News from Lulu.tv. Now Davideo may not be the only person using it! Dear Lulu TV user, A lot can happen in a year. We launched as a viral video co-op, where shareholders bought into the marketplace, and split the revenues. We then decided we could put even more cash into the pool by sharing…
Mike Posehn is a time-lapse photographer and creator of the GBTimeLapse software that helps turn digital photos into time-lapse videos. In his post on GraniteBaySoftware’s blog, he compares various video sites. His goals are similar to many of ours: 1) Good video quality, easy and fast uploading and an attractive and flexible video player. 2)…
Business Week did a story on the omnipresent “The Viral Video Factory.” Found via Adriana’s FURL. Here’s the quote I found of interest: Clients, nevertheless, are willing to play with higher sums. Advertisers will spend more than $1 million for a viral video campaign now, says Smith, a far cry from the $10,000-$20,000 he and…
I don’t believe I’ve written about Flixya yet, but here’s another way to make money on your videos (or other peoples’). Flixya wraps your videos — which can live on sites like YouTube to Revver — with Google Adsense ads. They give you half the earnings. Via PinoyHack.
Wally (www.welcometowallyworld.com) has assembled an all-star cast for a new show called “Fizzer: RocketBoom on Crack.” He’s slotted spots for a lot of us (MarkDay, MarquisDeJolie and others), and apparently has secured a $1.5 million deal from YouTube. Details of how he splits that are unresolved. Check out this clever spoof. And be sure to…
I’ve done videos asking people to submit videos. But never before have I received so many responses. Yesterday at Starbucks I invited people to send 30-second videos in which they did their best to bore me. I got nearly 50 boring responses, some creative ones and a few hysterical ones. The prize I offered was…
His name is Marcos. In this video from December he — after taking a leak — says he’s willing to draw a picture of anyone on YouTube. Then quite suddenly one of his videos claimed the coveted feature spot. By last count he had more than 1,000 comments… many included requests for drawings. I’d estimate…
Jason Glickman, an Internet advertising veteran with expertise in emerging interactive technologies, was a little late to predict 2007. So the CEO of Tremor Media decided to predict online video for 2008. Read his predictions in MediaPost’s Online Video Insider. Here are his predictions with my commentary: 1. Video goes vertical. Surely vertical sites (specialized…
Business Week Online provides the “CEO Guide to Online Video.” Sponsored by CISCO. It feels like advertorial, but here’s some of the wisdom it emparts. Do: Keep it short Measure results Don’t: Script it Forget about your brand If I ever sound this remedial, will someone please take away my blogger’s license?
Only a small fraction of online video-based advertising will be picked up by user-generated sites like YouTube and MySpace, according to a new report. Over the next four years, just 15 per cent of the total online video advertising budget, will go to user-sites, according to analyst Screen Digest (Financial Times via Next Generation). Arash…