It seems like just yesterday someone in our office had the idea. “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to offer royalty-free stock video clips, too?” And poof, here we are. We’re thrilled to announce our most recent upload (below), bringing our collection of stock videos to the 100,000th mark. It wasn’t easy, my friends. It took a whole crew of folks to…
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Almost three quarters of all internet users aged 18 and older are using some form of social media, which means that marketers everywhere are consistently looking for creative ways to reach them. SocialMediaExaminer.com and other experts agree that, in 2015, video content will be the social media marketing tactic of choice. With those thoughts in mind, let’s…
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Launching a video marketing campaign is an excellent strategy for any business. Every marketing format is valuable and has its place, but video has demonstrated a unique ability to inform, inspire, and entertain customers by telling a story. More and more businesses are using video to market their product or service and to increase engagement, action,…
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With the advent of sites like YouTube, no one can deny the power of video. What’s just as clear is that YouTube isn’t only a site for videos of cute cats and skateboarding fails; it’s a place for companies, big and small, to showcase their businesses to a wide audience of potential customers. In fact,…
Read MoreWatch our Director of Product, Wyatt Jenkins talk about what’s new at Bigstock. <img src="http://vip-go.bigstockphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/merch-pod-video.jpg" alt="" title="Big Changes at Bigstock" width="304" height="211" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4823"
Read MoreHere’s a video of a snatch-and-grab robbery by an octopus, who steals a digital camera, which continues to shoot video as the creature swims away with it! The photographer who posted this underwater footage on YouTube writes: “I didn’t feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny…
Read MoreImagine getting a new iPad and immediately destroying it. Crazy? For a couple of years, a blender company has been running a series of web videos demonstrating how their products can liquefy almost anything. This week the “Will It Blend?” show destroys—yes—an iPad. This isn’t the first time they’ve killed an expensive gizmo in a…
Read MoreHere’s a photo project that’s both simple and brilliant. Artist Ken Murphy is working on an exercise called A History of the Sky, in which he uses a digital camera to shoot still images of the sky throughout the day, then assembles an entire day’s worth of images into video clips. You can best understand…
Read MoreAdobe is planning to launch the latest upgrade to its flagship software programs, Creative Suite 5, on April 12. They’ve even built a microsite with a countdown clock to get people excited about the announcement. We remember the last upgrade, to CS4, being a bit of a yawn, so we were preparing ourselves to be…
Read MoreThis is sweet. Photographer Derick Childress spent three nights in Raleigh, North Carolina shooting 800 individual exposures to make this video, which used to propose to his girlfriend Emily. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8444316&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1 She said yes. Visit Derick’s site to read the behind-the-scenes story of the light writing video.
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