by Carrie Drisko.

Well, you couldn’t be further from the truth if you think YouTube is only for seeing and uploading videos. YouTube, in reality, has become something of a community in itself, where through posting and commenting, people interact and engage themselves in conversations.  This is why YouTube marketing is very crucial, and already most businesses are making the most of it.

YouTube marketing is also more than just a tool to market by triggering conversations or dialogues between users. But rather than merely knowing whether your video is liked or not, it can become a ground where you can know your users and their choices better.

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by Jack Mize.

As technology and consumer behavior continue to evolve, marketing tactics come and go. Twenty years ago, newspaper advertisements, the yellow pages, and similar platforms were considered marketing gold. Nowadays, much attention has shifted to the internet. And, in just the last two years or so, we have seen evolution in another direction: video marketing.

Utilizing video platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo, individuals and businesses have the ability to publish videos for a potentially unlimited worldwide audience to see. And while you, as a small business owner, may not be aiming to build an international fan base, there are several ways in which video marketing can benefit your business. Below are three of the biggest…

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by Amani Channel.

You’ve been thinking about producing a video for a while. You know you need to do it, and you’re ready to bite the bullet and produce your first one. How hard can it be to press record and talk to the camera, or record some footage?

Recording video itself isn’t hard. All you have to do is press that little button and have something in front of the camera. Right? Well, yes and no. Your first video production experience could be a nightmare if you don’t prepare for success.

from ADDPr.

Nowadays sending extremely targeted traffic for your website or blog is not truly that difficult to do. You will find all sorts of avenues to pursue. In terms of gaining traffic this may be both a good along with a poor thing. Why is this accurate? When you will find plenty of options, it is easy to get confused and to waste a bunch of time trying to figure out which strategies are best. Here’s some food for believed, though.

There is no single very best visitors generation method. The cause for this is simple – every web company, each website and every blog online is various. So what works for you, may not work for me, and vice versa. In the following paragraphs we are going to teach you the very best methods for leveraging YouTube to acquire traffic.

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by Grant Crowell.

Online retailers are responding to audience demand for more product videos.  The number of videos deployed by these retailers on both their websites and video sharing sites has tremendously increased from last year. Yet while a lot of e-commerce business depends on product page SEO, very few retailers are taking advantage of the huge opportunity of optimizing their videos on their Websites for search results.

Here I talk about the many advantages for retailers and e-commerce enterprises with doing Website Video SEO for their product pages, and 12 of my top tips for what every retailer can, and should, do!

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by Nick Stamoulis.

Marketing online is really all about the content.  The more content that is produced, the better the chances are of being noticed by the search engine spiders and by target audience members that are looking for what you have to offer.  Businesses get that, but what they sometimes don’t get is what this content should be.  They immediately think “text” when they think of web content.  Articles, blog posts, and white papers are great but they might not be reaching all of the right people.

Some people simply don’t want to spend their time reading, but they are much more likely to watch a short video that explains the exact same thing.  That’s why it’s important to include videos as a part of your content marketing strategy.  While it’s true that the search engine spiders are blind and can’t actually see a video, online marketing initiatives shouldn’t be done just to please the search engines.  It’s about your target audience and if they like watching videos, videos need to be created.

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by Michelle Hammon.

Video content is increasing the online activity of Australian consumers according to a new report that suggests start-ups need to ramp up multimedia efforts.

A report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealed that Australian internet users downloaded an average of 18.8 gigabytes of data per user during the 2010 December quarter, which is equivalent to 120 hours streaming of video content online.

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by Jeremy Scott.

Social video is essentially the spread of any video via social media. Brands are realizing there is more power in customers who share videos with their friends than in simple video views, which can be manipulated more easily and don’t demonstrate the same level of affinity and engagement.

But brands aren’t alone in tapping social media to spread a video message. In fact, cause marketing is one of the fastest growing trends in social video. And with today’s technology, individuals are as likely to see their cause go viral as brands or nonprofits.

by Jake Athey.

Way back in 2005, three young guys with a sense of humor came up with the brilliant idea for a central site for uploading and sharing homemade videos. Initially the intention was to create something away from the mainstream, a place for the regular people of the world to have their 30 seconds of fame.

Since then YouTube has become a behemoth of an entity with more than 14 billion videos viewed as of May 2010. Every facet of industry, religion, political ideology and age has discovered and used YouTube to convey a specific message. It is no longer just for the individual; YouTube is now regularly used by businesses small and large for the purposes of marketing.

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by Grant Crowell.

What exactly is “curation” and how does it relate to web video marketing? To find out, I spoke to several curation experts. They explain why they consider it the best way to blend work relationships between machines and human beings to deliver rich and relevant video content to your audience; and why those who expect to be successful web marketers will also need to learn how to be successful video curators.

What is Video Curation?

“Curation” is a word that’s traditionally been reserved for the likes of a director of an art gallery or museum – basically, someone with the professional expertise and recognition to qualitatively select, organize, and look after the items in a collection or exhibition. Steve Rosenbaum, founder of the video curation service Magnify.net and author of Curation Nation, has offered his own updated definition of a curator as “someone who is deeply familiar with their areas of expertise.”

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