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Nice Note from Yahoo! Video Team About the Missing “Lay Me Off” Video

ByNalts

Not a lot of the online video sites pay much attention to the blogosphere (yes I’m talking about YouTube especially) so it’s nice to get a note like the one below. The backdrop is that I produced a video called “Lay Me Off” (aka “Fireable Offense”) that features myself trying to get laid off. Folks…

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Why Viacom Plus Joost is “Game Changing”

ByNalts

Want to watch shows from MTV, Comedy Central or Spike via broadband? Want to check out Paramount movies? Then you’ll need to switch from YouTube to Joost. No sooner did Viacom order YouTube to pull content, they’ve licensed hundreds of hours of content to Joost, a start-up formed by the founders of Kazaa and Skype (see Wall Street Journal)….

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Your Viral Video Shouldn’t Be a Commercial (Celebrity Apprentice Lesson)

ByNalts

Perhaps you watched Celebrity Apprentice last night, where the b-listers teamed up to create a “viral” video for O-Cedar’s ProMist Spray Mop. Note that I put “viral” in quotes since it’s not a viral video unless it goes viral. For that matter, let’s call it what it is: try-ral. It’s trying. It may go viral,…

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Get Rick Quick? Amazing Case Study on Viral Video Impact (Diet Coke and Mentos)

ByNalts

Who would have thought that a few hundred dollars worth of Diet Coke and Mentos could turn into $30,000? According to this Wall Street Journal article, viral videos — which featuring explosive shots of Mentos mixed with Diet Coke — http://www.eepybird.com/ have generated several million of views. This is not uncommon for YouTube, but it's a…

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A Looming “Tragedy of the Online Video Commons”

ByNalts

Forrester Research’s Peter Kim posts the following: when will fame alone not be enough for CGM? As more people see opportunities for fame AND fortune – via sites like Revver, fake videos like lonelygirl15, or billboards for Court TV, is there a “tragedy of the CGM commons” in the making? The tragedy of the commons…

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Let’s Make a Collab

ByNalts

You know, if I ever questioned whether it was worth writing an eBook (“How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent“), it’s all behind me now. Songwriter Abby Simons has made the homepage of YouTube with “Let’s Make a Collab.” For those of you new to this space, a collab (collaboration) is when several…

2 Comments

  1. Ha! That’s clever! Why’d they put the old man in? They could have had the grim reaper only and scared the bejesus out of them.

  2. Hahaha! Believe it or not, one of the girls I used to drive left a grim reaper outfit in my back seat one night. Still have it in my milk crates somewhere. Think I’ll go have some fun!

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