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YouTube Leads US Online Video Market with 28% Market Share

Nearly 75% of US internet users watched a video online (streaming or progressive downloads) in September, averaging three hours of video per person during the month, according to comScore’s Video Metrix. Google Sites, including YouTube, topped the rankings in both number of video viewers and videos viewed. Americans viewed more than 9 billion videos online in Sept., with Google Sites accounting for 2.6 billion videos viewed (28.3% share of videos), 2.5 billion of them at YouTube.com (27.6%): Click for details...

Making Sense Of Social Media Social media can be a bit daunting if you don't take a moment to make sense of it all. Each week there are more companies being funded and more mergers and acquisitions taking place as companies attempt to make sense of it all, but sometimes you want them to (quoting the Talking Heads) "Stop Making Sense" and just help us understand what's going on here. To understand the landscape you need to break social media down into its elemental pieces. As I can see it, social media as a blanket term is the one category that overlaps the most with other categories in emerging media, further making it difficult to sort through. Click for details...

Online Ad Spend by Industry - January 2008 Online Ad Spend by Industry - January 2008 Note: Nielsen Online’s AdRelevance service uses a proprietary methodology for estimating online advertising expenditures and takes into account only image-based technologies and advertising sold per CPM. Above data does not reflect house advertising activity, strategic partnerships between publishers and advertisers, or text units, paid search, sponsorships, email, units contained within applications (e.g., messengers and pre-rolls) or performance-based advertising. Click for details...

Clinton Outspent By Obama Online

HILLARY CLINTON'S CAMPAIGN CAME UNDER fire for spending extravagantly after disclosing it had dished out $25,000 for luxury rooms at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and $100,000 on party platters in Iowa, among other expenses last month. But in spending on online social media and advertising, Clinton was easily outstripped by Democratic rival Barack Obama. Not a big surprise, given that Obama has run the most effective online campaign among the 2008 presidential candidates. Of the $32 million he raised in January, for example, $28 million came from online donors. Click for details...

The Business Face of Social Networking

You’ve got a Web site, a blog, and maybe even an RSS feed. Think you’re done with Web 2.0? Think again. Social networking sites—community-driven Web sites that aim to connect friends and colleagues into an interwoven fabric of a network—should be next up on your business agenda. The sites can help you find referrals, vet ideas, get advice and more—usually for free. When it comes to social networking for business, we’re not referring to MySpace, FaceBook and other online popularity contests where teens and 20-somethings (plus 30-somethings who wish they were still 20-somethings) post embellished or embarrassing tidbits about themselves in the name of “connecting” with friends and strangers. (Though it doesn’t hurt to have a presence there, if that demographic is your target market). Click for details...

Video Search & Relevance: Important Bedfellows

As I wrote in last month’s column, video offers enormous opportunity for local SMBs (Small/Mid-sized Businesses) to market online more effectively. Admittedly, some folks differ with that point of view. For example, one commenter wrote that “although the technology exists for businesses to deploy video online, SMBs can’t compete with big brands on creative work.” This person argued that it will take more than lowering the barrier-to-entry cost of video for SMBs to compete with bigger brands. I beg to differ. Why? From what we have seen, successful online video advertising involves more than glitzy, expensively-produced commercials. Successful video ads offer relevant, informative, and authentic content about a brand, product, and service: In short, the type of content that search engines love. Also, SMBs have the mobility, which larger competitors may lack, to optimize and adjust their videos for greater relevance, ultimately making them even better for search engines. Click for details...

Ad Auto Dollars Driving To Net

WORLDWIDE AUTOMOTIVE ADVERTISING REVENUES WILL stay at the $40 billion level for the next four years, according to a recent survey by a Princeton research group. But the Kelsey Group says there will be a shift among the media for those dollars. One of the few growth areas expected is the Internet, climbing from 5% in 2007 to 13% in 2011. Overall, the Internet will grow 27.5% over four years to $5.3 billion. Click for details...

