Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes
It’s time again for another Viral Round Up (it’s actually a day or so past the time for another Viral Round Up, and I’m hoping you’ll forgive my tardiness). As usual, the past week offers us several examples of viral success—some intentional, some accidental, and all holding valuable lessons for us video marketers.  Let’s dig in. 1. The Misbehaving Athlete Seems like nearly every week there’s a white-hot YouTube video of an athlete—usually in college—misbehaving on the field of play.  There was that “sucker punch” video from the first week of the college football season, and more recently there was a popular video online of a no

uSocial is Selling YouTube Views – Should you Buy em?
uSocial, the company that has created controversy regarding their services in the past, is at it again.  You might remember them as the company that sold Diggs for your Digg submission, friends for your Facebook account, and followers of your Twitter ramblings.  Now they’re offering a new service: views for your YouTube video.

BitGravity – A Cool, Quick Embeddable Player + Major Content Delivery Network
Need to embed a video in a site super-duper fast? Why not try the 3 form version of Bitgravity Player 6. Give it a video URL, width and height and you’re all set. But is it truly that easy? Actually, it truly can be that easy. But that would leave out a lot of people who need a more advanced set of controls over their online videos. Luckily, Bitgravi

YouTube Beefs up Partner Video Blocking Ability
It is making the rounds on the webosphere that YouTube has implemented two new buttons on the partner interface that pertain to blocking of videos.TechCrunch (Hi guys!) got a tip that two new buttons appeared on the YouTube partner interface specifically dealing with the blocking of videos: Enable Auto

Streaming Media West 2009 – Discount for ReelSEO Readers
Just a quick note to all readers… Streaming Media West – the leading online video industry conference & expo – is offering a $100 discount until FRIDAY, November 6 to attend Streaming Media sessions. Click here to take advanta