Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 7, 2009, 2:06 pm
It’s time for another Viral Round Up, where we examine recent viral video successes and break them apart so we can learn what made them tick.  Let’s dive in: The Flash Mob Dance Party If you fo...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 7, 2009, 12:46 pm
With the holiday shopping season in high gear, I’d like to spend some time this week focused on web video for e-commerce. I’ll start things off with an interview I did at the Streaming Me...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 5, 2009, 6:10 pm
At the recent Streaming Media West 2009 show, Rico Nasol, Content Team Senior Manager at Zappos.com spoke on the video commerce session about what they’re doing with video and how effective it i...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 4, 2009, 12:13 pm
Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking on several panels at PubCon 2009, an industry trade show put on by WebMasterWorld that is programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owne...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 3, 2009, 3:20 pm
To coincide with my own speaking event at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference on Dec 9th, I interview Shawn Collins, co-founder of the Affiliate Summit, the leading industry conference for...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 3, 2009, 2:24 pm
At Streaming Media West a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeroen Wijering, one of my “heroes” in the online video space. I know, I know - hero? Seriously Mark? Yes! Jeroen...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 3, 2009, 2:24 pm
You’re reading ReelSEO where we talk about how important search engine optimization is for online video marketing and advertising. Sometimes we wonder if anyone ever listens. Sometimes we know y...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 2, 2009, 6:28 pm
A couple of days ago we told you about Fede Alvarez, a filmmaker from Uruguay whose YouTube film’s impressive direction and effects landed him a real life Hollywood development deal with Sam Raimi a...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 2, 2009, 2:00 pm
Online video solutions provider Fliqz has just launched a new search engine optimization service for its customers along with a whitepaper all about hosted video SEO.  We caught up with Benjamin Wayn...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Dec 2, 2009, 9:12 am
In a recent article over at Seeking Alpha, Akamai CEO Paul Sagan claimed that broadcast and network TV operators are in for a ‘Big Bang.’ But we all are ahead of the curve because we knew ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 20, 2009, 11:11 pm
It’s time for another Viral Round Up—our weekly look at the latest viral success stories as we attempt to reverse engineer them to see what made them work. Since I missed last week’s Round Up, ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 20, 2009, 5:11 pm
Google today announced that they are adding automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube. This is a fantastic step forward for accessibility for deaf Internet users.  Says Vice President Vin...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 19, 2009, 3:40 pm
Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 19, 2009, 10:46 am
Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 19, 2009, 8:50 am
Did you see the headline earlier this week that YouTube had struck a deal with Spanish Television Network, Univision?  If you’re a typical American, you might have passed right over it.  Maybe you...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 18, 2009, 2:01 pm
Everyone remembers that Kaltura makes the first open source online video platform right? The Kaltura Community Edition. Well now they’re beginning to expand that with new deals, this time around...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 17, 2009, 10:32 pm
Is anyone still wondering if search is important for video?  In November of last year, YouTube surpassed Yahoo for the first time in total U.S. search queries, making it the 2nd largest search engine...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 17, 2009, 3:47 pm
Viral video is dead. Long live low production values. The cheaper the better. Don’t cuddle it to death, let go of your brand persona.  Those are the sage words of Kevin Nalty, who is an online ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 17, 2009, 1:01 pm
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 an...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 17, 2009, 11:35 am
We all have video cameras or video-capable mobile phones and that means new ways to see what’s happening in the world. Not only for you but for others as well. We get a eyewitness views of the e...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 17, 2009, 10:41 am
We’re just about to head over to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose, CA. For the first time in the history of this important conference, everyone will be able to watch parts of the...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 13, 2009, 12:21 pm
This is easily the best news in weeks for video producers:  YouTube is now supporting true HD 1080p.  Yes, you read that right.  You can now upload 1080p HD videos to YouTube and share the glorious...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 12, 2009, 2:20 pm
YouTube has begun testing “skippable” ads on videos.  But before you get offended as an advertiser (“What?!  They’re letting people skip my ads?”) or get excited as a user (“Hooray!  Th...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 12, 2009, 2:20 pm
Listen to a sneak-preview of our upcoming coverage of the 2009 Streaming Media West Conference – The Business & Technology of Online Video, and the Online Video Platform Summit, happening Tuesday No...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 12, 2009, 1:51 pm
Caffeine, what was once just a sandbox at Google for those who have too much time on their hands, take SEO as the word of god or write about this sort of thing is ready to stream into the veins of the...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 12, 2009, 1:47 pm
Yes you can now, thanks to Livestream and their Procaster application, stream live to the iPhone. Well actually you have to stream to your iPhone website and then iPhone users can pick up the streams ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 10, 2009, 1:52 pm