Six of Ten Consumers Have Watched Online Video Ads

Some 59% of online consumers surveyed said they have watched online video ads, and more than half of those viewers said they took action (e.g., visited a website, bought something) in response to the ad, according to The Kelsey Group. The findings are from the “Online Video: A New Local Advertising Paradigm” report, part of the ongoing User View study of consumer usage of traditional and online information sources to find and locate local businesses. Click for details...

More Data in Support of Streaming Video

Google and AOL teamed up to commission a survey from TNS Media Intelligence, that shows favorable user and advertiser metrics for online video. This is important to understand because it demonstrates the adoption and expectation of online video for people who are looking for more information about an advertiser's products and services. The trend is steadily moving more and more in favor of online video to help a business separate and differentiate themselves from their competitors in their marketplace. A few high-level data points are: 75% of users watch more online video than they did one year ago, and 52% expect to watch more over the next year. 78% feel online video ads offer as much or more capability than television to learn about an advertiser. 63% say they prefer video advertising in order to keep content free. The survey also measured response rates from online video, coming up with numbers similar to those in TKG's User View (results in past post). Specifically 64% of the TNS study respondents claimed taking action after viewing online video. 44% went to a Web site, 33% to a search engine, 22% to a physical store, and 21% discussed with friends). This supports something we've said many times... online video combines the traditional strengths of video advertising (entertaining, informative, ability to elicit emotional response), with the direct response capabilities of the internet. Copyright - The Kelsey group. All Rights Reserved. Click for details...

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Graphic Charts & Stats Supporting Streaming Video Below are various charts, graphs, and statistics that will help you get a solid understanding of how the U.S. marketplace is adopting Online Video. U.S. Streaming Video Market Overview Demographic Profile of U.S. Internet Users Who've Streamed Online Video 75% of Internet Users Viewed Online Video - nearly 2.5 hours per viewer Key U.S. TV and Internet Metrics Click for details...

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0 Case Studies & White Papers for Streaming Video

These case studies & white-papers reveal real-world examples of how other businesses (like yours) are successfully using Streaming Video to improve their company's communications and marketing that grows their bottom-line. You MUST be logged in as at least a FREE MEMBER to access these documents.

60 Real-World Video Examples

Check out these video examples of how other companies (like yours), business professionals & owners, and entrepreneurs are using the power of Video Email Marketing, Video On-Demand, and Live Online Video Broadcasting, plus much more to grow their business and control their marketplace.

Use these real-world examples to gather creative ideas that you can implement in your own business. You are limited ONLY by your own imagination.

0 Spreadsheets & Calculators

Your instant access to powerful marketing & sales spreadsheets and calculators to help you quickly and easily manage your bottom-line more effectively.

0 Step-by-Step & "How-To" Marketing Blueprints

Use these Step-by-Step guides to learn "how-to" launch successful marketing campaigns using Streaming Video to help you separate your business from your competition.

Also, discover how you can operate your business more efficiently and easily cut your marketing costs significantly.

0 Templates & Graphics Packs

Ready made, professional graphics and templates that you can customize and immediately begin using in your web marketing efforts. Headers, footers, buttons, squeeze pages, mini-sites, landing pages, opt-in boxes, and more. Keep checking back because we are constantly adding to this section as our designers create new and innovative pieces for you to use.

0 Slide Presentations

In this section of the library, you will find downloadable versions of various Powerpoint & Flash Slide Presentations. Use these resources to regularly review the various Web2.0 & Streaming Video Marketing Strategies that are taught.

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0 Advanced Marketing Strategies (made Easy)

Here are many Advanced Strategies that you can easily and effectively implement in your business to help explode your revenue and increase your marketing results. Many of these strategies will require that you have a basic understanding of online marketing and the various resources and tactics available.

Note: It is strongly recommended that you do not implement these advanced strategies until AFTER you have successfully implemented several of the strategies suggested in the BLUEPRINTS and MINDMAP sections above.