YouTube has announced a new feature they’re calling Safety Mode.  Safety Mode is essentially a new content-filter to help with the potentially mature content that doesn’t quite meet the established “offensiveness” standards.  That’s a fancy way of saying that Safety Mode will help you block out content that is objectionable to you but not so This is a post from ReelSEO Video Marketing . Permalink: YouTube Announces “Safety Mode” As a New Layer of Content Control

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YouTube Announces “Safety Mode” As a New Layer of Content Control

Is it wrong to download a YouTube video? I guess that depends completely on who you ask.  I’m sure YouTube would tell you that it is.  In fact, they do – their terms of service says the following, in Section 5: “Your Use of Content on the Site”: B.) You may access User Submissions for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the YouTube Website. You shall not copy or download any User Submission unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the YouTube Website for that User Submission… …E.) You agree to not engage in the use, copying, or distribution of any of the Content other than expressly permitted herein, including any use, copying, or distribution of User Submissions of third parties obtained through the Website for any commercial purposes.” So YouTube is pretty clearly against it.  And we all know that you’ve never broken the Terms of Service agreement for an online service before, right

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How To Download YouTube Videos & When It Might Be Okay

In today’s podcast episode, I interview Earle Greenberg of Chicago Video Works , who explains some of the advantages of promoting your business with videos featuring virtual sets. You’ll also hear from Earle on what’s involved with building a virtual set, and some tips on how to to prepare yourself for a video show featuring a virtual set. What is a “virtual set?” According to Wikipedia, a virtual set (aka, virtual studio) “is a television studio that allows the real-time combination of people or other real objects and computer generated environments.” If you would like to see an example of a video that I did with a virtual set, click here .

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How to Use a Virtual Set – Virtual Studio for Online Video

We just posted a fairly critical overview of the iPad after its announcement and I think this week’s New Media Minute offers a compelling reason why the iPad may actually succeed. The comic business is estimated to be a $1 billion business annually but it’s one of the few media forms that hasn’t yet fully transitioned to the digital world

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The New Frontier for iPads and eReaders – New Media Minute

Validation feels good   What do I mean by this?  Well, over the past year, many of the online video platforms that we write about, have begun to focus a bit on helping their customers deploy videos that are more search engine friendly.  I imagine that the focus on video SEO comes from the platform’s customers who are hearing the video SEO buzz and are publishing more and more videos that they want to have discovered. All of this is step forward with regard to hosted video SEO and is the reason that I started ReelSEO in the first place – so, it is music to my ears

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Online Video Platform Solutions Focus on Video SEO Goodness

Today – Veeple, an online video platform that we’ve covered in the past, announced a new feature for their customers which helps a bit with the long-standing issue of Flash and SEO.

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Veeple Launches Search Engine Friendly Video Embed Codes

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

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

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

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