Today in our Video Ninjas radio show (live, every Tuesday at 4pm est on WebmasterRadio.fm) we talked about “how long it would be before every person could send and receive videos with ease through a cell phone”?

Well, Skype is making that reality happen faster. Story at Skype blog.
Skype and Dailymotion, an online video commuity, have [...]

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It’s happening already. The question is, will it work?

Classified ads in newspapers have been passe for years, thanks to the Internet. Now static classifieds could be on their way out on the Web.
The next big thing? Video classifieds — consumer-produced commercials that range from embarrassingly low-budget to masterful, with humiliating, somewhat amusing and compelling in [...]

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At least that’s what they’re calling over at Read/Write Web.
A report yesterday from Bloomberg says that Yahoo! is planning to revamp its online video offering by year’s end in an effort to compete with YouTube and MySpace TV. According to comScore, Yahoo! is actually third in the US in terms of total video streams, though [...]

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Adjustables is a new way to put ads in your videos. Very smart.

Adjustables are visual elements that float inside online videos, during the play out of the video content.
Check the demo on the site. Here’s an example, see the floating logo on the movie?

How does it work?
Step 1: The AdDesigner
The AdDesigner is the tool to [...]

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Update: Show went great. Hope you tuned in. Here’s the show feed to subscribe to.
Today at 4pm, live, on WebmasterRadio.fm, Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of Magnify.net, and myself, Jim Kukral, will debut our new radio show called Video Ninjas.
Video Ninjas is a show about the world of online video. Steve and I plan to have a [...]

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Came across an awesome new tool today called Video Post Robot. Video Post Robot allows anyone to upload your videos to multiple online video sharing, like YouTube, sites with the push of a button! It’s the one and only tool that supports Flash video sites - like MSN, Metacafe, Revver, Break, Brightcove and many others.
Video [...]

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Techcrunch breaks down the “ads in video” playing field by showing how all the top online video sharing sites are handling this type of monetization.

Coming up with a kick ass, scalable ad platform solution for social video that satisfies the needs of publishers, advertisers, and viewers is only a piece of the problem. While finding [...]

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Adrants catches a story about YouTube showing off it’s new in-video advertising unit.
It seems Google’s YouTube has debuted a new in-video style ad format. It’s not pre-roll. It’s not post roll. It’s a transparent banner that appears on the bottom of the screen several seconds after beginning of the video which the user can either [...]

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Chris Pirillo says that the only legitimate way to monetize video is through in video sponsorships.
The only effective (read: foolproof) way to monetize video is by matching and embedding sponsorship within the video itself - period, end of story. Relying on fancy-schmancy JavaScript and Flash overlays for complete monetization of video content is just… reckless. [...]

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