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On this week's look at The Reel Web, there's not a whole lot to talk about, actually. That
and not a whole lot more coming up this week on the
Reel Web. Hey, guys! My name is Tim Schmoyer. Welcome
to another week of the Reel Web, where every week we
just highlight for you guys some of the online video news from the week before, assuming
that there was some.
And guys, this is like the first time I've sat down to my RSS reader and gone through
all the online video news and blogs and websites and forms and
everything that I follow, and there wasn't really a whole lot
to cover here from last week that we haven't already covered in previous episodes. Usually
it's the other way around, where I have like 15 stories,
and I try to condense it down to six and end up settling with 12
and just trying to rush through them really fast so this doesn't turn into like a half
hour long video. But that's not the case this time. I've got two
stories for you. The first one is that Philips Smart TVs by
the end of the year will have an updated app for YouTube,
which will now include the ability for people to rent movies that are available on YouTube.
And the more that YouTube increases its library of
titles that are available for rent on their platform, the more
and more this looks like it's going to move into, like, a competitor with Netflix, with
Amazon, Instant Video, and other online streaming services.
Granted it's just a small step in that direction, but I think it's
a good indicator of the direction YouTube wants to go with their premium content and
their paid rentals or their offer by the motion picture movie
studio, or by one of us. And of course, the question that we
always have to ask after something like this is, what are the implications for those of
us who are online video marketers and video creators using this
platform here on YouTube? How's it going to influence
what we do, the decisions we make regarding our content and the strategies that revolve
around that content and everything. So that's what I want
to hear from you guys about this week. Comment below.
Let me know what you think the ramifications might be for YouTube now introducing their
paid for premium rental content, now available directly
on the big screen televisions through the new YouTube
app. The second story I want to share with you
guys is that WeVideo.com now has a new feature that lets
you embed something onto your website that people can go to and submit their own video
clips and kind of collaborate with other people who
are your viewers around different video content. You can give
them a couple of starter clips to get started with, and they together can make a video that
you can then take different clips, piece them all together,
right there within the editor at WeVideo.com and post it
straight to YouTube as a fan based, community sourcing type of content. And it sounds to
me like it could be a really good way to engage your
audience in a new way, to actually highlight them in front of
your audience in a very unique way. That, hopefully, takes a lot of the legwork out
of having to collect different clips from everyone and dump them
into your editor. Now it'll be right there. You can even let
someone else handle the editing job that's part of your community. So, that would be
interesting. I would love to try that out with you guys sometime.
Unfortunately, I haven't really seen it in action. I
tried to find a place that was actually doing this, so I couldn't really see exactly how
it works, but sometime in the future it would be fun to
highlight you guys. On a more personal note, for the past six
months, I've been overseeing a YouTube web series strategy
for a company called Epipheo, where I work full time, and we are launching the announcement
for our new web series today, actually. And we are
super excited about that. I won't go into all the details about
what it is right here in this space, but it is a very awesome thing that I am very excited
about. This is going to be an animated series, every single
week a new video, so go check it out. I put the link to it
below, to our press release video that kind of shows a little bit more about what we're
doing and why. It's going to be awesome. I'd love to have
you guys join us there. For our Creator Set video on Thursday, we're
going to talk to Andre from Black Nerd Comedy. We're
going to do another round of common mistakes that creators make on YouTube. It's going
to be a lot of really great info, helpful content for you
guys, so make sure you subscribe to get that and all the other
cool stuff we're working on for you guys here at Reel SEO. And thanks for hanging out! We'll
see you guys on Thursday for that video and then again
next Tuesday for some hopefully good, solid news about
the Reel Web. Thanks for hanging out, guys. Bye.