Another Video Site Bites the Dust
Well we’re clearly in the bubble burst of online-video sites. Stage6 shut down, and Revver was sold. Who’s next?
Well we’re clearly in the bubble burst of online-video sites. Stage6 shut down, and Revver was sold. Who’s next?
When I saw the recent “I’m on a Boat,” feauring SNL’s Andy Samberg and T-Pain, I felt like I was seeing an ad for a song. Turns out, Samberg has created an album/label called The Lonely Island (with NBC and others) to market his rap parodies. Interestingly, he’s not using the YouTube/Google “sell video” checkout feature I…
Remember my post about 10 reasons online-video advertising (the smart ways) will be recession proof? Here’s something written days later, and worth reading. Good for creators worrying about your revenue in 2009, or advertisers looking how to spread your 2009 spending… From Jack Meyers’ media report. “Marketers need to determine how they can put less money…
Look out “I Are Cute Kitten.” There’s a new cat in town, and she says No No No No. And according to research it’s the funniest video out there. Google is trying to create an algorithm that ranks a video in terms of humor/comedy. Here’s an article about the subject, and here’s a BBC World…
The video you won’t find on the YouTube “YouTubeGathering” channel, or on the twitter profile YTGathering. But this group’s planning to show up for VidCon2011.
Well it’s nice to know there’s a pool on when I’ll get arrested. Seems that my crawling through a Denver airport worried a few YouTube viewers. Here’s TK’s pool on my arrest. Titled “Viral Video Genius Vilified Voraciously.” And for the record, we paid for Spencer’s fries. The real pool should be on when Nalts…
Keek raised $7 million to fuel a relatively new social-video sharing site, joining a crowded space including SocialCam, Viddy and Twitvid. VatorNews announced, “Keek is a social video network that lets people upload video snippets of just about anything from their mobile phones. It’s a bit like Twitter but what’s shared isn’t 140-character Tweets, but…
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youtube?
microsoft?
apple?
google?
oh wait, I must have licked a toad
and now ladies and gentlemen there’s music!
Vmix is next out the door.
Yes, VMIX. Here’s a letter from them about “restructuring”. What I want to know is how they can call themselves the cliched “established leader” in anything when they’re not even sure of their business model:
Dear VMIX Subscriber,
Beginning this week, you’re going to see a number of changes on VMIX.COM. We’re restructuring the site to reflect the shift in our product focus and gearing up for a complete redesign.
The first thing you’ll notice is that our homepage now places our technology offerings upfront. This is nothing new for us – VMIX is an established leader in providing media-management and community platforms, currently powering over 200 media, publishing and broadcast websites. We’re simply changing our site to reflect that focus.
All features and functionality will remain available until March 18, when we remove the community site to focus entirely on our VMIX CORE technology. We are sad to see the community site go but have an exciting product in the works called VMIX Marketplace that will offer massive exposure to content producers. In a nutshell, Marketplace provides a clean and easy-to-use interface that allows your videos to reach over 50 million uniques in the VMIX Network.
Between now and March 18, you can access the original VMIX.COM content and community at vmix.com/content. We also recommend checking out the partner sites listed on our blog at http://www.vmix.com/blog.php, where you can enjoy uploading video, creating photo galleries and much more. If you have questions about any of these changes, please feel free to contact helpdesk@vmix.com.
Sincerely,
Chris Stuberg & Dave Brown
VMIX Content Team
What the hell happened to jischinger’s name??????????
nalts,I dont get it, u keep saying revver was sold,but they are still in business,their top advertisers probably dropped them temporarily because of the news of the buyout,and the recent drop in traffic,but revvers traffic is at its highest since june of 2007,so the advertisers should come back soon,BTW id never even heard of stage6,so im sure most others havent either
Steve, there’s a good reason you never heard of Stage6 — their marketing was non-existent. (They should have hired Nalts!) If you’re interested, I explore the marketing ineptitude of Stage6 and other Web 2.Overrated companies in my blog:
http://coolrulespronto.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/stage6/
sukatra my password 😉
Freddy,
In your sidebar, you write of yourself:
“he draws on insights attained from two decades of experience in advertising and entertainment”
but the picture above this blurb looks to be of a person 19 years old. Start in the womb, did you?
🙂
Dear Lulu TV Shareholder,
Thanks for participating. This is the last Lulu TV co-op pool. We are
discontinuing our paid co-op program for the time being. Thanks for
your support and visit often!
Hey Marquis:
Thanks for the compliment. I knew there was a reason I liked that photo! (Nalts knows what I look like in person.)
Proof of my age: I’ve been trying to track down the first album by the British heavy metal group Axe, which I listened to in junior high (1979).
Not good enough?
Thanks also for checking out my blog.
Freddy
1979!? You ARE a young whippersnapper! By 1979 I was on my second wife and third house.
You were able to afford alimony and a house? Wow, that was a long time ago…
What was Lulu.tv? I worked in the online-video industry and never heard of them. Talk about wretched marketing (or, more likely, a suicidal disdain of marketing).
Lulu.tv (see name link in Post #9 above) was one of the first revenue-sharing video hosting sites.
lulu is where I saw my first cat online. I think that’s where they all came from.