Saturday, April 27, 2013


YouTube creates 'Explosions at Boston Marathon' video page

YouTube creates a spotlight page devoted to video and news related to the deadly bombings near the Boston Marathon finish line.

YouTube creates official page devoted to the Boston Marathon explosions.
(Credit: Screenshot by Dara Kerr/CNET)
As Boston grapples with the aftermath of two explosions that hit the city during its annual marathon, YouTube has created a way for people to immediately get the latest news.
The video steaming site has built an official YouTube Spotlight page devoted to all video related to the blasts. Titled "Explosions at the Boston Marathon," the page has 26 videos as of this writing -- from President Barack Obama's speech to videos captured by onlookers to police press conferences detailing the explosions. More videos will surely be added as more is uncovered about what happened.
  • Earlier today, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon while thousands of runners were still in the race. Reportedly, at least two people were killed and dozens were injured. Cell phone service is currently down in the heart of the city.

Besides YouTube building its dedicated video page, other organizations have also created resources to help, including people finders from Google and the Red Cross and a donation center at Boston's Mass General hospital. 

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And the push by social media sites to get advertising dollars continues…. YouTube apparently apparently feels under-appreciated, and wants you to know that its audience is more than just a bunch of people who watch funny cat videos. On its official blog it points out that all of the Ad Age Top 100 brands are currently running ad campaigns on YouTube. And that, “If YouTube were a country, we’d be the third largest in the world after China and India.”  Got it?
Tips for using YouTube’s new One Channel redesign  ~ Search Engine Watch
From the days of early email marketing, online businesses have focused on the value of building a list of faithful subscribers. Those subscribers then become potential customers and clients. YouTube’s new One Channel design focuses on subscribing to favorite video channels versus randomly watching popular individual videos. This article offers tips for migrating to the new YouTube One Channel approach.
Celebrities like Psy continue to go viral ~ New York Daily News
South Korean rapper Psy’s followup to his popular Gangnam Style video racked up 82 million views as of this week. Twenty million of those were in the first 24 hours. That’s better than Justin Bieber’s latest record. While the typical small business couldn’t dream of those numbers of views — still it proves the viral video is alive and thriving. On a more modest scale, you can gain interest with a quality video that gets even a fraction of those numbers.
April Fool’s gag demonstrates live streaming potential  ~ YouTube Live Streaming
YouTube recently demonstrated the use of its streaming video feature to build both brand awareness and engagement with an elaborate April Fool’s video presentation. The gag awards broadcast generated more than 400,000 comments, more than 50,000 new channel subscribers, and more than 500,000 unique views. Again, as a small business those kinds of huge metrics may be out of reach — but even modest live streaming numbers could give a boost to your marketing.
New edition of YouTube app for iPhone users ~ Small Business Trends
A recent update of the YouTube iOS app will allow iPhone users to view the new streaming video feature on their mobile devices. The update means more iPhone users on YouTube, and of course, a potentially bigger audience for your channel and for streaming videos you create for your brand. With growing mobile use and the popularity of the iPhone, this offers even more opportunities to reach your audience.
Gary Vaynerchuk predicts plenty of growth ahead ~ New Media Rockstars
You may be reading all these big numbers and feeling a bit inadequate. Perhaps you haven’t gotten involved in posting online video for your business on YouTube. Perhaps you haven’t yet had a chance to share some of those videos via social media or on your website. But entrepreneur and celebrity wineseller Gary Vaynerchuck, a big YouTube user, says there’s still time to get involved. Vaynerchuck predicts plenty of growth ahead and opportunities for businesses to use YouTube for marketing.
You can now connect Google+ to your YouTube channel ~ Tech 2
You can now make your YouTube channel even more social. Google allows users to add a Google+ account to their YouTube channel. The new feature allows brands to add even more social engagement to their video channel, but it also allows them to create even more potential crossover between Google+ followers and YouTube subscribers.
YouTube ecosystem: companies like Pixability get funding to expand video services ~ Boston Business Journal
Like most large platforms, YouTube has developed a surrounding ecosystem of smaller companies and startups that provide products and services to help businesses use YouTube.  Cambridge-based Pixability is one such example. The company just raised $4.1 million in funding for its YouTube-related services.
Yahoo in talks to acquire YouTube competitor, Daily Motion ~ Fox Business
If you still need convincing about the power of video, just look at Yahoo’s bid to acquire YouTube rival Daily Motion.  Former Googler and now Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wouldn’t be interested in acquiring a video competitor if video wasn’t important to the future.

