I’m at an industry event yesterday in NYC and I run into the affable Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3. He follows this little blog occasionally, and we’ve spoken at numerous industry events. (Jim is also cool, geeky and provocative… important attributes of “emerging media mavens”). For no particular reason, I asked him when someone was…
It appears the “webstars” are on their 14th minute. The major online-video properties are now putting dramatic emphasis on professional content with big celebrity names. Every year at this time, the television networks showcase their new shows to advertisers in what’s called “up fronts.” This week the major online-video properties (YouTube, Hulu, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL) mimicked…
Lately I hear childrens’ voices coming from most of our devices. And when I lose my temper, my road can be heard live in households across the globe: My 11-year-old son speaks regularly with fellow Xbox gamers all over the planet… hopefully some are actually his age. My 9-year-old son talks to his mates via…
Charlie McDonnell, aka “Charlieissocoollike,” offered DailyDot readers some YouTube tips (and posted videos on the topic). 1) “I don’t ever tell people to like, comment, subscribe—any of that stuff—unless I actually have a decent reason to.” 2) “I don’t like to give [fans] who watch me on the Internet any kind of group name or…
AOL is launching an online-video hub that will feature 14 content channels and centralize AOL video in one place, according to The Chicago Tribune. “We believe that in years ahead people will want to watch television on their PCs and Blackberrys,” said AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. “Wer’e unrivaled in this new category of web-based moving…
My publisher, Wiley, just published “Video Marketing for Dummies.” It’s more aimed at small companies and focuses not just on marketing but production.
The New York Times “Critics Notebook” came down hard on YouTube’s attempts to create TV-like content. See the full article here, and now some highlights… Do you agree, or have a different thought? With regular weekly shows and viewer-friendly playlists, they are indeed slightly more televisionlike than the millions of mostly homemade videos that surround…
Tom Schmoyer created a ReelSEO video to summarize a bunch of YouTube changes (below), and navigates them for creators and advertisers. Changes include a new uploader tool for creators the ability to link directly from videos offsite to fundraising (Kickstarter, Indigogo) new ways to select ads (monitization) preferences, 150K options for free music you can add…
You can hide YouTube comments now with Google Chrome (see article on CNet). Writes Matt Elliott: Comments on YouTube are largely gibberish, mean-spirited, or profane. A Chrome extension lets you set a variety of options for YouTube videos, including hiding comments. Really? Gibberish? That’s weird. All the comments I get on this blog (and my…