Google on Tuesday plans to unveil a corporate version of its YouTube video sharing service called Google Video for Business.

Google Video for business will be available as a new tab in Google Apps Premier Edition ($50 per user annually) accounts at no extra charge. It includes 3GB of video storage per user.
Google today announced Google Video™ for business, a new application in Google Apps™ for sharing video in an organization in two easy steps — simply upload a video to Google Apps, and then

As you all know, optimizing video content for search at this point requires following many of the same best practices already established for optimization of textual content.  I found this video on webpronews where YuMe’s Vice President of Ad Operations, Bob Bahramipour tells Mike McDonald at SES that most video content is still found the old-fashioned way: via textual search engines. Our most recent post shows some research regarding the various methods of video discovery; and to Bob’s point, video se

ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell caught up with Josh Chasin, Chief Research Officer for comScore at the adtech conference in Chicago last week.  Josh had just returned from moderating the panel titled, “The State of Online Video: Going Beyond the Pre-roll.”

According to Josh, comScore is the first company to measure online video in five countries - U.S., Canada, Germany, UK, and France.
Some key discoveries of comScore with video, shared by Josh in our interview:

Over the last 18 months, consumers online

Google AdSense for Video is now available in more countries and languages around the globe.  Apparently Google has heard the feedback from AdSense users and has decided to expand Video Units in YouTube for more languages & countries. Initially, the program was available only for the United States, Canada & United Kingdom.
List of Newly supported Languages.

English
French
German
Japanese
Spanish

List of Newly Supported Countries:

Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
India
Ireland
Italy
Germany

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In the video above, recorded in April of this year, Google product managers discuss the trends, benefits and strategies of online video advertising. Some topics covered include:

History of online video advertising
AdSense for video
Advertising opportunities for video.

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SES San Jose 2008 starts next week. One of the sessions on Day 1 that will certainly be of interest to many of you will be the one on Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO).
The following video is somewhat of a sneak preview of the session.  In this video, Byron Gordon of SEO-PR interviews Matthew Scheybeler, the CTO of blinkx.  Matthew is one of the scheduled speakers for this session on Video SEO.  Matthew talks about how to classify a video in its many parts to enable more viewers to find the video o

The Coolest Video Ever…  done by an 8 year old.   Who says online video is too hard?   Check out this video done by my friend’s 8 yr old, Noelle.   She even has her own website…  Clearly the imagination and creativity is hard to beat…  and, what an incredible soundtrack.   ;-)
What do you think?  Any tips for Noelle?

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With 17 successful episodes under their belt, the controversial break-out web series, Midwest Teen Sex Show (MTSS), has landed its first major sponsor with KoldCast TV.  The series, which has been airing on-demand on several video web sites and on KoldCast TV since its Beta launch in March, will now air exclusively on the KoldCast TV Network beginning today through December.  Beyond KoldCast, only the MTSS web site will distribute these five KoldCast TV-sponsored episodes.
Since the launch of Midwest Teen

Tangentially hooked into video marketing…it’s both unbelievably cool, and totally scary at the same time. So I had to write about it :)
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Remember that scene in Minority Report where the advertisements knew who John Anderson (Tom Cruise) was and tailored the ads to suit him? Everyone either laughed as if to say it would never happen, were ecstatic at the thought of their products being advertised in th

Metacafe, whose more than 30 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world???s largest video entertainment sites, now enables viewers to personalize their entertainment experiences by adding dialog bubbles, photos, webcam video, clip art, subtitles and more to online videos. These viewers turned co-creators can save their work for the enjoyment of other members of the Metacafe community and can share their personalized clips with friends v

Qik.com has been ‘qiking’ around for some time but now they’ve kicked things into high gear and have opened up for a public beta.
San Mateo, CA based Qik, which is pronounced ‘quick’ strangely enough, are makers of a mobile phone application made to allow users to stream video straight from their mobile phones to the web and then to other mobiles. This could make everyone a mobile journalist or life blogger if they have a video-capable mobile phone. The app is Twitter capable as well.
Qik looks to

Apple’s iPhone is changing the way we do, well, just about everything these days. With the release of the 3G version things are really heating up in the mobile market. The 3.5″ 480×320 pixel display makes for a great portable platform for video and with either 8GB or 16GB there is ample space to store a fair amount of it.. So it’s no wonder that applications are popping up for all sorts of interesting things to be done in regards to video. With the powerful processor, large screen and a

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Michael Learmonth posted an article last week that outlines the amount of money that has been poured into online video companies and platforms for the last several years:
2005: $1.764 billion
2006: $2.117 billion
2007: $2.009 billion
2008: $453 million
- data from DowJones VentureSource
Just back in March, we posted that investors had already put more than $200 million towards online video in the first quarter of this year.
When you total up those investments along with various acquisitions (Youtube, Groupe

American University’s Center for Social Media today released a white paper that details guidelines for using copyrighted material in online video. Fair use is often misunderstood as there are complex laws that govern fair use.  A set of clear guidelines was absolutely needed.

The first of their kind, these best practices will allow users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law. The code identifies, among other things, six