Posts About ‘video marketing’

100 Hours Of Content Uploaded To YouTube Per Minute: Don’t Get Left Out!

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It seems like YouTube (and the rest of the internet) has been with us forever but the world’s biggest video portal only hit its 8th birthday a couple of weeks ago. How did YouTube celebrate this birthday? By announcing the milestone that 100 hours of video content are uploaded to the site every minute. That’s an incredible figure if you break it down – it equates to 6,000 hours of video uploads per hour and 144,000 of new video every day. This comes very soon after YouTube announced that they now receive 1 Billion unique visits to the site each month. That’s a lot of people watching a lot of cat videos and Candy Crush walkthroughs ;-)

And although you may never reach the dizzying heights of ‘most watch ever’ like the ones’s below (267, 464, 833 views for a thigh massage, who knew) there are still best practices that you can follow to make sure your content is seen by those you need it seen by. (more…)

The New Face of YouTube: The Redesign, Annotations and InVideo Programming

Quick editorial note: Today (the publishing date of this post) happens to be Ned’s birthday as well, so be sure to congratulate him in your comment ;) .

The different types of media that is being consumed on the Internet has changed largely over the last few years. Increases in broadband penetration and improvements in mobile, 3G (or 4G for many of us now) speeds have lead to a rapidly increasing change in how we consume media online. It is now not irregular to see widespread use of higher quality image formats, more advanced usage of HTML5 and other interactive technologies, not to mention an exponential increase in the usage of video online. These are used to make engaging and interactive experiences to create websites that stand out and offer very different functionalities that we have become used to over the years (the BBC is a great example of this).

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