It seems like everyone is getting into the video ad game, and news keeps pouring out this week. Twitter is looking to add more video ad dollars to their platform, as they "secretly" talked to Comcast and Viacom about possibly setting up some network TV ads on the site.
It is the Easter weekend but we still wanted to bring you some of the news stories that you may have missed this past week. It has been a great few days for winners of the #ifihadglass contest, not so great for those that got kicked out of it and oh, cat videos!
Over the weekend, SMOSH became the #1 subscribed YouTube channel, and as of this writing has 6,823,489 subscribers to Ray William Johnson's 6,810,751.
Maybe you want to go to New York sometime, and maybe you want to avoid the big city for a change.
Not long ago, YouTube announced they would be launching associated website annotations .
Forbes and Sharethrough have released a new study, " Going Native, How
Ooyala has some pretty good offerings in their online video solutions arsenal and now, they've got another one, a new video recommendations system. To help everyone get a better grip on the power of these systems they've put out a new, free whitepaper, Connecting Consumers with Content , that does a great job of explaining what recommendation systems are , and more importantly, how they can help an online video publisher not only have the content discovered and viewed but also generate more revenue.
I get a lot of emails about new web series and I've been sitting on them trying to figure out how to spin an article out of them. With online video continuing to soar in terms of advertising and marketing I think that we, here at ReelSEO, forget that there's also a ton of online video solely for entertainment purposes.
Probably the most unheralded videos on the web are how-to videos, and yet, they are some of the most popular.
