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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Website Redesign, SEO, & Video – Keys to E-Commerce Future

eMarketer recently reported on some results from an study conducted by Internet Retailer that show us where eCommerce retailers plan to focus their energy in the future. Namely, site redesigns for SEO, video or streaming media, and better customer experience. The recent survey, Website Design Strategies and Tactics, shows that 2/3 of eCommerce sites have some

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Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They’re not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes.

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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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Video Ad Re-Targeting Converts Better, Says SpotXchange

SpotXchange says that retargeting consumers who didn’t buy the first time round actually works to increase results. But what is it and how does it work?

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Watch the Reel Video SEO Strategies & Best Practices Webinar

Last week, I participated in a webinar (produced by Ooyala) all about Video SEO titled, “Reel” Video SEO Strategies & Best Practices.” I promised both those who attended as well as those who were unable to attend that I would provide my slides from the presentation.

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

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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The Future of Television is International – Report from NATPE

International expansion is going to be vital to the growth of the cable and network TV business over the next several years.  At the NATPE conference in Las Vegas, I interviewed Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav.  David talked about the opportunities in markets like India, Russia and Romania and explained why TV companies should focus resources there. Also in this week’s episode, I spoke with the digital head at top-rated cable network USA about how to best extend a TV show onto the Web.

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Maximize eCommerce ROI with “Smart” Product Video Banners

Featuring videos on product pages is becoming an important and popular tool to enhance shoppers’ experience and increase sales.

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Web Video Hosting is a Maturing Market – Episodic Interview

At Streaming Media West 2009 , I spoke with Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Founder of  Episodic , which recently launched as an online video platform in a crowded market for both live and on-demand content. The San Francisco, California-based company has been around for two years but has kept relatively quiet in stealth mode building the platform.

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