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SpeakerText wants to free all your words from the prison of your videos » Nieman Journalism Lab.
[T]he magazine already employs lots of cross-platform packages, including “Beauty Smarties”, who create make-up tutorial videos for seventeen.com and also contribute to the magazine.
“Video is huge on our Web site,” Jamison said. “Most months we have about one million video plays. We’re both creating video content off of the pages of the magazine, like beauty smarties, and creating new video content for the Web. We’re also encouraging advertisers to make videos.”
Seventeen‘s Jamison: Capitalizing On Multi-Platform Content – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY.
Wikipedia (
) is a great knowledge base, containing tons of text and lots of photos, but it’s lacking when it comes to videos, which are, well, quite scarce. This is all going to change in a couple of months, as Wikipedia has big plans for video; both in the sense of having more videos on the site, and letting contributors edit and annotate the actual videos. (more…)

“The added traffic comes from two sources, the first is the added video views created by adding discovered video to the site, which accounts for 40 percent of video plays,” said New York general manager Michael Silberman in the release. “The second source of traffic is from videos produced by NYmag.com; this is the hidden benefit of Magnify‘s platform—it creates significant and measurable value.”
The media agency Digitas is doing its part to ferry more money into the Web video business. It expects to book about 10 new advertising deals stemming from the “NewFront” Web video showcase it hosted along with its visit to the Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival, both in early June.
Buoyed by that success, the agency will now bring a smaller version of the NewFront to its regional offices and advertisers around the country starting this week. Joining Digitas in the mini road show will be DECA, EQAL, Next New Networks, blip.tv, CBS Interactive, Creative Artists Agency, Reveille and others, said John McCarus, VP and ground director for brand content at the Third Act, the branded entertainment arm of the media agency.
via Digitas Bullish on Web Series, Takes Its ‘Act’ On The Road.
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