Isn’t it true that the hard videos are never as popular as the easy ones. This video of Rusty and Triscuit (pets of babysitter of nalts) was viewed nearly 700,000 times on Yahoo Video. But my more recent video, “Confessions” was far more complicated, and has been seen 25K views.
And here’s your celebration video. Which was shot when Zipster decided to send Locomama to babysit our kids.
So that wraps up my 3-part series for Reader’s Digest. Thanks, RD! Do you suppose this will increase the odds that they accept one of my jokes or stories? I’ve been trying for more than 2 decades. 🙂
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.”
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).
