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Inside Online Video

Archive for the ‘Video Sharing’ Category

July 16th, 2008

Crossposts Get Most Play on YouTube

Anyone who crossposts videos to multiple video-sharing sites already knows this, but TubeMogul now confirms it: when posted to multiple sites, your video will get the most views on YouTube. TubeMogul posts and tracks creators’ videos across multiple sites, so they know of what they speak.
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By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

June 26th, 2008

12seconds: Video Twitter

12seconds is exactly what its name implies: a video-sharing site with a twelve-second length restriction.
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By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

February 27th, 2008

DivX Kills Stage6

See, this is why small agile players thrive inside online video. Unless they happen to be the clueful likes of Google or CBS, big corporations tend to trip over themselves in this space. Michael Arrington recounts the long, sad, dramatic tale behind the imminent shutdown of high-quality video site Stage6.
Long story short: big egos […]

By Mike Abundo -- 3 comments

January 13th, 2008

Vertical Video Can’t Compete on Content

We’re seeing all sorts of online video sharing sites catering to various verticals — from intellectuals to venture capitalists to gamers to otaku to music fans to masturbators. Barely a week goes by that I don’t hear about some startup touting itself as “YouTube for ________”. Porn and piracy aside, I don’t see any way […]

By Mike Abundo -- 1 comment

November 24th, 2007

How to Cheat on YouTube

Google’s antispam abilities are legendary, and many YouTubers wish some of those abilities would rub off on YouTube. That need has been further underscored by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, a Stanford student who’s revealed some horrific ways to cheat on YouTube. He knows of what he speaks, because he’s a hired gun for corporates faking cluefulness.
His […]

By Mike Abundo -- 4 comments

August 21st, 2007

SciVee: YouTube for Science

How geeky can you get? Find out at SciVee, a video-sharing site for presenting scientific papers. Niche-specific features include figures, references, and full papers.
My biggest beef: no embeds. It’s a huge missed opportunity: SciVee embeds could incorporate SlideShare-like features for the figures and Scribd-like features for the papers. Then again, bloggers probably don’t want to […]

By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

July 6th, 2007

BBC: Embeds Work

Oliver Luft, Om Malik, and Liz Gannes all highlight how the BBC is looking for greater relevance and added value in online video use. I’d like to point out something else BBC News Interactive head Pete Clifton mentioned at the Future of News Conference, something far too many online marketers still don’t understand: video embeds […]

By Mike Abundo -- 2 comments

April 26th, 2007

YouTube Launches Active Sharing

YouTube just added a very “live” community feature: active sharing, an opt-in service which displays the usernames of people currently watching a specific video. It also displays your recent viewing history on your profile.
This thing’s just begging for chatroom functionality.
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By Mike Abundo -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2007

Jen kisses Courtney. Sweet.

Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are friends. They both came from Friends. So, it appears that Cox needs some help to boost the ratings of her show called Dirt. So what do you do? Ask your friend Aniston to appear as guest. Cool. How about asking your friend for some kissing scene? More coolness. It’s […]

By Minic Rivera -- 0 comments

March 22nd, 2007

NBC, News Corp. sees the light

NBC Universal and News Corporation unveiled their long overdue testimonial that the Internet is now a full-blown entertainment destination. The two companies, getting tired that YouTube is getting all the fun announced that they are launching the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled. Wow! Show us the product first and we’ll be the first […]

By Minic Rivera -- 1 comment