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Want Your Ad to Go Old-Spice Viral? You’re More Likely to Develop Abs Like Isaiah Mustafa.

When I see my sweet AdAge pour more gas on the “Old-Spice goes viral” story, I feel like it’s time to remind my fellow marketers that they’ve got a better shot of developing (the shirtless actor) Isaiah Mustafa‘s abs than getting their TV or online-video spot viral. This is another excellent example of the exception…

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VidCon: Community & Online-Video Industry Morphs in July 2010 Event

This video shows Hank Green (with his lesser known 3rd Green brother) announcing VidCon, taking place July 9-11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Here’s the official VidCon website. For those of you familiar with the Vlogbrothers (John and Hank Green), I don’t need to tell you what an enormous connection they have with the vibrant…

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FEAR!

Welcome WVFF Guest Blogger David Meerman Scott, author, speaker, guru Every day, I run across FEAR of marketing on the Web. We’ve got to work together to help people overcome this fear in 2010. Fear comes from bosses who insist on calculating the ROI of the marketing based on sales leads and press clippings. Fear…

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Online Video Goes Local: More Like Radio Than TV

We continue December’s guest blogs by online-video gurus and friends (see Punchy‘s post yesterday). This post is by Peter Coffin, a frequent commenter and YouTube and star of the fresh new single “This Song is Cliche.” Although I had met Peter via such video collaborations as “Mean Kitty Parody,” it wasn’t until last year’s YouTube…

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You Tube – Clean Up or Censorship?

hot off the press… A YouTube for All of Us As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our most…

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How to Link Directly to A Specific Point of Time in YouTube Video

Thanks YouTube for giving us the ability to link directly to a portion of a video. TechCrunch reports that it’s this easy: Just add the following after the video’s URL: #t=1m45s  (where the number prior to m is minute, and before s is seconds). So let’s take my most popular video, which has a long…

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Make Your YouTube Videos Look Better – Through Compression

I’ve written many times about compressing videos for YouTube, but it continues to be the most-frequently asked question. Many of the previous articles on this subject assume you can’t upload more than 100 MB files, but YouTube now permits files to be 1 GB (1000 MB). If you’re still uploading 10 MB files (as I…