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

Speculating on Reasons for Online Video’s Unprecedented Surge in 2009

Will Richmond over at VideoNuze published an interesting article yesterday pondering some possible reasons for the meteoric rise in online video’s popularity in 2009.  The article starts with a graph that shows a jump of nearly 124% growth in total views last year.  The previous best improvement in one year was 2008… which had 46%

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Speculating on Reasons for Online Video’s Unprecedented Surge in 2009

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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Legal Online Video & Fair Use – Sharing Versus Ownership

Over 1 Billion Videos a Day in December (2009) Says comScore

According to the comScore Video Metrix report, there were over 33 Billion videos streamed in December 2009. That’s more than a Bilion a day.

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Over 1 Billion Videos a Day in December (2009) Says comScore

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes – 02/05/2010

Welcome back to our weekly series recapping the very latest and emerging viral video success stories.  The hope is that we can learn a bit from these stories, and eventually get better over time at crafting and promoting our own viral video content.

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Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes – 02/05/2010

Are Public Figures “Fair Use” in Online Video Marketing?

I interview intellectual property and e-commerce attorney David M. Adler, and explores the question: Can you feature someone in a video advertisement simply because you have video footage (or can access video footage) of them using or talking about your product, service, or brand? Also, what is the most legally safe way to feature a video of a public figure for your own business purposes

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Online Video Ads vs Search Ads – The Fight of The Decade

Search ads have been the champions of online ad spending for some time. Thanks to Google not only having the majority share of the search market, but also a major tie-in with Adwords and Adsense.

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Online Video Ads vs Search Ads – The Fight of The Decade

The Benefits of a Targeted YouTube Distribution Strategy

Increasingly, more brands have been expanding into the social media realm. Whether by embracing Facebook, engaging with Twitter, incorporating YouTube, or creating interactive visual content in the online space, brands have been enhancing the online experience

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LA Filmmakers Tackle Ambitious Recreation Of Landmark Gay Marriage Trial On YouTube

A few weeks back, the U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow to online video when they ruled that the Proposition 8 court case in California could not be broadcast on YouTube.  I was disappointed .   And it seems like I wasn’t the only one. Two Los Angeles-based filmmakers are taking the matter into their own hands through an elaborate recreation of the trial, which they are posting to YouTube for all the world to see.

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LA Filmmakers Tackle Ambitious Recreation Of Landmark Gay Marriage Trial On YouTube