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Thursday, July 31st, 2008All web video is not the same. On the one hand you have user generated content video, or UGC, and on the other hand, you have everything else, or what we’ll simply call professional web video.
The differences are stellar. UGC is mostly what it sounds like. You know, YouTube type of videos where “users” (I [...]
There Are Over 500 Places To Distribute Your Videos Online
Thursday, July 10th, 2008There are over 500 places to upload your videos to online. You know, places like Youtube where you can share your videos with niche minded audiences and become “friends” in communities of the like at the same time.
Wow, over 500? Really? Really.
These user generated sites mostly offer free services whereby users can upload video clips [...]
Online Video: 11 Billion Views and No Signs of Slowing
Monday, June 30th, 2008On June 17th, comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, released its data from the Video Metrix service, which measures monthly video views online. The numbers were massive. According to the service, U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos throughout April, with more than 4 billion of those [...]
Careless Whispers? The Power of George Michael in Google’s Algorithm
Friday, February 29th, 2008 I’m never gonna dance again, but George Michael’s video appears to keep dancing, long after the music stopped.
Wonder what an iconic 80’s song has to do with Google and SEO? Here’s the skinny: I googled 1-f looking for a result from the world of science, and the very first page of my [...]
The YouTube vs. Google Key Phrase Test
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008When was the last time you took an in-depth look at your top key phrases on YouTube? For example, if you’re in the fishing supply business, have you ever gone to YouTube.com and searched for phrases like “fishing supplies”?
What you find WILL surprise you.
Case in point, if you search on Google for “fishing supplies“, you [...]
22 Billion User Generated Video Views in 2007!
Friday, January 25th, 2008eMarketer has a good report entitled ‘Who’s Watching User-Generated Video?‘.
So, good question. Who is watching videos? First, let’s talk about how many videos YOU are watching. 22 BILLION in 2007!
User-generated videos (UGVs) tallied 22 billion views in 2007, up 70% over 2006, according to Accustream iMedia Research’s “UGV 2005 - 2008: Mania Meets Mainstream” [...]
Video Killed The Literature Star?
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Flash! This just in! A lot more people are viewing videos online than they used to. Pew Internet & American Life Project releases a study that finds almost half of online adults have visited video websites. In December 2006, only about one in three had. That is quite the leap, and there is no [...]
YouTube Dominates Video Sharing
Friday, November 30th, 2007Comscore just released a new study that shows just how dominant YouTube is in terms of video sharing sites.
YouTube Continues to Lead U.S. Online Video Market with 28 Percent Market Share, According to comScore Video Metrix
Nearly 2 in 5 U.S. Internet Users Watched a YouTube Video in September
RESTON, VA, November 30, 2007 – comScore (NASDAQ: [...]
Category Changes At YouTube
Friday, November 16th, 2007As reported at Search Engine Land, YouTube is changing some categories and adding others.
As YouTube states:
EDITED CATEGORIES
A few changes made to existing video categories:
- Travel & Events (previously “Travel & Places”)
- Howto & Style (was “Howto + DIY”)
- Gadgets and Games (now part of “Entertainment”)
NEW CATEGORIES
The following new categories are now available when you upload [...]
Should I Put My Videos On YouTube Or Not?
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Somebody asked this question over in our online video production forum the other day and I thought it was worth a longer blog post. Here’s what they said…
The biggest video outlet on the Internet appears to be You Tube, which has lots of fun but low-budget skits and opinion pieces and silly “America’s Funniest Home [...]
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