I need to take a few minutes and give some love to Hyundai. The car company has embraced online video in ways most brands haven’t dreamed, and they’ve almost sort of become a champion for the scores of YouTube creators hoping for a shot at fame

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Hyundai Christmas Ads Make YouTube Creators Into Celebrity Pitchmen

This is the kind of news that is really like one-third of the total, overall news.  The House of Representatives passed a bill called HR 2471 that amends 1988’s Video Privacy Protection Act , which will allow consumers to decide whether or not they will allow Netflix to share their rental history with others.  It’s one-third of the news because the bill still has to pass the Senate and get signed by Barack Obama before it becomes a thing.  The only reason why Netflix and Facebook haven’t hooked up in the United States is because of the fear of violating the act.  Still, why do we need our rental information shared, anyway?

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Netflix On Facebook App Closer To Reality In US

It wasn’t very long ago that Google moved to a new design for their “Google navigation bar” that sits across the top of the browser, creating a simple but bold black bar with simple links to other Google services. Today Google announced the next evolution of that Google bar, which begins rolling out to users immediately (I’m not seeing it yet on my end), and it looks pretty sweet. The New Google Bar the Google bar is not a candy bar

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Say Goodbye To The Black Google Navigation Bar, & Hello "Google Bar"

Video advertising is quickly seeping into every aspect of online life, and why shouldn’t it?

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SpotXchange Taps Innovid For Interactive PreRoll Video Advertising Campaigns

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

Panasonic seems completely serious when it comes to combining online video with normal TV. They have no less than a dozen pre-installed apps planned for their upcoming Viera connected TVs and the expected total available apps now sits at around 120. The big names like Netflix and Hulu are already on board as embedded apps, pre-installed

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Panasonic Viera Headed For OTT Converged Screen Combat With Viera Connect Market

The Jun Group put out a fantastic infographic today and it’s all about one of our favorite subjects: social video. Specifically, the infographic looks at how well social video works for brands and advertisers that are using video within social media and social networks. It also has some interesting data on what kind of videos work the best, and what doesn’t work as well as we might have believed

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For Social Video Success, Make ‘Em Laugh

This isn’t exactly video-related in and of itself, but the news itself could have far reaching implications for anyone trying to rank video and other content on Google.

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Google Indexing JavaScript Comments From Facebook, Disqus, & More

Google Plus opened wide to the public a couple of weeks ago, but since then, there’s been very little in the way of official updates. Until this week, that is.

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Google Plus Users About To Get Google Apps, Share Photos Like Mad

WordStream released a very cool infographic today that details Facebook’s criticisms, missteps and outright failures over the seven years since its inception.

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Facebook’s Wall of Shame Infographic by Wordstream