Like I said in the beginning, just take a look at YouTubes traffic and then you can figure other traffic video sources of video sharing websites that can generate traffic to your video.

“Fully 62% of adult internet users have watched online video on a video-sharing website, a figure that has nearly doubled from 33% in 2006, according to a research report (pdf) from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project, which also found that 19% of online adults use video-sharing sites on a typical day (compared with 8% in 2006).

The April 2009 survey found that video watching among young adults is near-universal, with nine in 10 (89%) internet users ages 18-29 now saying they view content on video-sharing sites (up from 72% in 2008), and 36% do so on a typical day.”

Let’s take a quick example. Let’s say you repair XBOX 360s for a living and you want more exposure. Look at this video in YouTube when you type in Xbox 360 repair.

Its got 317,719 views and over 560 comments. Now, I haven’t watched it but this alone can be a great source for branding OR, you can even edit the video possibly and try to charge for advertising if you can generate a good amount of daily views!

Since universal search has come into play in the SERPs, it has also become a vital part of your online marketing efforts. Social media sites have given many the opportunity to go viral fairly quickly if you have some real good, informative, or basically anything that will “catch on” content.

I won’t write a long post, but if you have a video, it’s time to try and submit it to as many places as you can.

Here is a list of video submission sites you may want to upload your video to:

1) YouTube

2) (No longer working link: updated 10/23/2009) Blinkx.com

3) VideoDumper

4) Google Video

5) Snort

6) MetaCafe

7) Break

Daily Motion

9) Yahoo Video

10) Revver

11) Vidilife

12) ZippyVideos

It is one of the video’s that you think only the discovery channel or national geographic would have, but that is the beauty of video online. Anyone can capture amazing things as the world has for years, but now it is so simple to make it seen by literally millions of people.

If you’re an animal lover like myself, you may want to close your eyes while watching this video but at the same time, appreciate the nature of it. This is mother nature at its best.

The video space is part of what is social media because of its interaction but also because many videos and as technology advances and gets easier to use, more and more people will make video for the web. But what happens when you go to YouTube? YouTube is basically the largest search engine for video on the web so you have to search for what you are looking for. Like many search engines that are coming out as well as many social networks, we will begin to see the video space be segment by category.

Let me give you an example. GodTube, reported by ComScore, was named the fastest growing U.S. website in its first month of launch. GodTube, as you can guess by the name is a video site to watch videos on religion. What a great idea to segment this space out (the religious space) to have its own site.

In 2008 and into 2009, we will see video sites segment into comedy, sports, politics, and broken down into even more targeted specific social issues, etc.

These video segmentation sites will also bring about good advertising opportunities for advertisers to target specific demographics as is being done with Facebook which we will also begin to see more of a segmentation of social media network sites through 2008. MyChurch.org is considered the Myspace for christian individuals. We have seen this segmentation in the dating space with sites such as JDate.com, which was made for jewish singles. Also, we have seen the social network space segment itself into the pet space with Dogster.com, Catster.com, and a few others.

As ANY bubble eventually burst, the web 2.0 bubble is growing. Search engines (Google) and social media sites (Myspace, Digg, Facebook) are changing the landscape of the internet.

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You may look at this clip and think…”this guy is an idiot”…well MAYBE NOT. As dumb and ridiculous as this video may seem, it has been a genius marketing tactic by this guy. He had videos prior to this and this just took him all the way to the top with MILLIONS of YouTube views and appearances and publicity on late night shows like Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel.

Now, If he knew a bit about online marketing, this guy could have made thousands of dollars over night with this video through ads, etc. I may just start thinking of crazy videos to put up on YouTube and chart my results here.

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE?

Nike released thier new commercial this weekend in thier “leave nothing” campaign. I have to say, this commercial is insane! If you get a chance, watch it in HD somewhere. They (Michael Mann) did a great job at actually taking us inside the field. Maybe a similar concept has been done before, but this commercial takes it to another level.

As Marketing Daily reports (Media Post), ” The company says this year’s version, themed “Leave Nothing,” “captures the essence of football–pouring heart and soul into every day and every play, leaving nothing on the field by game’s end.”

A report by the Online Publishers Association, shows online video ads are leading to sales. The world is adapting and understanding Web 2.0, which video is becoming one of its most powerful components.

OPA reports, “The study shows the value of video ads on quality content sites, finding that consumers are more likely to act on ads they see on media sites, versus portals or user-generated content (UGC) sites. Over one-third of consumers on magazine (38%), newspaper (37%), and online-only news (35%) sites say they have searched for more information after watching a video ad, while about one-quarter did so after watching an ad on a portal (27%) or UGC (24%) site. About one-quarter of consumers on magazine (29%) and online-only news (26%) sites went into a store to check out a product after viewing a video ad, while only 17% on portal sites and 14% on UGC sites did so. About one-in-five consumers on local broadcast TV (21%), national broadcast TV (19%) and cable TV (19%) sites requested more information after viewing a video ad, while only 16% on portal and 14% on UGC sites did so.”

Online video is becoming an incredible branding tool online through the web. Video editing software such as Windows Movie Maker or Apple’s movie editing software has made it easy for a business to make a decent video commercial to promote or sale a product.

There will be a growing number of opportunities of marketers in the online video space as the net and its technology evolves, and thats really one place we’re headed now, besides the virtual online world.

Dove Evolution

You might have already seen this, but those of you who haven’t, I thought this was REALLY cool. This is a commercial called, “Dove Evolution”, a 75-second viral film created by Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto, was uploaded to YouTube on Oct. 6, 2006. Since than, it has been played more than 4 million times, got TV and Print media exposure, one of the most blogged about videos and more links than you can imagine. This was a campaign for real beauty for women and only cost about $50k to make! 4 million views and for $50k…good tradeoff?

MarketingVox stated, “The numbers that will definitely grab advertisers’ attention is that a 30-second spot for the 2006 Super Bowl cost $2.5 million, but there was no cost for Dove to upload “Evolution” to YouTube”

Slob Evolution:

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To me, this guy is one of those people that can not only see the future, but helps build it. His vision is one many in Business pay attention to because he’s got a good proven track record. His reputation proceeds him as a “bad-boy” as owner of his NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks. When it comes down to business, Cuban is one in a million.

Cuban spoke at the Congressional Future Of Video Hearing. Thought everyone should give it a listen…see what you think.

Cuban gets a little technical with the argument on current bandwidth situations. He also talks about the evolvement of the internet becoming web 2.0 mentioing Myspace, Facebook, Digg, etc, “not technological breakthroughs, advanced programming”. He finishes, “reality is, technology improves where theres great opportunity, …where its happening is in aquisition devices for digital video.”