Spinal Tap is returning to raise awareness of “Live Earth,” a series of events that will occur on July 7, 2007. The events are focused on bringing attention to global warming. It’s amazing to watch this considering how many times we’ve all watched Spinal Tap. But I wish it was 5 3 minute videos instead…
Van Stahr from YouTube made a video to promote his new petition. A petition to make me the new CEO of YouTube. I hate to support a hostile takeover of Chad and Steven, but they haven’t invited me into the advertising revenue-sharing program yet. As the new CEO I will allow creators to control how…
My “Blackberry Crackberry” is an “official honoree” for the 11th annual Webby Awards. There’s not much else to say about this. Just credentializing because I’m hopelessly insecure. Still, I posted today my favorite of my recent videos. It’s called “Chicken Prank.” Here’s the premise. A father forces his son to dress in a chicken suit and…
A letter from Veoh: In the coming months, Veoh will be launching advertising and revenue sharing with Pro Publishers. We are building our own advertising technology to suit the needs of our publishers and audience, but in the meantime, we have decided to investigate external possibilities. Over the next week, we will run a trial…
Eefoof changed to VuMe.com (“view me”). Company has Revver-like ad sharing model but never really worked out for me or others I know. If you’ve had any luck making money on Eefoof or VuMe please comment.
What do you do when you hold a ketchup contest and about half of the entries are from one guy? Here’s Heinz’s YouTube site, and here’s the gratuitous contest site the agency presumably convinced the brand to build (equiped with auto-rolling video- ick). Still, it’s a good brand for a contest, isn’t it? Who can’t have…
Online-video has rules, and I’ve broken one. And I don’t care. A while back two YouTubers (myself and CharlesTrippy) did a fake feud on YouTube that created something of a backlash. Our loyal subscribers were outraged that Charles and I would give out each other’s cell phones to torment the other (see Charles’ video, then…
Wow. I’ve been so busy with YouTube that I almost forgot about Revver. And when I popped by for a visit, there wasn’t any “where the hell have you been” guilt. In fact I found myself at the top of the featured creators. Thanks, guys. The link appears to be down currently, but that’s part…
My favorite roving reporter, Alex Delyle (TheDailyReel), reports that Variety reports that YouTube may share ad revenue… some… day…. soon. Says Variety: Content creators who upload their videos to the site will be offered the option of having short ads shown at the beginning or end, with the resulting revenues split 50-50, according to Howard…
MyBowlAd.com is offering a chance for average Joe’s and low-budget brands to appear on a 30-second Superbowl ad. In this video on YouTube, viewers are encouraged to submit a video response to enter. Meanwhile the three guys sponsoring the initiative hope to raise funds by selling a one to five seconds of advertising for $15-$100K…