Jason Abbruzzese says, “Google’s YouTube has acquired Directr, a startup aimed at helping small businesses create promotional videos. Directr markets a mobile app on iOS that provides small businesses with a way to create and publish videos. Details of the deal were not disclosed, but Directr is a relatively small operation, having only raised $1.7 million in funding. The company will integrate into YouTube’s video ads division. “Our small band of scrappy film lovers set out 2 years ago to help regular folks make great video. Today, we are incredibly excited to take the next... [...]

Priyanka Ravani says, “Are you looking for ways to increase your YouTube engagement? What if I told you, you can increase your YouTube traffic by a whopping 374%? But before I dwell any further on that, a small recap on the earlier infographic where I discussed the importance of incorporating videos in your social strategy. By making YouTube a part of that social strategy could, really accelerate your growth. YouTube is the third most popular site in the world and the second most popular search engine after Google. If you are still not convinced to incorporate this platform in your social... [...]

You probably know that YouTube allows you to embed other people’s videos in your website or blog. Sharing on your site is considered a sign of your appreciation of the video. Tube Jammer shows you how to go beyond simple sharing to create a steady stream of income from the videos you share, and to do it in “record time”. The potential is enormous; YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web. Every month, over 1,000,000,000 people visit YouTube. People like videos and they reward the person who gives them good videos. You can take advantage of this video appetite: • Without... [...]

Ray the Video Guy (by the way, notice his personal branding, which explains the focus of his business and implies he is an expert on video) wants to help you get your videos ranked in YouTube and Google, while steering you away from anything that will look manipulative and might get you banned for life from YouTube. He has built Video Ranking Machine. to show you how to use YouTube for its best impact. In this training, Ray offers to show you how to use videos: • To get to page 1 in Google easily • To get targeted traffic to your website • To save money by avoiding the costs of... [...]

Ray The Video Guy is offering to show you how to rank your videos high without doing things Google hates, so you avoid a horrible result, being banned for life from YouTube. Ray’s Video Ranking Machine will show you important SEO fixes for your video, like: • On-video optimization of title, tags and description • Off-site optimization without link buying that will get you banned. • Getting views from real people who buy This training was selected “WSO of the Day” Monday. And it’s still only $5. In most places that’s less than a Big Mac combo. Get... [...]

Stephanie Chan says, “YouTube may face some challenges as it moves toward the mainstream, but it isn’t standing still on the technological side. Here are eight new tools for video creators YouTube execs Matthew Glotzbach and Oliver Heckmann—the site’s director of product management and VP of engineering, respectively—previewed at the unofficial YouTube convention VidCon last week. A few are available now, but most are are still coming attractions. Keep your eyes peeled, YouTubers. 1. Sound Effects YouTube’s Audio Library already featured hundreds of free songs; now... [...]

Josh dickey says, “YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced a series of new features for both fans and creators at Vidcon on Thursday, including a massive crowd-sourced translation effort, a virtual tip-jar that supports contributions up to $500, direct connections between videos and crowdfunding sites and a mobile app from which YouTubers can manage and monitor their videos. Other new goodies for YouTube creators: An option for up to 60 frames per second (which will make video-game vloggers very happy), a free music and sound-effects library and a system for tagging contributors. Speaking before... [...]

Sandy DuPlessis has been involved in internet marketing for quite a while now, but she has tended to keep a low profile. In this time, she has been particularly interested in how to use video effectively. Many people have tried video, but there are some nuances that make a difference between “so-so” and “great”. Sandy has dedicated her attention to doing what would make her video marketing great. YouTube has changed a lot over the last two years. This has resulted in one new YouTube training product after another being created, then becoming outdated within two or three... [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “15 quick tips for a succesful YouTube strategy”. Christopher Ratcliff says, “The pace of social video sharing has almost doubled in 12 months and 42% of video shares now happen in the first three days of launch. This is according to new research from Unruly published today. The Social Diffusion Curve measures the lifecycle of a viral video. In particular the speed of social diffusion for the top 4,000 videos in social video, In April last year it was found that a quarter of the average online branded video’s shares... [...]

Sandy DuPlessis has just released the third generation of her YouTube marketing training and software package, called YouTube PowerSlam. This package has stood the test of time. Each new generation of this training builds on the last and adds new helpful techniques that can improve your video marketing using the free Yahoo video platform. DuPlessis says she has found in her research that up to 75% of viewers of a marketing video click through to the offer website at the end of the video. That potential means that giving your videos the best chance is really worth the effort. DuPlessis is giving... [...]