Mobile Version Of YouTube Starts Showing Ads

Citing numbers that show that video views on mobile devices are up a whopping 160%, Google announced yesterday that the mobile version of YouTube will now begin showing ads.  Specifically, the ads will be running on the main YouTube home page, the search page, and the browse page; for now, they will only run on

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Rube Goldberg, Slow-Motion & Legos – Viral Video Round Up

This has been one of the busier weeks for viral video that I can remember… at least in terms of the sheer volume of buzzed-about vids.  Let’s jump right into our look at three of the best, breaking them down to find their recipe for success. The Super Achievement You may remember the last time the band

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Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators

Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs . Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited.

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Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators

5 Ways to Maximize Social Media Marketing Productivity in the Workplace

As social media continues to grow at an exhilarating pace, it can become challenging for marketers to balance the time-consuming demands of today’s social media marketing landscape with their career’s core focus. Whether you’re a full-time social media marketer whose main responsibility is to manage social media campaigns, a brand-side marketer who dabbles in social media throughout the day, or a consultant who networks with others in the industry, it’s important to streamline your social media initiatives as much as possible, in order to save time & stay focused

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5 Ways to Maximize Social Media Marketing Productivity in the Workplace

Will John McCain’s Surge into Online Video Result in Victory?

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell reviews Senator John McCain’s new user-generated video strategy on his website – the “video supporter wall” – being touted by his campaign as a key feature to winning re-election in the contested and heated Arizona Senate race. What lessons have been learned since their 2008 online video trouncing from team Obama?

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5 Tips for Using Online Video to Market Your Small Business

For small businesses, getting noticed online is a challenge, particularly when competing with big brands with large marketing departments and seemingly endless marketing budgets. But more and more local companies are finding success cutting through the clutter with online video.

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Smile, You’re on iPad Video Conference?

It seems that the Mac technical wizards at MacRumors have unveiled some pretty handy, yet unconfirmed, features of future iPads and iPhones including video conferencing via a front-facing camera. Those clever little buggers did some digging through the Beta 3 iPad SDK and found evidence that there is support, at least in the SDK for a front camera with both flash and zoom capabilities.

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Streaming Production & Flash Delivery Workshop – March 23rd

Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you’re on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server

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Streaming Production & Flash Delivery Workshop – March 23rd

Harnessing Off-Site Videos to Increase E-Commerce Visibility

Videos’ impact on search rankings has been discussed here rather extensively in the past.  A few months ago we  interviewed Search Engine Marketing and Optimization veteran Bruce Clay who helps clarify the importance of on-site videos for search rankings: “In the case of video, we believe that as one of the more important engagement objects, Google has actually started to build it into the algorithm.  To us, that means if your website has engagement objects on it,  video or mp3…  it is going to be received by the algorithm better and your site will actually have an opportunity to rank better

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Legal Online Video & Fair Use – Sharing Versus Ownership

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews interview Dr. Shay David, VP of Business and Community Development and co-founder of the open source video platform and network Kaltura, and founding member of the Open Video Alliance, about what he considers to be the most important legal issues with open standards and technologies with online video today

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