Lessons Worth Sharing. Inside Upworthy's Viral Formula. Short and viral: two words that seem to be on every publisher’s tongue these days.
New publishers like Circa and NowThis News are trading in the traditional currency of media — expensive journalism — to produce content that plays to the new normal: quick bursts. Other publishers, like BuzzFeed and Cheezburger, zero in on the viral nature of the Web. And then there’s Upworthy, which paints itself as a sort of BuzzFeed for the thoughtful set. Think of it as a news aggregator for the viral age, a hybrid of The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed, that is socially aware and eminently sharable.
The topics are serious issues but are often presented in a light-mannered way, like this infographic on Santa’s carbon footprint. Maegan Carberry, a senior adviser to the company, said that it bills itself as “a library of awesome. The company’s social sharing approach (it has 816,000 Facebook likes and 44,000 Twitter followers in just nine months of existence) seems to be working. Image via Shutterstock. Video Curation Tips: How to Be a Successful Web Video Curator. In the final part of my interview with web video curation expert Steve Rosenbaum, we share some recommendations for you to gather and organize rich and relevant video content from multiple sources for your website – which can improve your search visibility and link popularity, and help you be a trusted source in your area of business or professional expertise.
Video Curation Requires Planning Good curation of video content does require having a strategy. And by strategy, I mean deciding how much effort you're going to put in doing manual research, viewing, reviewing, and vetting. Simply throwing up video content that might show up in YouTube or any search engine around keywords you're targeting is not curation. Why do I mention that? Think of curation as a human editing function, before you can rely on any tool to take that over for you. Here are some basic planning tips for doing video curation for your website: Video Curation – Content.
How to Optimize Long-Form Video Transcripts for SEO. Time and again online video publishers hear about the benefits of short-form video.
Simple and fun, yet engaging! When video moved online we favored this bite-size format for multiple reasons. Slow bandwidths made it easier to watch shorter videos. Also, from a production stand point, marketers, media and business were less intimidated by short video. After all, it’s far less scary to wade in the shallow end of the video content pool than dive in deep! There are two main strategies to get a page classified as a video page. VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos!
25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos. RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos.
With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration. Academic Earth Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. academicearth.org Big Think Video interviews with 600+ thought leaders in a range of fields. bigthink.com. WatchKnowLearn - Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students. New Anime Series – New Anime Releases. VideoLectures.NET - VideoLectures.NET.