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December 10, 2009

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Article – Clickable Links and Email Forms in Video

One of the most popular uses for digital video at the moment is for viral videos.  YouTube and other sites are full of them, and they seem to be an effective way of gaining attention for advertising, a cause or you personally.  Often these videos have clickable links or an email form embedded in them.  If you have ever wanted to learn how they did it, now is your time.

Traditional marketing methods are slowly losing ground.  People are becoming “ad-blind” where they are tuning out advertising and not clicking through or otherwise converting.  This is causing the advertising and marketing fraternity to think again, and one of their new weapons is the viral video.

Having a clickable navigation option right next to a video call to action is bound to create more conversions to any production.  Making it happen is actually easier than you might think, which is why you see so many of them.

I use a program called Veeple.  You do have to pay for it, but it isn’t much, and the service is excellent.  They specialize in video interactivity and have a number of useful tools for the budding video marketer.

One such tool is the interplay API, which is currently free to use.  It adds a layer to any video within which you can add your interactive options.  This can be a web link, email form, email address link or whatever you can think of.  The beauty of the tool is that the API lets you do almost anything you want to that layer and it doesn’t affect the video.

The website cites an average 24% clickthrough rate on videos that uses the technology, but don’t offer the data to back it up.  Whether it’s true or not, it is an excellent way of adding that little something extra to your productions.

To use it, you simply sign up for the free use of the API and load your video onto it.  It will add a layer at any given point during the file and asks you what kind of interactivity you want.  A simple HTML link is added in seconds and you will be able to check it before it is saved into the file.

The more creative amongst you will be able t take this a little further, turning videos of web pages into actual web pages, or items in the background into clickable items and so on.  This adds a completely new dimension to video editing and one I get pretty excited about.

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Starting A Career In Professional Video Production

If you have always wanted to be a film maker and create videos and films for TV, professional video production is the career for you. Video production careers are easy to come by, but actually becoming successful is entirely different. You can choose from various kinds of professional video production including TV, corporate, and online.

When you start out in professional video production you will need to complete a degree. Many video directors and producers don’t, however, and still manage to make a success of their chosen profession. The key to becoming a success lies in your project choices, who you know, and how to get involved. Here are a few tips that you can use if you want to get a career in the video production industry.

Look at Lots of Productions: This means that you should watch television shows and documentaries to see how they are made. You can analyze different videos and films to understand the concepts of editing, sound, camera movement, and lighting to create different effects and moods. Directing skills also play a huge part in this, so also look at how different show are directed including reality TV, game shows, films, and more.

Get Equipment and Practice: Once you have figured out the main aspects of video production, you can start doing your amateur footage. This is just to practice, but where possible get a good camera, tripod, and practice some lighting designs. You can also get a few friends together to help you.

Join a School or Take a Course: If you are really interested after trying it out to pursue this as a career, look for a course. Studying goes a long way to helping you break into the industry. It will give you the practical details and technical information that you need to be taken seriously as a film maker. You can find schools online, take courses at a film college, study at a university full time, or take a few night classes. These all allow you to develop your skills.

The Job Options: Once you have learned all the technical aspects of video production you will have a better idea of what job you want. You don’t have to go into full on video production as a director. You might prefer the lighting jobs or jobs as a sound editor. You could choose to be the production manager if you prefer to organize the shoots. You have numerous other video production jobs to choose from.

Plan Your Show Reel: The only way you will get a job in video production is if you produce a show reel. This is a length of taped footage that will encompass your techniques and talents. It can contain different kinds of video production excerpts that you have done, and should cover every aspect of video that you enjoy. This footage should be created specifically for your show reel.

Get a Job: Now that you have all the information and details needed, you can go and get a job in video production. You can find plenty of production companies in your area that specialize in corporate videos, TV and media, advertising, and online video production.

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In the web video world, it usually takes the words “off the record” for a journalist to get any real understanding of what things cost. But for GigaOM Pro this week, we tried out some other words — “completely anonymous” — and had a bit of luck. The producers of a multi-episodic web series allowed us to publish a complete copy of their production budget today, which offers an unfiltered look at the realities of the sort of low-budget production currently happening in the online video world (as opposed to 2007, which was the last time we tried to answer this question).

Getting $30,000 to produce a multi-episode web series on a professional level isn’t bad at all, and seeing where the costs break down is fascinating. How much should you spend on catering? Almost as much as the cost of props and wardrobe combined. How do you keep the costs of renting a location down? Shoot in only one place. And if one of the producers doubles as the lead actor, well, that’s a great way of making sure you only have to pay him once.

We dig into the details, and provide the complete balance sheet, over at our subscription research service GigaOM Pro. The most notable thing about the budget was that it wasn’t much different from those I’ve seen in the film and TV world, except web budgets are missing a few zeroes, and a lot was being done for a relatively little amount of money. How long might it be before that’s no longer the case?

November 23, 2009

Apple and Android pretty much own

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Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic

Posted on 23 November 2009

by Erick Schonfeld on November 23, 2009

When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob’s October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it tracks. That number is up from a combined 65 percent in September, 2009.

The iPhone is miles ahead of everyone else, but Android is quickly rising as a strong second. While Android phones managed to increase their share from 17 percent in September, 2009 to 20 percent in October, 2009, the iPhone and iPod Touch gained even more, going from 48 percent to 55 percent share. Meanwhile, during that same month the Blackberry ’s mobile Web traffic share went down from 14 percent to 12 percent, and Palm’s webOS shrank from 10 percent to 5 percent (Ouch).

