Teleporting Fat Guy
Nothing to say here. Just got stuck on this video, which I regard as the biggest ear worm of 2008. By Smosh. Is it wrong if I’m 39 years old, and I’m singing Smosh songs to my son instead of telling him stories (see below)?
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Sponsored Fun or Selling Out? Comedy Duo On Road Trip for Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz.
Rhett and Link, comedic video amateurs, are mountaineering above the overhang of “The Great Cliff of New-Media Sponsored Advertising.” They’re harnessed to each other with a taut rope, knotted with creativity. The friends swing effortlessly to the next hold in a pendulum traverse. Rhett knows the objective danger as he firmly grabs his nub, and Link’s total attention is committed to…
YouTube Homepage Missing Logo
How’d you like to be the programmer that gets a call before 9 a.m. Pacific time, and someone’s yelling about how the YouTube homepage isn’t loading correctly? Your hangover swells as you hear the barking shrill of a panicked voice say something about the logo missing. Would you kinda feel like the guy in a television…
Naked Cheese (updated!)
Naked cheese video. See explanation below. This explanation will be deleted in 24 hours. A PROFOUND apology to WillVideoForFood readers. The idea of a pure cheese video was spawned from this post about 3 rules of viral video. I got a “dare you to make a video about cheese” note from a regular WVFF contributor…
TheMightyThor1212 Not Alone at Boston YouTube Gathering
The YouTuber who has attended every YouTube gathering since 2002, TheMighyThor1212, was surprised to be joined by two other people at the weekend’s Boston YouTube gathering. Joe, aka MysteryGuitarMan, attended and took some photos. A Ben Franklin lookalike was the third attendee, although he said he planned to be at the venue before he was…
How to Turn a Viral Video Blunder Into a Public Relations Nightmare
Case study time! You’re a J.C. Penney marketer and you find out that one of your recent advertisements spawned an inappropriate parody that landed on YouTube. The mock ad, in fact, was created by a NYC production company that was working for your advertisement agency (Saatchi & Saatchi). The ad shows teenagers timing themselves going…
Lady Bitches About Husband on YouTube. Goes to Court.
Interesting story about a wife that is in court for bitching about him on YouTube. Tricia Walsh-Smith, 49, is fighting a claim by her estranged husband, Philip Smith, that she engaged in “spousal abuse” by making the videos, which she says have been viewed more than four million times. She says he was planning to…
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Three Golden Rules of Online-Video Creation
For years I’ve written countless words about “do this” and “don’t do this” related to online video creation. Some of this applies to amateurs or pros, and some to advertisers and brands. Today’s advice pertains to three “Golden Rules”, and it’s important for all of us- but especially creators. Let’s look at the Three Biggest…
Why Do I Put So Much Effort Into This Stupid Blog?
… when maybe one person will read it for every 10,000 people that watch my videos? Oh- I remember now. It’s the profit from the ads I sell around these words.
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Metacafe Gives Viewers Wikipedia-Like Editing Control of Videos
It’s maddening when a creator tricks viewers with misleading thumbnails, titles, tags and descriptions. Until now, we’ve counted on the website’s search engine to solve that problem. But even YouTube’s Google-like sophistication still opens the door to tricks by Viral Video Villians. Google learns from its users, and I imagine the YouTube search engine quietly…