George Katsoudas has informed us that the price of his new WordPress plugin 1-Click Video Ranker WordPress Plugin will go up at the end of this week, just 3 days from now. This plugin allows you to tap into the 10 Billion daily page views that Google search results get and the preference it gives videos in those results. 1-Click Video Ranker WordPress Plugin creates text-based images and optimizes these images for search engines, and it does it all automatically. Specifically, it adds the proper “schema.org video markup” to your posts or pages that have an embedded video. This additional... [...]

You may be surprised to hear that you really can create top-quality, high-converting sales/promo videos on your iPhone. Joey Xoto, who may fairly be called a video-guru, is sharing some of his best video tips about how to avoid low-quality, ugly videos when using your iPhone. He just released his new iPocket Video training that shows you how to maximize your video quality on an iPhone. (And nearly all of this also applies to Android phones. ) Xoto has ben experimenting with iPhone videos and has found ways to get the most out of its video capability. He has found that all it takes to potentially... [...]

For nearly 6 years,George Katsoudas has been getting traffic from Google Images, a site many marketers have never heard of. But, Google Images receives over 10 Billion page views each day. That traffic is something marketers should pay attention to. If you have been doing much “googling” lately, you have probably noticed that Google often shows images higher on the page than the usual text results. If you have an image that shows up in search results,you can often have the first position in the SERPs (i.e., search engine results pages.) But of course, there’s the problem of creating... [...]

This fascinating new software, Video Alchemy, lets you turn any article, your own, PLR or curated from the internet, into a video. It works the way you want to work: • It’s Super-Fast It makes animated, talking videos (in any language) in less than 2 minutes. • It’s Easy To Use You will finish your video in just a few clicks, with an easy, responsive user interface. • It Finds Content for Your Video You don’t ever need to spend your time creating your content if you don’t want to. There’s a demo of Video Alchemy in action on the sales page. If you want to quickly... [...]

Richard Joyce says, “US online display advertising will grow from $19.8 billion in 2014 to $37.6 billion in 2019, at a compound annual growth rate of 13.7%. The offline ad market, in comparison, will grow at a modest 1% CAGR over the same period. Forrester just released the latest US Online Display Advertising Forecast report, which details why the online display industry will have video and mobile to thank for the double-digit growth rate: Video advertising will represent nearly 55% of online display advertising revenue on desktop by 2019. Its growth will be cannibalizing primarily static... [...]

Luca Paderni says, “Forrester’s Western European Online Display Advertising Forecastprojects that online display advertising spend will rise at a CAGR of 10.3% between 2014 and 2019, jumping from €7.3 billion to €11.9billion. Two factors will account for the double-digit growth rate: Mobile display will pick up quickly over the next five years, with tablet taking off full speed in virtually every European market. With their larger screen real estate and growing role in customers’ path to purchase, tablet-based ads will grow at a 40.5% CAGR over the period, attracting a third of... [...]

David Moth says, “Spending on digital video in Europe has increased by 42% over the past year, with agencies shifting budget from other digital channels to support their video activity. The survey, conducted by Adap.tv among 175 ad buyers and publishers, found that 48% of agencies have shifted adspend from display, 33% from print, and 10% from search. However there were still concerns around the ability to properly measure how many people are exposed to video ads online. Ad viewability emerged as the top concern for more than two-thirds (67%) of European agencies, while ad verification and ad... [...]

Total Video Takeover is still available, but you had better be quick. With millions upon millions of videos on YouTube competing for attention, getting yours noticed can take some doing. Getting your video to rank in search engines is often hard, but it is critical is you want to build your views and especially if you want to use the video to sell a product. Steve Benn and Simon Greenhalgh have updated their popular Total Video Takeover training to give you the best, tested techniques for getting your videos to rank. They have eliminated the techniques from the first editio9n that are no longer... [...]

Simon Greenhalgh and Steve Benn have just released a new version of Total Video Takeover, revised for 2014. Finally, it is now possible to create videos without having to spend thousands of dollars on expensive equipment and software. If you have been reading IM NewsWatch for the past few months, you have seen a lot of video tools being announced. • Instant Video Templates V2 • PressPlay • VideoMakerFX • Easy Sketch Pro But the key question is whether creating videos and displaying them on YouTube actually means they will be seen. To make sure you get traffic to your videos,... [...]

You only have one chance to create a good first impression on your site. If your home page has a poor video, the impression will be that you’re not a serious participant on the online marketplace. But if your have a video that impresses people with its sophistication, you can come out a winner. Because an attractively displayed video gets people’s attention, and then when they play it, the persuasive power of video can bring in a sale. Now, with the new video player from b>Mark Thompson and Matt Callen called PressPlay, you can showcase your videos in ways that draw people’s attention... [...]