I bet there’s a lot of “Boo-F-in-Ya!” going on at the Netflix offices these days after the announcement that they have dethroned Apple as the most satisfying customer experience in the nation. Boom chikka waaa waaaa it’s gotta be like love-making music to the ears of the Netflix management.

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Netflix Tops Customer Loyalty Survey, Beats Apple for Number One Spot

Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one thing they forget to mention, was that they stand to gain on any royalties that MPEGLA gets from all of those non-free H.264 uses, because they’re a member of the group

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Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA

YuMe just released a Whitepaper: Online Video and Television Viewing Attitudes and Behaviors, which is a really long title. But with a title that long it’s bound to be a wealth of information, so I’ll dive in and pull out tidbits here and there from it and report back to you. The first tidbit of information is related to consumption of online video and plans for this year in regards to consumers.

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YuMe Says 48% of Online Viewers Plan on Watching More Video This Year

I’ve been talking about Life In A Day–the film from producer Ridley Scott, director Kevin Macdonald, and thousands of amateur cinematographers from YouTube–since it was announced last summer. It was hard to avoid getting excited about something so unusual and daring, and I remained curious about how the finished product would turn out right up until I was able to finally see it.

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The ReelSEO Review Of YouTube & Ridley Scott’s Life In A Day

Some of you may have seen the recent YouTube clip last week of a woman falling right into a fountain at a mall while texting (now dubbed “The Fountain Lady”); which has millions of views, many duplicates, and with both YouTube and some partner channels making money off the ad revenue around these videos. But is it legal to post any video online of anyone that’s considered “newsworthy” and make money off it?

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Can You Make Money From Posting Video Of Other’s Misfortune? Fountain Lady Fights Back

comScore put out their Video Metrix for the final month of 2010 last week, I just didn’t get around to it until now.

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14.6 Hours of Online Video per Viewer, 5.9B Online Video Ads in December 2010

Rarely do I see an online video service and geek out. But after talking with Jeff Malkin, President of Encoding.com, last week and then testing out the newly launched (private beta) of Vid.ly all I could say was: Oh My God that’s cool! How cool? Read on Reel Believers and find out just how this amazing new service from Encoding.com will completely revamp your online video workflow and revolutionize your online video presence.

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Vid.ly = Upload Video, Grab URL, Play on Almost Every Connected Device

There’s a story catching fire this week and I bet you’ve heard about it.  A kid goes on YouTube a month ago, asking rich people to give him a million dollars, and a few short weeks later he claims to have found the generous donor . Most of the headlines I’ve seen go something like this:  Guy Asks For Million Dollars, Actually Gets It

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How To Make Money On YouTube: Just Ask For It?

The Sundance Film Festival –started by acting and directing legend Robert Redford, is one of the most popular and buzzed-about festivals of the year. There are always films at Sundance that go on to be box office hits or award-show darlings.  The festival is attended by more than 50,000 people, all dying to see some of the 200+ films shown throughout the week.

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Brightcove Brings the Sundance Film Festival to the Masses with Live Video Streaming

I like finding stories that make you feel good about being a gamer and give you a chance to make a difference in the world. The fact that this one also uses online video in a pretty cool way means that I can also share it with you, the ReelSEO readers. This is a story about a man named Nick, his lost battle with Leukemia and how his friends continue on in his memory, give to charity and use video games and online video to do it

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Gamer’s Marathon to Stream Live Video for Charity in Memory of Lost Friend