Here's Pepsi and Mentol Girl. Stay with it- it's worth it… A woman drinks Pepsi and eats Mentos to see what will happen to her.
This is courtesy of "Viral Video Blog: The Best of What's Going Around."
This one looks good too, but you need software to view these AOL video: AOL Video Blog.
VH1 and IFILM's "Web Junk 20," premiers Friday, June 9. Here's a site with more details. To e-mail your suggestions, write to: webjunk@ifilm.com.
…And here are the winners of Amex's "15-Second Clip" contest. I'll be searching for more of these contests in the weeks ahead. They must not get a lot of entries.
When you search "viral video" on Google, here's one of the top 10 ranked sites. I don't know why they selected three of my Revver clips… but they're making affiliate fees and I suppose this is why three of my Revver videos are high performing.
As I've said before, Revver shares income but doesn't get a lot of traffic. Fortunately, some sites are syndicating Revver videos (like my own CubeBreak and getting plenty of traffic.
The way to make money on Revver is to upload your videos and then market them. Since Revver also pays an affiliate fee to those that serve videos, there's a financial interest for the site. Thanks, http://www.viralvideo.co.uk/!
Here's an NBC clip where a pedophile gets busted. Odd journalism, but it's fun to see a pervert get busted naked. Note- this is PG-13 material.
So there's a lot of debate as to whether this is a hoax or not, but you decide for yourself. It convinced me. Here, friends, is one of the most viral clips of the past month or so. Jimmy Kimmel Getting Bitten by a Snake.
For higher resolution but slower performance, check out the same click on DevilDucky. You may need to see it here, actually, because you'll want to watch the strike carefully to see if you believe it's a publicity stunt.
As web videos and television videos lose their distinction, we're obviously going to see some online videos that are series. Here's the first I've uncovered. It's called "Soup of the Day" and highlights the life of Brandon Craig, a 28-year-old freelance photographer that is dating three attractive women. To understand the series, you need to visit this page, and begin with "serving one."
It's a nice marketing idea. The production and acting quality is pretty decent, so costs weren't inconsequential. So I'll be interested to see how they introduce ads or services to generate revenue.
Oh, man. It was only a matter of time. The worlds of online video and multi-level marketing have collided. Check out this stunningly awkward video — click the "two minute introduction" about "EVE" (the extendable video engine."
I haven't been this confused since I got drunk and went to an Amway pitch in college. "What are we selling?" I asked.
"Networking," said the host.
"Do we make money?" I asked.
"Yes!" said the host.
"Who pays the money?" I asked.
"They don't build statues for losers," said the host.
Source: Small Businesses Produce Big Returns Using Video Online (Newswire Today).
The number of Internet users watching video online went up 18 percent between October 2005 and March 2006 according to a ComScore's analysis of U.S. Web users' online video viewing habits. In March, U.S. Internet users initiated a total of 3.7 billion video content streams; and we watched an average 100 minutes of video content each during the month, compared with 85 minutes back in October last year. The gender split is almost even, but men spend more time watching videos (should we be surprised?). And the study confirmed its not just college kids watching. It's some of us that still think we're in college too.
And in a statement that gave the founder of CubeBreak a smarmy grin, Comscore said this: In a blow to human resources managers everywhere, the workplace is the favored environment for watching video. People spent about an hour a month watching from work environments.
Source: ClickZ and ComScore news release.
Yesterday Google announced that it would experiment with online video ads (activated at viewer's request) on websites that syndicate Google's "AdSense" ads. Bloggers had conflicting reactions. I was intrigued, and DVGuru raised an interesting point: "This is exciting news to me for one reason: there will be a lot more paid work for filmmakers." But TechCrunch outlined 6 reasons to "bet against it" and has already received 81 posts reacting to it.
For a sample of a video ad, see the announcement on Google's AdWords blog. One interesting note from Google that reinforces the implication of this news to small video makers: "But, you may say, video is only for big branding oriented advertisers. We beg to differ. This feature makes video ads much more accessible to all advertisers. Now, an owner of a small bed & breakfast in Lake Tahoe can put a video tour of his beautiful chalet right next to an article that talks about skiing the epic slopes of Squaw Valley."