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7 things to know about video for social media
A lot of our clients these days consider video to be the most valuable content for their social media channels. It's a smart strategy; research overwhelmingly points to video as the most-viewed and most-shared content on the web. Creating "social video" is a lot...
Do you really need a mobile website?
"Do I really need to have a mobile website?" That's a question we've been hearing from clients a lot lately. And the answer may not always be yes. Let's take a look at some stats from last year. First, consider the overall percent of traffic to sites from mobile...
How On-demand video is driving consumer choices
It used to be people bought stuff that they thought would endure. Then manufacturers came up with something called “planned obsolescence”. Manufacturers don’t want people to replace products because they’re broken, that would decrease the likelihood of any return...
Cloud Services: Are they Secure?
In my last post I talked about the reliability of cloud services and that I believed it was the right choice for Allied Pixel. But what about security? Several days ago, Amazon.com’s homepage was unavailable for 49 minutes. Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud...
What You Need to Know About Responsive Web Design
How do you consume the web these days? If you're like most people, you do it from a mobile device. That's right: The majority of web viewing today is done from mobile devices, not desktops. And that is making a profound impact on how we design and build websites. If...
What Kind of Clouds Are Rolling In?
So the other day I was talking to a client who had just gotten back from NAB. When I asked, “How was it?”, she immediately started talking about that nebulous place that we’ve all heard of yet few have actually seen, The Cloud. For some time now, there have been...
Final Cut X: Still the industry standard?
Well it’s been over a year since Final Cut Pro X was introduced and there doesn’t seem to be much resolution to the question of what will be the next “Industry Standard” non-linear editing system. Will Final Cut Pro X rise above the doubts and re-assert Apple’s...
CDN of Choice?
I’m loving Amazon Web Services (AWS)! When we got started in the streaming business a few years ago, we gravitated to Akamai as our CDN of choice. Akamai touted its edge network as the solution to optimized video delivery across the globe. We haven’t been disappointed...
Social Inspiration at Philly’s First Women in Tech Summit
Last weekend, I started off Philly Tech Week with the most amazing event I’ve been to in ages: the Women in Technology Summit at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. It was an engaging live event with a great balance of learning, sharing, networking and...
Think Reach
When I speak with clients about webcasting, I often get asked “Why would I want to webcast my... (fill in the blank)”. In almost any case, it can be answered with one word – Reach. Events, meetings, graduations, and just about any special event are bound by two main...
The Latest on HTML5 Video
This is a distillation of an article from our friends at LongTail Video, makers of the awesome JW Player, which we use in many of our web projects. As we all know, HTML5 is an evolving standard, and implementation of its video playback features varies quite a bit from...
The Two Most Powerful Things You Can Ever Say
Here are the two most powerful things you can ever say: 1) I love you. 2) This gun is loaded. This post is about motivation, or more specifically, how to motivate people. How to get people to do what you want them to do. It can apply to your marketing message as well...