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Shooting Video Testimonials

ByNalts

Here’s a nice article titled “how to shoot a video testimonial.” (Ken McCarthy, SystemVideoBlog.com). Great tips about getting a subject comfortable and asking questions that will prompt positive comments. This article reminded me that making “amateur video shorts” violates almost everything I ever learned working at PBS and doing my own small productions. I’ve never…

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How Many of the 10 Billion Videos Viewed in February Did YOU Watch?

ByNalts

We watched 10 billion videos in February, according to ComScore yesterday. That’s a 66 percent gain from February 2007, and apparently about 73 percent of people online are watching videos. Which means the other 15 percent are losers that are too busy brushing up on their math skills. 35 percent of this activity is on…

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Do YOU Have What It Takes to Become (and Stay) a YouTube Star?

ByNalts

I’ve written plenty about how to become a YouTube star (see free eBook v2 and “Beyond Viral“), but today’s post is the first of a series about the persistence of some top YouTube talent. It’s one thing to break through the clutter and develop a following, but quite another thing to maintain it… the latter…

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The Article That Popped the Online Video Zit

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Kevin Maney of the USAToday wrote the article that might pop the Internet online video zit. And it needs to be popped. I can’t stop looking at it. I just want to take my thumbs together and pop that pulsating red and white pimple. Because only when it’s gone can we move to the interesting…

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Viral Idols? Television Producers Should Mine and Sign

ByNalts

This Transformer video is pretty funny. It slows down in the middle, but comes to an interesting (albiet violent) ending. I discovered it via TechDigest.TV (who does a nice YouTube roundup). I recognize these guys and their CD-covered wall, so I went back to the site in their YouTube profile. It's Smosh.com- and here's another…

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Entries to the “Piss Off Lane Hartwell” Video Contest

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Below are some video montages that will soon get removed by YouTube, resulting from the inevitable DMCA notices that Wired freelance photographer Lane Hartwell will send (when she’s finished wrapping presents and invoicing strangers). Per my earlier post, Hartmwell took action against The Ricter Scales for using a second of her photo in their “Here…

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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