video sharing Articles

Video hosting services refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Other sites such as file hosting services, image hosting services and social network services might support video sharing as an enhancement to their primary mission, but in general, they are not listed here. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. Video sharing services can be classified into several categories, among them: user generated video sharing webs...

Brand Mentions in Social Video Content Have No Effect on Sharing Potential

That’s according to fascinating new research carried out by a university in Australia, which found that the number of times a brand appears visually or verbally in a commercial had little or no impact on its popularity online. The study is the second led by Dr Karen Nelson-Field and ...

YouTube Joins Pinterest To Curate Videos For Niche Viewing

Pinterest has been around for a couple of years.  It's a sharing site where users can put together a "pinboard" of images and can be shared through Facebook and Twitter.  Last Thursday, YouTube's blog announced that they would be joining Pinterest for video sharing.  Pinterest ...

YouTube Talent Agency, The Collective, Buys Metacafe

The Collective, an agency that manages YouTube talent such as Freddie Wong and The Annoying Orange, has acquired video destination site Metacafe.  Metacafe began in 2003, before the days of YouTube, and was then promptly surpassed by that site.  Yahoo! was once a suitor for ...

The Online Video Weekly News Roundup - The Wow I'm Tired Edition

Wow, E3 week in LA was fantastic. Loads of awesome games, lots of hot babes and tons of great acquaintances new and old. Now it's time to get back into the work flow of a more stable and regular office hour deal. I need to ...

Q4 2011 Video Marketing Survey Shows 81% Have Used Online Video in Marketing

The Web Video Marketing Council and Flimp Media have put together their quarterly report, Q4-2011 Online Video Marketing Survey and Video Email Trends Report and it has some interesting results I thought I would talk about.

Givit Set To Hold Your Flip Videos Forevah!

Givit, the consumer cloud service for private, personal video sharing, has cut a deal with Cisco to safeguard all those Flip videos you uploaded to Flipshare before they dropped the ax on the Flip camera. So stop frantically trying to download them all. Actually, Givit ...

Vimeo Fights SOPA, Supports OPEN Act To Curtail Online Video Piracy

I interviewed Senior Counsel for Vimeo, Michael Cheah, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Vimeo is running messages on January 18th (today) highlighting the issue and will invite users to tell Congress to reject SOPA. 

Online Video Predictions For 2012 - The Reel Web #20

This week in our look at the Reel Web we talk about how mobile viewers are watching our videos longer than desktop views are and how Facebook dominates Twitter in video sharing. Also, we review YouTube's new "Slam" voting feature and what they're doing to ...

How To Measure Social ROI With Video: The Orabrush YouTube Marketing Story – Part 3 of 4

In Part 3 of our series on the Orabrush YouTube marketing story, I interviewed Orabrush Spokesperson Austin Craig to talk about how his company measures success with their video marketing strategy through ascribing values to the social activity around those videos – which we refer ...

Screw Viral Videos! The Orabrush YouTube Marketing Story - Part 1 of 4

I interviewed Orabrush's Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Harmon, to talk about how they used YouTube to sell over a million units of their tongue cleaner and sign major deals with big box stores, and why they say you have to "screw viral videos" if you ...

No Contests Allowed On Google Plus Business & Brand Pages

An interesting follow up to yesterday's huge announcement that Google Plus for businesses and brands had finally opened: Google Plus doesn't want your contests. That's right, according to TechCrunch, there's explicit language in the Google Plus Pages terms of service prohibiting businesses from running contests, ...

Camtasia Studio 7 Video Editing & Screencasting Software Review

Video is becoming such an important part of web content that we're seeing individuals and groups of all skill levels jumping into video creation and video marketing. So while Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro may be dominant video editing software choices for professionals, ...

YouTube Killed TV, Except That It Didn't... Yet

There's a very cool infographic making the rounds called YouTube Killed TV. It's filled with excellent graphical representations of some really impressive--and in some cases, mind boggling--statistics about the video sharing site. The only problem I have with it, of course, is the exaggerated claim ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos - Parody Trailers & Music Videos

The single most-talked-about online video topic all week long was the capture and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In fact, if you merely browse YouTube by "most viewed this week," nearly every other video will be Gaddafi-related. I'm not interested in covering ground the major ...

4 Tips For Creating A Video Blog Post

Videos don't have to just live on video sharing sites. By embedding your videos into blog posts you are giving both your video and content marketing campaigns a whole new dimension.