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Exciting times.

We are about to enter a new www ‘dot’ world where business, brands and other organisations will be able to see their name on the right-hand side of the ‘dot’ in the domain-name URL: a brand name will soon be able to take the place of .com; .co.uk; .org etc, etc….

This represents a dramatic and historic development in the online world that will affect every user of the internet.

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The rise and rise of online video (and how to take advantage).

Some facts are indisputable:  Day follows night, night follows day; and the growth in online video in 2011 has been simply staggering!

When we last blogged about online video, we agreed with commentators that expediential growth in the amount of content (and the number of views) would be seen month-to-month, year-to-year.  By and large, this has absolutely been the case:

According to ComScore’s Online Video Rankings Data from only two months ago:

“Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in September with 161 million unique viewers, while VEVO ranked second with 57.3 million. Microsoft Sites climbed to the #3 position with 54 million viewers, followed by Viacom Digital with 53.4 million and Facebook.com with 49.9 million.” Continue reading