Topic - Online Video & user-generated content
Search Engines Use UGC to Improve Video Search
As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within a video.
Just this past weekend, Metacafe announced a new feature and beta wiki platform called Wikicafe beta program. With this new program, registered users will be able to collaborate with online videos and will have the ability to edit, enhance, and even translate video tags, descriptions, and other types of metadata. You can translate the metadata into one of 6 different languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, German, and Hebrew).
So, the real question is… what is the driving force behind the decision to add these user generated content (UGC) features to online video websites? Are Youtube and Metacafe simply doing their best to add cool new features that users have asking for? Or, is there another reason for these new features?
Top Music Acts Turn to User Generated Online Video
So, today I saw 2 specific announcements to related to this. The first was an email that I received from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and the second was an announcement today from Radiohead, who is sponsoring an online contest for fans to produce their next music video.
Live Mobile Video Streaming Meets Local GPS Mapping
In our online video predictions for 2008, we touch briefly on the fast growing convergence between online video and local search.
Professionally Published Video Sites – 33.5 Billion Views in 2007
AccuStream Research: Professionally Published Online Video up 50.3% in ‘07 to 33.5 Billion Views Online video views (streams and progressive downloads) delivered through professionally branded sites increased 50.3% in 2007 to 33.5 billion, according to a research study published by AccuStream iMedia Research.
Women Enjoy Network TV Online, Men Enjoy CGM
Nielson has released the results of a major study of online viewing habits. The study found that women are twice as likely as men to tune into network television on the web. Men 18-34 are twice as likely as women to watch user-generated content on YouTube and other video-sharing sites. The study found that 73% of regular Internet users have watched online video.
Yellow Pages Site Launches User Generated Video Reviews.
Today Putlocal.com announced the launch of their new “Video Review Profit-Sharing Program”, which pays video makers for their opinions.
User Generated Video Popularity Research
New research released by Accustream iMedia Research, titled “UGV 2005 – 2008: Mania Meets Mainstream” report, demonstrates that user generated video (UGV) views for 2007 were up more than 70% over 2006 with a total of 22 billion views world-wide for 2007
Wikipedia Adds Online Video with Kaltura
Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Wikimedia and Kaltura have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. The vision of this project is to enable the Wikipedia community to further enhance and enrich Wikipedia articles with rich-media content. Think of this technology as a form of video-wiki software that is integrated into the Mediawiki platform, allowing users to add collaborative video players that enable all users to add and edit images, sounds, diagrams, animations and movies in the same manner as they do today with text. By incorporating rich media, Wikipedia and other wiki projects will be able to further enhance the quality and richness of their content and truly surpass any existing encyclopedia in the world.
Neulio Platform for User Generated Training Videos
New Neulio Platform Optimizes Online Instruction by Enabling Multi-Lesson Audio/Video Courses with Integrated Quiz Builder.
UPDATE – Looks like they’ve gone BYE BYE
