Ever surf The Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org) to see what your favorite websites looked like back in their early days?
Here’s an early version of YouTube…
Even better… an early shot of Google. Ah, memories.
So there’s a galary of amateur videos (consumer-generated advertising) posted on Doritos’ UK website, including this classic Davideo hit. He’s the UK creator of the exploding Diet Pepsi Mentos girl, and one of my favorites in the use of abstract video animation (so be sure to rate it if “five sizzling chips” if you like…
You can decide whether a random YouTube video helps or hurts a brand, simply by voting on YouTube Brandwatch (see link). Vote on videos about laptop wedgies, Bic lighter tricks, or sexy Sprite. (Source: YouTube Biz Blog). Read YouTube’s interview with Matthew Yeomans and Bernhard Warner, directors of Custom Communication. The blog is an outgrowth…
TV Guide reviews some of the best YouTube “talent” moments. I need to broaden my definition of the word “talent” obviously.
It wasn’t long ago that YouTube was known as the video version of early Napster. If you needed a free television show, music video, or even a featured-length movie, YouTube was your source. Now the company, under Google, has developed perhaps the most robust content ID library in the world (see YouTube business blog). It’s…
The nice thing about moderately promoted online-video contest is that your odds are really good. HomeCamera.com (a free home surveillance system) asked if I’d do a sponsored video. I offered instead to promote a contest if they’d give out some of the D-Link wireless cameras (see image below) that are being sold with HomeCamera preconfigured….
Lots of online-video community members struggling with YouTube becoming Hulu and going professional. This song (and the chorus) is a daunting reminder of the power of the community.
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Oh man, speaking of that, does anybody remember the old Willvideoforfood logo?
You must be bored.
@1 Ha, what was it? The solo video camera of some sorts pointing at you?
It’s ever changing, I can’t keep up with it now adays. Pink, green, cheese…although I must admit the Nalts/Katie picture is the cutest thing ever! :o)
If you go back in time far enough, some of my videos are actually worth watching!
The Wayback Machine is fun.
@3: I liked the green best, the pink least.
I didn’t know google existed until… I think 2003. Youtube I didn’t use until early 2006. I didn’t upload until early 2008.
yeah, of course I fail.
@1
I remember one of the early WVFF banners was a picture of Nalts holding a bum’s “Will video For Food” cardboard sign on the left with a picture of a boxy video camera on the right. It was kind of dark and colorless. I like the moving cheese one better.
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Very amusing. I never saw the round/blue YouTube.
WTF!!! My google reader has been broken!!!