YouTube has always been embarrassed by its unsightly URL format where it was using an ampersand instead of a question mark. Now it’s fixed that problem so it’s time to rejoice Alright, s...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 10, 2009, 9:00 am
Even if you love your corporate job, you should build your personal brand. That’s the advice of Gary Vaynerchuk, the multi-million dollar businessman, uber-popular video star and now New York Ti...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 10, 2009, 7:59 am
I sure do love it when the world of online video collides with a good cause.  Luckily for me, that seems to be happening more and more lately.  In fact, it’s downright encouraging to see so many c...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 8, 2009, 12:41 am
It’s time again for another Viral Round Up (it’s actually a day or so past the time for another Viral Round Up, and I’m hoping you’ll forgive my tardiness). As usual, the past week offers us ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 6, 2009, 11:45 am
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 y...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Nov 5, 2009, 11:00 am
Need to embed a video in a site super-duper fast? Why not try the 3 form version of Bitgravity Player 6. Give it a video URL, width and height and you’re all set. But is it truly that easy? Act...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 23, 2009, 12:18 pm
Recently I wrote about a new video discovery service, called Jinni, which I’m still using and enjoying.  Now comes a similar and somewhat related new service called PopScreen.  PopScreen is a vide...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 21, 2009, 4:30 pm
I’d like to talk about something tangentially related to online video but still near and dear to my heart:  movies.  I love movies.  I love them so much I went to work t a five-screen cinema at 1...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 20, 2009, 2:12 pm
TurnHere just released some findings from a survey that they conducted in Q3 with brands and marketing agencies from a wide range of industries.  The purpose of the research study was to explore curr...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 20, 2009, 10:34 am
Where are ads most effective? A couple of video-on-demand networks would have you believe on their services. And there’s something to that logic because VOD on cable TV is an opt-in medium and ...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 20, 2009, 10:11 am
Listen to my podcast interview with intellectual property and new media attorney David Adler to hear about recent developments with a popular case today involving the battle between fair use and copyr...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 19, 2009, 4:33 pm
Not sure what you should be doing to get the most out of your YouTube presence? Well, YouTube can help with some free webinars. YouTube and Videomaker magazine are teaming up to offer everyone free t...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 19, 2009, 11:00 am
Yes, now you can watch your YouTube reputation in real time thanks to new discussion search functionality. Marshall Kirkpatrrick of ReadWriteWeb, tells us that you can now head to YouTube’s new...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 16, 2009, 10:18 am
For those of you who are not aware, SEOmoz—one of the SEO consulting industry’s leaders—has their own index of the web.  Unlike Google’s index, the one at SEOmoz, called Linkscape, is after i...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 14, 2009, 5:06 pm
I’m a bit of a viral video nerd.  I like following the trends, seeing what videos are exploding versus those that are not, and then the real fun:  trying to figure out what makes one work where an...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 14, 2009, 2:09 pm
Those lucky dogs, first no taxes, now new features at YouTube what’s next? Free candy and beer on Sundays? Those Non-Profs get all the good stuff and we never get nuthin’. Well alright, th...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 14, 2009, 1:24 pm
Nielsen has recently found that online video usage is up, up, up. They even found out exactly how much up really is in this case, a full 25% they state. Yes, 25% is the increase for online video watc...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 7, 2009, 11:58 am
You heard it here first! I’ll be speaking at the Search Engine Strategies conference on December 9th at the Hilton in downtown Chicago, on the panel, The Oprah Winfrey Litigation: What Affliate Mar...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 3:36 pm
If you’re a blogger and you write reviews, I would hope you’re already above board.  If not… you might want to consider whipping up some sort of disclosure policy. This is a pretty big deal fo...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 3:04 pm
Vimeo and Doritos are teaming up again this year for the Crash the Super Bowl contest. This time the stakes are even higher with a cool $5 million on the line for the top three spots. Last year two b...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 2:36 pm
As mentioned on Techcrunch this morning, there’s a new player in the world of video search.  Well, I should say there’s a new site aiming to be a player in video search—video “discovery” t...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 2:22 pm
Brightroll is done serving only the US in regards to it’s advertising. It’s ready to spread global thanks to its  global location- and language-based initiatives that expand its focus and...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 2:12 pm
Video on Demand is all the rage. So using it to market your company is a great idea. Sending massive video attachments is not. That’s where ImageMind comes in. ImageMind provides high-quality s...
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Mark R. posted an article on Video SEO & Video Search Marketing. VSEO - Oct 6, 2009, 2:07 pm
Reports are saying that Publicis has shifted several million dollars of ad spend to Hulu from other places though we’re not sure where those places exactly are or do we?Publicis Groupe media age...
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