UStream co-founder and CEO, John Ham, sat down and talked with TechCrunch’s Jason Kinkaid recently to discuss the future of live streaming video on the web—and the looming prospect of YouTube jumping into that arena.  It’s a pretty interesting read, and I suggest you check it out. What I come away with from this article

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UStream Not Worried By Prospect Of YouTube Live Video Service

It’s certainly long in the coming. YouTube, well technically the Google sites, topped 14.6 billion video streams in May according to comScore

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YouTube Tops 14.5 Billion And Sets New Record Says comScore

My post last month about comScore’s metrics got eaten by the ReelSEO gremlins and disappeared into the ether but I’m here again, this time hopefully my insightful commentary won’t bend time/space and make the entire article disappear again (which must be what happened last time). Once again those purveyors of prolific

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13 Billion Videos on YouTube for 135.7 Million Viewers in April

On Search Engine Land, Dixon Jones’ blog and other sites, there’s a bit of fancy code that instantly refreshes the URL you’re seeing to add in referrer tracking parameters. This is usually used for conversion tracking, but I think other uses are possible. Here are some ideas of my own – I’d love to hear yours in the comments here or on Sphinn

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Creative Uses For RSS Referrer Tracking By Bloggers?

Video is becoming ubiquitous in corporate marketing – being used for communication with both external and internal audiences.

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A Professional Approach to Web Video – What Does a Producer Do?

comScore has released their March 2010 Video Metrix numbers and one of the most fascinating things is that YouTube viewers are watching, on average, 96 videos in the month. That would be 3.2 videos per day, every day.

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YouTube Almost Hit 100 Videos per Viewer Last Month

Dance Hulu dance (and bring your content overseas already, sheesh!) comScore is reporting that for the month of February Hulu viewers watched a hearty 2.4 hours each. But what’s that mean for the rest of the industry? Not much really.

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Hulu Dances as Viewers Watch 2.4 hours in February

Yahoo has just rolled out a pretty useful feature of  its Yahoo! Contacts service. This feature, if you’re willing to share information with your friends and business contacts will ensure that your friends always gets your latest contact details and information without making them do anything

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Yahoo Rolls Out Auto-Updating Address Book

Encouraging Tweets of the current page has become one of the most powerful ways to attract extra traffic and help viral effect. Tweetmeme button is probably the most popular way to do that, however more and more often I come across blogs that use a similar one provided by Topsy

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Topsy Button versus Tweetmeme Button

Hey everyone!! It’s that time of the year again for the Spring Summi t and we have some great contests going on! With the success of our Twitter #team contest (which is currently going on until midnight), we decided to roll out ANOTHER contest today.

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Contest #3 Youtube Contest – Win a Free Ticket to Search & Social Spring Summit