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Cutest Halloween Pet Costume? Your Vote Counts.

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It’s a showdown, folks, between Triscuit the Cat and Rusty the Dog (pets of babysitterofnalts). In this video, sponsored by Reader’s Digest, the cute animals duel on the cutest Halloween costume.

I can’t stop watching this video, because my wife’s squeeky voice cracks me up. My low-pitch Rusty voice is based on J.K. Simmons (remember him in Lady Killers as Garth Pancake, who was smitten for Mountain GIrl). Parenthetically, in my first job as a weekly newspaper reporter, I almost got to interview the Cohen Brothers, and this remains on my “bucket list.”

They’re not Kirk and Spock, Maryland, but they’re still cute. Be sure to vote for the cutest at Reader’s Digest.com — here’s the special Nalts Halloween landing page. Don’t listen to Hollywood’s “Don’t Vote” propoganda. Vote now. The future of Rusty and Triscuit’s Halloween is in your hands.

The challenge for sponsored videos — aka “advertainment” — is to promote the sponsor without sacrificing the entertainment value. In this case, I wanted to encourage people to visit ReadersDigest.com, so they built a voting application on the site. Typically fewer than 1 percent of people will visit the website of the sponsor. In this case, I believe we’ll see a lot more traffic from viewers that want to participate. Readers Digest is also holding a contest for cute Halloween contest that anyone can enter (for a $100 prize).

 

 

YouTube

Madonna: Not a YouTube Virgin

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madonna does youtubeMadonna aint acting like a virgin on YouTube. While other stars have fumbled in their attempts at the largest online-video site, Madonna gets 5 stars for her homepage video. Why?

  • We imagine this video was featured by the advertising department (likely a paid promotion for her new album “Hard Candy”). And although YouTube editors may not have selected it … it was funny, short and self depricating. Madonna is seen vacuuming the set of her music video.
  • The style was relaxed and had an amateur feel. Stark contrast from Oprah’s apperance in front of television monitors.
  • She looks pretty good for her age, and that makes me feel young. After all, I was in highschool when I won her album by being the 10th caller at the New Orleans radio station. I actually won ten records (the old-fashioned black CDs that were bigger than a laptop). Of course I had made friends with the disc jockey and he rigged it so I’d win. But now I’m sounding like a blogger drifting off into meaningless blah.

So go get ’em Madonna. I may not recall any of your songs since I last saw you in a limo, but you’re like a fine wine. You age well. Anytime you wanna do a collaboration on YouTube, you just let Uncle Nalts know. But I’m married, okay?