expands Features & Capabilities - You Don't Have An Excuse Anymore

Captions were introduced by YouTube in 2006, and according to a blog post today there are 1.6 million videos that have uploaded caption files. That's... pretty pathetic, considering the huge boost for video SEO that captions can bring (I've ranted about the under-use of captions ...

Being Realistic About YouTube Revenue: The OK Go Dilemma

I recently read an article at Digital Music News that quoted the manager of OK Go as saying that the money they've seen from YouTube is like "finding change on the street."  This is an important thing for people to realize when they are hoping ...

Rebel Brings Us Version 2 Of The YouTube Creator Playbook

Over the weekend, a rebel sympathizer smuggled me a new copy of Version 2 of the YouTube Creator Playbook. To protect him/her from any repercussions, I won't disclose this rebel sympathizer's name, other than to say he/she works at a media company that bridges the ...

Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar, an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up. But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time ...

How To Maintain A Consistent Video Posting Schedule - The Reel Web Creator Tip #24

We all know it's important that we upload video content on a regular basis because it helps us build momentum, increases our videos' ranking in search, and keeps our audience engaged. But sometimes keeping up with a regular schedule is just too difficult because our ...