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Top 10 Online-Video Predictions for 2007

ByNalts

I pulled out my crystal ball this morning, and I’m predicting the most significant online-video highlights of 2007. I’ll be citing these selectively at the end of 2007 (only those in which I was right). Okay I didn’t use a crystal ball. This video tells a better story about the process I used to arrive…

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Top 10 Viral Video Moments of 2006

ByNalts

Given that 2006 was the Year of Online Video, we’d be remiss not to look back at the special highlights of this year. This is not another “top viral videos of the year” list. Goodness knows there are hundreds of those. Instead we’re looking at the moments that changed the industry or perception of it….

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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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Participative Storytelling Via Video: GooTube Conspiracy

ByNalts

I used to play a game with my kids. I’d tell them a bedtime story and stop. They’d have to finish the sentence. Then we’d take it in the direction they wanted. That’s the spirit behind The GooTubeConspiracy. The storyline is dictated by the viewers. Toss a good comment or video response and you’ll see…

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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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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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What’s the Difference Between Google Video and YouTube?

ByNalts

Why would Google want to own two video sites? Oh, silly. They’re not two video sites. Their differences are becoming apparent: Google Video Objective: create a video site with no discernible character or features. Keep it as an entirely different entity, and let it stagnate as the market changes. Don’t promote the video site on Google homepage…

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Google Hands Out $50 million checks to Media Companies to “Shut Up and Look the Other Way”

ByNalts

This post could be entirely fictitious, but it’s absolutely fascinating anyway. It’s a fantastic scenario that would explain how Google rationalized the $1.65 purchase of YouTube. The source? Mark Cuban’s anonymous but trusted source — who first posted this theory on the Pho List. Here’s how the saucy story goes: Google actually paid $1.15 billion…