In a first, YouTube to showcase a week of comedy

This undated publicity photo provided by Google Inc. shows, from left, Ryan Higa, Rainn Wilson and Grace Helbig shooting a video for YouTube’s planned Comedy Week. From May 19-25, 2013, YouTube will host a themed week of comedy programming, featuring live-streams, videos and stand-up routines from comedy stars like Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel, as well as the less famous comedians of YouTube. (AP Photo/Google Inc., John Lindley)
NEW YORK (AP) — For a week in May, YouTube will turn into the biggest open mic on the planet.
On Thursday, the Google Inc.-owned site will announce the YouTube Comedy Week, a seven-day cyber extravaganza designed to showcase some of the best comedy across its expansive video platform. From May 19-25, YouTube will be overrun with punch lines, sketches, stand-up routines and — hopefully — a lot of laughs.
It's the largest-scale attempt yet by YouTube to program its billions of hours of video and lead viewers to its growing channels of original programming. The video site is planning more event weeks around various themes to be held later this year and beyond.
"This has never been done before on YouTube," Danielle Tiedt, YouTube's vice president of marketing, said in an interview Wednesday ahead of the announcement. "I'm sure we'll learn a lot."
Comedy Week will kick off with a global live stream from Los Angeles' Culver Studios. Throughout the week, new episodes will debut from some of YouTube's most popular channels, comedians will perform and comics will curate lists of their favorite videos.
Among those participating are Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Michael Cera, Vince Vaughn and Seth Rogen. There will be new videos from Andy Samberg's Lonely Island troupe. Popular comedy destinations with channels on YouTube like The Onion, Nerdist, College Humor and Funny or Die will join in. And YouTube hopes its less famous users will also get in on the act.
The event is just the start of a new approach by YouTube to congregate its disparate stars — from Hollywood professionals to Internet upstarts — and to present a unified viewing experience for users. YouTube hopes the theme weeks will spotlight the original programming the site has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in to grow its platform as a kind of next-generation TV.
"We're hoping to do this in a pretty regular rhythm," said Tiedt. "You'll see several of these coming from us, for sure, as we highlight really big areas that we think are amazing areas of strength for YouTube."
The undertaking is months in the works. To executive-produce the weeklong event, YouTube brought in former "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" producer Daniel Kellison, whose production company, HaChaCha, recently launched two comedy YouTube channels: Jash and the Video Podcast Network. The kickoff live stream will be directed and produced by Joel Gallen, a veteran of the MTV Movie Awards.
Kellison says a staff of 40 has been assembled to help in what he calls the "tremendously daunting" task of organizing a sizable portion of the sprawling YouTube realm.
"It's a massive undertaking," he says. "If you try to organize it all and figure it all out, you'll drown. It's not possible. We're just doing the best we can in trying to produce this."
A few missteps are inevitable, Kellison says. But the plan isn't to put on a slickly produced show, but something more lo-fi and relaxed.
"We've been able to go to all these comedians and say, 'Hey, we can do whatever we want and have fun doing it,'" says Kellison. "It's taken on this sort of comedy Woodstock type of vibe."
The duo of Eric Wareheim and Tim Heidecker, known as Tim & Eric, will be performing in the festivities. Wareheim, among the founders of Jash, believes Comedy Week will help raise the bar for comedy on YouTube.
"It's going to be higher production value, everyone taking it a little bit more serious rather than a throwaway Internet short — make it a place where legitimate stuff can be and change the perception of what YouTube can be," Wareheim says. "Tim and I have been using YouTube for our TV shows, our movies — for everything — to kind of promote stuff. Now instead of just as a promotional tool, we're using it to really distribute content."
Getting even a segment of YouTube to synchronize would seem a tall order. But marshaling together Comedy Week reminds Kellison of the chaotic first night of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"
"We had Coldplay on the outdoor stage; Warren Sapp coming in after he won the Super Bowl on a helicopter; Jon Gruden canceling; the fire marshal trying to shut us down; Snoop Dogg with the death threats; and a buzzed George Clooney," he recalls. "I imagine this will be very similar."
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013


How to Use YouTube.com

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If you have not heard of the wildly popular website YouTube, you may be living under a rock. This site has given Internet users a chance to broadcast videos that they made or found on the web. You can use the YouTube site to perform several functions. Read on to learn how. Have a question? Get an answer from a Nerd now!

