Oprah did a show about YouTube yesterday. Ironically, I’m not sure many regular YouTube viewers and creators watched it. The show took the typical “mainstream media” angle of YouTube, and missed some of the more subtle but important aspects of online video: Community (there is an entire social fabric at the center of YouTube that…
TubeMogul now facilitates simple uploading to multiple videos sites that include such recent additions as StupidVideo and Crackle. This image shows the collection of sites that now accept videos via TubeMogul. There are other sites through which you can upload multiple videos, but TubeMogul saves your username and passwords, and tracks metrics. The site apparently…
Well the title is a little misleading. This is a Revver collection of my top 20 prank videos. Last week I was contacted by a casting agent for a new television show that features pranksters. She found me via “Farting in Public” (which is almost at 4 million views on YouTube), and asked me to…
This blog has been too consumed with YouTube and Nalts lately, and I want to get back to WillVideoForFood’s roots. Finding ways to improve the production of online video, marketing via online video, and learning tips to promote amateur and promotional content. Yesterday I spoke with Paul Kontonis of For Your Imagination. I thought I…
Tim, a friend from Xlntads (who also runs TastyApps), created this beta site at www.ofnalts.com. It’s pretty cool. You register for a free Username, and then you own the URL www.(insertyourname).ofnalts.com. You can then have that URL point to whatever site you like… instantly without e-mail verification. It works well when you have complicated URLs…
There’s a nice thread on the WillVideoForFood Forum about music for online video. Some nice links inside the thread. In a recent post, I said that you can get my music for free, royalty-free use by visiting http://music.ofnalts.com (which takes you to a Podshow site). But then I realized two things: It’s harder than I…
For a while, my blog on online video was getting no more than a few dozen people a day. Then it grew to a few hundred, and eventually to 2-10,000 per day. When I moved it over to this location (hosted instead of using free WordPress) I noticed a radical drop in daily views. Then…
I’ve been getting a bunch of e-mails lately about the hat. Thanks to the efforts of TheMightyThor1212, you can order your own Nalts hat here at Embroidered Clothes for $21.99. Please note that neither Thor nor I are connected with the company doing this, and do not profit from these. He just arranged for the…
Like that headline? Lots of C’s. It’s the age old problem of online-video marketing. People watch the videos floating around the web, so the medium is brilliantly cost-efficient for awareness and buzz standpoint. But the little repressed direct marketers in us are looking at the paltry click-thru from video to branded website, and wondering what…
I debated heavily before posting this, because this blog is supposed to be a review of the fun world of viral video and marketing (not an advertisement for my services). That being said, I think some of you readers may be interested in how I work with sponsors. As you know, I advocate that brands…