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What’s New in Interactive Video – 12/01/09

• YouTube To Livestream Alicia Keys Concert Tonight @ 8pm ET
• TVDeck Creates A TV Guide For Web Video
• How Engaging Is Online Video? Very
• Avatar + Interactive Trailer + Twitter = Awesome
• Hulu And Facebook Shatter Online Video Records
• October Video Streams Up 26%; Facebook Viewing Jumps 1,840%

What’s New in Interactive Video – 11/24/09

• Hulu Is Blocking Embeds on Video Aggregators
• How Video Is Changing The Internet
• YouTube’s Top Money Makers Are Record Labels
• Ustream Has 2 Million Unique Streams
• Facebook Almost Doubles Video Streams In One Month – Now 3rd largest video site behind YouTube and Hulu…
• 50 Cent Symbolizes The Impending Live Video Explosion
• Facebook Goes To The Red Carpet With Live Video For American Music Awards – Noticing a trend yet with Live Video broadcasts with integrated real-time commenting (i.e. Social TV)?
• Curious About The Difference Between A $600 TV and a $6000 TV?
• YouTube’s New 3D Showcase
• YouTube and Kodak Help Moms Get Killer Butts
• Get Ready For Flash Player 10.1 To Stream P2P Video To Millions
• Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit – Earlier blog about this here – Shakira Just Became Social TV’s Latest Advocate
• PS3 Gets Ready For 3D
• YouTube Lets Anyone Create Their Own iReport
• YouTube Can Now Create Captions Automatically
• Rovi TV Guide Widget Debuts On Samsung HDTV’s

What’s New In Interactive Video – 11/17/09

• Cablevision Adds Search To TV Listings
• Tinychat Launches Live Video Streaming Portal To Take On Ustream And Stickam
• YouTube Debuts Holiday Solutions Channel (With Target)
• Networks & Their Fear & Loathing Of Hulu
• Brightcove 4 Adds Support For The iPhone, Facebook, Live Video, And More
• 5 Important Web Video Lessons for Small Business Owners
• NewTeeVee Live: Will Broadband TVs Connect With Consumers?
• NewTeeVee Live: How Obama, CNN and Facebook Brought Change to Social TV
• Where did she get that coat? Utvee turns tagging TV shows into revenue
• Could this finally be the season for Web TV?
• Three Things YouTube Has Learned From Pre-Roll Video Advertising
• Gannett Site For Moms Gets Viral Lift with Live-Streamed Birth
• How YouTube Thinks About Social
• Will Video Tweets Finally Put Our Webcams to Use?
• The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, October 2009

Shakira Just Became Social TV’s Latest Advocate…

Via an earlier Techcrunch article, Shakira just livestreamed her latest music video via Ustream and Facebook.  This is another major artist helping to validate both Social TV and the livestream format.  I’m sure U2′s recent live concert on YouTube made this decision easier (10 million streams might do that), but 2009 is definitely shaping up to be the year the masses started embracing Social TV – at least online.  What will be interesting is to see how Traditional Media tries to screw this up…

Live video chat by Ustream

Pantural 3D Reel – That Sh– is Tight…

Ford Shelby vs. Chevy Camaro vs. Jeep vs. VAZ 2107 vs. Apache Helicopter, the title says it all.

YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHD8Xf5Rnvo

What Do Branded YouTube Contests Winning Videos Look Like?

Mental_floss Blog has a good round-up of some recent winners of Branded YouTube Contests here.  Overall, it’s interesting to see quality work that can rise to the top for these types of contests.  We’ve posted in the past some of the keys to having a successful Brand Contest on YouTube – #1 of which is and always will be prizing (as related to the effort involved).  With the recent onslaught of Crowdsourcing in the Advertising and Marketing worlds, it will be important to remember this little detail.

On another note, though this post is about the winning videos for Branded YouTube Contests, I did want to throw in that approximately 75-80% of the entries we’ve received in the past for video contests are pure crap.  There’s a reason why Amateur Video is called Amateur.  With that said though, it’s always refreshing to come across a few diamonds among the dung when reviewing all the videos.  I posted 2 of the winning videos below from a Casio Exilim Branded YouTube Contest we did a few years back and these are typical of the ‘diamonds’ you’ll fine with these UGC contests…

