What a Year It's Been

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24 commentsFriday, December 5, 2008

The Year in Online Video

What a Year It's Been

24 Comments

By Young Web World (WPN reader) - Fri, 04/24/2009 - 20:32

Nice work man

The article is so informative and sure it will help in some aspects

By Used Mini (WPN reader) - Mon, 03/30/2009 - 05:06

Speaking of Obama, in November it was announced that he would be giving weekly addresses to the nation via online video to be posted at his Change.gov site as well as YouTube (his administration has its own channel). This is another milestone for online video. The upcoming President of the United States is using it to address the nation. That's pretty big. In other presidential online video happenings, YouTube encouraged voters to "video their votes" on Election Day.

By Mark Robertson (WPN reader) - Thu, 01/15/2009 - 20:28

GREAT POST

I just wanted to mention that this is an excellent recap of 2008. I am the publisher/creator of ReelSEO.com and I really appreciate your work in writing about online video. keep it up and if you would ever like to contribute to ReelSEO, we'd love to have ya.

By Spanish Sly (WPN reader) - Tue, 01/13/2009 - 14:17

New Trend

I think society in general is moving towards a "pick & choose" or "on-demand" TV options. People will be able to choose what they wanna watch when they wanna watch it.

By Professional-Mover London (WPN reader) - Sun, 01/04/2009 - 08:39

Google Professional-mover

http://www.professional-mover.co.uk

Check this website

By Ralph Andrew (WPN reader) - Sat, 01/03/2009 - 00:24

Great News for TV and Movies Lovers

The latest tv shows and movies, updated daily in good quality. vid23.com have all the latest episodes as soon as they come out.
You can download any video from Youtube, Megavideo, etc. from vid23.com.
The best part about this site is that they give you the link to the original HQ version of the video

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/07/2008 - 15:33

On-Line Video As Visual Art Medium

This year I have started On-Line Video as my Visual Art Medium mainly as Podcast on iTunes Store and a few episodes on YouTube. It seems a little too early to make the viewers understand that On-Line Video itself could be Visual Art pieces but I observe huge progress over the past few months. I look forward another huge leap in this area in coming years!

By Chris Crum - Mon, 12/08/2008 - 08:46

RE: On-line video as visual art medium

i don't see why not. Business is often focused on as the subject of online video, but there is certainly plenty of potential from an artistic standpoint as well.

By WideSkreen.TV (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/07/2008 - 11:43

Professionally Produced

***QUOTE FROM ARTICLE***:

"The Kelsey Group said that small and medium-sized businesses would play a big part in the expansion of online video advertising with contributions growing from $10.9 million in 2007 to $1.5 billion in 2012. Classified Intelligence talked about how video was the "new display ad." Ipsos MediaCT found that online video viewers were more likely to accept ads in videos that are professionally produced in exchange for access to free content than they were in user-gerenerated content."

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***COMMENT***:

As a group of current and former TV guys, we gambled a few years ago that this would happen. Happy to say that we are creating "Professionally Produced" marketing and advertising videos for our clients--at a price point that is affordable for small to medium sized businesses. I will use this article to close more business. Thanks for the compilation!!!

Sam Scaman

By Chris Crum - Mon, 12/08/2008 - 08:43

RE: Professionally produced

Glad to be of service!

By Terry (WPN reader) - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 16:25

This is great stuff!

I 've been getting my clients on board with video for the past year. With changes in technologies to allow larger video and flash, it is easier for companies to get their message out in a way that most of us are use to. I also found that clients that have video have much longer "time on site". Thanks again. Terry

By Chris Crum - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 16:48

RE: This is great stuff!

Thanks Terry. Yes, videos definitely engage users if they are done in an interesting enough way. Some people argue that videos on a site are a turn-off, but I suspect that this is more in cases where the video adds no real value to the content. Or when the user wishes to skim content rather than take in the entirety of the message (luckily video is improving in this manner as well [youtube now allows you to jump to any frame and link to any frame within a video]).

That is why videos are going to have to provide value to the viewer, to keep people around, and this will probably become even more of a fact as the online video industry continues to grow and more and more content providers are producing videos.

By Stephanie (WPN reader) - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 05:25

Its been a big year

I enjoy that the web is getting much more visual. I remember when a text page took forever to load on a modem.

By Chris Crum - Fri, 12/05/2008 - 08:16

RE: Its been a big year

Yeah, sometimes its fun to look at the way back machine and truly appreciate just how far its all come in the last ten years.

By Jane Jiang (WPN reader) - Thu, 12/04/2008 - 21:43

Great coverage, Thanks!

It is informative and archived. I enjoyed reading and collecting this article. This report shows that the American online video industry will continue being a leading power in the world. I can't wait to see digital broadcasting in the whole nation in next Feb as well. I hope that I can catch up the trend and would be able to be very very small part of it in the field. ;-)

By Alexis Twigg (WPN reader) - Thu, 12/04/2008 - 15:19

Video communication made easy

Great article - i guess this is a great time to launch a Web 2.0 company offering companies a video communication tool! "Internally, video will become a primary form of communication. Think of a broadcast greeting embedded in a personal email or executive video memos the latter of which is already being done by early video adopters such as British Telecom" The above is true - we have a broadcast module on our app which enables you to record a quick video and send the broadcast to all your employees / clients at one touch of a button - great tool

By Chris Crum - Thu, 12/04/2008 - 15:27

RE: Video communication made easy

With new changes in store for search engines, some (like SEO Bruce Clay) think you'll have a better chance of ranking higher if you have video and your competition doesn't.

By Aderemi Ojikutu (WPN reader) - Thu, 12/04/2008 - 15:12

Online Video Brings The Future To The Present

The future is here. the world is utilizing video to make a profound statement of digital happiness. Let's keep going forward and upward. Saigant Technologies Inc. from Grand Terrace also blazed the video trail in March 2008, from this article: http://www.thebizpress.com/profiles/stories/BP_News_Local_D_bp0512_profile-saigant.15848af.html

By hayek (WPN reader) - Thu, 12/04/2008 - 08:30