Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

Referrals to Online Video: Search vs. Social Networking Sites?

While most of the traffic to various online videos came via social networking sites in 2007 April, one year later, we see that search engines (and video search engines) came a long distance and scored a draw, according to the data presented by Hitwise, and I am positive that search will increase further.
Heather Dougherty writes
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Embedding YouTube Videos with Voting and Comments

Currently what you can do is that you embed youtube, daily motion, revver, metacafe, etc. videos, but if you want to see the votes, views, and direct vid comments, you need to go to the original video social networking, or search or whatever vid aggregator site.
Could it be a killer app to enhance video embedding […]

YouTube Videos in Google Local Business Listings and Maps

Enhance your Google Business Listings not only with encouraging customers to submit their reviews of your services, and uploading photos, but uploading videos too. Hey, that’s cool! I will definitely move along with that, as it means more efficient mobile phone marketing for local businesses too.
Here’s what it looks like when a searcher clicks through […]

Video Jobs Ads Boom

Marketers are expecting a major advertising boom in online video jobs ads. The increased spending on recruiting advertisements enhanced by video input are driven by the following industries: automotive, real estate, recruitment, and healthcare.
I remember how hard I tried to push a healthcare client to put together a 30 second Google video ad (for placement […]