Instructions

    • 1
      Log on to the YouTube site and find several categories that you can browse to watch videos. To start, sign up for a free account. An account can save your ratings and favorite videos.
    • 2
      Watch the promoted videos. Television network and movie studios often offer free peeks at their new shows and trailers on YouTube. To see the newest studio offerings, look under "Promoted Videos."
    • 3
      Create a playlist on YouTube. You can also use YouTube to create multiple playlists featuring your favorite site videos.
    • 4
      Upload your own videos to YouTube. Click the "Upload" link on the main page. Sign in with your login information and upload the file with a title and description.
    • 5
      Rate the videos on YouTube. To rate a video, simply click on the number of stars that you feel the video deserves. The videos with the best ratings appear under the category "Top Rated."
    • 6
      Check out the Test Tube area of YouTube. This section of the website is where YouTube tests out new features before they are officially launched on the site.


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YouTube’s not just for posting silly videos of sleepwalking dogs and other embarrassing moments — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. You can use it to show off your expertise, share knowledge, market your products and connect with customers, colleagues and prospects.
Here are 35 ways to use YouTube (and other video services) for business.
YouTubeYouTube’s not just for posting silly videos of sleepwalking dogs and other embarrassing moments — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. You can use it to show off your expertise, share knowledge, market your products and connect with customers, colleagues and prospects.
Here are 34 ways to use YouTube (and other video hosting services) for business.
Expertise and Thought Leadership
  1. Upload recordings of presentations you’ve given, to demonstrate authority and public speaking skills.
  2. Share slides from presentations that weren’t recorded.
  3. Create short videos of valuable tips of interest to your clients and prospects to show off your expertise.
  4. Conduct an interview with an expert.
  5. Turn your podcasts into videos, to expand your reach.
  6. Engage with the YouTube community by leaving comments and uploading video responses to videos on topics related to your business or industry.
  7. Enhance your videos using YouTube’s special features, such as annotations, audioswap, insight, language options and quick capture. Also see what’s cooking in the YouTube Biz Blog and TestTube for more  upcoming features.
  8. Record an important meeting to share with employees, shareholders and others, as appropriate.
  9. Marketing and Advertising
  10. Set up a channel to reflect your brand and engage with others. Here’s an example from The White House.
  11. Choose a user name that reflects your brand for your channel URL.
  12. Add your channel URL to marketing collateral and social network profiles.
  13. Post customer video testimonials to add to your credibility.
  14. Put together a creative video explaining your product or service.
  15. Show your product in action using movie trailer-style: fast, creative and catchy.
  16. Show the results of someone using your services.
  17. Promote your events using recordings of previous events.
  18. Introduce your staff to add authenticity.
  19. Take viewers on a tour of your offices and city to help them feel connected with you.
  20. Ask others to use your product in their videos (like product placement in movies) and cross-promote each other.
  21. Post links to your videos on various social networks.
  22. Look into YouTube Promoted Videos to reach your target through contextually-relevant search results.
  23. Use Google AdWords on Google Content Network, which includes sites like YouTube. These use text-based ads and don’t require a video from your business. Research the Placement Tool to identify the best placements for your ads.
  24. Earn money from your videos by entering into a partnership with YouTube.
  25. Run a contest.
  26. Add Call-to-Action overlays to your videos to drive traffic to your web site.
  27. Study your channel’s performance with the integrated Google Analytics and YouTube Insight to make the most of your videos.
  28. Display company information in every video including name, URL, phone number and email address.
  29. Customer Service
  30. Create “how to” videos to help your customers use your product or service.
  31. Post solutions to common product or service problems.
  32. Answer customer-specific questions using videos. Imagine how surprised a customer will be when you point them to a video with the answer!
  33. Embed videos on your web site on appropriate pages, including customer support and product tours.
  34. Post a blog entry discussing a problem and include a video for visual support.
  35. Go the extra mile by adding closed-captions or subtitles to your videos. Remember that not everyone can watch or hear videos in the same way.
  36. Show a work-in-progress project to a customer for review and approval, without the need for a face-to-face meeting or in-person demo.

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