Farting Santa and eGuiders Gentleman’s Competition

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Check out Edbassmaster’s Farting Santa below… we even get to watch Bob Saget’s reaction. What’s your favorite video of the week? I just started to volunteer identify videos for eGuiders (see my profile). My 3 picks: http://eguiders.com/video/build-me-up-buttercup-on-ukulele http://eguiders.com/video/the-best-of-california-on-with-kassem-g http://eguiders.com/video/murdered-with-a-spoon I found Mediocrefilm’s Greg Benson‘s picks and I’ll watch anything he favorites EVER based on these….

80% Online-Viewers Stop Watching a Frozen (Rebuff) Video

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When a video freezes it’s called a “rebuff,” and it happens 8% of each video stream. And when it does, 80% of viewers stop watching. That’s according to TubeMogul, who track these things from the players it monitors. Tubemogul also allows publishers to push their content to all the major online-video sharing sites for free….

Kassemg Cracks Me Up

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Here’s Kassemg, who I didn’t know about until TheStation was born months ago. Watch him interview these folks in “Best of California On,” and enjoy the awkward tension. And when you get to the frame below… I dare you not to think of his “Jew-nosed” ugly girl in Teen Cribs. Need more? See his YouTube Channel…

The Difference Between YouTube’s Amateur and Professional Content

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What’s the primary difference between an amateur on YouTube and a professional creator? Not the production quality or style, silly. It’s the viewership. As you see below, the most-viewed partners are almost entirely professional. Yet the most-subscribed people are almost all amateurs. It’s a simple point, but important one: Don’t think subscriptions will necessarily lead…

Network Poaches Space-Comedy Web Series, But Changes Outfit Colors

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The creators of ClipCritics are seeing something awfully familiar on SkyFy. The new show, “Outer Space Astronauts,” also looks so familiar to ClipCritics fans that they’ve written its creator, Chad Sahley, with congratulations. Turns out Chad, who produced “When Standup Stood Out,” has no ties with the show. But, quite coincidentally, he and his team…

YouTube’s Videotargeting Gives Advertisers Precision

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Now you too can target an ad on a YouTube video with more precision than ever before. Via YouTube/Google “Videotargeting” you can suggest videos based on keywords (like humor or entertainment), viewer demographics (age and gender), interest-based categories or some combination of the three. Read more on the YouTube Blog or Mashable. Says Google/YouTube: Our goal…

YouTube & Universal Launch Vevo. YouTube Feather. Yawn.

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Vevo is live. Whatever. We like YouTube Feather better… a simplified YouTube experience. Wait… never mind. We can’t tell the difference. But it’s designed to: …serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest latency possible.It achieves this by severely limiting the features available to the viewer and making use of advanced web techniques for reducing…

Real Comedians React to Unknown YouTube Stars

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Per my UncleNalts vlog…. check out a great satire on YouTube “stardom” by Jessica Kirsin, a “Last Comic Standing” comedian who has appeared on Leno, created the hysterical “Snack Time,” and has a reality show in the works (see trailer). In something I cherished and never seen before, this video shows Jessica interviewing well-known comedians at…

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Online Video Goes Local: More Like Radio Than TV

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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…