Another Marriage Proposal Gone Sour. In Public.
Lesson learned in this video. Don’t propose in public. Kinda reminds me of the last episode of The Office. Courtesy of a new blog featuring Google videos and information about Google.
Universal Tube (UTube.com) Sues YouTube
In the most ridiculous lawsuit since the McDonalds hot-coffee one, here’s Universal Tube (owner of Smoking Gun reports on the story, and you can see some of the e-mails the company has received erroneously. Let’s all include hyperlinks to UTube.com and tag them with words like YouTube, video, viral. Maybe we can get it number…
LonelyGirl15 is Lonely No More
LonelyGirl15 is lonely no more. She’s found Steven Starr, the affable The photo is from an interesting CNet story about Revver and Starr. According to the piece: Starr was formerly a talent agent at the William Morris Agency, where he worked with such actors, directors and writers as Ben Stiller, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ang Lee…
Almost $4K on Metacafe
My brother just sent me a list of the top 10 earners on Metacafe. As of this writing, I’m number 10 at nearly $4,000. Check out Nalts. Congrats to regular WVFF contributor Zack Scott for his number 6 spot. So now I need to figure out what Metacafe viewers like and want… and create videos…
User Generated Video Turning Pro
Mike Shields from MediaWeek wrote this recent article about viral video creators. Nice piece and encouraging for those of us that are aspring amateurs. I found it while ego surfing my own name. Don’t act like you don’t ego surf. The user-generated video media landscape, while still pervaded by frat boys filming themselves being jackasses…
Your Vote Counts
Oh- I’m not talking about the elections. I’m so tired of campaign ads I avoid the television like it was a telemarketer with the Ebola virus. But your vote counts in the Vloggies. Thanks to faithful WVFF reader PC, I’ve discovered that someone nominated this very unfunny blog in the category of Comedy Vlogs. Is…
Is it Politically Correct to Call Colbert an Internet “Indian Giver”?
The bloggersphere is deeply upset about the fact that Viacom has removed Comedy Central’s content from YouTube, especially the work of Stephen Colbert. A “wag of the finger” from WillVideoForFood.com to Colbert, who was among the most popular of YouTube’s celebrities until this went down. Colbert has embraced the web and consumer-generated media — encouraging fans to…
The Incredible Shrinking Video Screen
First we had VHS delivery. Then we shrunk to create video for kiosks. Later we adapted video to fit a tiny window for 56K modems. And guess what? Except for performance speeds and better resolution, we’re still working with relatively the same video size despite a decade of web. Even worse, cell phones are going…
This Blog Post is Guaranteed to Make You Yawn
Want to see something amazing? I can make you yawn. Probably not just once but for a few minutes. All you have to do is click this link which leads you to a Google Images search for the word yawn. You’ll see photos of people, animals and babies yawning. Let me know if it works….
EepyBird’s Sequel Dissappoints
Despite the build-up, the new EepyBird Diet Mentos Coke video wasn’t quite what many expected. It’s hardly approached the views of the original (250K by last count on Google Video). This ZDnet “MicroMarkets” piece praised the duo (Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz) and provides some interesting context. Yet while the ratings of the video are…