I made $800 in a few days by simply showing the world my butt crack. Now I’ll share the secret on how you can make a decent coin for your amateur online videos (man that sounded like an infomercial introduction). Metacafe is paying $5 per 1,000 views. That’s not the best “return on view,” in…
The thumbnail below will take you to a very funny video clip from SouthPark that features gnomes stealing kids’ underpants. The 4 Southpark kids find the secret underpants lair and ask the gnomes about their purpose. The underpants gnomes explain that they’ve orchestrated a three-phased plan: Phase 1: Steal underwear Phase 2: ? Phase…
Interesting article by ZDNet’s Digital Micro-Markets (DMM) that outlines the “top 5 reasons not to buy YouTube.” Here are DMM’s reasons, and WillVideoForFood (WVFF) responses. I wanted to post this on the comments section of the ZDNet blog, but it wasn’t working for me. Watch out- WillVideoforFood (WVFF) is actually standing up for YouTube on…
Show me a marketer without “viral” on her marketing plan and I’ll show you an online video site that’s profitable. Advertising offline is getting harder with time-shifted television and declining viewership, and online advertising is getting more complex with paid-search prices rising and banner click-thru’s dropping. Given the low variable cost of viral, it’s natural…
TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirpatrick reports that YouTube tomorrow will unveil a number of branded commercial channels– including a Paris Hilton channel being featured on the homepage. This is a surprising and encouraging move from a video site that hasn’t shown any other interesting way to profit from its incredible appeal. Fox has paid an undisclosed sum…
Ironic title because a video isn’t viral UNLESS it’s seen. But it got your attention, didn’t it? Here are some tips for ensuring your video is seen beyond 14 teenagers on YouTube. Just like search engines are in constant flux, so is online video. So this advice has a limited shelf life: Make it good….
In a move the Wall Street Journal said could have a “ripple effect” for networks, CBS said it would will simulcast the soon-to-launch “Evening News with Katie Couric” live on the Internet. The WSJ ads, “Until now, no major TV networks have aired any of their programs on the Web simultaneously with television, although several…
Okay… if Viacom is buying Atom Films/Addicting Clips for $200 million (Loaded Pun) I want to sell them CubeBreak.com. CubeBreak traffic has beat Atom in certain periods- with as many as 10K visitors in one day. Okay that happened just once. But it generally averages about 60K visitors a month. So what’s that worth? I’ll…
Google Video is rolling out some new features, including “instant gratification” uploading, and the ability to add comments, tags and ratings. Buried quietly in the “terms and conditions” (which you default accept if you don’t opt out in 5 days) is some language that suggests Google Video is preparing to give amateurs the ability to…
A nice report by “The Upside to Video Uploads” by Business Week. While this segment will undergo consolidation and specialization, a mini dot-com implosion is simply not on the horizon—and especially not for the reasons being cited by some pundits. Predictions about this collapse have focused on two issues: the lack of a business model…