This past month we’ve been working with a television production graduate intern who showed me how much talent I was lacking, despite my best efforts to record and edit video. Topher Earl produced a handful of fabulous promotional videos like the one below.
In 2003 when I started training tourism folk in Internet marketing there was NO video on the Web.
In 2007 (it seems like only yesterday) I presented an Internet Marketing workshop with a slide that showed 9 million videos being viewed on the Internet each day, up from 8 million just a few months before.
How times have changed.
In just five short years of existence, Youtube video viewership has ballooned to what Google reports as 2 Billion video views per day, double what it was just 18 months ago.
What does the online video revolution mean to tourism businesses?
Some of us are in the online media business now. I spent the weekend working on a job description for a new position with our tourism business at Northern Edge Algonquin. We’re hiring a full time video producer. Specifically, we’re looking for a graduate from a media production program at a community college to produce, record, edit, and distribute online video on a full time basis. The successful candidate will produce media for more than just ourselves, but you get the drift.
It’s show time!
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