Poptent is known as a crowdsourced video production and social community platform for video creators, a nifty way for aspiring filmmakers and video producers to get experience shooting videos for a number of major brands, while keeping video production costs low for the client. Today, Poptent announced a new full-service video production unit called Poptent ...

It’s important to know how to use online video to humanize your brand, company, service, product, or even yourself. Making a promotional video or a commercial is one thing, but online video gives you the unique advantage to build a human connection and emotional engagement with your viewers. That’s how we ultimately build an audience and help people really connect with the message or brand we’re a part of.

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.

The ability to upload a custom thumbnail image for your videos is a feature limited only to YouTube Partners. However, this little YouTube hack will show you how you can get your own custom thumbnail for your video even if you are not a partner. Be warned that this video is for informational purposes only.

Although different content may have a different audience on YouTube and thus the best day and time to publish your video may vary, here's what I've found to be the best time to publish videos to YouTube for channels I've been a part of in the past. I'd love to hear what day and time works best for your to publish your content to YouTube for your audience. Comment below! Thanks! Best Time To Publish Videos?

Today we answer several of the questions you asked us during last week's Creator's Tip video, including suggestions for good background music for your videos, how to schedule your videos to automatically publish to YouTube at a certain date and time even if you're not a YouTube Partner, suggestions for setting up a home video studio, and more! Scheduled Publishing To YouTube & Other Viewer Questions Click here to watch the video. QUESTION: What suggestions do you have for these questions?

We all know it's important that we upload video content on a regular basis because it helps us build momentum, increases our videos' ranking in search, and keeps our audience engaged. But sometimes keeping up with a regular schedule is just too difficult because our content requires high production value that's unreasonable to pull off on a weekly basis. Other times it's just because we don't have any more ideas for video content.

This week I dug through the channels of over 3,000 YouTube subscribers to ReelSEO and identified a few common mistakes that being made that could help you all improve your videos and presence on YouTube. I also picked out a few of my favorite channels and am highlighting them for you guys today

I interviewed the founder of the Blip.TV, Charles Hope, who shares his thoughts about why The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA ) is extremely bad for online video platforms and their users, and explains what's really needed is not new laws, but better business innovation. My Interview With Blip.TV Founder, Charles Hope Charles, Blip now features a lot of original and professionally produced web video series, which is just the type of content most likely to be pirated.

With more and more people viewing videos on their mobile devices, it's becoming more and more important for video producers to ensure that their content is optimized for mobile viewing. Not just in how the videos are formatted, the bitrate it uses, or the video dimensions, but in how we shoot and edit our video so it's a positive experience on tiny Android, iPhone, iPod, and iPad screens and displays