28 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Creative Video, Educational Videos, Entertainment Videos, Fun Videos, Monetizing Video, Video Advertising, Video Business Models, Video Marketing
Information week reports that…
Online sales of Blendtec blenders have increased five-fold over the company’s old record revenue prior to the videos.
28 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Progressive Video, Video Hosting
Adobe spells it out. Here’s a summary.
When to Use Progressive Download
Progressive download is a perfect use for hobbyists or websites that have low traffic requirements and only need to deliver short videos. Customers who need advanced features and control over their video delivery—not to mention displaying video to large audiences (for example, several hundred simultaneous [...]
28 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Streaming Video, Streaming Videos, Video Hosting
From Adobe.
Streaming video with Flash Communication Server should be used in any situation where you want or need to do the following:
* Deliver long files—for example, video clips over 10 minutes long
* Deliver video to many viewers—for example, a hundred or more simultaneous viewers
[...]
28 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Online Video, Progressive Video, Streaming Video, Video Hosting
There’s a difference between progressive and streaming video. Do you know what it is? It’s confusing to say the least. The good news is that Adobe has a nice guide to telling the differences.
Here’s a summary.
Progressive Downloading
Pros and Cons
Keeping the video external and separate to the SWF file offers a number of benefits over embedded [...]
The official Google blog makes the announcement.
Since new videos are constantly appearing all over the web, it’s difficult to keep tabs on all of them. But now Google Alerts will make it easy for you to add video to your other Alerts: News, Web, Blog and Groups.
Video Alerts enables you to specify any topics or [...]
20 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Monetizing Video, Streaming Videos, Video Business Models, Video Sharing
The NYTimes reports…
NBC Universal said yesterday that it would soon permit consumers to download many of NBC’s most popular programs free to personal computers and other devices for one week immediately after their broadcasts.
The service, which is set to start in November after a test period in October, comes less than three weeks after NBC [...]
What I love about this video, and others like it, is that it’s very educational in a way that is easy to follow. Better than a talking head right? The master agrees.
I wonder how long it takes to shoot this video and prep all the drawings.
13 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Monetizing Video, Video Advertising, Video Business Models, Video Product Reviews
Beet.tv reports that Revver has paid out a cool 1 million to it’s video content producers last year. Nice! YouTube can’t be far behind.
Revver, one of the first sites to share revenue with with content creators has paid out $1 million over the past 12 months, the Los Angeles-based company said today.
The also linked to [...]
10 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Filming a Video, Online Video, Streaming Videos, Video News, YouTube
Check out the video below, directed by Steve Rosenbaum, my co-host of the Video Ninjas radio show. Listen to us talk about this video, and Steve’s 9/11 filming experiences, at 4pm live on Sept. 11th on Webmaster Radio.fm.
07 Sep
Posted by Jim Kukral as Video Sharing, YouTube

Grab the show MP3 feed, listen anytime!