Access to hundreds of thousands of motion content clips now available in the search platform.
Footage.net is a stock, archival and news footage search engine. This week, they’ve announced a deal with Getty Images to include their 500,000 clip database in the search platform.
“The partnership with Getty Images adds greatly to the breadth, depth and value of our footage search engine, and we look forward to providing Getty Images with another channel to serve the global production community,” said Footage.net President Domenick Propati.
VEVO is a new online entertainment network started by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and powered by YouTube. The site launched December 8th.
And what a first month VEVO had. In December alone, VEVO saw 35,395,000 unique visitors according to comScore.
“We are thrilled that the VEVO Network, which is still in its infancy, has debuted at the top of the comScore rankings for unique visitors across the Entertainment-Music category in the U.S.,” said Rio Caraeff, President and CEO, VEVO.
Hulu will apparently be expanding their online video search from TV and movies to music-related content with a new partnership with Warner Music.
The first Warner artist to be featured is Muse. You can visit their Hulu page at http://www.hulu.com/muse. In the coming weeks, pages will be launched for Jason Mraz and personal fav Paramore.
You may remember that Warner pulled its vids from YouTube after the two were unable to renegotiate their contract. Finally, this past September, they reached an agreement and the music videos were put back up.
The new beta feature lets you search captions for thousands of videos across Hulu. Caption Search can be found in Hulu Labs.
When on the Hulu Labs page, scroll down to find the actual projects in Labs.
Along with caption search, Hulu is releasing “heat maps.” This graphs user interest along a timeline of a given video that has caption search.
You can find the heat map under the “Captions” tab, located under the video you’re watching. Hover over a bar on the heat map to see where it corresponds in the video.
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.
Automatic captions will be generated using Google’s automated speech recognition (ASR) technology and the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice.
Additionally, auto-timing is being introduced. If you provide all the words in the video, Google will automatically time the captioning for you.
Of course, having what essentially amounts to transcripts for online video means that the text can be crawled and indexed and then yes – SEARCHED. Bring on the keyword research and seo scriptwriting for online videos!
YouTube is introducing machine-generated automatic captioning to YouTube. The captions can also be translated. This obviously has incredible implications for the hearing-impaired and language translation. But it also has great implications for search.
Automatic captions will be generated using Google’s automated speech recognition (ASR) technology and the same voice recognition algorithms used in Google Voice.
Additionally, auto-timing is being introduced. If you provide all the words in the video, Google will automatically time the captioning for you.
Of course, having what essentially amounts to transcripts for online video means that the text can be crawled and indexed and then yes – SEARCHED. Bring on the keyword research and seo scriptwriting for online videos!
Video solution provider Fliqz has announced the launch of a new online video search engine optimization (SEO) tool. The tool is dubbed SearchSuccess and Fliqz says that companies who tested the product are experiencing early success.
A whopping two-thirds of the videos submitted by these early customers have reached first page Google rankings. 25% have seen the number one position.
GazoPa, a similar image search engine developed by Hitachi America, is now open for public beta testing. You don’t need a login. Simply go to GazoPa.com and check it out.
What you do is either upload an image, paste the URL to an image, type in a keyword – or even draw an image directly on the site. GazoPa will then try to find images similar to what you’ve provided.
Drawing an image was tempting, so I digitally sketched up a quick pumpkin, but it didn’t exactly recognize the image. Hey, it’s still in beta 
The rumor mill just keeps flying this hump day. First, TechCrunch is dishing on a new initiative by Google to make music easier to search and sample. The deal will involve services such as MySpace, iLike and LaLa, and is rumored to be announced next Wednesday at the Capitol Records building in Hollywood.
Meanwhile, Brad Stone at the New York Times has the scoop on a new music micropayments service slated to be launched by Facebook. Currently, you can spend 10 cents to send cute little goodies in the form of images to your Facebook friends. Soon, you’ll be able to send songs that your friends can listen to online. Greeting cards and videos will also be getting the micropayments treatment.
It’s easy to think of online video as an social media method, but they’re increasingly having search value. After all, most videos don’t go viral, but they are still useful for the niches that you’ve created them for. That’s where search comes into play.
Google is offering up help for getting your videos better indexed. The Google Webmaster Central has announced support for Facebook Share and Yahoo! SearchMonkey RDFa for video indexing. These formats offer up information about videos, such as title and description, in the HTML for a video page.
