Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar , an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up . But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time I roll back into Vzaar and see what’s what.

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Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

This past January was a good one for Hollywood, although it goes to show that year-over-year comparisons for specific months is a pretty short-sighted way of looking at this particular business, which entirely relies on product.  Subjective product.  And whenever Hollywood has a comparatively bad month compared to the previous year, it is always the movie theaters that get blamed.  I could go for a million or so words about that topic, but we’re talking about online video here.  And so far, the views on YouTube have shown somewhat of a trend for how much money the movie will make over its opening weekend. Chronicle Has An Enviable Marketing Blitz Behind It We talked about Chronicle last week .  Fox got some YouTube stars to do some videos for them, and they got Thinkmodo once again to help them out (see below).  The awareness of Chronicle is pretty high.  It’s making a bold move to release on Super Bowl weekend, one of the biggest garbage dump weekends of the year.  First, let’s take a look at the official trailer, which has nearly 8 million views: Click here to watch the video. A 60-second TV spot also has gathered over 6 million views: Click here to watch the video

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Online Movie Trailers For Friday, February 3: Telekinesis, Saving Whales, & Life After Harry Potter

We all know it’s important that we upload video content on a regular basis because it helps us build momentum, increases our videos’ ranking in search, and keeps our audience engaged. But sometimes keeping up with a regular schedule is just too difficult because our content requires high production value that’s unreasonable to pull off on a weekly basis. Other times it’s just because we don’t have any more ideas for video content

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How To Maintain A Consistent Video Posting Schedule – The Reel Web Creator Tip #24

LG would not be where they are if they had always placed all their eggs in one basket and that was never more evident than it was when I visited with them at CES.

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LG Hedging Its Bets With Two Connected TV Platforms

This week on The Reel Web we share with you guys several updates that have happened on YouTube that were overlooked, as well as a complete overhaul that’s coming to Vimeo’s website sometime soon. We also discuss YouTube’s new announcement of having 60 hours of video uploaded to their site every minute and we go a bit more in-depth with a statistic that Revision3 pointed out in one of their recent blog posts and how lean-back viewers might affect video engagement. Click here to watch the video

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How Lean-Back Viewers Affect Your Video Engagement – The Reel Web Episode 24

We’ve posted a lot of great infographics over the years. The format, which typically combines statistical information in a fun animated layout, is very popular. People enjoy learning important statistics, but no one wants to feel like their in school.

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YouTube Promotional Website, One Hour Per Second, Is The Future Of Infographics

This week I dug through the channels of over 3,000 YouTube subscribers to ReelSEO and identified a few common mistakes that being made that could help you all improve your videos and presence on YouTube. I also picked out a few of my favorite channels and am highlighting them for you guys today. Click here to watch the video

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4 YouTube Tips For ReelSEO Subscribers – The Reel Web Creator TIp #23

Continuing the trend of screen convergence, Boxee has released the USB Live TV dongle for its Boxee boxes along with version 1.5 today. For those that don’t want a full-on premium TV subscription, but do want local channels, can now get that along with your online video entertainment without the need to buy an all new television

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Boxee Live TV Adapter – Without DVR Is It Too Little, Too Late?

Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well.

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Now You Have No Choice But To Sign Up For Google Plus

This is just a quick note, mostly because there just aren’t a lot of details to share with this story–but it’s still pretty cool news. Google engineer and Google Plus team member, Shana Gitnick, has shared a new Google+ feature that should make video fans happy: the ability to record a video with your webcam and share it on Google Plus with the click of a button. So now instead of syncing a YouTube video or uploading a video from scratch..

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Record & Share Video From Your Webcam Directly On Google Plus