Add Annotations to Your YouTube Videos

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Most businesses upload videos to YouTube but don’t take advantage of optimizing their video nor adding annotations. With annotations you can layer text, links, and hotspots over your video. Annotations allow you to add information, interactivity and engagement. For businesses, this means you can overlay calls-to-action directly in the video – adding a link back to a demo, download or registration. Annotations don’t just display on YouTube, they are also displayed in any of the embedded players. At minimum, you should add an annotation to request the viewers subscribe to … Continue reading

PromoJam: Highly Customizable Social Promotions

PromoJam

PromoJam 2.0 is a Social Promotions Management Platform for small, medium and enterprise businesses. PromoJam is now offering complete customization capabilities to every customer plan including their Basic, Advanced and Enterprise levels at affordable prices. All customers are able to launch completely customized promotions for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Websites and mobile. PromoJam Promotions Builder Features Turnkey Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest Social Apps / promotions builder Easily create Sweepstakes, Contests, Photo and Video Campaigns, Like Gates, Tweet-to-Unlock promotions, Quizzes, Engagement campaigns and more Visual design editor with completely customizable promotion templates … Continue reading

Enterprise Social Media Marketing Platform Features

Shoutlet

Shoutlet is a company that I’ve been wanting to write about for quite a while. Good friend Chuck Tobar stopped by our office last week and we had a lengthy discussion on enterprise social media marketing platforms and the skyrocketing growth and attention that Shoutlet is getting in the industry. Recently, friend Scott Bleczinski joined the Shoutlet board – Scott is one of the best sales executives I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with so I’m sure we’ll all continue to see Shoutlet leading the industry. Social Media Marketing … Continue reading

Equipping Your Business for Professional Videos

Business Video Equipment

We’ve been working the last few months on getting some video equipment for DK New Media. While we have incredible video companies that we have do the hefty lifting, from time to time, we’re finding that we want to record and mix video as well – and we want it to look professional. Our graphic designer is also well-versed at mixing video and audio so we went to work on finding some basic equipment to start. Keep in mind that we’re not starting a professional video agency, we’re just learning … Continue reading

Kaleio: A Global Workforce Social Network

Kaleio

If your primary motivation online is to connect and share information with other industry professionals, or to connect with clients and vendors, Facebook is quickly becoming unmanageable. Between the personal photos and advertising, it’s getting noisy. LinkedIn is still the place to be but Kaleio is looking to foster communication and connect professionals a bit differently. Their platform is laid out, without any clutter, into a newsfeed, a solutions posting board for QnA, an Events board, a Marketplace for posting opportunities or marketing your own, and even a Boardroom – … Continue reading

Why Your Business Videos Should be on Vimeo

Vimeo Pro

We love Vimeo Pro (that’s our affiliate link) and we encourage our clients to host their videos there for a number of reasons (in addition to YouTube). While YouTube has most of the video searches, the noise of crappy videos uploaded is simply ridiculous. It’s almost impossible to find what you’re looking for. With Vimeo, you may find your videos getting found and watched much more often – simply because it lacks all the noise. Vimeo Pro offers a simple annual price of $199 annually for up to 50Gb and … Continue reading