I interviewed Senior Counsel for Vimeo, Michael Cheah, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Vimeo is running messages on January 18 th (today) highlighting the issue and will invite users to tell Congress to reject SOPA.

Online video contests are growing in popularity and complexity and are now far more savvy than the upload a YouTube video and get people to like it ,etc. A crop of online video contest platforms have sprung up and more are coming all the time.

Earlier in the year I ran an online video contest at Gamers Daily News through Launchpad6, for whom I have done some writing work as well. Since I used their system, it means I could give an accurate run down of the system’s features and usability for those looking for an online video contest platform

The traditional TV model is being disrupted, and with this comes a new breed of viewer: one that seeks out new experiences, engages with content, and expects things on their terms.

In the first part of the interview with Robert Davis , Interactive Marketing Director and Director of Advanced Video Practice over at Ogilvy New York, we talked about what Ogilvy was offering with the AVP ( Ogilvy’s Advanced Video Practice ) team and Rob’s approach. Today in the final part we take a look at some of Rob’s ideas on content itself

What happens when you give a chimpanzee an AK-47 and let it run riot on YouTube?Well, Twentieth Century Fox is banking on the answer being a box office hit.

I interviewed Rebecca Jeschke, Media Relations Director for the digital civil liberties group, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Rebecca shared with me how they fight for people’s rights with both creating videos and expression of freedom speech, and important information for all online video creators on what they need to know about how to deal with their videos being unfairly removed from YouTube and other service providers. Why Online Video Creators Today MUST Know Their “Fair Use” Rights Click here to watch the embedded video.

Should the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, which has been the basis for rulings around copyright infringement with online video and all other Internet content, have a 2011 makeover?

I continue my interview Steve Rosenbaum, founder of the video curation service Magnify.net and author of Curation Nation . Steve has been in the video curation business for decades professing for years that curation is the most effective way of marketing with video; and we share some examples of businesses who are actively doing video curation today. The “Pre-Web” Days of Video Curation: MTV News: Unfiltered Segments from MTV UNfiltered, available on http://unfiltered.magnify.net Last week I explained what video curation is and why it’s important in online marketing