So at about 12:30 today I had an anaphylactic fit (which can be terminal if you don’t get epinephrine in time). Two years ago I had my first, and got to the hospital inside an hour– and was fine. This time we drove there inside 20 minutes and my breathing started to get restricted and…
Via PaidContent.org, we have news from the UK’s Times Online that MSN is launching a video sharing site this summer. “The Microsoft site will launch this summer as the world’s largest software developer moves to increase the reach of its MSN portal by tapping the explosive growth of social networking sites such as MySpace.com. It…
Panjea Revver LuluTV Eefoof Thanks, Xeep.net. We’re slowly getting the word out about this strange “new” world of getting paid for your content. Nobody will call this stuff an overnight success. I’m about 500 posts into this stuff, and I’m amazed that it’s still the best-kept secret on the web. You can actually make MONEY…
Highlights from a recent Wall Street Journal article on the pay-for-content online video sites… New Web Sites Pay for Clips By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO July 12, 2006 In his spare time, Patrick Sell, a 31-year-old marketing analyst, enjoys shooting short videos of well-dressed women strolling along New York City streets, then posting them on the…
Interesting that Eefoof — a relatively new site that pays creators for content — is getting billed as a “YouTube competitor.” Check out this CNBC story and this Digg.com post, which raises the question as to whether it will be a YouTube killer. Mashable challenges the business model and calls the site ugly. I give…
There’s a whole range of customer service approaches, and the online video sites haven’t exactly figured that out. That’s become apparent on my blog where people have been known to gripe about slow responses and ignored e-mails. Here’s a stunning exception, and first impressions are lasting ones. Adriana, the star of “Blah, Blah, Blogs,” tells…
A “just in time” viral video to promote The Guardian. I think we’ll see a lot more of these. An easy way to get viral is to create something topical and quick. For advertisers and marketers, this means accelerating approval processes, shooting quickly, and giving the creative agency some freedom to move FAST.
I’ll get the out takes up soon. They’re much funnier than this spoof of a worker trying to get laid off for the severance. Pretty cool that my real boss agreed to helping on this. And she managed to not crack up once… even while I was eating crayons.
Here’s a beefy Mercury News article about online video, with an emphasis on YouTube and its long journey toward profitability. It confirms that the YouTube folks are indeed thinking it would be good to make money, but are (in my opinion) way too paranoid about losing their cult-like appeal. Read my letter to YouTube’s founders to get…
This Wall Street Journal article gave Patrick Sell (creator of Idonothingallday) a dramatic spike in traffic to his website packed with short videos of beautiful women in NYC. Patrick has been doing this for a while, and he’s as humble as they come. Not what you’d expect in a voyeuristic video maker. Good press for…