What’s the fine line between marketing your video and cheating? Comotion Group cofounder Dan Ackerman Greenberg certainly dances along that gray area between marketing and cheating. In this self aggrandizing article on TechCrunch, Greenberg boasts about how he’s getting clients views (thanks to InsideVideo for helping me find this one). His techniques fall into three…
WSJ writer Lee Gomes talked to some of the web legends about how to become famous. Here’s his article, which includes quotes from Numa Numa, EepyBird, Chocolate Rain. If you can think of an online cliche, a one-hit wonder, a 16th minute of fame…. then he interviewed ’em. “To be sure, being the latest, greatest…
Remember how major advertising agencies handled the Internet? Let’s recap their 5 stages of grief: Denial: The web is not a big deal. It’s a fad. Let the little Internet agencies form. We’re not losing much in fees. Anger: Who’s coming to our monthly all agency day? The Internet agency? First the Public Relations agency,…
In a recent WillVideoForFood Forum post, I invited people to submit their “must read” blogs and websites on the subject of online video. As you can imagine, it’s very difficult to find these on Google. Here’s an initial list, and I’m going to be making a video featuring the best sources. So please let me…
Guest Blogger: Brett Slater (SlatersGarage) So… This is what the inner sanctum looks like? Kinda blah… He needs something on the walls in here. Anyway, hi. Nalts and I have been getting a ton of feedback on the collab video we did poking fun at Google’s brainchild, the “Dream Phone.” This is the one that’s…
Yaro Starak of “Entrepreneur’s Journey” feels otherwise, but I’m betting on CharlesTrippy as the winner of the first-ever internet reality show, “The Next Internet Millionaire.” For those who haven’t followed the show, we’ve seen 12 hopefuls eliminated “survivor” style over 12 web-only shows, and it’s down to two people. Charles Trippy, a college student and…
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…
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…
There are three ways a video can be labeled a “best.” First (and most common) is the rating system. This, of course, has its own biases. Popularity doesn’t always mean quality (even my lame videos tend to jump to the “highest rated daily video”). The second is the “editor’s choice.” This is good, but subject…