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The Changing Face of Online Video

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By Carl Weiss & Hector Cisneros

I’ve been working the web long enough to remember a time when video wasn’t part of the Internet scene.  The problem back in the 90’s was that the bandwidth could barely support graphics, much less stream video.  Dialup connections were simply too slow to make video part of the online equation in the early days of the WWW.  That all changed in the new millennium as dialup gave way to DSL connections.  Even that took a few years to become affordable to the masses.  But once most everyone had access to high speed connections, video became a major game changer.  Or, did it?

Lights! Webcam! YouTube action!

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By Danny Murphy


Did you ever wonder how some businesses have the time and resources to make videos for YouTube and other social media outlets? What is the difference between videos that go viral and videos that are just out there? What does it take to make an effective video for a small business? This article is about the way some businesses are using video as part of their marketing mix. One surprising thing it that production costs are way down and it doesn’t take much to get started. Read and learn from this week’s Working the Web to Win article about businesses that use video and how you can get video to work for your business. These days almost anyone can make a video and put it on YouTube. Millions and millions of videos are being produced, posted, and shared. Here are a few interesting stats from YouTube.