Sponsoring YouTube Weblebrities
Grant Crowell, one of our favoritest writers at our favoritest websites (ReelSEO), tackled the subject of online-video webstars and their sponsored videos. He interviewed Hitviews‘ Sam Levine. Check it out…
Grant Crowell, one of our favoritest writers at our favoritest websites (ReelSEO), tackled the subject of online-video webstars and their sponsored videos. He interviewed Hitviews‘ Sam Levine. Check it out…
There’s been a lively debate recently among online-video enthusiasts about Google/YouTube’s capacity to sell display advertising. Sales people need different skill sets selling paid-search (automated, measurable, bid-based) versus display advertising (which is less measurable and more like selling television or print). To understand the distinction, see Google’s video; this is something we’ve been exploring at…
Unknowingly I was approved as a B&H affiliate last December (I should check e-mail more often). So here’s a banner below. For those of you that don’t know, affiliate programs allow bloggers and website owners to earn some small portion of your purchase if you visit the e-commerce site via the blogger’s coded link or…
Should you join a YouTube network (or what I call Online Video Studios)? It’s a question I get often. And my simple answer, of late, is this: NO– unless you desperately need one, have realistic expectations of what you get back, and have an attorney read the fine print. Many young artists are signing with…
Courtesy of Deirdre Straughan, here's a site that tests a lot of video players in one spot. Some of them load automatically, so you'll have to scroll down and pause. You'll be greeted by some cool music. Thanks, Deirdre, for bringing this to our attention and doing the testing that the rest of us are…
Read this post completely, because there’s going to be a test. And your future depends on it if you’re an online-video advertiser, creator or even watcher (who would rather endure ads than not pay for content, and yes I meant to say it that way). Although I was recently a Product Director, most of my…
When I posted “Lay Me Off,” I got a lot of comments about the lousy audio. Part of my problem was the music was too loud (a mistake I make far too often). But I also use the camcorder’s built-in mike. So if I’m far from my subject then audio becomes a problem. I was…