If you dabble at all in product videos for any reason, and you have a list of New Year’s Resolutions, you should consider adding one more. I know, I know..

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Start The Year Off Right With Treepodia’s Product Video Best Practice Guide For 2012

Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well.

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Now You Have No Choice But To Sign Up For Google Plus

In case you’re just now recovering from all the recent changes YouTube has made to their system, it’s time to brace for another round of major changes.

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YouTube Removing Subscribers & A New YouTube Player On The Way – The Reel Web Episode 22

Google is hoping that games can do for Google Plus what they did for Facebook–get people hopelessly addicted until they’re spending every waking moment playing social network games and annoying friends with automated status updates based on meaningless gameplay objectives. Um… sorry..

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Video Marketing Done Right – Google+ Teases Google Map Video Game

So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account.

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Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn’t Extend To Videos

Cord cutting is dead some say. Others think it a passing fad and that there’s no staying power.

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Cord Cutting Is Real? 20% Of Consumers Have Cut Cable Or Are Considering

Google TV looks to be on the verge of creating an app marketplace specifically for video channels much like Boxee and Roku have. In a recently updated patent (20110321072) they describe a system that, “…allows content providers to create channels of video content and make them available to users in a marketplace. Users can search or browse for channels of interest, and selectively subscribe to channels.” So it’s pretty much an app marketplace specifically for content channels it seems.

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Google TV To Get Channel Marketplace & Compete With Cable Providers?

Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town.

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Traffic for Google+ Goes Positive Along with User Count

So what have we learned from The YouTube Creator Playbook over the past three months?  I’ll tell you what I got most out of it.  Being a success on YouTube requires more than making great content and simply uploading it to the site.  In fact, even those people who stumbled into YouTube viral success had some sort of help, perhaps they didn’t initiate it and do the work, but most of your big “overnight” sensations come from a video getting passed along through a circle of friends, someone big in the media notices it, and it booms from there.  But we know that most people will not have that kind of success track.  Most of the time, you have to earn it. In the final section of The YouTube Creator Playbook, social media finally makes its grand entrance.  Actually, it’s been there all along, hinted at, suggested…but this is where Facebook, Twitter, and the upstart Google Plus start coming in handy for more than, “Had a hamburger at McDonald’s today, wrote a check for child support, I hate Tuesdays.”  This is your personal interaction with all your friends, and your friends’ friends, and so on.  They can help crank up your videos’ views tremendously.  Social media is the instant Rolodex of the 21st Century.  You can share your videos instantly to everyone you know, and there is absolutely no reason not to use it if you want to be successful. The Playbook overview: Strategy : Leverage other social media to build viewership on your channel and engage with your audience in new ways.

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Your Video And Social Media–The YouTube Creator Playbook Conclusion

A few days ago Google caused a sensation, and cost millions of businesses lost productivity, with a little search Easter egg called ” Let It Snow .” Typing that exact phrase into the search box caused the page to snow on the results, and you could draw in the “snow” after it fell on the page. And now YouTube is getting in on the snowfall act, allowing viewers to make it snow on YouTube videos with a click of a button. Make It Snow On YouTube Videos! I was just checking out videos for tomorrow’s Friday viral video round up when I noticed the white dot on the video player progress bar had been changed into a snowflake: Then I glanced to the right and saw an entirely new snowflake button in the spot where the “CC” caption button usually resides: After you let it snow for a while, you’ll see accumulation start to occur: Oh, and you can move your mouse around over the snow, and the flakes will fly off in random directions..

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Make It Snow On YouTube Videos With YouTube Snowflake Button