Using internet video in crisis marketing

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 by Brennan Knotts
If you have ever experienced dowtime at a hosting provider whether you're hosting something as trivial as a personal webiste that only your mom has ever vistited, or something as critical as a enterprise SaaS application that 1 million clients rely on every day, you know how frustrating it can be. No one can deliver 100% uptime, but they get so close that we come to expect it and take it for granted.

What is often the most frustrating is not knowing when the service will come back up or what exactly caused it in the first place. After the fact, these hosting providers are left to figure out how to best make amends with their customers and to restore faith in their hosting abilities.

This is where online video production and internet video marketing can help.

Take for instance Rackspace. Rackspace recently had two outages, one on June 29th and one on July 7th. They responded the best way they could have. They not only fixed the problem and made efforts to ensure that it never happens - they actually took the time to put the CEO on camera to explain this to us.

You can see the video below and also check out this blog post by Lifeline Data Centers.



A Large Portion of Online Video Views Are Driven by Blogs

Friday, July 10, 2009 by Dusty Koekenberg
A recent study by TubeMogul shows that a large protion of online video views are being driven by blogs. TubeMogul is a service that allows you to upload your online videos and then distribute them to over two dozen video sharing sites such as YouTube, Yahoo, and Google with a single click. As much as email marketing and social media may seem to be the best distribution channels to share your videos for viral marketing, this study is begging to differ.

The key to this study is that you still need a video content management system that can allow you to output your videos into the necessary formats, allowing you to upload your videos to a solution such as TubeMogul.

With Cantaloupe's Backlight Saas video system you are able to download your online videos directly to your local machine in the necessary formats to not only upload them to a solution like TubeMogul, but other social media sites as well.

Many of the video content management systems available right now will provide upload conversion, but do not allow for download conversion. Because you are sometimes faced with the fact that your videos were produced by a second party this becomes and extreme monetary value for your company.

Once you are able to output your videos in the necessary video format you can then not only embed your videos into your blog, but you give others the opportunity to embed your videos into their blogs from not only Backlight but multiple video sharing sites.

The more accessible your videos are the more people are going to embed them causing a higher rate of engagement. For more information about Cantaloupe's Backlight video content management system click here.

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Indianapolis as the internet marketing software capital of the world

Monday, April 20, 2009 by Brennan Knotts
So for the moment it's a self-described accomplishment, but it's an exciting topic to rally around which is why I think so many high-profile people from the Indianapolis tech community have contributed comments to this blog thread. (Internet marketing software city? by Norm Heikens)

Cantaloupe's own contribution to the Indianapolis online marketing community includes Backlight, a Saas video solution for helping marketers utilize video online to strengthen their businesses, engage prospects, and sell more stuff.

Interactive Intelligence Video Playlist Now Live

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Brennan Knotts
I just want to congratulate Denise Meyer and team at Interactive Intelligence for successfully launching their first video playlist using Backlight. You can check it out for yourself here.

These are some very powerful videos and I'm glad our online video platform could embed them on their website. I'm not currently in the market for a call center software solution but I found myself watching this whole video all the way through. (Note how easy it was for me to grab Interactive Intelligence's video from their website and embed it in my blog using their online video player)





If you haven't heard, Backlight is Cantaloupe.tv's new online SaaS video management system that makes it easy to upload all your videos, convert them to web-ready formats, embed them on your website, and then analyze the online video tracking.

Check out our website to learn more about Backlight.