Have you ever wondered how video content created exclusively for the web stacks up against broadcast TV content online? In an interview with Beet.TV, Stokes Young, Executive Producer of MSNBC.com, provides some interesting insight.
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. 
Before founding BuzzFeed, Jonah Peretti helped launch the Huffington Post. In part three of our “Media Beat” interview, the founder shares his experiences using social media to boost traffic.
“I don’t ever think, I’m doing that to increase my ratings,” said Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of the “48 Hours Mystery” broadcast on CBS News. In a recent interview with Social Times, Zirinsky explained how the television series about unsolved murder cases found a second home – and a new voice – on Facebook and Twitter.
Back in November, Cisco’s VP for Marketing and Emerging Technologies, David Hsieh, predicted that web video would soon account for a huge portion of Internet traffic saying, “Today over half of all Internet traffic is video—51 percent. And based on the current trends, we predict that in the next three years over 90 percent of all Internet traffic will be video.” YouTube’s head of global partnerships, Robert Kyncl, confirms in a speech at CES.
It’s obvious that the popularity of web videos has grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years, but what about the videos themselves? According to a new report from Website Optimization, the size of the average video has grown quite substantially as well—both in video size and in duration.
Web series pioneer Yuri Baranovsky talks about how he broke into the industry, his path to success and what advice he has to offer to others looking to follow in his footsteps.
Netflix has now come up with a solution for its users that face bandwidth data caps from the Internet providers. Netflix users having such caps can now choose between three different video stream qualities that consume 0.3 GB per hour, 0.7 GB per hour, and the best possible option that consumes upto 2.3 GB of bandwidth per hour for HD videos.
Video is acknowledged as a good way to engage visitors and increase the time they spend on your owned web and social media. When one thinks of online video, though, it’s primary as one-way broadcast or, perhaps, two-way chat managed by the host site. TokBox’s OpenTok enables brands to apply video in a more “social” manner — with interaction among visitors.
Let’s take a look at OpenTok and some of the ways it’s being used. Perhaps there’s a spark of an idea for you.
Good afternoon to Social Times readers across the globe. The weather seems to be shaping up (or at leas it is by me), which means most of you will be heading outdoors after work. However, before you do, be sure to take a look at the articles that made this week’s headlines list.
If you’re in Canada, be sure to take a look at Kelsey Blair’s Canadians Could Be Fined For Tweeting Election Results, But Can a Fine Stop Social Media? Also, if you are thinking about becoming a politician, would you post your house up on Facebook? Take a look at a politician that did in Katie Kindelan’s So This Politician Posted His House On Facebook.
Last June, a mysterious but heavily produced video surfaced on YouTube, capturing the attention of masses of gamers and action movie fans. It was eight minutes of heaven for admirers of the renowned video game franchise Mortal Kombat, as it seemed to be a preview of a rejuvenated story that failed to translate to cinemas years ago. While it was later learned that this was not part of a secret movie, fans have gotten something that may be far more entertaining.
