Hats off to Showtime, which not only secured a full takeover ad on YouTube to debut “Homeland,” but ran the first episode free on YouTube. No ads, no punitive actions ala Hulu if you fast forward or rewind. That’s just badass, and an amazing marketing strategy. GIVE AWAY your pilot, friends. And you get free…
Meet Othello Gooden Jr., author of “Raylorian Dawn.”Here’s his vlog series. Memoire de Rayloria is named in french because the builders of the Space Station, “Rayloria” or AKA: “Zyra,” were Polish but spoke French and English fluently also along with their native Polish language. Rayloria is the middle name of the space station’s second leader, “Zyra…
This Dan Greenberg story in MediaPost is good news to online-video advertising enthusiasts. Seems the “gap” is closing, and online video is moving into critical mass. Did I just say “critical mass”? Oh well. Dan provides 5 reasons: Big brands be making video content investments Top agencies be making online video a practice/priority Agencies are…
Content creators and currators are getting six and seven figure “advances” from Google/YouTube, reports the Wall Street Journal. YouTube allegedly is planning to schedule content starting in 2012, and topics range from fashion to sports (I’m guessing travel, cooking and “how-to” are among them). Let’s look at how this works, and then what it means…
First some disclosure. I’ve been sponsored by Fox for promotion of such shoes as Glee, Fringe and Lie to Me. But that was a while ago, and this news is news period. If you have Amazon Prime (which I’ve had for years simply for free shipping) then you’ve got streaming access to loads of movies…
So here’s a sneak preview of the third revision of “How to Get Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent.” Thanks to those of you who have sent edits, and I’m sure there are some residual holes. If you have the time/desire, please review and provide edits either in comments or on Microsoft Word’s edit thingy….
Here’s the 20/20 story on YouTubers. Read about Obama Girl and David & Dentist. My favorite part of this is Joe Penna’s story. Here’s me meeting Penna the first time… (I totally didn’t know it was him until the shades went on). Wow- I am just realizing how sweet that NextUp program is… I spoke…
There was enough stupid ass YouTube news to warrant a post. Where to begin? Oh- NSFW. STARBUCKS FIRES DOUCHE-BARISTA TOO LAZY TO QUIT How about Christopher Cristwell getting fired for a YouTube song? Oh, yeah… the barista was wearing his uniform and bemoaning his job at Starbucks. So we’ll put that into the “too much of…
Marc’s Band downhome they sing Christian music more WSJ Article