Dear creator. Let me lift you out of your funk. The views of your recent videos have been down. You’re asking yourself, “am I past my prime? what happened to my subscriber base?” I have good news and bad news. For those that eat their desert before dinner, let’s start with the good news. Your…
Oh damn this is cool. Bobby McFerrin turns the entire stage into a keyboard, and the audience into his pipes. It’s a fascinating demonstration of our brains in action. Well, not your brain and my brain. We’re just receiving the encoded video. But Bobby’s and the audience. Not the doctors on the stage either. They…
“We regret to announce that Twitter is temporarily over capacity,” said David Scheyd, director of communications for Twitter. “Apparently Kevin Nalty (aka Nalts) began Twittering so frequently, our spam bots thought it was a virus and protected itself from a potential compromise.” Nalty, who tweeted about 48 times in the past several hours, said it…
I just wrote the stupidest article about social media. It’s stupid and proud, and if you don’t read it… “you don’t get it.”
Another YouTube film…
Daisy Whitney gave two examples of companies shifting from a free to paid model. I agree that “training the customers early to pay” is good advice, but I also like other model… give it away for free, then offer meaningful upsells. For instance, I’d probably pay for Tubemogul because it saves me the hassle of…
The “who’s who” of online video… follow them on Twitter
For reasons I can’t explain, I just spent the past half hour replying to comments about this video… using the word “poop” in each one.
I’d buy a bag full o’ shit if Rhett and Link were promoting it. They are probably the best creative duo for online-video promotions, and I’ve written about many of their promotions, from Butterfinger to Alka Seltzer. Perhaps their weirdest campaign, “I Love Local Commercials,” has the comedic pair bringing life to an otherwise boring…
Pete Cashmore reports on Mashable that there’s a Fred film in the works. Tubefilter reported that a casting call has taken place for Bertha, Judy and Kevin. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear Fred’s dad will make the first film, but I’ll sit tight for a sequel.