Panasonic Viera Headed For OTT Converged Screen Combat With Viera Connect Market
Panasonic seems completely serious when it comes to combining online video with normal TV. They have no less than a dozen pre-installed apps planned for their upcoming Viera connected TVs and the expected total available apps now sits at around 120. The big names like Netflix and Hulu are already on board as embedded apps, pre-installed. ...
Social Video Marketing Tips With Domino’s Pizza Chicago’s Ramon DeLeon
I feature a video presentation of Ramon DeLeon, manager of six Domino's Pizza stores in Chicago, and a frequent vlogger and public speaker on social media marketing. Ramon is the recipient of the Chicago Social Media Club’s 2011 Chicago Social Media Person of the Year Award, and is a speaker at the upcoming Blogworld & ...
Ustream Offers Ad-Free Premium Membership Subscription
If you hate ads and love live streams from Ustream, you can now avoid the first and have all of the second you want with their new premium service, which will cost $3.99. Now your birds, dogs, cats and other live events won't be laced with pre-rolls, overlays or any other ads.
Tornado Outbreak Shows The Speed & Power Of Social Video
I spent the better part of my Wednesday evening following media coverage of the tornado outbreak in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, & Georgia. So far, 127 tornadoes have been confirmed, the death toll is at 54-and-climbing, and the devastation is immense and widespread. Online video was my primary method of following the storms---live news streams, YouTube ...
Live Streaming Video Is Growing By Leaps & Bounds
Online video is incredibly popular, and owes a good deal of that popularity to its on-demand nature---users can watch what they want, when they want. However, there's a growing market for the exact opposite type of video content: live streaming. Live streaming video is maturing at a pretty impressive rate, as several events this week ...
Are You Flipped Out About the Flip?
Sometimes products come along that just simply hit the mark. Whether it's based on filling a business or consumer need, or for its ease of use, innovative simplicity or aesthetic quality, these products have helped shape that industry. They've also spawned competition within its market which has given us more choices and better products. But ...
YouTube Officially Announces Live Streaming Video Service
After months (and years?) of speculation from all kinds of bloggers and media members, we finally have an official answer to the question of whether YouTube will ever get into the live-streaming video game: they will. YouTube today announced YouTube Live, which "will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform."
When Live Streaming Video Goes Viral: A Bald Eagle Case Study
The Truman Show is one of my favorite movies. It examined the possible future where every moment of a man’s life might be broadcast on television for the world to see (EdTV, a similarly-premised movie, came out the same year). A few years ago, Justin.tv did just that—though, granted, it wasn’t for 30+ years of ...
The Definitive List of Facebook Video Apps for Facebook Pages
We’ve talked a lot at ReelSEO about Facebook video marketing and video apps, so it was only a matter of time before we combined all the options into one big list. So here you go, our ReelSEO Show Reel of Facebook Video Apps, with a myriad ways you can integrate video into your own Facebook ...
Why Don't All Video Platforms Display Video View Counts?!
When I was preparing a post about Red Letter Media's Star Wars reviews earlier in the week, I discovered something surprising. Well, it was surprising to me. Blip.tv--where Red Letter's latest video is hosted--doesn't share video view counts publicly on the website. It was important to me at the time, because I was trying to ...
The Sunday News Reel – Week of 18-24 October, 2010
Brrr! It's cold over here (well at night anyway). I do believe there's snow at the top of the local mountain already. That would be Ještěd for those that are interested, on a clear winter day I can see it from my office window, we don't have many of those though. Anyway, what better reason ...
Legal Battle Brews Over Internet TV Re-broadcasting - What Are The Repercussions?
When the ivi launch press release crossed my desk, to say I was interested would be an understatement. For those that don't know ivi is an application that takes broadcast television, currently only from Seattle and New York, and streams it to your desktop, anywhere in the world. That Sunday, when I saw the NFL ...
UFC Sues UStream and Justin.TV Over Live Streaming Copyright Infringement
Copyright infringement is still one of the biggest headaches that video hosting sites deal with on a regular basis--you might have heard about a long legal battle that YouTube spent millions to win. Most video portals, like YouTube, have gone to great lengths to demonstrate a willingness and ability to help fight copyright infringement by ...
UStream Not Worried By Prospect of YouTube Live Video Service
UStream co-founder and CEO, John Ham, sat down and talked with TechCrunch’s Jason Kinkaid recently to discuss the future of live streaming video on the web—and the looming prospect of YouTube jumping into that arena. It’s a pretty interesting read, and I suggest you check it out.
Video Chat Platforms - Choosing The One That’s Right for You
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell talks with author and popular video expert Steve Garfield about choosing the best video chat solutions for your online marketing and business needs, including getting best production quality, and what he sees as the “next big thing” with web video chat technology in online marketing.
