No? Do you suffer from Gorilla Syndrome? Won’t write much here since this is an article about Video. So, see for yourself! We studied YouTube and some others and collected valuable Video info. This must tell you where the world is going. Have a quick look at statistics and decide for yourself if you should start working on having “Your Video”:

Video Traffic Stats

• 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second
• Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day, 1.5 trillion per year
• Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month
• Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube
• More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years
• 70% of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US
• YouTube is localized in 39 countries and across 54 languages
• In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or almost 140 views for every person on Earth

YouTube Partners

• Created in 2007, YouTube has 30,000+ partners from 27 countries around the world
• YouTube pays out millions of dollars a year to partners
• Hundreds of partners are making six figures a year
• Partner revenue has more than doubled for four years in a row

Monetization

• YouTube is monetizing over 3 billion video views per week globally
• 98 of AdAge's Top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display NetworkHundreds of advertisers are using TrueView in-stream and 60% of in-stream ads are now skippable

Product Metrics

• YouTube has more HD content than any other online video site
• YouTube has thousands of full-length movies with free license
• 10% of YouTube's videos are available in HD
• YouTube mobile gets over 600 million views a day, and traffic from mobile devices tripled in 2011
• The YouTube player is embedded across tens of millions of websites

Video Content ID

• Content ID scans over 100 years of video every day
• More than 3,000 partners use Content ID, including every major US network broadcaster, movie studio and record label
• YouTube has more than eight million reference files (over 500,000 hours of material) in our Content ID database; it's among the most comprehensive in the world. The number has doubled in the last year
• Over a third of YouTube's total monetized views come from Content ID
• More than 120 million videos have been claimed by Content ID

Social Networking

• 500 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook, and over 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute
• 100 million people take a social action on YouTube (likes, shares, comments, etc) every week
• An auto-shared tweet results in 6 new youtube.com sessions on average, and we see more than 500 tweets per minute containing a YouTube link
• Millions of subscriptions happen each day. Subscriptions allow you to connect with someone you're interested in — whether it's a friend, or the NBA — and keep up on their activity on the site
• More than 50% of videos on YouTube have been rated or include comments from the community
• Millions of videos are favorited every day

Online Video Marketing

• Forrester Research found out that 60% of all web traffic comes from online videos and 70% of the Top 50 Internet Retailers display videos on their websites. Why? Because:
• A video in search index is 53 times more likely to appear on the first page search results!
• The video may spread virally online driving traffic to your website naturally
• Video on your website, blog and social page helps your online marketing campaigns
• Recent study by comScore: 85.6% of internet users in the US watched online videos
• Wikipedia last year launched Add Media, a function that allows its editors to drag and drop portions of videos into its articles. Across the internet, website managers are scrambling to make video content available for one reason – people love it. Instead of investing in traditional advertising to promote the Ford Fiesta, Ford created The Ford Fiesta Movement, giving 100 individuals Ford Fiestas and having them promote the car on social media. The preliminary results for this campaign are impressive. After six months, it had generated 4.3 million YouTube views. And, most importantly, attracted 50,000 interested customers, 97 percent of whom did not currently own a Ford.
• Online Publishers Association (OPA) report revealed the astonishing facts that out of 80% visitors who viewed the online video advertisement around 46% took some action. According to same report, around 22% viewers visited the related website, 26% searched for more information, 15% visited the company and 12% purchased that specific product.
• Americans are watching online video alongside television, 35% more than last year, according to Neilson.
• In December 2009, viewing of online video was 10.3% more than the year previously. Video is not just something people are passively watching. It’s something people are sharing with each other.
• Yahoo is even embedding video in its SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), Google has been doing it for over a year with ‘universal search’ results often showing video thumbnails on the first page of the SERPs, and recently Gmail has a feature that allows users to view YouTube videos in their email messages.

Links you may visit for more information and to explore the power of online video marketing to be visible on internet, search engine, attract traffic to your website and increase sales of your E-commerce shores and shops.
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Social commerce is a newly-made-popular term and it is a part of E-commerce that involves using social media and online media that supports social interaction and user contributions that assists in making a decision for online buying and selling of products, services and other E-commerce transactions which result in generation of revenue or sale.

