I have to admit that this infographic is the first time I have heard about the “driverless car”. There is a lot of news out there about it and varying opinions. If a Google driverless car were to be available to consumers what would be the pros and cons

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Google Isn’t Just About the Web, Learn About Google’s Driverless Car

Embed this on your siteSource: Norad Santa Tracker : The History of NORAD, Google & Santa Christmas Eve is only 1 day away and that means that Santa Claus is getting his reindeer and sleigh prepped to bring presents to boys and girls all around the world.

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200 billion is a number that neither you nor I can actually picture.  We’ve never seen 200 billion of anything, just sitting in front of us where we could start counting it.  But together, people of the world, we watched over 200-freaking-billion online videos in the month of October.  I wonder if they’ll ever figure out a way to monetize this online video thing, right?  The global audience of people 15 and over (sorry, kids) amounts to 1.2 billion unique viewers in the entire world.  That’s like, a seventh of the entire world population.  When YouTube finally discovers a way to reach remote jungle villages, it’ll be more. The Comscore Graphs Are Getting Heavy Of those 200 billion videos, almost 90 billion come from YouTube watching: What I find interesting in the next graph is that Canadians actually watch more videos than their U.S

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Over 200 Billion Monthly Online Video Views – October 2011 comScore Video Metrix

This week ReelSEO dominates the news for the online video world! We’re excited to launch the Sucky Video Awards , which is going to be fun and educational for all of us! We also released a brand new white paper last week titled, ” Online Video 101 for Small Business: A Beginner’s Guide to Promote Your Company, Engage Prospects, and Acquire Customers. ” It’s written by our good friend, Kevin Nalty, or Nalts, as he’s known on YouTube.

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Why Is Xbox Live Now Windows Mobile 7? – The Reel Web Episode 17

We spend so much time praising those great examples of quality branded video that it’s easy to forget how much bad video is out there. Seriously… some of it really sucks.

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The Sucky Video Awards: Help Us Find The Worst Web Videos of 2011 & WIN

YouTube has had an “Honors” system for awhile now to designate videos with achievements in trending, weekly engagement, and all-time popularity.  On Wednesday YouTube announced Medals , which will replace the Honors system with easily-identifiable gold, silver, and bronze medals.  This will make it easier to find the videos that are making their mark on YouTube.  The program was being called “Goodies” there for awhile, but in the long run the popular online video site went with “Medals,” introducing three designations of video popularity that would be awarded.

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YouTube Medals Now Being Awarded To Special Videos

An interesting report came from GigaOM on Thursday.  The site was told by a Google spokesperson that 60 percent of their overall views come from non-English speaking people .  They got that information from looking at the overall viewers who pick another language as the site’s chief display language.  With the recent addition of IsiZulu and Afrikaans to cater to potential South African viewers , the site now is available in 51 languages.  South African views increased 175% over the last year, the first year of YouTube’s existence in that country. The Global Entertainment Shift For Target Audiences One thing you might have grown up caring about in some way or another over the past couple of decades is how much money a movie makes in its opening weekend.  Somehow, movies that made “only” tens of millions of dollars in North America could be considered flops if they were set up to be huge mega-blockbusters that aspired to break records.  Now, you’re seeing a total shift in how studios treat movies.  They simply don’t care if the movie breaks records in North America anymore, because it doesn’t affect the bottom line as much as it once did. For instance, look at this summer’s Thor .  Budgeted at $150 million, the movie made about $180 million in North America, which in “the old days” meant you probably didn’t break even because you have to share ticket revenue with movie theaters.  But Thor was made with global box office in mind (it starred Anthony Hopkins, it was directed by Kenneth Branagh), and went on to gross another $260 million or so elsewhere in the world.  You can see this type of thinking in almost every big movie nowadays.  It’s why, despite the fact that many of you were probably underwhelmed with the latest Pirates of the Caribbean or Transformers movies this summer, their billion-dollar grosses worldwide will ensure other chapters will be made no matter what the cost.

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More Than Half of YouTube Views From Non-English Speakers

Bravo’s Web Series Companion To “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” is a post by ReelSEO Video Marketing . Cable has basically become the world’s largest talent show for a variety of skill sets.  We’ve seen aspiring fashion designers, singers, chefs, and filmmakers all competing to win the opportunity to become top-paid professionals.  Last year, Bravo introduced a show looking for hopeful artists called Work of Art: The Next Great Artist that became a decent hit and came back for Season 2 earlier this month.  This season, Bravo is teaming up with Cars.com for a branded supplemental web series where the artists try to create Cars.com’s “Car of the Year” trophy.

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Bravo’s Web Series Companion To "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist"

Yesterday, Google launched a new program – Google Trusted Sites.

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Google Launches Trusted Stores Program

Greenpeace is a fairly polarizing organization. They have plenty of fans, yet plenty think the outfit is extreme and occasionally kooky. One thing I think you have to give them credit for, is online video marketing savvy.

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New Greenpeace Viral Video Spoofs Volkswagen’s Hit Star Wars Ad