Some Friday nights you want to go out and party. Others you just want to sit at your computer with a stiff drink and watch an animated bunny dance. What kinda Friday night are YOU having? Dance along if nobody’s near you to make fun of you.
A “just in time” viral video to promote The Guardian. I think we’ll see a lot more of these. An easy way to get viral is to create something topical and quick. For advertisers and marketers, this means accelerating approval processes, shooting quickly, and giving the creative agency some freedom to move FAST.
Diane wants to win this contest because she believes her couch is not just ugly. It’s the ugliest. I find it such an odd goal I almost respect it. Vote here.
Many big online-video deals are US focused, and want to exclude paying for exUS markets. I understand this, as my marketing job is US only. I represent the US on a “global marketing team” but I don’t have control on exUS spend, nor does it impact my bonus significantly. Metacafe, a site born is Israel…
This video has been in discussion for months and months, and I gotta give props to SlatersGarage and Iggy35 for continuing to provide pieces for it, as I stalled on it. CharlesTrippy, FallofAutumnDistro and Edbassmaster all turned around their parts with about 24-hours notice or less! The idea hit me earlier this year, and it…
Semantics be important… especially for a relatively novel “space” like online video. For starters, I never much cared for the term “viral” marketing, because it had sick connotation. Like my marketing might make someone sick enough to cough on another hapless patsy. Then comes the term “viral” videos to celebrate the wonderfully horrible videos one…
I’ve had an AppleTV for a while, and I was amused by New Media Minute‘s video report that is almost entirely positive on the AppleTV except for some criticism of the the manual search process (source: webvideoreport). Don’t get me wrong. I really enjoy my AppleTV (Amazon carries the 40GB for $224, 160GB for $324……
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I just saw this one too. Very impressive animation. He (the creator)said he uses Maya for the animation. I’m going to have to look it up.
You can download a free 30-day trial version of Maya, AquaD. I did. It looked like rocket science to me and the tutorial ate up a huge amount of harddrive space. I decided to retain my amatuer status a while longer.