On a global basis, the iPhone OS now accounts for 50 percent of all mobile traffic, up from 43 percent the month before. Android has an 11 percent global share, which makes it third globally after Nokia/Symbian’s 25 percent share. The U.S. makes up 49 percent of all the mobile Web traffic, according to AdMob’s stats. Thus strength in the U.S. translates to strength in the worldwide numbers.

As major new carriers come onboard, the numbers can shift dramatically. Since Verizon launched the Droid two weeks ago, that single device now makes up 24 percent of all Android mobile Web traffic. The HTC Dream, which is the oldest Android device, is the only one with more, at 36 percent of Android traffic. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Droid passes that within the next two weeks.

AdMob was recently acquired by Google for $750 million. Hopefully, it will continue to share this mobile market share data in the future.

September 30, 2009

Microsoft Invests in Execs, and Their Homes

Filed under: Tech — jaredrosario1984 @ 8:09 am

It is smart and wise to teach teens about money. If you let your teen get a savings account to start to save money at an early age then it will encourage them to make good decisions money wise. It is important to teach teens how to save money and teach them the difference between good debt and bad debt. A savings account will also teach your teen the importance of saving money. They will have fun watching the balance grow each time they put in more money to the savings account.

Teens can learn at a early age how much they can afford to buy. They will understand the difference between expensive clothes and reasonable priced clothes. It is important for them to understand how to buy the most items possible with their money at a early age. It will help them realize that it isn't worth it to waste money on expensive stuff that they don't really need. Teens who learn how to manage and save money when they are young will most likely grow up being a responsible adult money wise. They probably will have not much debt due to learning how to properly manage money in the beginning. Here are five tips for teaching teens about money.

1. Open up a savings account for the teen. This will give him or her a excellent start in being able to start to save money. Savings accounts are often free with no monthly fees for a teen since they are a minor child. After a few years or more of saving money during the summers then he or she might have a enough money to buy a cheap car when he or she gets their drivers license. The goal of saving money for a car might encourage them to save even more money.

2. Show them how to manage money in their savings account. Have them write down on a piece of paper how much money they put in the savings account and minus any money that they took out from the savings account. This will help teach them the skills on how to manage a checking account in the future too.

3. Teach them the importance of goals. Have the teen write down a list of any certain items or special gifts that they would like to buy with their money and set a reasonable date for the goal to be accomplished by. This will help them feel better about saving money since they will have something to work toward. This will help them feel like they have accomplished something with their money by setting goals and accomplishing it.

4. Help the teen to figure out how much more that he or she would need in order to accomplish a certain goal. In order to do this you need to figure out how much money that need to put into their savings account each month in order to meet the goal. This is a learning experience for the teen since it is most likely their first savings account. You can write how much money that would need to save each month and then figure out how long it take for them to earn that amount of money.

5. Once he or she has mastered the process of being able to manage a savings account then when the teen gets a little older then you could open up a checking account for the teen. Most banks allow minors to open a checking account as long as an adult is also a signer on the checking account. A checking account will probably make the teen feel more grown up since it is more responsibility and a big step in preparing to be an adult person.

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Microsoft’s top brass took a pay haircut last year because of the weak economy, but one executive got a nice perk as part of his hiring by Microsoft, according to a company proxy filing with securities regulators.

That executive, Microsoft business division president Stephen Elop, received a whopping $4.1 million in relocation expenses for the fiscal year ended June 30. That amount included the usual travel, shipment of household goods and other costs, but it also reflected a deal Elop cut with Microsoft when he joined the company in January 2008 under which Microsoft agreed to purchase Elop’s former home in pricey Silicon Valley, where the executive was previously chief operating officer at Juniper Networks.

As part of the agreement, Microsoft agreed to purchase Elop’s old house at a price equal to the average of three independent appraisals if he couldn’t sell the place within an agreed upon time. If the average appraisal came in below what Elop originally paid for the house, adjusted for home improvements, Microsoft promised to pay Elop the difference. He got another sweetener in the form of a “tax gross up” from Microsoft–a reimbursement from the company on any individual income stemming from the real estate transaction.

Since the California real estate market tanked during that time, Microsoft ended up as the owner of Elop’s house, later selling it at a price “significantly below” Elop’s original purchase price, Microsoft said in its proxy. In addition to the $4.1 million Elop got last fiscal year in relocation expenses, the filing says he received a $1.2 million tax gross up.

Microsoft said in the filing that it also purchased and resold the former homes of its CFO Chris Liddell and COO Kevin Turner in previous years, though its expenses related to those transactions were significantly less than they were for Elop.

In their pay, Microsoft’s executives felt the sting of the weak economy, which was a big factor in the company’s first-ever decline in annual sales last fiscal year. All of its top executives saw drops in total direct compensation in fiscal 2009, mainly because of a decline in stock awards. COO Turner was the hardest hit, seeing a 37% decline to $8.6 million in total direct compensation in fiscal 2009 from $5.4 million the prior year. (Mr. Elop’s compensation rose between fiscal 2008 and 2009, but only because he joined Microsoft midway through fiscal 2008.)

In its filing, Microsoft said its “compensation decisions for fiscal year 2009 reflect the difficult economic environment, the impact of that environment on company financial performance, and the degree of success each executive officer achieved in meeting these challenges.”

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