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When it comes to internet marketing, 2011 might be the year that video starts overtaking text as the preferred information medium. It’s not just college kids with iPhones and bored moms watching YouTube videos anymore. According to the Forbes Insight article ìVideo in the C-Suite: Executives Embrace the Non-Text Webî, even C-level executives are starting [...]

YouTube apparently gets 10% of its views from mobile users. With the growing number of phone models with online video-streaming capabilities, mobile video consumption has increased at a rapid pace, and seems to really be the next frontier for online video. I often watch YouTube while waiting for someone at a coffee shop or at [...]

The great thing about YouTube is that anyone can put up their own YouTube channel whenever they want. As with blogs, and any social media or self-publishing site, YouTube can be customized based on your own taste or preferences, but if you want to reach more audiences, you have to make sure that you give [...]

You’ve probably chanced upon YouTube’s live streaming events every once in a while now, and now it’s going to be a staple to your regular YouTube programming: YouTube has officially announced that it will be slowly rolling out its live streaming platform to its thousands of users, starting off with some YouTube partners. A page [...]

Following the speed that YouTube has grown over the past half-decade, it’s not really surprising that YouTube again has topped the charts for the biggest revenue-earners for 2011. According to a Citi analyst, YouTube is estimated to grow to 1.3 billion dollars this year and 1.7 billion next year. Most of all, Google will be [...]

Almost everyone wants to create the next viral video because of the incredible exposure it can get them and/or their companies. YouTube celebrities have benefited from viral videos in building their audience and many businesses in turn have benefited from that by providing product placement in their videos. Doing so saves companies thousands of dollars [...]

When YouTube was fairly new, the video-marketing world were starting to try to figure out how to optimize videos uploaded to it, but now with rise of social media, it’s made the situation even more complex.  The latest term that’s gaining popularity in the blogosphere is social video optimization. In a ReelSEO story social video [...]

There’s been a lot of debate about the YouTube Partnership program on how/if it could really be a self-sustaining income generator for video creators, as well as how fair its revenue sharing is. I believe the Partnership Program can be a good, alternate source of income, but not your main bread & butter, until you’re [...]

If YouTubers are earning from ad sponsorships, then there  must be some ad agencies out there who are cashing in on YouTube too. Ad agencies, who are essentially the go-betweens, help YouTube Partners get some pretty lucrative deals from big brands. One of these companies, Tadcast, has passed the 40 million-mark in product-placement video views. [...]

The main problem with uploading HD quality videos to YouTube, is the speed at which they upload. My 3 or 4 minute comedy videos can somtimes take almost half an hour to upload. I came across an article by YouTuber Tim Schmoyer who did a bit of experimenting with the video parameters, bitrates, and whathaveyou’s [...]