New York Fries (via agency zig, which has the best agency website I’ve seen) has found a new pitch man in Gary Coleman (Different Strokes, and most recently seen in the National Inquirer falling asleep as a call-center employee). It’s so bad it’s good again! A Facebook app will give you your fortune predicted by…
You know who you should have on your show, Oprah? Hank and John of Vlogbrothers, who became popular when they communicated for a year strictly through alternating “video blogs” (vlogs). Here’s the pitch, Oprah producer (or someone who knows them and will forward this on). The two guys have a loyal following of “Nerdfighters” who…
It’s official. I’m getting a hair transplant on Monday, Aug. 17 with one of the leading physicians in the field! If you’d like to watch part of it live, Alan (fallofautumndistro) will be MCing a 30-minute session from 12:30-1:00 at this blogv.com location. I’m writing my book about online-video marketing (likely publishing with Wiley) and…
“Kevin just does a great job of bringing together the advertising perspective and creator perspective of social media and online video,” says Daisy Whitney, Queen of Online Video, in reference to this blog. Whitney is now working with iMediaConnection, which was news to me during this week’s “This Week in Media“ (I’m one of two…
Would you trust your corporate or personal brand to strangers via UGC (user generated content)? I don’t mean the “conversations,” but the actual logo of the brand. Well I did, and it paid off! I made a video and tweeted last month inviting people to submit NaltsConsulting logos (offered a $100 prize for the winner),…
Silence please as I open the envelope. The winner of the “Best Traditional Network on YouTube” (yeah, I just made that up) is Discovery Networks. Now it’s not entirely fair, because they have shark footage. So that’s almost cheating. But let me give you some examples of how Discovery is doing tube right while many…
eMarketer reports online video is growing. Mkay. Not sure I have a lot to add to this, but Larry Kress has some analysis. Here’s the index of the report in case you feel like buying it for me. Paul Verna wrote it, but never interviewed me. So it must not be very comprehensive. Oh- and…
A Pew study shows that more of us are watching online video than engaging in social media (via the lovely and talented Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee). Seems 62 percent of US internet users have watched online video, and only 46 percent have engaged in social media. Surprised? Naturally, there are loads of questions you may…
There are three types of readers of this blog. Those that scan it for industry tips, people who find it accidentally via my videos, and those of you who are hard-core members of the WillVideoForFood backrow. This one’s for you, peeps. Last night I took the kids to recreation station, a playground near our house….
Sometimes it takes a few dozen cats to step on a land mine, before the rest of us decide to take a different route. It seems we’re still not clear on one of the most basic rules of social media and advertising. Transparency when it comes to advertising via social media. Let’s officially mark this…