On the last day of Blog World Expo, I took a tour of the show floor to do some 30 second video interviews with some of the exhibitors. There were nearly 100 companies showing their stuff on the floor. Showing them all would be impossible giving the time limits placed by Viddler and YouTube.
While most vendors stuck to the 30 second elevator pitch, a few went over the time limit. Those companies that went over too much didn’t make it into video. Let that be a lesson for them. The following companies did make it.
- NewsTex
- Internet Geek Girl
- B5 Media
- Tech Smith
- Zemanta
- Buzz Logic
- Apture
- SodaHead.com
- PicApp.com
- Commission Videos
In addition to the elevator pitches, I also included a few clips from the action on the show floor itself. Blog World Expo was a huge success this year, with more than double last year’s attendances. If this trends continues, I can see Blog World Expo becoming a major event.
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Thanks for the info and good vid! Getting them drunk! $7CPm’s was that under the influence talk?? jk Good work on getting the vid up, you must be exhausted…..
Nice review John Chow. I like watching your video posts..
John your Video posts are entertaining and interesting to watch
It wouldn’t be John Chow without the chow! Lmao at “Playstation 2???”.
Those exhibits all sounded pretty cool. I will have to check out Apture. Have fun at the rest of the expo!
- Jack Rugile
Simple Sapien
I really liked apture too. I had to photograph a wedding in Kansas City and I loaned out my personal jet so I couldn’t make it to the show. Is there anyone on the comments here who went? what did you glean. In fact, John should put a post asking people to comment on their experience from the show. Or even what the first timers thought about it.
Mint video! Must feel proud that people ask you to be in your video!
PicApp – This will save me a LOT of money on one of my sites. Excellent find.
CommissionVideos – Gonna have to give it a shot. Sounds good.
Next year, I will be there next year….
Haha serves them right trying to get too much time….I hope they learn for next time
If there is ever anything dealing with blogging in my area im definitely going to be there
Lots of new companies to check into.
i wanna be there!!!
Yes I can definitely see this becoming a major event for the blogosphere
Hey, this bodes well for the blogging community! This just proves that blogging is becoming a great medium not just for obtaining information but also as a way to generate income!
I am really going to try and make an effort to get over there next year….
Nice review ty!
PS: she said 7 USD cPM guaranteed ?
:-O
The expo looks pretty cool. I have been wondering will I ever have a chance to step in the awesome hall. I hope…. NO NO… I should say I WILL :0)
Some pretty cool companies there. Commission videos sounds pretty cool, might check it out.
Great Video like always John! I really which I could be there, but I am stuck back home just blogging by butt off. What’s you going to do! Well, maybe one of these days I will be able to meet up with you at a AWESOME blogging event like this!!
Keep Up The Great Work AKA FUN!!!!!
Wait a minute, the rep from NewsTex went to about 42 seconds and still made it into the video…
I was going to say the same thing. She went way over.
Sweet interviews John. PS2??? C’mon, thats like anciet now.
Hey John,
Thank you for including SodaHead in your clip! I just wanted to clarify for your readers that while SodaHead.com is the social network part of SodaHead allowing people to ask questions, get answers and interact, bloggers can gain access to the polling tools we offer at http://www.SodaHead.com/partners/bloggers/ which isn’t accessible yet from any part of the main domain. It is a special page we put together for all you great bloggers!
Thanks again!
Eric
Awesome video.
Playstation 2.. wtf?
hahah.. no one diserves that. That was an nice expo, free icecream and stuff. Was the beer free too?
Great video! Lost of good info about different companies I didn’t know about. I’m like you, what’s up with the PS2? Are they too cheap to get the latest version?!?
Great stuff.
Although some of these don’t fit my industry, my top pics were close to yours as well Jing Rocks, Zemanta and Apture
whos in for it? NOBODY lol
You caught some great companies on camera. I checked out Comission Videos. I’ve heard of SodaHead, but I had no idea about their blogger feature.
Also…
360 Pro >>>> 360 Arcade
PS3 >>>> PS2
nice one john
Great video, a lot of helpful websites, thanx
Wow it really great john and also you new theme site is nice…
thanks for the tour….hope the companies give you a kick back of some cash. Great job on giving “value first” to others before asking. Chow has a lot of clout and still gives opportunity to people to show their work. To bad to the suckers who decided to take more time that was given. If you put them on a black list of “opportunists” they may still get some “clicks” their way.
I’m in the process of looking through all those companies.
Sweet! Next best thing to being there…I guess!
Hi John,
thanks for giving a short spotlight on Zemanta.
Are you going to try it out?
bye
Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta
Commission Videos?? $7?
Are they really reliable?
Hi
Great video. I am very proud as you put spot of Zemanta. I am user of Zemanta for few months and I can tell you, it helps me a lot.
PS2 – hahaha, but definitely a great idea to squeeze one last post from BlogExpo. Yeah!