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Harlem Shake Dryer, How Popes Are Elected, and Gollum Sings Les Miserables [Fun Video Friday]

These videos will definitely make your day, and will make you a better person. I can't promise the effects will last long, but they will instill you with feelings of happiness that you won't quite be able to explain. At least, that's what I hope you'll feel during Fun Video Friday, even for a fleeting moment. You want to see a dryer do the Harlem Shake? You've come to the right place.

Fun Video Friday: David Beckham Strips Down, Insane Roller Coasters, and Horror

Video content just seems to get better and better every week.  I know that's not necessarily true, but this week there seemed to be so much to choose from.  The compilation below shows what works when it comes to video: we have funny, amazing, shocking, ...

Cool Camera Trick - Create 360º Rotation Shots Using Google Maps' Street View

Vimeo always has great tips and tricks for those who don't have a huge budget and recently, they showed how it's possible to create a 360º rotation shot using Google Maps and Street View, courtesy of Candy Glass Productions, who used the CN Tower in Toronto as their frame of reference. This is a really neat trick.

80% of Doritos 'Crash the Super Bowl' 2013 Finalists are Vimeo Creators

You already know the Harbaughs, San Francisco's Jim and Baltimore's John, will be the first pair of brothers to coach against each other in the Super Bowl. But did you know that 4 out of the 5 creators who are Doritos “Crash the Super Bowl” ...

Fun Videos Friday: The Hobbit, the NFL, and Ray William Johnson vs. SMOSH

Hello, everyone.  Welcome to Friday.  Feels good, doesn't it?  Being all Friday and stuff.  So, conjuring up the fun that the day elicits, I've rounded up 10 videos for Friday viewing.  Some you might already have seen a couple of these, I know I couldn't ...

NextUp at YouTube, Shows Takeoff to New Destinations, & More... [Reel Web #69]

In this week's Reel Web, we take a look at several online video related news items including: new mobile video apps released for Vimeo and YouTube, details about YouTube's newest NextUp competition program and its focus on collaboration, the pros vs. cons of using YouTube ...

Website Link Annotations, Creator Playbook 3.0, Foreign Language Captioning, & More... [Reel Web #68]

On this week's ReelWeb, we cover several YouTube news updates from the past week including yet another update to the Creator Playbook along with a revamped Creator's Hub, new YouTube annotation functionality that lets you link your videos to your own website, and additional foreign language ...

Vimeo Previews Their Pay-to-View Movie Service with Six Awesome Documentary Films

Back in September, we got to talk to Vimeo and they announced Tip Jar, a monetization strategy in which people could elect to leave some money for a well-liked video.  During this announcement, they also mentioned they would have a Pay-to-View service ready for 2013.  ...

Halloween Trick or Treat or How-To Videos You Can Use

You can always count on a ton of Halloween content to be swirling around this time of year, and the tent-pole opportunities during this holiday might be the best of all tent-pole opportunities in an given year.  The entertainment value provided by the spooky, the ...

Research Finds B2B Marketers Increasing Investments in Online Video for Content Marketing

It's been kind of a B2B week for me and what I've got covered. Earlier in the week LinkedIn announced that they've now got video ads. Today I've got some research from Brightcove, Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs that generally talked about content marketing for ...

8 Awesome Ways to Use Your Car to Shoot Great Video

A lot of times, amateur filmmakers forget the everyday objects and items they use everyday which can be used to enhance their videos.  They are easy to overlook.  After all, that rolling chair in your office couldn't possibly be used as a dolly, could it?  ...

How To Add Quizzes and Polls to Your YouTube Videos, Make Money on Vimeo, and More… [Reel Web #58]

This week on the Reel Web we offer a tutorial on how to use YouTube's new beta labs feature that lets you poll your audience with interactive survey questions served via YouTube annotations.  We also discuss some online video news items from the past week ...

Vimeo Ushers In Video Monetization With Tip Jar

Launching today as we speak, Vimeo is introducing "Tip Jar" for creators looking to monetize their videos.  Sparked in part by the success of crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, viewers can decide to pay whatever they like before, during, or after the video.  And, that's not ...

How to Shoot and Edit Video on your iPad, for Free

Sometimes I get this wild idea that I think I should be able to do all sorts on things on the cheap, as in, free. This time round, I decided to see just how intricate I could get in terms of a video that was ...

Online Video Viewing Numbers Grow in July with Record Viewers

It's the middle of the month and that means it's time once again for the comScore analysis of online video for the previous month. July saw, according to comScore (which we know won't mesh with Nielsen), 184 million viewers, which is a new record in ...