Like many others, yesterday I huddled in line for close to 11 hours to pick up the coveted iPhone 4 (much to the chagrin of my wife, I’ll add). After playing with the phone now for half a day, I’m more convinced than ever that this phone is going to have a meaningful impact on the online video world.  Here are just a few initial predictions:

• More people are going to want to watch video on their phones because of this phone. Watching video on the iPhone 4 is actually pleasant.  While video on the older iPhones was

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About a month ago I moderated a panel on video commerce in New York alongside panelists Scott Anderson of Vitamin Shoppe, Robert Schwartz of Ogilvy, and Jason Arend of PFI Western.  Scott shared his vision for video commerce at Vitamin Shoppe, which is just now launching an online video effort.  Robert shared examples for both Sears and IBM.  Finally, Jason closed the panel by highlighting the results of PFI Western’s multi-channel video commerce strategy.  Questions ensued – please enjoy:

This year REELSEO is attending the IRCE in Chicago.  The VCC is assisting REELSEO in identifying any retailers that may be interested in being interviewed for an upcoming article on online video in e-commerce.  If you or one of your teammates is attending the Internet Retailer conference and is interested in an interview opportunity, please drop me an email at justin [at] video [dash] commerce [dot] org.

This week I co-presented a webinar on HTML5 video in e-commerce with Walt Mann, Founder/CTO of Liveclicker. The material is very best practices focused so I thought it worthy of posting up on the VCC blog.  You can listen to the audio by downloading the HTML5 video webinar material, or you can thumb through the slides on Slideshare.

HTML5 Video in E-commerce

The webinar covered:

- Overview of what HTML5 video is

- HTML5 video adoption curves

- Browsers and devices that support HTML5 video (and those that don’t)

- The state of HTML5 video codecs (OGG Theora,…