Terrific Post on Engadget About Online Videos & Money Making
I love this post from Engadget. It's about YouTube and its costs and profitability. Engadget estimates that YouTube probably pays about a million a month in broadband. Given that it has recent funding of about $8 million, it's only bought itself the summer to show that it can profit. Engadget traces the history of sites…
Classifying Your Own “Online Video Viewer Persona”
Which "Online Video Viewer Persona" best describes you? This is worthy of a poll if I could figure out how to run one on a blog: 1) Trusting and lazy: I go to YouTube and look at the most popular content. I don't want the headache of sifting through garbage and I trust the public…
Get Paid to Watch Videos
The online video era has entered into its second of what I'd suggest will be three phases: Phase 1: People are thrilled to watch videos online easily and for free. YouTube owns this, and this is the prevailing model. Viral video makers are currently motivated by fame not money. But as I mentioned in a…
Artie Lange on Jimmy Kimmel
Here's a YouTube clip from the recent appearance of Artie Lange on Jimmy Kimmel live. Since I don't TiVo Kimmel, it's nice to find some clips like this. If you're shy on time, let it stream completely and rush to the clip from his new movie, Beer League. Three guys in a diner and the…
What Does YouTube and 27 Have in Common?
Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube, is 27. Chad Hurley, the other co-founder who worked with Chen at Paypal, now employ 27 people. Think about that. Twenty seven people running the most popular site for online videos-one that streams 50 million videos a day to the 12.5 million visitors they get a month. For another of the…
How to Tell if You’re a “GoogleHead”
There are many ways you're healthcare professional can determine if you are a GoogleHead. But one way for sure. If you're willing to spend your Memorial Day afternoon printing Google Head t-shirts and asking your family and cousins to do the cheesiest stuff possible for a GoogleHead video. Thanks to Laurie Berkner for the song and…
BBC: Make the Net Work for You
In this article in tomorrow (Monday's) BBC News, you'll get a background of Revver and Adsense- two ways to make money on your websites and videos. Nothing terribly new here, but nice to know these models are gaining the attention of the mainstream press (who, as you might have noticed, are a big stuck on…
3 iFilm Amateur Video Contests
When you submit to iFilm, there are three contests running now. One for the technically deficient, one for wannabee comedians, and a third for snowboarding cool cats. Yahoo Tech- Hook Me Up: Each week, EMTs (Emergency Makeover Technicians) adopt the case of a tragic sufferer of Old School-itis, diagnose his or her specific condition and…
Best Buy Blue Shirt Prank
What a great site this is… www.ImprovEverywhere.com. These folks get together for giant pranks that cause scenes. Check out the latest "mission" from last month… They gathered together dozens of people to enter Best Buy dressed in the store's uniform colors (khaki and blue). Here's the video highlights on Vimeo. If you like this, you'll…