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Professional Web Video Content Up Almost 20% In 2009

AccuStream Research says that there was nearly a 20% jump in "professionally produced, hosted or syndicated online media and entertainment video views". So either we're all going pro or the pros have come to see the value in it.

Speculating On Reasons for Online Video's Unprecedented Surge In 2009

Will Richmond over at VideoNuze published an interesting article yesterday pondering some possible reasons for the meteoric rise in online video's popularity in 2009.  The article starts with a graph that shows a jump of nearly 124% growth in total views last year.  The previous ...

The Benefits of A Targeted YouTube Distribution Strategy

Increasingly, more brands have been expanding into the social media realm. Whether by embracing Facebook, engaging with Twitter, incorporating YouTube, or creating interactive visual content in the online space, brands have been enhancing the online experience. Specifically, it's the creation of high quality brand videos ...

Converting Article Readers Into Highly Engaged Video Viewers

Although online video watching is reaching a major trending peak these days, the overall marketplace for generating ad revenue from video is relatively small when compared with traditional online textually based webpages.

Succesful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies

I'm at the Streaming Media West conference today in San Jose, CA and thought I would attempt some live blogging from this morning's session titled, "Successful Content Syndication and Aggregation Strategies." 

uSocial Is Selling YouTube Views - Should You Buy YouTube Video Views?

uSocial, the company that has created controversy regarding their services in the past, is at it again.  You might remember them as the company that sold Diggs for your Digg submission, friends for your Facebook account, and followers of your Twitter ramblings.  Now they're offering ...

Online Video Continues Ridiculous Trajectory

ComScore has released their online video numbers for September 2009, and the trend continues.  Online video views are again at an all time high. More than 168 Million U.S. viewers watched online video during that month, accumulating nearly 26 Billion total views.  Holy cow.

Video Marketing Strategy: Hosted Versus Posted Video

When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a ...

YouTube Brand Channels - The Missing Link

As an independent consultant, I am involved in a number of projects for setting up either partner or brand channels on YouTube. The most frequently asked question I get from brand or content owners is: "How does a YouTube brand channel help me in getting more ...

Intangible Values of Online Video - Beyond Monetization

D2DVD recently blogged about whether or not online video has some sort of value not based in money. While many of us equate popularity and views with value ,some of us might have forgotten about a great deal of other avenues that might be considered ...

Video + SEO = Best Practices for Video and E-Commerce

Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the first annual Liveclicker Video Commerce Summit in Seattle, WA.  I was asked to discuss and present video search engine optimization and to help educate the audience on best practices for publishing online video in a ...

Where Do People Discover Videos Online? Online Video Discovery Research

There are many ways in which people discover video online; videos embedded on blogs, video search engines, major search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, MSN), email, and social networking, to name a few.  In February, our friends over at Tubemogul released some new research which helps to ...

The Death of User-Generated Online Video Content?

AccuStream iMedia Research believes that the end of the user-generated content era is close at hand as outlined in their recent report Pro Online Video Views 1998–2012. Last year, they say, there was a 25% increase in prodfessionally produced content on the web. This content ...

Newspapers Need Video SEO, Says Scripps Newspapers Director

In our continuing series on newspapers and online video marketing, ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Jay Small, Executive Director, Content and Product Development for Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group. Jay talks about the business imperative for newspapers to be doing a better job promoting video and have ...

Youtube Content ID - Major Media Companies To Sell Video Ads

Thats right!  Now, according to an exclusive that I just read on Techcrunch: "YouTube is trying to convince them that love is better than war by giving them a cut of advertising revenues from their videos that appear on YouTube, regardless of who put them ...