eBusiness Media

What is Buyosphere? Animated Video

James — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:01:46 +0000

I jumped at the chance when offered to produce an animated video for Buyosphere.com. Tara Hunt and her team needed a video that would appeal to frustrated shoppers seeking an easier way to find great products online. In their words; “Buyosphere is leveraging the social web to build a knowledge base that will change the way we choose every product on the web.”. If it makes the Christmas shopping easier; then count me in!

When asked, Tara said this about working with us.

“Working with James was fantastic. He’s a total pro and handled feedback and input quickly. He has all of the resources needed to create an amazing video in no time at all. I hate to let him know this, but he could be charging a LOT more for his level of talent. ”

If you have a product or service you would like to share with the world, why not do it with video? Get in touch for more information and a quotation.

Network Connectivity Presentation Animation

James — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:55:11 +0000

Producing projects for Liberate Media is always a pleasure – they’re clear and precise with the brief meaning completing projects like this network connectivity presentation animation are made simple, even when managing to a tight deadline. You can view the video in situ on their blog post about event management network connectivity here.

“We set the eBusiness Media a tough task and an even tougher deadline. We needed to convert a scripted presentation into an animation that told the complex story of network connectivity in under one minute. James and his team took our words and produced two versions of the animation, ahead of the already tight deadline. They responded promptly during the draft/review process and offered new ideas and advice that ensured we had the exact animations we needed. eBusiness Media delivers and then goes the extra mile to ensure that clients get what they need.” – Tim Greenhalgh

If you have a product or service you would like to share with the world, why not do it with video? Get in touch for more information and a quotation.

Video Sales Lab Motion Graphics

James — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:58 +0000

Joe Fier of Video Sales Lab needed an attention grabbing video that would illustrate the main focus of his business. With a short brief and a few great ideas from Joe we produced a video that includes animation, typographic and motion graphic elements to provide a good insight into what VideoSalesLab does best.

“James makes the entire process of video animation a piece of cake! All I

did was give him a script and some simple ideas and then in just a few

days… BAM! I had an eye-popping, fully animated video, stocked full with

special effects and sound. I’ve received overwhelming positive responses

from my audience because of this video, all thanks to James. I’ll be

working with him for a long time to come!” – Joe Fier, Video Sales Lab

Free £50 Adwords vouchers for previous & future clients.

James — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:00:41 +0000

Thanks to the new Google Engage for Agencies programme we’re able to offer both previous and future clients with a free £50 voucher to help them promote their business.

Whether its running a campaign to get their business displayed at the top of google search results or running ads on relevant sites linking to a specific product they wish to promote – the choice is yours.

We’ll be getting in touch with all our existing clients to offer this free voucher – if you haven’t received yours yet, please get in touch.

If you’d like to take advantage of this great offer, take a look at what services we can provide for your business.

YouTube Cosmic Panda?

James — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:16:58 +0000

Cosmic what?

Yes, you heard correctly; Cosmic Panda. Since the dawn of YouTube back in February 2005 it has remained the white and red web page we’ve known to love. But as we all know, the web wouldn’t be the web if it wasn’t for constant updates, upgrades, patches, modifications and new product developments.

Cosmic Panda is the next step for YouTube in a complete site overhaul. Changing not only the way the site looks, but the way the site works. This is a long awaited update with many of the sites biggest fanboys claiming the old site is well overdue a true “web 2.0″ update.

In the words of YouTube themselves:

We’re always trying out new things here at the Tube and Cosmic Panda is our way of letting you in on some of the fun.

Here’s what to expect when you follow the cosmic panda over the double rainbow:

A new experience for watching videos and playlists

More page designs and better editing tools to customize your channel

Keep watching when moving between videos, playlists, and channels (Chrome only)

Stylish new look and feel

Now that’s enough jibba jabba. Lets get stuck in and try out Cosmic Panda for ourselves.

First Impressions Count

Damn right they do, no matter what anybody tells you and the ‘new’ YouTube doesn’t disappoint. Cosmic Panda looks sleek, stylish and modern – with a new black section of the screen in which the video is embedded, the video really stand out and looks great. The page looks cleaner and feels less distracting but without losing any of the previous functionality. What’s more is the added feature providing the option to quickly change the video player size on the fly. As for the player – well it stays pretty much the same except taking on a super cool black look.

Keep it rolling!

Finally YouTube’s Cosmic Panda allows you to browse a YouTuber’s channel, information, related videos and other features without navigating away from the video content. The video is shifted up to the top section of the page and continues to play within a thumbnail with the option to switch back to watching the video with just another mouse click. I would also like to add that this is seamless and smooth, without any jolting or page loads required in between.

More Social

As silly as it may seem, a large portion of people don’t see YouTube as a Social Network. I find that strange, if anything YouTube is quite possibly THE most social of all of the platforms available – it just seems there is a greater deal of negative and anonymous commenting (trolling?) than on other social websites. That said, YouTube are finally working on the comments section – a part of YouTube that has always been very antiquated. Finally, they have fully integrated their ‘threaded’ comments style making it a whole lot easier to see comments section conversational dialogue. You’ll also notice in the image below how much larger and ‘in your face’ the suggested video section is. I can imagine this being YouTube’s strong attempt at increasing the all important ‘time on site’ of each visitor – it also looks great!

