3 Best Ways to Make a Viral Video

Making a short video about your business, products and services can be cheap and easy these days. But getting sustained buzz and views for it with the all the noise and competition of other viral videos is harder week by week.

Before you get started ask yourself how you can make best use of video to get your business out and get it noticed. Which way do you go, entertainment or education, humorous or informative. Once you get somebody’s attention how will they learn more about your business, will you have an information box on the video for instance. If the main purpose of the video, as it should be, is to build awareness about your business and drive traffic to your site then you need to plan your viral video carefully. Read more

Online Video Continues To Grow

Underscoring the importance of online video as a marketing tool for retailers, 62% of U.S. adult Internet users watch videos on YouTube and other video-sharing web sites, up from 33% in late 2006, the Pew Research Center says in a recent report.

The report also notes that viewing content on video-sharing sites has grown most sharply among younger Internet users since last year:

* Among Internet users 18 to 29 years old, 89% watch videos on video-sharing sites, up from 72% in 2008.
* Among Internet users 30 to 49 years old, 67% view content on video-sharing sites, up from 58% in 2008.
* Among Internet users 50 to 64 years old, 41% view content on video-sharing sites, up from 34% in 2008.
* Among Internet uses 65 and older, 27% view content on video-sharing sites, up from 19% in 2008.

The report, The Audience for Online Video-Sharing Shoots Up, is based on a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted from March 26 to April 29.

The report also notes that, among people who access the Internet with wireless devices, 71% visit video-sharing sites, compared to 38% of people who don’t access the web with wireless devices.

UFO At Inauguration Video

A video of what some speculate is a UFO flying over President Obama’s inauguration has circulated over the Internet.

The video shows an unknown object flying past the Washington Monument, as nearly two million people gathered to watch the inauguration.

Commentors on the video write that they aren’t convinced the object was a bird, due to its flat appearance and lack of visible wings.

So we will leave it to you to decide if those little green men couldn’t resist turning up for President Dbama’s inauguration just like another million people couldn’t resist either.

Internet Video Hits New Peak

Internet live broadcasting traffic in the U.S. hit a record peak this week with the President Obama’s speech. Millions of cubicle employees watched (or tried to) online video of the inauguration ceremonies. It was the most-viewed live video event in Internet history.

CNN.com fed 1.3 million live streams simultaneously. Over the nine-hours ceremony, CNN provided more than 21.3 million video stream. During the Election Day, it had ‘only’ 5.3 million streams.

CDN provider Akamai worked with New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Viacom and other outlets, reported a record-breaking day, feeding up seven million video streams at one time.

Despite these impressive raw figures, many people were unable to access video, and many Websites –we tried CNN, NYT, ABC, NBC- had trouble keeping up the overwhelming demand. Those frustrated users turn to old television to watch the speech.

CNN posted a note to visitors saying they were in line to receive a working stream.

However, CNN and other media explained that the viewing troubles may have been more a result of the limited Internet capacity coming to offices and houses, rather than a lack of overall bandwidth from the media companies.

The viewing troubles may have been more a result of the limited Internet capacity coming to offices and houses, rather than a lack of overall bandwidth from the media companies, according to Mr. Woodcock.

“The United States continues to suffer from less-than-robust bandwidth, due to inadequate government attention and limited competition between Internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast”, said an analyst in the New York Times. President Obama has acknowledged the problem.

Easy WordPress Video

Easy WordPress Video is a neat and useful program for embedding videos into your WordPress blog or WordPress based website. The program is downloaded and installed on your computer. Start thr program and locate your video on your hard drive. The video is then formated to a .flv video. The video was originally a .mpg on my hard drive. Read more

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