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Mandatory Reading for Journalists Covering “Online Video”

ByNalts

Dear regular WillVideoForFood readers: permit me to speak directly to the media in this post. Read this if you wish, but most of it’s not new to you. My friends in media. You’re under deadline. You want to do a story about online video. Your instincts tell you to package another human interest story about…

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GooTube Conspiracy Needs Script Blueprint

ByNalts

We’ve issued a press release on the GooTube Conspiracy, and the “participative storytelling” has taken some interesting directions even since we wrote the release. Here’s the creative challenge. The various plot branches are missing a trunk, as one of the videographers mentioned last night. Some of the characters — who submitted videos unsolicited — are asking…

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Target Persona of Each Popular Video Site

ByNalts

The real test of a video site’s audience is what videos are featured or highly rated. This analysis by Steve Bryant of ReelPopBlog shows the top video of each site. Partially fueled by this research and partially from my own vast experience of getting lost in these sites, here is… Nalts‘ analysis on the “persona”…

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Saying No to the $100 Million Bribe from Google

ByNalts

I wish I had more than a few dozen hours of video content. Maybe I’d get a sweet little offer from Google like the networks are getting. Courtesy of the ReelPopBlog.com, here’s a Business Week article about Google’s efforts to keep networks and programmers from suing YouTube/Google. Here’s the funny thing. It’s the end of…

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Google, Ads and Distribution! “No One’s Ever Done This Before.”

ByNalts

Another online video article by WSJ: “Google to Distribute MTV Clips: Deal for Ad-Backed Videos Could Bolster Revenue, Broaden Viacom’s Reach” by Matthew Karnitschnig. How’d you like to have that last name and have to spell it to people 4 times in a row every single day? The Highlights Google will distribute video programming from…

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  3. Do you suppose he’s ever searched the word “FAILURE” on The Google. Must suck for him to see the first natural listing.

  6. Google’s blog actually has a paid ad that clarifies that it wasn’t manipulated.

    Nothing lends credibility like a giggle. Except a good fart.

  8. He left me a voicemail last night. I’m not sure it was personalized, but it urged me to vote Republican. Yes- I’ve already made a video about it.

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