These days, it's looks like I'm posting every three months. C'est la vie.
The Internet video revolution has come, saw and conquered. What's left to say?
Well, occasionally things happen that deserve attention.
Here are two big ones that jumped out at me while I was in the UK:
1. YouTube hits 1 billion video downloads a day
Holy smokes! There are only about 1 billion Internet users. Does this mean that everyone on the Internet is watching an average of at least 1 video a day on YouTube?
I guess it does and then there are people who watch 50 or more a day. Me, for example. It's not hard to do.
I don't watch TV. Why bother when I can call up anything I want whenever I want? TV is doomed.
2. The Internet creams TV
Speaking of the UK, the amount of money spent by advertisers on Internet advertising in that country just exceeded the amount spent on TV advertising. The numbers are 1.75 billion for online advertising vs. 1.64 for TV advertising. More evidence that...TV is doomed.
And this is only the beginning. Looks like the things I predicted when I started this blog four years ago are starting to come to pass.
Speaking of beginnings, I've been going over to the UK occasionally for years but something "clicked" for me on my latest trip and after tidying up some business here, I'm heading right back.
Next year, I'm planning on spending a few months there as I do in New Orleans ever year.
One of the reasons I'm going back to the UK so soon is that I'm putting on a one day seminar with Mark Attwood in Manchester. It's something that we cooked up while I was in London earlier this month.
Mark has a lot of interesting and practical things to say about blogging, SEO, twitter, video and many other topics. The difference is that unlike 99% of the people wag their jaw on these subjects, Mark has used his know-how to create a business that has generated over $16 million a year in sales. (Another System Seminar success story.)
A bunch of my Internet marketing friends are combining attending this seminar this with the UFC fights in Manchester that are happening the same time. System grad Lloyd Irvin has a team in the competition. To fill out an already busy week, I'm bringing New Orleans jazz poet Chuck Perkins over to do some gigs in that poetry and music loving city to help open the door for other New Orleans musicians looking for new markets to perform in.
Never a dull moment.
Interestingly, all the guys who are coming over for the fights and the seminar are heavy users of Internet video - that'd be Lloyd, me, Greg Davis, Ben Moskel and Mark Attwood.
Heavy users of video in our marketing - and we're all doing well. Coincidence? I don't think so.
If you're interested in getting some free pointers about how to use the new media including video, Twitter and blogging to get more traffic to your sites, we running a pre-seminar training on the subject. It's free and open to all. People often tell me they learn more from the free stuff we give away that at seminars costing many thousands of dollars.
Details:
http://www.systemintensive.com/mark/
Ken
