Last year our major concentration was in book video distribution. We worked on establishing relationships with booksellers and specialty sites, we submit our videos to over 300 booksellers and 5000 libraries. We submit to specialty sites such as Watch the Book, Preview the Book, DigiGirls Library, TerrorFeed, Dark Scribe Magazine, Romance Novel TV, and so on. Most recently we're working with BooksiRead and GoodReads. We're delving into more niche communities while continuing to reach out to additional booksellers and book clubs.
We have a definite plan for distribution in 2009 and we continue to grow in that direction. We've mastered the RSS feed and are able to do more with less time invested. We can even use RSS to get our blogs out to several areas and then monitor comments using Friend Feed.
Our big focus in R&D right now is video SEO. Now that technology has caught up with SEO opportunities for video we plan on taking full advantage of that. Our team is currently working on a tutorial video and guide for our network partners that will help our videos have greater SEO.
We have reached out to publishers who are now embracing social media and we're sharing our experience and resources with them. This also helps us get greater distribution since we can deliver client video to publishers in those areas online.
We are always asked about our list of distribution sites. And, since we have a list of over 400 sites that we can distribute to online we feel confident that we're on top of the book video distribution game for social media. We've showed the list to publishers who ask to see it, but we do not make it available to the public because it is proprietary.
But, I will share a list of sites that shows our most basic distribution. We have other distribution packages that are much larger than this one, but this is the least amount of distribution that a video, produced by COS, will get.
1) 5min (when applicable)
2) Addicting Clips
3) AOL
4) AtomUploads
5) Backflip
6) Blinklist
7) Blinx
8) Blip TV
9) Bluedot
10) Break
11) ClipBlast
12) Crackle
13) DailyMotion
14) Del.icio.us
15) Digg
16) Diigo
17) Flickr
18) Flurl
19) Folkd
20) Furl
21) GoFish
22) Google Video
23) Internet Archieve
24) iTunes
25) Lycos
26) Magnolia
27) Meebo
28) MeeVee
29) Mefeedia
30) Mixx
31) Myjeeves
32) MySPace
33) Pando
34) Photobucket
35) Propeller
36) PureVideo
37) Putfile
38) REAL
39) REC TV
40) REC TV Blog
41) Reddit
42) SearchforVideo
43) Sevenload
44) Spash Cast
45) Spurl
46) StumbleUpon
47) Sumo
48) Technoratti
49) TotalVid
50) Twitter
51) Veoh
52) Viddler
53) VidPow
54) Vimeo
55) VSocial
56) Yahoo Video
57) YouTube
58) Borders
59) BN.com
60) Powells.com
61) Southern Independent Bookseller’s Association- all bookstores
62) Watch the Book
63) Preview the Book
64) DigiGirls
65) Dark Scribe Magazine
66) TerrorFeed (Horror only)
67) Romance Novel TV (Romance only)
68) GoodReads
69) BooksiRead
70) Ebookisle
71) Night Owl Romance
72) Romance Designs Theater
73) COS Productions website and newsletter
74) Find Me an Author
75) Kim's Wonderful World of Books
76) OverDrive (sends to 5000 libraries)
As you can see there are some sites that are very specific to genre and we do try to match genres up to the best possible audience. So, if you have an Inspirational we won't send that to TerrorFeed, and so on.
To me that is an impressive list of distribution for a very low price. Our Cover Story videos ($250) and our Level 1 Mini Teasers ($750) get that distribution as part of the package when they purchase their video from us.
We have additional distribution such as Transit TV which is extremely inexpensive and gets your video 11 million impressions in one week. We can format for TV, movie theater and other out-of-home ads.
We now guarantee at least 50,000 impressions for our top distribution packages. That's new. This is a guarantee for impressions not views, I like to be clear on that. We now place ads on MySpace, Facebook and Bebo with our top distribution packages. The ads show the author and book name and sends people to see the video.
Recently I had one of our publisher clients look at our list of 400 sites. I told her to choose any 10 on the list. I told her that I would show her where COS has a presence on any of the 10 she chose. I've shared a generic list, one without our specific book sites on it, with the tech world and will discuss it with Robert Scoble in July on his show. Our next step is creating a software program that we input the 400 sites into. We then input specific details about each site. The final product will give us a software program that we input details about a video to and it will then tell us what the top sites are for that book and it will even tell us WHY those sites are good for the book. That will go live in 2009.
It's exciting to see book video on the same playing field as video game trailers and movie trailers. 2009 promises to be an exciting year for book video!
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