Last year, MLB.com offered a chance for one lucky person to watch all 2,429 regular season games and attend All-Star and postseason games through a contest called MLB Dream Job.  The winner was then sent to New York City and a former Greenwich Village Tower Records location to watch games, mingle with baseball’s All-Stars and celebrities who come visit, and indulge in massive social media.  This year, the right to be in the Fan Cave will be a part of a web reality series , where challenges and voting will determine a winner. MLB’s Fan Cave A Dream For Baseball Fans MLB.com extended the entry deadline to January 31, and in February fans will get to log on to MLBFanCave.com to watch the top audition videos and vote for the best ones.  Winners get to go to the Fan Cave, but then have to go through some challenges, and then face voting on who gets to stay.  Before the World Series is over, a winner will be chosen to rule the Fan Cave once more.

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Major League Baseball To Make Fan Cave A Web Series In 2012

Well, YouTube can’t redesign every week, and they did that last week… so this week’s online video news cycle belonged to some of the other players for once.

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – The Sucky Edition

I interviewed TripAdvisor’s Manager of Business & Trade Public Relations, Kevin Carter, who shared with me some of the newer activities their company has been doing to encourage online video marketing with lodging owners, and video participation with travelers. Kevin and I also share our tips on what types of videos travelers want to see, and how lodging businesses can do better online video marketing themselves. TripAdvisor’s Online Video Tools for Travelers and Travel-Oriented Businesses TripAdvisor ® is a popular travel and lodging site offering both trip planning and featuring reviews and advice around hotels, resorts, rentals, flights, cruises, vacation rentals, vacation packages, travel guides, restaurants, and other attractions.

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Online Video Marketing Tips For The Hospitality Industry With TripAdvisor

Plenty of news in the world of online video this past week, though many of us probably found ourselves distracted by things like family interaction, football games, and turkey. Because we were all a little more distracted than normal, it’s an even better idea to catch up on the latest news, opinions, articles, and tips from the online video universe. Reel Stories You Might Have Missed Netflix will take a loss in 2012…

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Thanksgiving Edition

If you go to the YouTube homepage today, you will see the winners of the “My Business Story” contest that was announced by Google and American Express back on Oct. 25, 2011.  The 32 small businesses featured in today’s YouTube homepage ad will be seen by an estimated 22 million people in the United States. The My Business Story  program helped these small business owners make a professional-quality video just in time for tomorrow’s “Small Business Saturday,” which was created to encourage holiday shoppers to patronize brick and mortar businesses that are small and local.  First celebrated in 2010, Small Business Saturday is sandwiched between Black Friday, which is celebrated by big retail stores, and Cyber Monday, which features major e-commerce sites.

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‘My Business Story’ Winners Featured in YouTube Homepage Ad For ‘Small Business Saturday’

Last week, in the first part of the ‘promote’ chapter of this series on how to run a successful online video contest, we talked about some of the ways you can utilize Paid Media to attract attention to your contest while still remaining on a budget. Today in the next section of the promote chapter, we look at ways of using owned media channels to increase awareness about your online video contest and drive users to your contest site

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How To Run A Successful Online Video Contest: Promoting On A Budget, Owned Media

The premise (or contest idea in layman’s terms) is the most important ingredient in a successful video contest. If your contest idea appeals to your target market and content is readily available or easily created you have taken the first step to success. In order to evaluate and improve your contest idea, ask yourself the following questions: This post was made possible by Launchpad6 , an out of the box solution for creating video contests.

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How To Run A Successful Online Video Contest: The Premise

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Lollipop Edition is a post by ReelSEO Video Marketing . Allow me to apologize for the very tardy nature of this online video news round up article. I’ve been dealing with an unexpected illness, and couldn’t get it completed until now.

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The Weekly Online Video News Round Up – Lollipop Edition

We have a contest to announce today that we’re pretty excited about, and the two winners get a free pass to Blogworld in L.A.–a value of over $1200. All you have to do submit your best video marketing tip… that’s it. The ReelSEO staff will choose two winners, and those lucky individuals will likely be bumping into us at Blogworld next month

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Submit Your Best Video Marketing Tip To Win Free Admission To Blogworld!

Through the awesome power of the internet and social media, videos allow us to share ideas, spread information and promote fads and styles. Using just a camera and a computer, ordinary people can make videos that create an extraordinary amount of interest and conversation. The aim of social media videos – as with any promotional tool – is to provide your viewers something of interest that grabs their attention and keeps them coming back for more.  Here are 8 tips to making great social media videos that work: Publish Regularly If you want regular viewership, you need to post content regularly

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8 Tips For Creating A Successful Social Video Campaign