Every month, YouTube’s “On the Rise” program finds a handful of channels that are beginning to see real jumps in views and subscribers and the like, puts them together as nominees, and then people vote on them to come up with a winner.

Seems like I’m writing about Japan a lot lately.

This week for our Creator’s Tip video we take a look at an example of someone else’s video marketing efforts and critique it a bit. We look at some lessons we can learn from it, things to replicate in our own video marketing initiatives, and things to avoid and do better in our own online video marketing.

Last year, brands were still spending more money on regional newspaper advertising and classified press ads than on digital display ads like banners, video and social. Given that the internet as a whole has cut a swath through other media to become the UK’s biggest advertising channel, this seems fairly unbelievable. On closer inspection, however, perhaps not

MPEG LA have announced pricing for licenses on the Multiview Video Coding 3D codec. It covers everything from hardware that will use it to subscription services and prices range from one cent per disc to $300,000 for big subscription services

My Pod Studios is an online video platform you may or may not be familiar with. While they might not have the name recognition of some other platforms, myPodstudios.com was listed by Quantcast as the 191st most trafficked website in December of 2011–just five places behind Hulu.com–and scored more than 20 million unique visitors in November alone. From their website: MyPod Studios, launched in October, 2010, was built to provide an alternative to the standard issue video networks that litter the Web, and take a slightly more unique approach to presenting online video

It won’t be long before Epic Meal Time is as mainstream as American Idol .

Captions were introduced by YouTube in 2006, and according to a blog post today there are 1.6 million videos that have uploaded caption files. That’s… pretty pathetic, considering the huge boost for video SEO that captions can bring ( I’ve ranted about the under-use of captions before ). Considering the vast number of videos on the site, 1.6 million is barely a blip on the radar

This week our look at last week’s news from the online video world includes several YouTube video training opportunities, both from ReelSEO and from YouTube itself.

I would rather have 10 video views from actual engaged viewers who are connecting to the content than have a million useless views from non-engaged or paid viewers.