Phishing for YouTube Account Names: Watch for Nigerian Videos
Well the phishers are out to spam YouTube accounts (TechCrunch), and perhaps upload some Nigerian invitations to earn free cash.
Well the phishers are out to spam YouTube accounts (TechCrunch), and perhaps upload some Nigerian invitations to earn free cash.
As far as I can tell, it’s impossible to change your thumbnail on YouTube. Thumbnails, which are the single image that appears to represent your video, are critical to a viewer’s decision to watch your video. Thumbnails, followed by a video’s duration and title, are the most important elements to catching the attention of random…
I debated heavily before posting this, because this blog is supposed to be a review of the fun world of viral video and marketing (not an advertisement for my services). That being said, I think some of you readers may be interested in how I work with sponsors. As you know, I advocate that brands…
Naturally the major networks (ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, Disney) monitor this blog daily for story ideas. On slow news days, they either make up stories or fish blogs for anything that can boost viewership- even if it’s a pancake video. Turns out all of the energy around the recent scandal on the NSA Eavesdropping…
No, all social-media articles don’t have to suck. MediaPost’s Kelly Samardak takes us into a speakeasy during a social-media Mental Prohibition in this coverage of “Digital Cocktails: Keys to Social Media Success.” The piece, part business and human interest, chronicles the event — hosted at the NYC studios of ForYourImagination (where you can pass the social-media “dutchie on the…
“There’s something about reading your own quote in print that makes you believe your own BS,” said Kevin Nalts on his blog today. A recent article in StreamingMedia quoted a few of my observations on production quality and how important it is in web video popularity and views: “…We’re still at a point where production value…
Inside Online Video reports: With the explosion of HD online video, YouTube is… raising (its) maximum file size (from 100 mb) to one gigabyte with (its) new multi-video uploader. Download the software here so you can upload multiple videos here. P.S. This is PC only. Jerks.
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Thanks for the heads up.
Here’s another instance where not being a partner is a good thing. 🙂