A Decade of Video a Day Uploaded to YouTube

Today YouTube announced that one hour of video is uploaded to the site every second. A decade of footage a day!

Struggling to wrap your brain around that? Well YouTube have launched this really nice site, onehourpersecond.com, which is full of interesting stats and figures which serve to put the volume of video and length of time spent on the site in context.

For example, who knew that ‘In 4 minutes 48 seconds of uploads to YouTube, the ostrich continues running at full speed, traveling 12,384 miles’?

Definitely worth checking out over your morning coffee.

Of course, YouTube being YouTube, they’ve posted a video along the same lines.

Find Your Nearest ATM with a QR Code

QR codes are a bit of a bugbear of mine. When they’re printed too small to scan, displayed too high or in areas without WiFi, linking to websites/pages that aren’t mobile optimised…the list goes on.

That said I spotted this in my local shop today.The ATM was out of service but a QR code allowed you to visit a branch and ATM locator.

Handy – particular if you’re in an area you’re not familiar with.

Of course the QR code brought you to a site that wasn’t a mobile optimised but sure you can’t have everything (not at the moment anyway!).

Introducing the Pop-up Video Studio

Dylan Owens of video production company, Creative Prophet, has launched a new initiative this Christmas – the pop-up video studio.

Taking a Groupon approach to production, the company will have a pop-up green screen studio available for hire with prices starting at under €1000. The idea being that alot of companies avail of 2/3 hour time slots.

One to look at if you’ve got some video production on your radar at the moment.

Here’s Dylan explain the idea…

SLASHING PRO VIDEO COSTS: PRE XMAS POP-UP STUDIO! from Dylan A Owens on Vimeo.

Great Video on Facebook’s Sponsored Stories featuring Mark Zuckerberg

A rare moment of ‘TV gold’ derived from someones interview hell! Watch Facebook’s VP of Public Policy get tongue tied under pressure from BBC journalist Emily Maitlis, in relation to the social network’s new ‘Sponsored Story’ feature.

This extract from ‘Inside Facebook‘ explores numerous topics including ‘what is advertising’ and Facebook privacy and features comments from Mark Zuckerberg. Great viewing…

The Social Media ROI Hypocrisy [Video]

Executives who demand to know the return on investment (ROI) of real-time communications through social media is the topic of discussion in this short video with David Meerman Scott, author of ‘The New Rules of Marketing and PR’. Well worth a watch…