Videos - Cool Videos & Funny Videos

We are seeing more videos available as people see a clear business benefit to providing them. 

"Online videos are fresh, new and the easiest way to engage a website visitor,” said Dr. Martin Short, PhD. 

And it’s true:  84% of top advertisers believe that the use of online videos in corporate communications will increase in the next two years. 

And big media companies are getting in on the video action, too. 

Fox News online videos are appearing on the Wall Street Journal's site, while the New York Post carries some Journal videos. 

Businesses can benefit too. Using cool videos on your website and internet video marketing can improve your ranking and visibility in Google's search results. 

"Online videos are essential for businesses to create brand awareness and compete in today's Internet marketplace," said Jim Kukral, author of the guide and an Internet Video Marketing Specialist at Fathom SEO. 

Thomas and Guy-Manuel stated that “the online amateur videos of their performances were more compelling than anything captured professionally”. 

It also works in higher education. 

For people who cannot attend on-site classes, online classroom videos provide an EXCELLENT WAY of learning as well. 

The Federal government is taking note: Obama’s administration has partnered with Project ReadOn to provide captioning for all their online educational web videos. 

But while they are great in many ways, online videos are not suitable for dial-up connections, Web TV, Win 95, Win98 or very weak wireless connections. 

And at many of the sites we recommend, a username and password is required to access the videos, so new users will need to request a login.

We’ve gone ahead and posted some videos for your viewing pleasure.  Hope that they make more of these videos!  

In the race for dominance in the online videos space, YouTube is the clear winner and 800lb gorilla. 

But it’s hard to say just why YouTube has caught on and other services have not. 

This weekend’s announcement said that 60% of videos watched online are now served up by YouTube. 

“Not only are video results increasingly common in Google’s search results, but your videos stand a much better chance than your text pages of being shown on the first results page. 

If you compare the likelihood of a video result appearing on the homepage with that of a standard HTML result, indexed videos have roughly 50 times greater chance of ranking on the first page. 

Through my experiences YouTube is winning because it simple to upload a video and users do not have to wait for the video to be approved/moderated. 

With the demographic using YouTube, it’s all about instant-gratification, and so speed matters. 

Although YouTube is not a file sharing service like Napster, the similarities are striking in that the entire concept revolves around copyrighted material and no embedded advertising. 

If YouTube adds a 20 second commercial preceding each video, that 100mm videos viewed each day figure will fall by at least 50% and open the door for a commercial-free rival to steal significant market share. 

For YouTube there is absolutely no rush to change anything right now, because more embedded videos will create more traffic on the long run. 

Because of YouTube and other sites like the one mentioned, sports are being distributed to places where they have no access to digital TV and pay per view, etc. 

Videos hosted on YouTube, and other video sharing websites, do enjoy an advantage in that these sites have a pre-established page rank and authority to begin with. 

Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living. With the proliferation of camera phones, many videos are being shot by amateurs on these devices.

So pull together your YouTube videos, but remember one thing: do not post anything on YouTube you wouldn't want the world to see!