How To Turn Your YouTube Viewers Into Website Visitors

Okay so you want to get your piece of the YouTube pie and tube the YouTuber into your own site? Okay but first beware that not all videos will get you there! Read more

YouTube Cracks Down On Hot Stuff

YouTube has started cracking down on sexually explicit content on its site, the company announced today on its blog.

The world’s most popular video sharing site said it has started implementing stricter standards for mature content. “While videos featuring pornographic images or sex acts are always removed from the site when they’re flagged, we’re tightening the standard for what is considered ’sexually suggestive,’” YouTube said on its blog. “Videos with sexually suggestive (but not prohibited) content will be age-restricted, which means they’ll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older.”

In addition, YouTube will start “demoting” videos deemed sexually suggestive and those that contain profanity from its most viewed and top favorited lists.

Also, the site will select thumbnail images for videos via an algorithm rather than auto-generating them at predefined points in a video. That will remove the possibility of gaming the system, as some creators have done by including sexy images at those predefined points to become alluring thumbnails.

Google Is A Parasite

A rather annoyed Michael Grade, the executive chairman of UK TV company ITV, has called video sharing site YouTube a “parasite” that feeds off the content produced by broadcasters and production companies. Read more

Making Videos With Movie Maker

You don’t need expensive equipment or software to create videos promoting you website, goods or services to video sharing sites. Read on to see how tools within Windows will help you to make great videos.

You don’t need a camcorder to make home videos. Most digital cameras have a good quality video mode and some mobile phones let you record video as well. To transfer video you made need to remove a memory card and slot it into your computer. Alternitavely your device may be supplied with cable for transferring the footage. Read more

Internet Video Views Up Again!

To show the ever increasing importance of internet video figure recently released show how video viewing has increased over the last year and even the most recent month. One important fact, at the end of this post is that the average online video duration was 2.8 minutes, almost the optimum time for your own videos to keep viewers interest and drive traffic to your site. Read more

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