Paul Kontonis, CEO of For Your Imagination, was the host of The Web Series Producer’s Guide, which featured Brett Wilson from TubeMogul, Bill Cammack, Kirby Ferguson from Goodiebag and Marc Hustvedt from Tubefilter.tv. These guys know what they are talking about and hit every pain point we, as web producers,  go through on a daily basis. It is […]

Do you have an RSS feed for your web videos or podcasts? Want to make that content accessible to iPhone and iPod Touch users?

You can either go on and create your own site that is compatible with the iPhone or just head on to VenueM, a new startup that takes your RSS feed and quickly (and on the fly) converts it into an iPhone ready website.

You took the very first step and created your podcast. The podcast sounds professional, you have an RSS feed for it, you posted it to your website and even added one of those cool “RSS” feed buttons that people can subscribe to.

But wait, there is one problem, you don’t have that many (or any) subscribers. How come people are not flocking to your podcast and just subscribing to it? The content is professional, it’s what everyone wants hear (or see), but no one is knocking at your door…err…RSS feed! Why?

Marketing! Marketing! Marketing! You need to market your podcast show. It doesn’t matter how great your podcast sounds (or looks) and what great topics you cover, if you don’t market it, they shall not come! So let’s look at some ways you can market your podcast to help grown your audience.

SearchEngineWatch.com is reporting that YouTube will launch a new feature called HotSpots this week that will allow video creators to monitor how viewings rise and fall within a video.

CNET is reporting today that YouTube will be adding pre-roll and post-roll ads to the videos that users uploads to their site.

The Associated Press reported today that Sony will offer a movie download service for it’s PlayStation 3 home console this summer in the U.S.

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

If anyone tells you we are not going through another .com era, tell them about Twitter getting a valuation of $100 million without a business plan (or any way to really monetize their service) and Veoh now getting another $30 million in funding, bringing it’s total funding to a whopping $70 million.

A story in The Hollywood Reporter states that ABC.com has upgraded their video player with new features including:

• Full Screen Viewing
• Closed captioning
• Ability to send video links that can be embedded on blogs and social networks

Macworld reported today that Netflix has partnered with a company called Roku to bring a set-top box that will allow you to stream any movie that Netflix offers in their “instant” service.

Steven Spielberg, Harrsion Ford, George Lucas where on Seesmic promoting their new movie, Indiana Jones.

Are you or your company looking for a solution to webcast your next product introduction, news item or whatever else you want to communicate to the public? Check out Wirecast from Vara Software.