10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About. Though it has some competition, YouTube remains the premier video site on the web. With a staggering amount of videos uploaded every day, some people even make a living from the service. 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube 10 Video Sites That Are Better Than YouTube Here are 10 great alternatives to YouTube, although the "better than" is obviously open to debate... Read More No matter if you’re a casual YouTube user or go looking for the craziest channels you can find, there are all sorts of ways to tweak YouTube to make it just right for you. Let’s look at some URL tricks to get more out of the service. 1. Link to Any Part of a Video Typically, when you copy a link to a YouTube video, it starts from the beginning. You can do this in a couple of ways. Youtube.com/watch?
Can be shared 90 seconds in using this URL: youtube.com/watch? 2. YouTube is a great place for listening to music, especially video game music. Youtube.com/watch? To this to loop it: youtuberepeater.com/watch? 3. 4. 5. Convenience Trumps Social Features for Online Video Viewers. Online video viewing is on the rise around the world. In the US, eMarketer estimates 158.1 million internet users will watch video online at least monthly in 2011, up from 145.6 million last year. And at least one in five web users across the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Spain told Accenture in March 2011 they were watching more video on desktop and laptop computers than a year earlier. The survey found that convenience is the key to online video viewing around the globe. Two in five internet users surveyed said the ability to catch up with episodes by pausing and watching at their leisure was the most important feature of online video.
Another 24% said being able to use online video like a personal video recorder was the top feature. Interactivity and social features were the least popular choice, cited by only 11% of internet users. Video viewers also indicated their priorities when asked about the frustrations that remain with online video. Content Marketing: Why Video Works. Posted by Shelly Kramer on April 5, 2011 · 8 Comments People. Love. Video. Not yet sure you’re buying it? ComScore’s video matrix, published December, 2010, reported that some 89 million people in the United States are going to watch 1.2 billion videos. Not this year.
They’re going to watch 1.2 billion videos today. comScore reports that there are some 180 million online video viewers every month, which is 85% of the entire Internet audience. Not impressed yet? How about this – more video is uploaded to YouTube in 60 days than all 3 major US television networks produced in 60 years. Google gives businesses 1.9 billion reasons to start integrating video into their marketing efforts – as that’s the number of viewing sessions generated on Google sites alone, with YouTube ranking as the top online video content portal, with some 145.8 million unique viewers. Yahoo follows that with an impressive 61.8 million viewers. Video can boost click-thru rates and compel action. Photo credit: TIHAN. 26 Ways to Engage With Customers Using Video. Are you using video to connect with customers and prospects?
Videos will enhance client communication and collaboration, and help support and drive new business. In this post we’ll cover 26 ways you can engage and interact with your customers by using video in several different forms. Like its predecessors in the five A-Z guides published here on Social Media Examiner—Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and Lead Generation—we’ll cover a lot of territory and introduce solutions to give you ideas about where you may want to spend time exploring video options for your business.
A to Z Guide to Using Video #1: Apple’s FaceTime Apple’s FaceTime has created an important new option for video calls. You can use FaceTime on a Mac, iPhone and iPad2. Sameer Patel of the Sovos Group says, “Whether it’s for customer or employee communication… voice, video, conferencing and virtual meetings are front and center to how organizations look at collaboration.” #2: Behind the Scenes #3: Case Studies #5: Email. How To Make Your Videos Look More Professional – The Steve Jobs Way… Sometimes it’s just nice to create some great looking videos. Like the kind of videos that Apple creates – yeah those ones with the beautiful pure white backgrounds with superb clarity!
Somehow, having a nice clear and clean white background just makes your video look so much more professional. Today’s video shows how to pull it off on a reasonably affordable budget. I show you what I use, and then I also talk about some other even more affordable options. It’s just proof once again that you don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on setting up your own studio to be able to create professional looking videos. Another great benefit of having a clear white background is that it removes clutter, and “opens up” more space for you to add other stuff into.
The bottom line is that the more professional your videos look, the better chance you have of influencing your audience. Then, all that is left, is to make sure your actual content is compelling! Talk to you soon. Okay. Ok.