Business Week wrote about Best Buy’s increasing influence, which worries several major electronics companies (not the least of which are those formerly of Circuit City). Seems Best Buy’s influence is beginning to take a Walmart tone. “We used to call them the 800-pound gorilla,” says the executive of one company that sells televisions and other…
In a YouTube binge, NewTeeVee writer Liz Shannon Miller is rounding up some major online-video news: Chad Vader was aquired by Babelgum Next New Network is going fitness (Click Fitness) Revision3 has an iPhone App (just in time- I hear iPhones are gonna be big) and Michael Buckley got Lasik surgery. What next? A transplant?…
We Americans watched nearly 34 billion videos in May, and 14.6 billion (43 percent) were on YouTube. According to comScore (source: TechCrunch), 144.1 million viewers watched an average of 101.2 videos per viewer in May. Hulu ranked second with 3.5 percent share. The gap between Google and Hulu remains strong, and it’s safe to say…
Now there’s the YouTube Editor, a free tool that allows you to mosh up your own videos, and add music. For those who don’t know how to use Sony Vegas, iMovie or other software… but somehow managed to get a video from a camera to YouTube. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VbMLOcbK74[/youtube] Too bad you can’t mosh other people’s videos, because I’d…
Check out this invitation video, and submit your creative YouTube video by the end of July… 20-25 winners will have their artistic video played at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (it’s a collaboration between YouTube and Guggenheim). Here’s the teaser video, which gives us a zooming look at the play button in various mediums. It…
Yesterday I was driving home and spotted a Geek Squad van (Geek Squad is a computer repair division of retailer Best Buy). I thought it would be fun to create a video where I play a fictional Geek Squad hero responding to farcical “help calls,” so I shot some footage of the Geek Squad van….
The PS 22 Choir will receive the “Artist of the Year” award at the June 14 Webby Awards. The “YouTube sensation” elementary school chorus joins previous winners Roger Ebert, Amy Poehler, and OK Go! (see press release for such quotes as, “We’re thrilled to honor these outstanding young men and women for reminding us all…
Here’s my wife and I testing her iPhone (AT&T) against my Palm Pre (Verizon) to see which one could shoot and upload best to YouTube. Turns out my Palm Pre failed to post after an hour, so I had to do it manually. Her iPhone compressed the video, and had it live in minutes. Winner:…
Social media pioneers have long advocated honesty, disclosure, bacchanalianility, transparency and authenticity. First there were CMP.ly codes for standard disclosures. Then WOMMA came out with its disclosure guideand hashtags like #spon, #paid, #samp. Today the world’s most widely read blog that is called WillVideoForFood announced a new short URL you bloggers, social-media whores and YouTube stars…
Remember those bullies from the 1980s movies with the big blond hair, that ridiculed us — I mean the protagonists — in so many movies? Huffington Post & Film Drunk offers a montage of the best “dork” insults courtesy of the Woot blog.