Vimeo announced their judging lineup today for the upcoming 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards . The awards will be handed out across 13 different categories, with each category having a panel of three judges. And there are some pretty big names among the judges, including actor James Franco, actor Aziz Ansari, 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker, Colin Greenwood of Radiohead, director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs.

Online videos are the new Super Bowl ads... kind of

Google Plus continues to get more open bit by bit, and just today made the service available to teens age 13 and up . Previously, Google Plus was restricted to people 18 and up. Along with the wave of new teenagers, Google Plus is also getting new privacy and security features--a fairly important thing if the service is to become something parents encourage their children to use.

Google obviously wants Google Plus to do very well. You can tell by how much they've leveraged their other properties to promote it, like YouTube videos, Google home page messages, rolling in Google Plus results into the standard SERPs, etc. But now they've taken the boldest step yet: tying Google Plus sign-up to new Gmail accounts

Mark Robertson, the Founder of ReelSEO, and I will be speaking in the “Next Gen YouTube Marketing” session at SES New York , which will be held at the Hilton New York during March 19-23, 2012.

Social is a gigantic part of the online video marketing equation--at least, if you're doing it right it is. For individual video creators, that can mean a lot of your work time is spent on Facebook instead of making videos. For video marketing consultants or agencies--those with many clients, each of whom needs help marketing their videos--it's an even bigger time cost.

I think I'm going to write an e-book...

I video-interviewed Erik Qualman at the Chicago House of Blues for the launch of his new book, " Digital Leader: 5 Simple Steps to Success and Influence ".

YouTube's Robert Kyncl, the head of global partnerships, took the stage today at CES 2012 and made some big, bold claims that ought to get any video marketer's engine running. Chief among them, that very soon 90% of all web traffic will be video.

Last week, Advertising Age published a piece about the growth of YouTube in Brazil.