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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...

The Social Video Blueprint, Part 7: Catalysts For Sharing

As we've discussed throughout this series, social video campaigns are all about sharing. Clicks and impressions are great, but shares represent potential exponential growth, because the viewers themselves are spreading the brand's message to their friends, fans, and relatives. But why do they share? What ...

Musings On YouTube, Cat Videos, & Lazy Journalism

Maybe it's time we let YouTube grow up. Maybe instead of constantly referencing YouTube as a site for "cat videos," even when reporting on the advertising side of the site, we should start giving them their due for what they really are: a behemoth of ...

Ogilvy's Advanced Video Practice Gives Clients A Dedicated Video Specialist Team

Man when I heard Ogilvy, yeah, that Ogilvy, had an all new online video offering they were dealing out to their clients, I said "Self, we need to talk with them and find out what that's all about!" The other half of me, whose task ...

“Digital Natives” Transforming Online Video, Part 2: Training Digital Citizens

In my continued discussion with Dancing with Digital Natives co-editor Michelle Manafy, we talk about the divide between digital natives and older generations with social media and online video, why digital natives sometimes behave very badly with online video, and some ways parents can get ...

New Survey Shows That *GASP* Americans Are Watching More Online Video

Americans are watching online video! Crazy right?! Oh wait, we know that. If we weren't watching so much more, Jeremy probably wouldn't have gotten flamed as much as he did in his anti-Netflix-consumer article... I mean in his article in which he said we needn't be ...

Facebook Now Let's You Add Video to Facebook Comments

Social video marketers, we have a news update! We recently discovered a feature that Facebook was testing and it appears that they have just made public as of today. Now, when you include a link in a comment on anyone's Facebook post or status update, ...

Video Is A Huge Part Of The Google Plus Social Network

I somehow landed on the Google Plus social network page when the sign-up process was open, and managed to get set up. Sadly, registration has been closed again already, and the sending of invites has been temporarily disabled. I've played around with it a bit ...

Viral Video Marketing vs. Social Video Marketing – Which is Better?

You saw it coming to this over the past few weeks, didn't you? I have been writing a lot lately about "viral video" and "social video," and now it's time to give them the ultimate face-off. What's the difference between viral video and social video? ...

You're Not A Real Presidential Candidate Unless You Announce On YouTube

The only acceptable way to announce that you're running for president is to do it with social media. President Obama led the charge, with his video announcement in early April on YouTube. Just a couple weeks ago, Newt Gingrich took to the world's top microblogging ...

Blip.tv Relaunches as Center for Original Web Series

Blip.tv was what? I forget, oh right, a video sharing site for content producers, now I remember (yes, I'm joking here... I know Blip). Well, it seems they decided that it was too close to competing with YouTube or to hard to do so and ...

48% of Smartphone Users Watch Video on Them, 82% Notice Mobile Ads

Smartphones are spreading like wildfire and users are beginning to rely more and more on them according to a recent study, The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Users, done by Google and Ipsos OTX, an independent market research firm. They pinged 5,013 US adult smartphone owners ...

Online Video Weekly News Reel - B-Easter Boys Edition

For the Catholics in the audience, Happy Easter, for the zombie lovers, Happy Zombie Jesus Day, for everyone else Happy Oestre, Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos. It was a slow week in some parts of the world as Friday ...

Is Apple Building Their Own YouTube Competitor (iVideo)?

Steve Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net and the author of Curation Nation, has an interesting editorial piece over at The Huffington Post today where he suggests an intriguing new service might be in the works at Apple: a YouTube killer. He cites several pieces of ...

Online Video Weekly News Reel 17 April 2011

We're here to reel in the hits in the online video industry once again my friends. It's Sunday morning, you're sitting on your patio looking at the ocean, or lounging about in a big fluffy bathrobe with equally fluffy slippers, sipping your morning cup o' ...

The Online Video Weekly News Reel - Opening Week Edition

Opening week in the MLB has wrapped up and I have to say, MLB.tv is doing a fantastic job so far. I bought a one-month to cover the gap between the beginning of the season and my return to America. Why am I telling you? ...