When I shared this year’s Honda Super Bowl commercial a few days ago, I mentioned that it was a popular strategy these days for brands to release their Super Bowl commercial prior to the actual game and the actual television airing of the ad. But it’s even more popular than I thought–and far more popular a strategy this year than ever before.

Go here to read the rest:
The Super Bowl Is Dead, Long Live Super Bowl Commercials

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.

Read the original here: 
Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

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.

More here:
LG Hedging Its Bets With Two Connected TV Platforms

Back in the day, when people actually visited video rental places, movies that either had a short life in theaters or went straight to video basically had to hope the millions of people sifting through the new release shelves would find their video cover and hope that its lack of familiarity would go overlooked.  Those movies have given way to Netflix recommendations, but it’s pretty much the same thing.  Recently, we’ve seen new films that know they have a niche audience advertise on YouTube and go On Demand before the movie even hits theaters.  It’s not new in this day and age, it just has become a lot more common. Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and God Bless America Look For A Niche Audience Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie recently played at Sundance, and then it went to an On Demand service that also includes rental on iTunes and YouTube.  That’s something we’ll be seeing a lot of in the future.  Because frankly, a movie like Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie has very little chance of being a success in actual movie theaters.  I know in my neck of the woods, this movie is only going to get a special Friday and Saturday midnight showing when it finally does arrive in theaters, and then it will be gone. Here’s the trailer ( warning – it’s a red band trailer, with all the bad language, violence, and dirty stuff ): Click here to watch the video.

Originally posted here: 
Sometimes Movies Don’t Need A Big Screen, They Just Need Any Screen

President Obama seems like a pretty regular guy…

Original post:
Hang Out With President Obama On Google Plus Hangouts

In a blog post late last week, Twitter announced plans to begin censoring users’ tweets within certain countries. The censorship policy, which the company has stated is reactive only, will not filter tweets before they appear on Twitter. Instead, after Twitter receives what they view as a valid and applicable legal request concerning a specific Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

View original post here: 
Twitter Censorship: Necessary Evil or War on Freedom of Speech

As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week.

Original post:
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – YouTube Update Edition

Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up . Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features–a fairly important thing if the service is to become something parents encourage their children to use

See original here: 
Google Plus Opens To Teens Age 13 & Up

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.

See the original post:
YouTube Promotional Website, One Hour Per Second, Is The Future Of Infographics

Some people would like you to think blogging as we know it is over. They share the eye-popping numbers for Tumblr’s growth, for example: 355 million unique visitors per month, and 400 million pageviews per day

View original here: 
7 Reasons Why Blogging Is Still Important in 2012