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for: ‘July, 2010’

It looks like Samsung is ramping up promotion for its Samsung Apps store for connected TVs, using the tag line “Now there’s a TV for that,” a play on Apple’s well-known “There’s an app for that” slogan.  I noticed a full back-page ad in the current issue of the New Yorker (see below) and promotion …

Daisy Whitney and I are pleased to present the 67th edition of the VideoNuze Report podcast, for July 9, 2010. This week Daisy and I talk about YouTube’s new “Leanback” and mobile experiences, both of which were unveiled this past Wednesday. Daisy was at YouTube’s headquarters and interviewed the company’s mobile product manager Andrey Doronichev. …

Not content to dominate online video viewing, yesterday YouTube unveiled new initiatives for viewing on both TVs and mobile devices. Taken together they demonstrate how aggressive YouTube plans to be in the 3-screen viewership era.   First up, YouTube introduced the beta version of “Leanback,” the new 10-foot experience that it introduced at the recent …

Please join me for a complimentary webinar tomorrow, July 8th at 11am PT/2pm ET, as Colin Dixon, senior partner at research firm The Diffusion Group, and I debate the topic of closed vs. open Internet video distribution. Colin and I have both been watching closely all the different devices that are bridging online video to …

When I got home from my long holiday weekend I noticed a huge promotion on the cover of the Best Buy Sunday circular for its new “Movie Mode” app (see below). The app was featured with an offer to buy the new Sprint Evo, but it works on other Android devices as well as iPhones …

I activated my 7-day Hulu Plus trial last evening and spent some time with the new subscription service on my Mac. The overall navigation and video quality was excellent, consistent with the high standards Hulu has set from the beginning on Hulu.com. I particularly liked how Hulu has chosen to display the many episodes of …

Daisy Whitney and I are pleased to present the 66th edition of the VideoNuze Report podcast, for July 2, 2010. This week Daisy and I discuss Hulu Plus, which was launched earlier this week. There has already been a lot written about Hulu Plus, with most early users reporting favorably on the user experience. I …

YouTube has a lot to say this week.  First they announced a new mobile version of their site—and it rocks.  Then they officially released Leanback into the wild—it’s also very cool.  Now they’ve announced a new grant program designed to help members of the Partner program make better and better videos. It’s called YouTube Partner …

This weekly Viral Video Round Up series is intended to accomplish a few different tasks:  point out viral successes, reverse engineer them to ascertain what elements helped push them over the top, and have a little fun.  I feel very confident that this week’s edition achieves all three goals.  Because most of you come for …

Hallelujah, right? I mean, that’s part of what we’re all doing here at ReelSEO, video online for advertising and marketing. So it’s good to know that our target demographics aren’t angry about it. Our erstwhile pals over at eMarketer (I’m not really sure if we’re pals or not, but I like to think so) did …