New Channels

Channels take on a brand new look with the users uploaded videos being the centre of attention all the way down the page. Cosmic Panda allows users to customise the way their channel looks using the new ‘template’ functions. This modifies the way the channel looks and displays information. Currently, the four different templates include:

Creator

A featured video from a playlist with a group of featured playlists

Blogger

A reverse chronological vlogroll of a featured playlist or your recent activity

Broadcaster

A featured video from a playlist with a group of featured channels

Everything

A featured video from a playlist with a group of featured playlists and channels

The screen grab below shows a Channel using othe ‘Blogger’ template. You’ll also notice a ‘play all’ button at the top. this will load all of the users uploaded video into a playlist for sequential play.

Talking of Playlists I expect you’re wondering if they have got rid of that horrible playlist bar which plagued so many people festering at the bottom of the page? You betcha’! The playlist now sits comftably beneath the currently playing video (phew) and does not distract or annoy.

Following on from the social aspects I mentioned earlier, the community section on channels displays a feed of recent user activity including comments, likes, subscribes etc. as well as the option to post bulletins as before. This is surely set to encourage social interactivity.

That sums it up

Almost Everything else stays the same or currently has not been modified enough to make it noteworthy. Video browse section stays pretty much the same, inbox still seams clunky as always, search isn’t noticeably different and subscription feed looks exactly the same.

Oh, I almost forgot…(save the best till last)

One last thing…which seems to be quite big and clever. YouTube Video Editor

This is some seriously impressive stuff. Yeah, okay – for the advanced video editors out there its not going to be much use. But what this clever little thing is capable of really blows my mind.

Using your own uploaded video content, video available under creative commons license and music provided by YouTube under license – you can remix, reproduce and republish videos in seconds.

Not only that, but this cloud based editing suit offers effects such as video stablisation, contrast, brightness and black and white.

As I mentioned earlier – for the advanced video editors of us out there, this wont be of much use. But for the millions who cant afford a video editing package or dont have the time / inclination to learn their way around such software; YouTube video editors opens up to anyone the ability to create acceptable quality video and publish it in real time.

Try it for yourself

If you want to try out Cosmic Panda for yourself – head over to http://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda#

Have fun!

If you think I’ve left anything out of this post drop us a line

James

Production Manager

My Meeting Professional Motion Graphics

James — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:44:49 +0000

Liberate Media were after a fresh, contemporary and professional video to promote a new project; ‘My Meeting Professional’. We worked closely with Liberate Media to ensure the video matched the aesthetic of their website design.

“Our experience of working with eBusiness media has been extremely positive. They are professional, skilled and obviously value their customers. The team turn work around very quickly, and with a minimum of fuss. They offer excellent value for money and i recommend them highly.”

-Lloyd Gofton, Director, Liberate Media

Electrikk Chair Event Promo

James — Fri, 13 May 2011 10:37:42 +0000

Bournemouth based night club event organiser and promoter Electrikk Chair searched high and low for a local business to film and produce their promo video. Our existing experience and knowledge of the night club scene left the promoter Tom Dobies confident in our ability to produce a video that will appeal to his target audience.

If you’re interested in a video similar to this please see our event event promotional video page or get in touch.

The Zood Motion Graphics

James — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:10:21 +0000

The Zood required two informative and contemporary videos to explain the features and benefits of their group buying website to both retailers and consumers. This is what Ben Davis of The Zood had to say about his exeprience working with us.

Working with eBusiness Media has been a pleasure from start to finish. Exceptional quality at exceptional value all delivered on time and on budget. Would (and already have) heartily recommend to anyone looking for video creative. – Ben Davies, The Zood

Retailers:

“We’ve never used video marketing before and we’ve done just fine”

James — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:25:45 +0000

I believe we’re in a transitional period between business owners with no web background and business owners growing up with the web/having experienced the web in their adult years. And at this important point, business owners need to be aware of the most effective marketing methods.

Unfortunately, many business owners do not have time to seek and understand the importance of emerging marketing trends. Also, there seems to be a lot of business owners with the attitude “We’ve never used video marketing before and we’ve done just fine. Why do I need video now?” An example response would be “How many of your competitors have video?” the answer usually being “I have no idea!”.

What’s important to understand is 1/3 of all online activity is spent watching video…why would you NOT want to take advantage of that potential audience?

This isn’t just the place of an TV spots uploaded to YouTube. Its about engaging and sharing, talking about your business and the people who make it turn over, telling your audience about your product and how it will benefit them. Its about breaking that corporate image and showing your audience you are human after all.

In order to help some business owners understand just some of the potential of online video marketing, we’ve produced this short motion graphic video. It also outlines what we do as a business; help business owners step out of their comfort zone and get involved with online video.

Online Video Showreel 2010

James — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:24:58 +0000

We’ve proudly put together some of the work we’ve completed in late 2010 and early 2011. Check out the video to see what we’ve been upto in that time!

If you would like to know about how we can help your business get involved in online video get in touch or view our video services page