Social commerce is a subset of electronic commerce (eCommerce) that involves using social media and other online interactive media to engage and influence in online buying and selling of products and services. It is the use of social network(s) in the context of e-commerce transactions. Some familiar technology tools categorised as Social Applications (SApps), Social Advertising (SA), Social Media Optimization (SMO), Customer Experience Management (CEM) that you may have seen in the front face of the website are Wish lists, User ratings, Reviews, Like buttons, Follow buttons, User Recommendations, Referrals,  Online Forums, Online Communities, Online Groups,  and so on. The concept of social commerce is defined as user-generated advertising content on social or e-commerce sites which helps shoppers influence and make an informed decision to buy. If 10 or 20 of your friends like something, wish to buy or have bought it, most likely, you are going to trust that product or service. This universe together is Social Commerce.

The technology today has widely extended the meaning and functionality of the area of social commerce and has expanded it to include the range of social media tools and content used in the context of e-commerce in various industry segments. Some useful examples of social commerce include customer ratings and reviews, user recommendations and referrals, social shopping tools, sharing the act of shopping online, forums and communities, social media optimization, social applications and social advertising. Some academic thinkers have sought to distinguish "social commerce" from "social shopping", referring to social commerce as collaborative networks of online vendors, and social shopping as collaborative activity of online shoppers. It is a good thought, especially, when we all know social commerce has arrived!

This Ad News Hub powered by Google News is a lesser known place on the web. However, if you spend some time exploring it, you will find that there is a wealth of information, links and programs that Google treasure holds in the Advertising innovations.

Some areas covered are: Top Advertising News, Advertising Industry, Search Advertising, Display Advertising, Mobile Advertising, TV, Radio and Print, Direct Marketing, Advertising Creative, Official Google Blog, Inside AdWords Blog, Google Ad Innovations, New Features & Announcements.

A settlement has been reached in a case involving the discharge of a Connecticut ambulance service employee for posting negative comments about a supervisor on her Facebook page.

The NLRB’s Hartford regional office issued a complaint against a Connecticut company on October 27, 2010, alleging that the discharge violated federal labor law because the employee was engaged in protected activity when she posted the comments about her supervisor, and responded to further comments from her co-workers. Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees may discuss the terms and conditions of their employment with co-workers and others.

The NLRB complaint also alleged that the company maintained overly-broad rules in its employee handbook regarding blogging, Internet posting, and communications between employees, and that it had illegally denied union representation to the employee during an investigatory interview shortly before the employee posted the negative comments on her Facebook page.

Under the terms of the settlement the company agreed to revise its overly-broad rules to ensure that they do not improperly restrict employees from discussing their wages, hours and working conditions with co-workers and others while not at work, and that they would not discipline or discharge employees for engaging in such discussions.

The company also promised that employee requests for union representation will not be denied in the future and that employees will not be threatened with discipline for requesting union representation. The allegations involving the employee’s discharge were resolved through a separate, private agreement between the employee and the company.

The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency vested with the authority to safeguard employees’ rights to organize and to determine whether to have a union as their collective bargaining representative, and to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.

“Startup America” is President Obama’s campaign to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. The Startup America Partnership is a coordinated public/private effort that brings together an alliance of the country’s most innovative entrepreneurs, corporations, universities, foundations, and other leaders, who work in concert with a wide-range of federal agencies to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of American entrepreneurs.

This mission to promote entrepreneurship is a core component of President Obama’s National Innovation Strategy for achieving sustainable growth and quality jobs. Not only do startups bring a wealth of transformative innovation to market, they also have generated all net job creation over the past three decades.Entrepreneurs who are intent on growing their businesses create the lion’s share of these new jobs in every part of the country and in every industry. Moreover, it is entrepreneurs in clean energy, medicine, advanced manufacturing, information technology, and other fields who will build the new industries of the 21st century and solve some of our toughest global challenges.

The Startup America Partnership is a private, nonprofit entity co-funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Case Foundation. Its core goals are to (1) increase the number of new, high-growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; (2) celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and source of competitive advantage; and (3) inspire and empower a an ever-greater diversity of communities and individuals to build great American companies.

While not a grant-making entity, the Startup America Partnership will identify and encourage private-sector partners (such as corporations, foundations, startup funders, CEOs, and others) to commit resources that will help entrepreneurial companies start or grow—either by contributing funds to existing proven models or by developing new programs and efforts to help entrepreneurs.

The White House “Startup America” Program
http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/startup-america

Startup America Partnership
http://www.startupamericapartnership.org