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Samsung TV Going Android?
It seems that Samsung is looking into using Google’s Androif software to power some of their televisions. According to comments by the head of the Samsung TV division in Seoul earlier today, they are “reviewing it”.If you recall Samsung recently reported that Diva TV would be a content partner in parts of Europe last week [...]
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Google Gets Instant: Real-Time Live Search Results As You Type
Google has been a bit playful this week leading up to today’s media event. Yesterday, the logo was comprised of little blue dots, and users could mouse over it to “scatter” the dots all over the page before they regrouped again. It was pretty neat, and also vague in its meaning. Today, the logo changed [...]
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Kellogg’s Sets Good Example With Their First Web-Only Video Advertisement
Kellogg’s is one of the more recognizable brands in the U.S. as well as around the world. They are a leader in breakfast food sales, as well as a big-advertising staple. So it might surprise you to learn that until this week, Kellogg’s had been a bit behind the curve when it comes to online [...]
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10 Reasons Facebook Video Marketing Is Valuable For Business
ReelSEO Grant Crowell interviews Social Media Examiner's Michael Stelzner, host of Facebook Success Summit 2010 taking place live and online Oct 5th – Oct 26th, about the increasing power for businesses to do video in Facebook, along with sharing some exclusive Facebook video tactics and business success stories.
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Entertainment Weekly Teams Up With YouTube To Power Video-Based Fall TV Preview
I used to subscribe to Entertainment Weekly for many years, and the Fall TV Preview is, without a doubt, one of the best issues of the calendar year. The magazine breaks down all the new and returning shows from the networks and major cable stations, including interviews, photos, and behind-the-scenes gossip. If you’re a television [...]
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YouTube & Campaign Media To Crown “Ad Of The Year”
I love writing about viral marketing, and in particular, video marketing that pushes the boundaries of what advertising can look like and how it can behave. I write about such videos often, even just last week. So it should come as no surprise that I’m the guy writing about a new partnership between Campaign Media [...]
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Awesome HTML5 Canvas and Video Demos
Hello everyone and welcome to the long weekend (for those of you in the US that is). The rest of us, well some of us even work on the weekends… This weekend I thought we would take a look at some really cool uses of the HTML 5 canvas and incorporating video into it. Why? Just [...]
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Philips TV Video On Demand Film Supplier Is A Diva
Sony’s got one (sort of), Samsung does too, so why not Philips? Well, now, they do. Diva TV announced today that it has signed a deal with Philips TV at IFA Berlin to be the supplier of high quality movie entertainment for the Philips NetTV service.The deal only covers the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland [...]
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Viral Video Lessons Round Up – Rockets, Collaborations, & Camera Glitches
Every Friday I like to share some of the week’s biggest viral video hits with you. I also like deconstructing them, trying to put our finger on what it was about each video that hit the viewing public just right enough to make them share it like mad. Perhaps we can learn and hone our [...]
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This Week’s Best YouTube Ad Campaign: Tipp-Ex Impresses With Custom Interactive YouTube Video
I love writing about “outside-the-box” YouTube videos. Anytime a brand can push the boundaries of what’s possibly on YouTube while also exuding humor and creativity, I take notice. You might remember me pointing out such ads for Google Chrome or the film The Expendables. And now there’s a new one from Tipp-Ex called “NSFW. A [...]
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Staying Power: Keep Your Visitors Interested With Online Video Testimonials
How much is your company spending on SEO? Did you know that the average visitor to your website will spend less than ten seconds scanning your site before deciding to stick around or click elsewhere? The money you invest to draw visitors to your site, through SEO, SEM, blog posting, or any other tactic, isn’t [...]
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Have Patience, Viral Video Success Doesn’t Always Happen On Our Timetable
If you’re anything like most of the video creators and marketing consultants I’ve met, you probably have a tendency to hope for big things from your latest viral offering almost as soon as you’ve uploaded. You might even refresh the page regularly throughout the first few days, hoping to see the view count skyrocketing—though I [...]
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Samsung Hooks Up with BlinkBox for UK Video-on-Demand on Internet TVs
So far this week from the IFA show in Berlin we have heard from Sony who is offering Music Unlimited (I am certain video will follow), and 3D video and tablet computers have dominated the scene. We have also heard from Apple this week and we know that Amazon is shopping around for content partners [...]
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10 Things To Consider When Choosing An Ecommerce Product Video Solution
So, you’re thinking about adding product videos to your ecommerce site. Once you’ve made your decision you’ll quickly realize there are a fair deal of things you need to consider in terms of the implementation of your video solution. In order to help you figure out what you should be looking for, I’ve compiled the [...]
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Build Your Own Brand – Seesmic Founder Loic Le Meur Offers 30-Part Video Series
Loic Le Meur has had a pretty successful career as an Internet entrepreneur. He was part of Ublog, which was bought by Six Apart, and he became the Vice President of Six Apart shortly thereafter. Most recently, he founded and continues to run Seesmic. So when he decides to talk about educating people on building [...]
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International Video Production – Lessons Learned from Shooting Across Borders
We got the gig in Guatemala and landed the job in Johannesburg; so now what? There are many elements to think about before shooting video in a foreign country. Of course, there are the basic travel essentials: passport, wallet, plane tickets, and potentially a visa to enter the country. But as a video producer, there [...]
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YouTube & Ridley Scott’s Life In A Day Project Releases Raw Submission Footage
I’ve been following the Life in a Day project for some time now, because it’s incredibly fascinating to me. The project—a joint venture between YouTube and Hollywood producer Ridley Scott—asked YouTube users to film upload footage of themselves going about their normal daily routine, and aims to use the submitted videos to create some kind [...]
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Amazon Wants Your VOD Dollars, But Can It Sell Itself?
Amazon has finally jumped head first into the video-on-demand pool after standing on the edge and dipping its toe in for what seemed like ever. The monstrous, global eRetailer have gone into the deep end and are swimming for gold. This will be another subscription-based service as opposed to its already long-standing on-demand rental service. [...]
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Sony Returns To Digital Distribution For Music, Video Next?
Sony, who have proven themselves incapable of properly delivering content to the masses on several occasions but finally hit it head on with the PlayStation Network (PSN), is going to give it another go. Anyone remember their Connect service? My point exactly. It’s been made and reported and now confirmed by the European Playstation Blog [...]
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Google TV vs. Apple TV – A Side-By-Side Comparison – What’s What?
Mark thought it would be cool to have a resource article about Google TV. I thought it would be cool to have one about the Apple TV (no, not really). So we compromised (or rather, I snuck off and wrote this instead). Instead of just limiting the scope of the article to one new TV product, [...]
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