A new study from Flurry Analytics shows that photo and video apps now account for the fastest growing category of apps, but YouTube may be suffering as a result.
Do Video Sharing Apps Like Viddy & SocialCam Threaten YouTube’s Dominance?
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews.
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Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. Unruly Media Raises $25M For Global Social Video Expansion
Global online ad spend is set to reach $110 billion by 2014 with video ad spend leading the pack, and social video advertising platform Unruly Media is positioning itself as one of the leaders in this arena. Wednesday they announced a $25 million Series A investment. The financing round clocks in at the largest ever for a private company in the social video space.
TwitVid Gets A Social Facelift, Now Feels More Like Twitter For Video
Starting today Twitvid is going from repository to social destination with a major facelift that takes the service to a whole new level.
Infographic Reveals What Makes An Effective Social Video Campaign…And What Doesn’t
Social video platform Jun Group has just released a new infographic that provides some insight into the emerging trends and usage patterns n social video. Some of the findings may surprise you.
Are Live Video Parties The Next Big Thing In Social Video?
Online video entertainment site ShortForm today announced the launch of a brand new feature that takes online video to a whole new social level. Live Video Parties are a new way to broadcast and watch VJ curated video channels live, while socializing with your friends.
ClipTogether: Bringing Social Video Production to Facebook [Interview]
ClipTogether is a nifty new Facebook application that lets you produce videos with the collaboration of your Facebook friends. CEO, Lior Tal, describes ClipTogether as a ‘social video production tool to create video clip movies with friends, edit them, and publish them on Facebook.’
The ChatRoulette Show Brings Random Interactive Video To Your Local Bar
ChatRoulette, that viral sensation that allows people to chat with random people, has spawned all types of unusual behaviour and business, and is about to be part of a unique theater-based event called The ChatRoulette Show. The show will use a live internet connection projecting an encounter with show performers as well as the live audience. The show will also have a drinking game component based on the different people they see. These types of new social experiences are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to live entertainment leveraging new social media, in my opinion.
Comcast’s Tunerfish: Foursquare For TV And Video Watching
Yesterday at TechCrunch Disrupt Comcast introduced a new and exciting feature that could change the face of the way we consume television and web video. Tunerfish is a social discovery engine for video content. It allows viewers to share what they are watching – on television or on the web – with their friends, as well as to discover video content that is popular within their own social graph. It’s like Foursquare for video watching, letting users “check in” with what they’re watching and share it with their social circles on Twitter, Facebook and beyond.
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A Look At The Past As The 1st YouTube Video Turns 5
Five years ago today, on April 23, 2005, the first video was uploaded to YouTube and a new era began. Many of you are probably thinking, “What? YouTube has only been around for 5 years?” These days the social video site has become such a huge part of our lives that we feel like it’s been around forever. Let’s take a look back at some of original uploads and see how we have changed in the last five years, since YouTube came into our lives. Surprisingly, we seem to be pretty much in the same boat as when we started out.
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