Odysee has overtaken BitChute as the best competitor to YouTube. It is a decentralized, blockchain-based online video platform based on the LBRY hosting platform. The videos tend to load much better than BitChute, and the content is much more diverse, at least when compared to BitChute’s trending content that tends toward more extreme free speech …
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Facebook Report
Having followed up on the heels of the MySpace craze of the mid-2000s and having gained its initial usership through colleges before opening beyond college campuses in the late 2000s, in early 2020 Facebook is still the first name that comes to mind for social media. It was dominant for a decade but has seen …
Twitter Report
Coming to prominence around 2009, Twitter.com is the most famous “micro-blogging” site. With drastic character count limitations that force posts to be concise or to overflow into a waterfalling series of so-called tweets, Twitter pushed for the dubious adoption of URL-shorteners that provide a short proxy URL that does not indicate a given link’s destination …
YouTube Report
YouTube remains the go-to online video platform and the second-largest search engine (specializing in video content), owned by Google. Videos on YouTube show up in Google’s search results, and many searchers prefer video over reading website or blog content. Video is essential to most SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing strategies. Publishing and distributing …
Pinterest Report
Pinterest is great for sharing, or “pinning” infographics, articles, and videos, which essentially distributes them among different channels seeking relevant links and visual-based media content. Pinterest now has a native video feature that is still in its infancy, but look for that to potentially become stronger and more prominent in the future. Pinning videos is …
Instagram Report
When Instagram first debuted, it was essentially a glamorized mobile-based poor-millenial’s PhotoShop, allowing “filters” to be applied to square photographs before being shared with other users. Its interface was very unintuitive, and its focus on images instead of text posts left a lot to be desired by users that want to communicate on the platform …
BitChute Report
BITCHUTE.COM If you are looking for the best Alt-Tech parallel to YouTube, look at Odysee. BitChute used to be the top contender, but at the time of writing their “edgy” content that would be hidden by the YouTube algorgithm or outright banned/deplatformed tends to dominate the experience. To their credit, BitChute is allowing its users …
Gab Report
GAB.COM Whereas Gab.com has suffered coordinated media attacks from the lying fakestream media companies to which they are a threat, Gab.com is essentially the free-speech version of Twitter. (Twitter, you may recall, initially took the previously unheard-of step of permanently banneing Milo Yiannopoulous in 2015… Since then, Twitter has accelerated its banning and shadow-banning behavior …
Minds.com Report
MINDS.COM Minds.com functions similarly to Facebook, though it also serves as a blog publishing and discovery platform. The video feature is being improved, and there is gamification of engagement such that you earn points for your actions on the platform that help to grow it. Minds.com is very free-speech oriented and against the heavy-handed censorship …
DuckDuckGo Report
DUCKDUCKGO.COM DuckDuckGo.com is a search engine (alternative to Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc) that does not store any of your information and claims to present non-biased search results. Privacy is considered paramount. It is notable, however, that many of the DuckDuckGo search results seem about as PC-biased and cyberturfed as Google’s search results… Whether DuckDuckGo is …
Brave Browser Report
BRAVE BROWSER Brave is an internet browser similar to Chrome or Firefox, but with more privacy (not owned by Google like Chrome is, and not working with George Soros like Firefox’s parent company Mozilla is!). Brave also offers more features, including the ability to read TOR websites. TOR is expected to become increasingly important as …
You Need Video Content Marketing – VCM 101
YOU NEED VIDEO CONTENT MARKETING Your target customers are searching for information related to what you offer. This gives you an opportunity to be the one who gives them useful information. Video Content Marketing engages your target audience with a combination of Customer Service, Marketing, and a Multimedia User Experience where your target customer is …
For The Past Five Years I Have Provided Turn-Key Video Content Marketing Programs Throughout the USA
For the past five years, I have provided Turn-Key Video Content Marketing Programs for Legal, Medical, and Business Professionals throughout the United States and Canada. In many cases, I have fulfilled programs marketed through other companies, coordinating and completing the video editing, copywriting, review, scheduling, and monthly publication of videos and written content for various …
Indies Unlimited’s FAQ for Indie Book Authors, Publishers, and Marketers
Are you an indie? Do you know if you are? Do you have other questions frequently asked by indies? This link is for you: https://www.indiesunlimited.com/faq/
Twitter Exodus Expected with Twitter’s New Policies
The Twitter Exodus is expected as it puts into place new policies to limit who is allowed on their platform. Ramping up their censorship of the past couple of years, simply disagreeing with regressive leftist talking points may cause one to become labeled as “a hater” – resulting in loss of verification, shadowbanning, or outright …
Some Guidelines for Using Visual Content Today
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/12/visual-content-changing-rules/ dec 12 The bar is being raised for visual content, moving above many of the stock image options – and that is a good thing. Tools exist to help make original visual content attainable in a way that scales in line with your workflow.
Embracing Education as a Marketing Strategy – CMI
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/12/education-marketing-strategy/ dec 5 At Media Blitz, we are deeply involved in education – in assessing formal education systems, in promoting an educational approach to content marketing both for and by businesses, and in preparing and promoting educational content. Here, CMI highlights some examples of businesses going beyond the educational blog and how-to videos and actually …
How To Develop and Grow a Successful Podcast – CMI
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/11/develop-grow-podcast/ nov 28 Robert Rose and Joe Pulizzi of This Old Marketing podcast provide their advice for creating and launching a successful podcast. They encourage marketers to already have an engaged audience for their content, and then to differentiate into podcasting, as the podcast-first approach is difficult due to the inherent competition within and the …
Intro to Dissenter (The Comments Section of The Internet) by Gab – Tutorial by Dave Cullen of Computing Forever
Gab just released Dissenter, “The Comments Section of Internet” – and Dave Cullen shows you how to use it in this video. Basically, you can now comment on any URL on The Internet if you have a Gab account, either by going to that URL’s Dissenter Page or by using the Dissenter browser plugin. This …
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