Video Sharing

Make Your Facebook Video Stand Out With Captions & Advanced Video Tags

More and more users are sharing video through Facebook, whether by dropping in links or uploading their own clips. Facebook is the fastest-growing referrer of video traffic, and users are beginning to upload videos to the site in higher numbers as well. And now a new iPhone and Facebook app aims to give you even ...

Dailymotion Announces Curated Video Hubs for Current & Emerging Events

Online video has proven to be a sought after content type during breaking news stories, natural disasters, or other current events.  However, the very nature of breaking news makes it tough to find video of a specific event as the news of that event is still breaking, because it's lost amid the billions of other ...

More Senior Executives Are Using & Sharing Online Video Says Forbes

In June of last year, Forbes Insights partnered with Google to conduct a study on how C-Level Executives were using video for business purposes.  The results, which we wrote about at the time, showed that their use of video was on the rise, particularly with executives under 50 years of age.  Now Forbes is back ...

Consumer Generated Media, Customer Video Reviews, and Brand Marketing Strategies

Grant Crowell interviews Pete Blackshaw, author of the book about consumer-generated media titled, Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000. We discuss how online video is one of the most persuasive forms of consumer generated media today, and where he sees are the “obvious opportunities” for businesses to take advantage of consumer generated media with their own video marketing strategies.

Goodbye Yahoo Video Uploads - Yahoo Shifts Away From User-Generated Video Content

Techcrunch is reporting that Yahoo Video is making some major changes in the wake of the company''s layoffs this week.  Specifically, they seem to be doing away with user-generated content altogether.  The upload utility is gone, and users are seeing a special message at the top of the page.

Bit.ly Bundles - Share Multiple Videos With One Shortened URL

Do you use URL shorteners when promoting your videos?  I’m guessing most of you do.  And even though that marketplace is becoming saturated with options for shortening long URLs, the king of the hill is still Bit.ly, primarily due to their early adoption by Twitter users.  But they're not content to rest on their laurels. ...

VYou Brings Video To The World of Online Q&A

I love viral videos—perhaps more than I should.  It’s just so much fun, that it’s easy to sometimes forget that there are a multitude of things to like about video beyond just viral advertising.  We’re still in the early stages of the life of online video, and we continue to see more and more new ...

DailyMotion Expands Video Discovery, Localization and Player Features

DailyMotion is working on implementing better ways for their users to discover video content on DailyMotion. Apparently, what they had just wasn't working (which might explain their serious lack of stringency in what is acceptable as a view, having just scraped the bottom of the barrel in the latest TubeMogul research on the matter). They're ...

Google Releases Goo.gl, Their URL Shortening Service, To The Public

URL shorteners are all the rage.  With the rise of social media like Facebook and Twitter, there is a greater need than ever before for users to find a way to make their links shorter so as to leave more room for actual text in their updates.  And now even Google has their own shortener, ...

Justin.tv Offers Live Streaming Video iPhone App

Perhaps they're trying to shake that reputation of being a place to find illegal sports and television streams or perhaps they really just want to cater to iPhone users who want to live stream events. Either way, they've launched a new app on the iPhone App Store.

Viral Video vs. Episodic Video - Are They Mutually Exclusive?

What do you do when someone you like and respect writes something that you think is way off base?  Jim Louderback wrote a pretty interesting article over at AdAge yesterday, and it’s the kind of thing I have to weigh in on.  In a piece entitled, “There, I said it: Screw Viral Videos,” Jim argues ...

Crowdsourced Fan Film, Star Wars Uncut, Is Finished... and It's Awesome

I’ve been interested in the Star Wars: Uncut project ever since I heard about it last October.  The premise:  let fans pick their favorite 15-second scenes from the original Star Wars: A New Hope movie and re-film it—fan film style—and then stitch together everyone’s scenes to recreate the movie.  Sound ambitious?  It was.  Sound awesome?  ...

Reel Weekend: Social Networks Targeted By Video Spoofs and One Real Film

So, everyone in the Social Networking realm is all a flutter (bet you thought I'd say a twitter) about a string of spoof trailers for imaginary films based on the creation and usage of the social networks, spawned from a real trailer for a real film, mind you. Since that all falls roughly into the ...

5 Actions You Want Every One of Your Video Viewers To Take

I read a fantastic article over at Visible Gains called Tuning Website Video For Higher Conversion – Part 1.  It has some really great insight into how webmasters can help nudge users toward certain desired behaviors through different choices in video placement and style.  The author points out that audience behaviors are varied, but offers ...

5 Crazy Things You Can Learn From 5min of Online Video

It's the weekend and so we here at ReelSEO want to wind down and take it easy. Something came across our desk late Friday that talked about 5min.com and Answers.com teaming up. The deal is that 1,000 questions on Answers.com have been done up as videos. So I thought, what better way to relax than ...