What’s New In Interactive Video – 11/3/09

• CinemaNow To Power Best Buy Service
• Foo Fighters Web Only Show Draws 440K Live Streams
• Horror Web Series Are On The Rise
• Why Subscription TV From Apple Could Shake Cable’s Tree
• Boom In Branded Entertainment
• How Online Video Can Benefit Brands When It Comes To Search
• Hulu TV Killer or Killer App?
• What Droid And iPhone Do/Don’t In Social Media
• Ustream Boosts Virality, Now Lets You Syndicate Your Comments Across The Web
• Epix Officially Launches Movie Streaming Service
• ReadWriteWeb’s List Of Easy Video Aggregation Tools
• U2 / YouTube Live Concert Saw 10 Million Streams
• Funny Or Die Launching YouTube Channel, HBO, Film
• Where’s The Outrage Over Online Video Viewership Claims
• Ubisoft Taps YouTube For Global Video Game Launch

What’s New in Interactive Video – 10/27/09

• Survey: Online Video Up To 27% Of Internet Traffic (NewTeeVee) Up from 13% in 2008.
• YouTube And U2 Have Just Put On The Most Impressive Livestream Event Yet (WAOC)
• Hulu To Charge For Mobile Entertainment (Mobile Marketing Watch)
• PlayStation Hooks Up With Netflix (GigaOm)
• Star Wars Uncut (Mashable)
• GEICO Launches Video Competition On Safety (Mediapost)
• DVDs, On Demand, Netflix & Streaming Video By The Numbers (GigaOm) 2008 – 22% of Netflix Subscribers Used Streaming. 2009 – 42%.
• Rippol Wants To Affect How You Find Video (NewTeeVee). I tried this out briefly last week and wasn’t that impressed.
• Do NBC Universal, Fox and Disney Need To Rethink Their Hulu Strategy (Adage)
• The LA Times Writes About The Hitler Mashup Videos (LA Times). About 1 year after they were popular…
• The Number Of Online Movie Trailer Views Doesn’t Correlate To Box Office Success (Slashfilm)
• Current Gets Embedded With Mos Def, Silversun Pickups And Others (NewTeeVee)
• YouTube Now Showing Pre-rolls On UGC (NewTeeVee). Pre-roll ads are becoming the scourge of the online video industry…
• Myspace Launches A Hulu For Music Videos (Mashable)
• NBA.com Launches Live Web Show For Fans and Vets (NewTeeVee)
• Cablevision’s Interactive TV Ads Pay Off For Gillette (Clickz)
• Fee vs. Free Online Video. (Emarketer) The eMarketer report “Marketing to the Online Video Audience” highlighted this split among online video viewers. Most would prefer to watch video for free, but a significant minority is willing to pay in order to avoid at least some advertising. That suggests a hybrid model of reduced advertising along with smaller fees-similar to cable TV.

Drunkest Guy Ever Video Already Has Remixes…

The Drunkest Guy Ever Video has only been up on YouTube for a week and already has over 2 million views.  More important though are the number of Drunkest Guy Ever Remix Videos that already popping up on the web.  Celebrity Odor has a list of them here.

Remixes should be the new gauge of how to define if an online video is viral or not since the number of video views can be too easily manipulated online…plus remixes are more fun to watch

Original Drunkest Guy Ever Video

Richgirl Remix

What’s New in Interactive Video – 10/20/09

• Devs Hack iPhone API For True Augmented Reality
• Search Comments On YouTube In Real-Time. Familiar features like “Trending” Comments…
• U2 Concert In The Rose Bowl Live On YouTube This Sunday, October 25 @ 8:30pm PT
• As Dan Rayburn Points Out, Xbox’s Upcoming Ability To Stream 1080p Video Over A 4Mbps Connection Really Is A Big Deal
• What ‘Splatter” Means For The Future Of Netflix
• YouTube Tries Integrated Live Tweets Into Online Screening Of Taxi Driver. Hopefully they did a better job of Social TV than Fox did with reruns of Fringe.
• Samsung Ditches Middleman, Brings Blockbuster, Amazon Content To Tv’s. Seems like the Digital Living Room is coming faster than predicted.
• Great Interview With Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire On The Future Of Online Video
• 10 SEO Tips For YouTube
• Social TV Is Harder Than We Thought. Here’s Another View On Cliqset. The near term future of Social TV seems better suited for Online and In-Theater.
• Paramount Launches Movie Trivia Game Site
• YouTube Monetizing Over A Billion Video Views A Week
• The Flip Video Camera Includes Direct Facebook Uploads
• YouTube Integrates Promoted Videos With Adwords
• This Is Why Apple’s iFrame Is A Bad Idea