http://willvideoforfood.com WillVideoforFood: Where Content and Advertising Can Get Along Like Cats and Dogs. Thu, 15 May 2008 11:23:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spencer is my nephew's friend who appeared in "Farting in Public" (now almost at 5 million views). We've done about 12 mostly public videos together, and here's a playlist so you can watch them all on YouTube: "Best of Spencer." Spencer has a unique ability to suspend social anxiety and do ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/15/campaign-to-bring-back-spencer-farting-in-public-kid/ Unknowingly I was approved as a B&H affiliate last December (I should check e-mail more often). So here's a banner below. For those of you that don't know, affiliate programs allow bloggers and website owners to earn some small portion of your purchase if you visit the e-commerce site via ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/15/where-to-buy-cheap-video-camera-and-gear-new-and-used-bh/ I remember a quote I received 16 years ago via e-mail -- back in the days when you couldn't verify things through Snopes, Google or Hoaxbusters. To put this time in perspective, a girlfriend challenged me to find the original name for Winnie the Pooh and it took a phone ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/13/kids-today-quote-from-socrates/ You know ASecondChanceAround from YouTube? Give her a MILF vote on "Hot Moms." It's a mother's day contest, and she was submitted by her daughter. :)Share This http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/09/give-secondchancearound-a-milf-vote/ Well maybe the headline is an overstatement because I have no idea what this Korean website is saying about me. But I'm sure it's something like "he's a viral video genius" who knows marketing and online-video better than anyone else in the globe.  If you happen to speak or read Korean, ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/07/i-am-to-korea-what-jerry-lewis-is-to-france/ One of the factors that has limited the growth of online-video advertising is the production and traffic work. Mike Shields of Mediaweek reports that the Interactive Advertising Bureau this week introduced a set of guidelines to standartize online-video advertising and make the medium "easier for advertisers to buy." The new guidelines ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/07/one-small-step-for-video-ad-standards-one-giant-leap-for-creators-and-brands/ Fiction and reality can be ironic. Last Thursday night I joined some folks in NYC to shoot the recent "Farting Unites," but not before meeting in Newark to get killed by PaulScott1972 -- here's his frightening video threat. And here's a video called "Ignored: Part 5." It's graphic and involves a ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/05/01/nalts-gets-killed/ A recent study shows that the shrinking percent of US citizens that don't watch online-video regularly are more likely (by 45%) to be boring than their video-watching counterparts. This study, mind you, is based not on a significant N or any official methodology. It's just based on my own experience. For ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/04/23/study-shows-people-who-dont-watch-online-videos-are-boring/ So there's a galary of amateur videos (consumer-generated advertising) posted on Doritos' UK website, including this classic Davideo hit. He's the UK creator of the exploding Diet Pepsi Mentos girl, and one of my favorites in the use of abstract video animation (so be sure to rate it if "five ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/04/21/doritos-video-contest/ I've got two or three plastic bins in my basement, packed with hundreds VHS tapes. Among a lot of junk (Simpsons episodes, SNL reruns) lies some of the first video shorts I've made... um... two decades ago. So I spent hours this morning researching ways to convert them, and it ... http://willvideoforfood.com/2008/04/20/converting-and-uploading-those-old-vhs-videos/