It fell to me to do a video gadgetry gift guide. Since I dabble in all things consumer electronics, I figured, why not? I’m going to break it up into price ranges because some of us aren’t millionaires but we all have video gadget needs, right?

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Video Gadget Gift Giving Guide – The Chris Edition

My wife and I have just returned from an unforgettable trip to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta , which was held Oct. 1-9, 2011.  The organizers of the largest hot air balloon festival in the world call it, “The greatest show off earth.”  And the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta has been recognized as the “world’s most photographed event.” But, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta hasn’t become the “world’s most YouTubed event” … at least, not yet. So, what YouTube marketing strategy would help the world’s premier balloon event get off the ground, so to speak?  Let’s do a SWOT analysis to evaluate the S trengths, W eaknesses, O pportunities, and T hreats involved in YouTubing next year’s Balloon Fiesta

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The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Isn’t The World’s Most YouTubed Event … Yet

Listen to my interview with Susan Bratton, CEO and co-founder of Personal Life Media and Host of the DishyMix Podcast, about her recommendations for what online video marketers can learn with doing “masterful interviews” using their own webcam. 7 Benefits Of Doing Webcam Interviews I’ve been doing recorded webcam interviews for ReelSEO for several years now, and I’ve found them to have a lot of benefits for any business or professionally minded use, including the following: Quick content – they’re the cheapest and quickest videos to make Showcase your expertise – whether you’re the interviewer or interviewee, it’s an excellent opportunity to give people helpful information in context with your market or industry.

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7 Webcam Interview Tips For Better Online Video Marketing

Marc Scarpa, veteran director and executive producer of live interactive media events, has launched the first of it’s kind social TV network with Comcast Xfinity On Demand, called VidBlogger Nation , that brings popular local YouTube talent into the living room of millions. VidBlogger Nation is shot on location by local video bloggers in 10 key markets, including Philadelphia, New Jersey, New England, Atlanta, South Florida, Michigan, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, and San Francisco. The episodes are short 3-5 minute narrative shorts by unique voices from across the country who share colorful stories of people, places and things in their city from a first-person perspective.

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VidBlogger Nation Launches As First Of Its Kind Social TV Network On Comcast

This week’s episode of The Reel Web is posted! I covered some of last week’s news and highlights from the online video world, as well as a tip for those of you who create online videos to know how to best use the first 15 seconds of your video.

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Are TV Companies Losing Customers To Hulu? The Reel Web

When riots broke out in Vancouver after—of all things—a loss in a hockey game, the online video world exploded with eyewitness video shot on camcorders and mobile devices. And the same thing happened with the riots this week in the UK

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Online Video & The Long Arm Of The Law Catch Up With UK Rioters

I interviewed video production expert Izzy Hyman for his recommendation on a basic shotgun mic to your webcam video recordings, making them sound much better without getting in the way of your video shoot. The Challenge With Webcams for Doing Business-Quality Video… If you’re someone who likes to self-publish video to the Web quickly, webcams have made it possible for simple and fast video recording that everyone can do, and that looks pretty decent. But the big problem with webcam video is… …Poor Audio… The audio on webcams typically blows because the microphone inside them is very poor! Too often they pick up way too much room noise and can’t hone in on your voice, and you often can really adjust their volumes properly, even with computer software.

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How To Give Your Webcam Video an Audio Punch: Use a Shotgun Microphone

It seems like every week there are more and more interesting stories and articles about online video–too many for us mere mortals at ReelSEO to be able to cover all of them. So every weekend we gather up the best of the stories around the web that we weren’t able to write about this week, to help you have a better overall picture of the week that was in online video. Online Video News Are display ads going to overtake search ads in spending?

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Social Video Edition

It was a big week in video—of course, you can just about say that regarding any week these days. But still, we had big news announcements, writers with strong online video opinions, new tools and gadgets released, and plenty of branded and unbranded video fun as well. Because we only have time to cover certain stories, we created this weekend round up to help you catch up with anything and everything important from the past week in online video

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Mobile Video Edition

For the Catholics in the audience, Happy Easter, for the zombie lovers, Happy Zombie Jesus Day, for everyone else Happy Oestre, Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos. It was a slow week in some parts of the world as Friday was a day off for some.

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Online Video Weekly News Reel – B-Easter Boys Edition