Yearly Archive
for: ‘2010’

Ho ho ReelSEO! For this special Christmas post, I give my review of the video holiday cards I received. I share what I liked, and what I would like to see. Some of them make me a jolly “Granta Claus,” and a few made me act like “Grant the Grinch.” Read on and watch them …

It’s Christmas Eve, and even though many of us aren’t in the office today going about our normal routine, we can still take a few moments to check out some of the week’s better viral video success stories.  In fact, I’m squeezing in a few more videos that normal this week–consider it a Christmas Bonus. …

Steve Garfield wrote a book you might have heard us talk about before, called Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business (you can learn more about it or purchase the book on Amazon).  So when we had a chance to sit down for a few moments and talk about the state of online …

CES is just round the corner and I’ve got about a hundred emails all talking about how cool some new product is. Everything from a digital cooking thermometer and iPhone App (why someone would ever need that is beyond me) to real, freakin’ robots! But this one I got today sort of caught my attention …

Back in July, YouTube poured $5 Million back into the source of their success:  the users.  Specifically, the video giant created YouTube Partner Grants, a grand fund intended to help independent YouTube Partners level the playing field with the deep-pocketed major brands.  At the time, I praised the company for investing in its users. And …

One of my favorite soapboxes of late pertains to video advertising, and what I perceive to be its inevitable merge with regular old videos created for “entertainment.”  Advertisers are embracing viral video in new and exciting ways every day, and I think we should applaud that.  When you dig to the bottom of things, all …

I interview David Meerman Scott, popular social media and video marketer, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, and his most recent book, Real Time Marketing and PR. We discuss more about the fear of video that companies still have, and the common arguments made for not getting involved in the space. David …

So is it any surprise that retail and eCommerce sites showed massive uptakes last month? Nah, I didn’t think so. How about Yahoo! unseating Google as top prop(erty) on the web? Here’s a scary fact, the Google Ad network has more unique visitors than the  actual Google sites. It reached 93.2% of US Internet users …

Video-sharing website Vimeo has recently launched something called Vimeo Video School, a sort of online university for video creators.  Specifically, it aims to be “a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos.”  Oh, and it’s completely free. A free, online, video repository of lessons designed to help me make my videos …