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Jupiter: Online Video Advertising’s “Best Years” Not Until 2009 or 2011

ByNalts

According to eMarketer, Jupiter is cautious about online video advertising near-term’s growth. Jupiter is “advising that online video advertising’s best years may be yet to come, not until 2009 or 2011, when video is expected to become a standard offering of online publishers.” The reason that online video ad revenues are not growing faster, according…

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Moguls of New Media According to WSJ

ByNalts

If you want a quick crash course on the abscure talent that have become famous from online video, blogs, podcasts and the like… check out this nice WSJ article by John Jurgensen. It’s titled “Moguls of New Media.” Highlights from the piece Christine Dolce, whose MySpace page boasts nearly one million friends — making her…

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Yet Another “Share Revenue” Video Site

ByNalts

The online video market is getting more crowded. Here’s another revenue-sharing model in the lines of Revver and Eefoof and Motion.tv. It’s called Flixya. I discovered it from some self-promotional comments posted on popular YouTube videos. Looks interesting, but the proof is in the pudding. I’ve asked Marquis to post his earnings to date on…

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Chad Hurley (co-founder of YouTube) and Michael Robertson (counder of MP3.com)

ByNalts

Here’s a video from ZDNet that features part of a round table about consumer-generated media at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. At first I’m bored by Chad. Then Michael kicks in, and I almost think we’ll have an intelligent debate. But it seems like the themes are: YouTube is creating a stage…

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“Bald Lady at the Bar” Video

ByNalts

In the interest of search-engine optimizing this video, I had to give up the punchline in this post’s title. What happens when you meet a hot woman at a bar and she happens to be bald (or, uhm, suffering from “male pattern baldness”? The video, titled “Awesome Bar Scene,” is hysterical, and worth watching twice….

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The Article That Popped the Online Video Zit

ByNalts

Kevin Maney of the USAToday wrote the article that might pop the Internet online video zit. And it needs to be popped. I can’t stop looking at it. I just want to take my thumbs together and pop that pulsating red and white pimple. Because only when it’s gone can we move to the interesting…

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Join the YouTube Bubble-Burst Pool… no cash required and t-shirt and fame await you

ByNalts

NOTE: Log your votes on the above tab “YouTube Bubble-Burst Pool.” We’re having a WillVideoForFood Pool on when YouTube’s bubble bursts. I’m saying 67 days. Here’s how the pool works. You guess the exact days between now and the bust, and submit that number as a comment. The bust will be defined by any of…

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Memo to Chad Hurley: Sell YouTube, You Moron

ByNalts

The New York Post ‘s Tim Arango reports that YouTube could go for a billion dollars. Chad Hurley, YouTube founder, could make $400 million in the transaction. These YouTube guys haven’t paid a bit of attention to my rants since I’ve been blogging about them for the past 6 months. But trust me in that…

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Thursday Night TV Losing Its Reign?

ByNalts

I’m baffled why my agencies aren’t thinking like Jason Glickman of Online Video Insider. In ,” Glickman writes: …Advertisers can aggregate a reach of millions that rivals television. Many online networks even help with the translation between online numbers and GRPs so advertisers can slot the numbers right into their plans. Much of this reach…