This week on the Reel Web we discuss AOL’s announcement about “AOL On,” their new video service that will host all of the videos from their service and also feature some new original shows.
Andy Stack, a YouTube product manager, today announced on The Official YouTube Partners & Creators Blog that YouTube has teamed up with Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to enable users to link directly to project pages on these platforms through annotations. Kickstarter
When I was a kid, baseball was my favorite sport… to watch, play, or follow. I wasn’t very good at it, but I played it for more than 10 years. And for most of those 10 years, my coaches were throwing nuggets of baseball wisdom at me to encourage me and keep me in the right mindset.
Over the weekend, a rebel sympathizer smuggled me a new copy of Version 2 of the YouTube Creator Playbook. To protect him/her from any repercussions, I won’t disclose this rebel sympathizer’s name, other than to say he/she is an executive at Maker Studios , a media company that bridges the gap between YouTube and television.
There are several services that let you customize the YouTube player's embed code and the actual YouTube player itself.
This week's online video news was dominated by web series talk. For instance, we have a retrospective on the BMW web series, The Hire, which was way ahead of its time. We also have some articles about a new Tom Hanks web series, the future of branded video content from Coke, and a story about a YouTube star signing a big new deal.
This week we answer a viewer's question about how to make your videos interactive with pop-up videos, subscription links, clickable videos and such. First, create your video with whatever text, image, or video clip you want to be clickable in your video. Then, after it's uploaded to YouTube, go to add those annotations respectively.
When Common Craft pivoted their business into a educational video subscription service , a bit of a void was left in the universe.
The YouTube Creator Playbook is an awesome guide to follow when making your videos.
Movie Clips has sounded like a good idea since the day I first heard of them. Everyone has their favorite movies, scenes, and lines of dialogue, and often these moments come up in day-to-day conversation. Having a handy video clip makes it easier to watch, share, or discuss with friends and family.
