At Google's digital news initiative event in Berlin (#DNIBerlin) Google people are chatting about how the YouTube news search results are weighted. The core of their algorithm favours videos with many plays. This counts against searches for newsy … [Read more...] about A YouTube offer for #bbc #charterreview – due prominence and Embedded Player? #DNIBerlin
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Getting people to pay for your web content…or not
I have a long standing campaign to get a news organisation to make a donation to a local children's charity (rather than paying me) when using my content. So far this has proved unsuccessful with news orgs occasionally lifting my stuff (MyVillages) … [Read more...] about Getting people to pay for your web content…or not
Content idea: search YouTube for locally relevant videos to post on your website
A great way to pull in local content for your site is to do a regular search of YouTube for your postcode or area name and see if there are any relevant videos on there that you can embed into a post on your website. I subscribe to searches for … [Read more...] about Content idea: search YouTube for locally relevant videos to post on your website
Videos for beginners – adding nice things to your site
The following videos have been developed for use in Talk About Local training sessions. Although there are loads of brilliant how-to videos out there which we often use, we thought there was still a need for very simple videos that people could refer … [Read more...] about Videos for beginners – adding nice things to your site