We learnt yesterday that social music network Last.fm has started creating original video programming to drive traffic to it. These will take the form of music interviews and live concert footage.

Now, Bebo, the third largest social network behind MySpace and Facebook has announced that it too is starting to create original programming, including a reality TV show called Gap Year.

The show will follow six lucky Bebo members as they travel the globe all expenses paid.

One Billion Video Views A Month

While speaking to Beet.tv, Ziv Navoth, Vice President of Bebo also spoke about hos many video views the network drives, an astonishing one billion every month.

Some of you may know Kevin Nalts as the guy that put mayonnaise in his family’s hair and looks and sounds like a distant cousin to John Malkovich.

Others will probably know him better as the video viral marketing guru who has had all manner of success on YouTube with his video blogs.

As Nalts is both a Fortune 100 marketing director and something of a YouTube legend he has decided to combine his skills in the name of ridding the internet of slipshod viral marketing video blogs. And how does he intend to do this?

Are you one of the millions of people to have seen one of the many Diet Coke and Mentos experiments from Eepybird?. If you are not sure what I am talking about check out their latest Diet Coke & Mentos experiment below:

Latest Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment

Who would have thought you could have so much fun with Mentos and diet coke!

First Webby Award for Viral Video

This years Webby Awards saw Eepybird make history by being the first to win a Webby Award for a Viral Video. Their crazy little series of experiments got them featured in Time Magazine, G! and People and they have also picked up a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

The massive stack of videos on YouTube presents an opportunity for creating blogs that spotlights the best videos from sites like YouTube and posts them on the site.

Here are a few quick tips to get you started:

Earn from Adsense

If you haven’t already then It is the easiest and most profitable to place adverts on your website.

It is important to optimize your Adsense adverts, such as through positioning of the ads and the colors of the adsense links. You should also explore alternative income streams.

Wanted to get into video production and internet TV but didn’t know how? Have lots of great ideas but don’t now how to implement them?

Well here is a great guide from MakeInternetTV.org (the people behind the Democracy Player) which will take you through every step of the process covering:

1. Submit to social video bookmarking sites. Digg.com, Video Bomb, Flurl, StumbleVideo – all these sites have the potential to send a lot of viewers if enough people vote for your video.
2. Email video blogs and websites to tell them about your video. Email blogs which post interesting online videos. Use Google and Delicious to find such blogs.
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