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Posted on 06/4/08 under Digital Content, New Media, Social Networks, Streaming, Video Distribution, eMarketing

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YouTube launched some great new features (perhaps new to me since I just noticed them) including:

  • Video Annotations
  • New Address Book
  • Updated Inbox
  • YouTube Insight
  • YouTube Mobile

Out of the new features, what interests me the most is the video annotations and YouTube Insight.

With video annotations, you can easily add notes, links and hot spots to your video. This opens up the ability to make the video interactive and to link it to other videos within YouTube.com. The only draw back which I don’t like, is that you can only link the hotspots to other videos inside of YouTube, you can’t link out. That’s pretty lame in my opinion. Yes, I know, they want to keep you in YouTube, but imagine being able to link a product inside a video to your Amazon.com affiliate page and make a sale. How cool would that be?

With YouTube Insight, you can now see not only how many views your video had, but the break down in gender and age range. Pretty cool stuff. Looks like all of my videos are currently being watched by 90 year old males. Not sure what that means though. Hmmm….maybe I need to change my intro music.

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Marcelo Lewin
Marcelo Lewin, a.k.a. The Digital Media Dude, started The Digital Media Dude in late 2006 as a blog, mainly, to write about new media. Then he created his first podcast, The Digital Media Dude Daily Tip now known as Digital Media Quick Tips which got picked up by iTunes in the Top 25. By late 2007, The Digital Media Dude became officially a network of shows and in early 2008, it was renamed to Pixel Heads Network.

With over 15 years of experience in the digital media industry, including gigs with NBC, Walt Disney Imagineering, Toyota and having a couple of "dot com" companies under his belt, he shares his knowledge throughout our shows.

He is married with his wife of 15 years and has 2 great sons. His hobbies include photography, videography, new media, technology, great food, great beers and just playing around with his kids.

Marcelo Lewin currently hosts 4 shows, blogs and makes presentations about new media all over, produces shows for other companies and is the "Chief Pixel Head" at Pixel Heads Network.
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