Hey, remember 30 years ago when your dad took home movies on his old 8 mm camera? The whole family would sit together in a darkened room while dad loaded the film on those giant spools, and that choppy old projecter would show summer vacation highlights. Ah, memories.

In the past year or so, demand for online video content from consumers has grown faster than I think anyone expected. Due to high broadband penetration, users are consuming more and more online video content and as a result, companies left and right are clamoring to innovate and provide the most accurate and effective ways to search for video and ultimately, make video more discoverable. At this year's very First Annual Video Search Summit, leaders from companies within the online video space will discuss the challenges and innovative technologies that are being developed to serve this growing demand for better video search.

In 2008, there is plenty of buzz about the new and exciting online promotional tactics related to online video marketing and online video sharing.

For any advertising method to be effective, it has to have a target audience that is consuming the medium with which the advertising is attached to. That being said, advertisers are starting to realize that online video advertising is now an effective method to attract large relevant audiences. Online video consumption has grown tremendously in the past few years and as a result, video sharing and video search companies are poised to reap the benefits of video advertising.

Online video and video search is HOT! You have surely seen all the buzz on the internet about sites like youtube, blinkx, etc... With this, bloggers have been writing posts about how to shoot video, how to upload videos to these sites, etc... However, few have provided information on how to get these videos seen and discovered. Here enters Video SEO.