Here are some tips on what to do when producing video for the web;
Google indexes both web sites and videos, however with the volume of videos still being relatively low, it is easy to see your productions quickly rank on Google’s Video Search. There’s clearly an opportunity here if you have something to say that can be said with video. Oh, and hosting these videos on Google-owned …
Today I decided to take a look at the MSN.ca portal as I was looking for reviews of Glee, the new show I watched last night about a Glee club made up of misfits, trying to be cool in modern day America. Yes the show was entertaining, but that’s not the point of this post. When I got to the page reviewing the show on …
I use Twitter to do a number of things. I tweet about interesting articles I find online. I tweet about the weather when we have sever storms like last night’s tornadoes. I tweet about silly things, serious things, things of relevance to myself and my followers. The fact is I tweet about a lot of different things. Recently, there was a study done and published on eMarketer …
What a fun and inventive read from Mark Cuban….
Original Posting on Aug 8th 2009 10:20PM.
Rupert , you didn’t ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me.
First the good news. You can sell content on the internet. People pay for content on and off the internet every second of every day. It’s easy to do. If you do it right. …
Microsoft may not be making any upfront payment to Yahoo, but it will be paying heavily on the back-end to make the transition to powering Yahoo’s search engine. During Wednesday’s call, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said there would be “several hundreds—a couple of hundreds of millions probably” of transition costs over the next two years. A slide made public—and later taken down—at the company’s …
From CBC: Google Wave’s inbox, as seen on the Official Google Blog. In May, Google announced Wave, the company’s attempt to reinvent internet communication. Brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, the Australian creators of Google Maps, have been working on the project for the last two years.
On Sept. 30, Google plans …
According to the “Media Advertising Forecast” from MAGNA, nearly all media sectors will experience advertising spending declines in 2009.
Hardest hit will be traditional media such as newspapers, radio, magazines and TV, each falling by 14% or more.
Even the once-indomitable online ad space is faltering, with MAGNA expecting a 2.2% total spending decrease. …
Are people who search on Bing more commercial than Google searchers? According to a study by search-advertising network Chitika, visitors who arrive at sites from organic search results on Bing are 55 percent more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google.
Chitika looked at the clickthrough rates from 32 million ad impressions across its network of more than 50,000 …
A multicountry study from Lightspeed Research sheds light on how consumers use their mobile phones in the US, UK, France and Germany. Users in the US and UK were most likely to say they would be lost without their mobile device, at 49% and 30%, respectively. But US and UK users were also most likely to report “never” making voice calls.
In all four countries studied, making a mobile phone call …
Hi everyone. Well on June 7 my wife and I were in a taxi that was hit by a drunk driver. As such, we have been going through some rehab and treatments to fix us up. The result, no blogging the past month. I have taken this opportunity in the downtime to begin a redesign of the site. It will launch soon…so stay tuned!
Twubs is a new initiative that revolves around hasthags. More precisely, it revolves around meta-hashtags. A meta-hashtag is a classification system whereby users can attach a purpose to any given tag. For example, the hashtag #rr refers to restaurants, the hashtag #re alludes to events and so forth. Such a solution lets anybody come across disparate social media content in the same spot and access it effortlessly.
The average iPhone app has an engagement of 9.6 minutes per session and is accessed 19.9 times over its life cycle. This results in an average total use time per user of three hours and 10 minutes, according to Greystripe’s Q109 Consumer Insights Report which released data about iPhone app usage among its users, as well as user response to ads placed within iPhone applications.
According to a new study by iProspect, over half of internet users (52%) actively respond to display advertising on ad-supported websites. Among them, almost as many initially respond to an ad by conducting a search as those who click on the ad. Results from iProspect’s “Search Engine Marketing and Online Display Advertising Integration Study” suggest a closer relationship between search and online display than many marketers think, noting that internet users initially respond to online display advertising as follows:
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