Finding Videos, Audio and Images on the Web: Search Tools by Cindy Shamel, FUMSI (May 2009)
Looks at sources that can help in finding "videos, audio and images for competitive intelligence and general business applications."
Article has good real-life examples, such as this one.
"The goal was to develop insights into the business strategy of a privately held non-US company known for keeping a low profile. Neither the website nor the news or trade literature yielded anything of substance. A search of video sources through YouTube uncovered a 30-minute interview with the CEO conducted at a large financial investment conference."
Mentions:
+ Samepoint -- "images, video, and podcasts across tens of thousands of social media sites. "
+ Tubesurf - for video - "searches YouTube, MySpace Videos, Google Video, and Yahoo! Video." Much to my amazement this tool found videos on information governance
+ Searchvideo.org - videos galore and can refine to heart's delight. Has channels that includes Reuters and Forbes. Try information governance.
+ blinkx - known for having 35 million hours of video. Enormous number of sources and good for browsing - I always find it difficult to search well.
+ Yidio - has TV, songs, movies, but also news. It really is geared to entertainment and you must login to this community (can do with Facebook). I did find a TV Show on the Canadian Arctic (Pond Inlet to be specific), and news items on Prime Minister Harper's current tour.
+ Videosurf - video meta-searcher - after first search you can narrow by category, sources, type, shows. Fantastic results for canadian arctic.
More in the article about audio search, image search, and places to look for even more.
One to watch if you are really interested in online video business is ReelSeo - "online video marketing guide".
Posted by Gwen at August 18, 2009 03:11 PM