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YouTube Rival Has Killer App (Advertising Age)

ByNalts July 21, 2006December 20, 2009

Advertising Age writer Beth Snyder Bulik called Revver.com a TouTube rival with an model that’s a “kill app.” She describes the $30K profit Steven Voltz and Fritz Grobe made through their infamous “Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment.” Revver advertisers include Microsoft, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and American Apparel. Larger content creators are contributing to…

Are Your Videos DO Belong to Us (YouTube)?

ByNalts July 20, 2006December 20, 2009

Thanks to Joe Chapuis (WebVideoZone) for pointing this Boing Boing report out. It appears that the language around YouTube’s ownership of your content is getting a little tighter. Fortunately, they’re not trying to go for “exclusives.” Here’s a Boing Boing post by David Gulbransen that reminds us that a) we can always yank our videos,…

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How to Advertise in a TiVo Age

ByNalts July 20, 2006December 20, 2009

This EcommerceTimes article by Keith Regan (via Technewsworld) offers the following bold statement: Fifty percent of U.S. homes will have DVRs by 2010, according to Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff. He added that the devices will soon enter a “hypergrowth” stage and begin to spread to second and third television sets in many homes, dramatically…

YouTube Viral Video Broker!

ByNalts July 20, 2006December 20, 2009

Advertiser looking for reach? Viral-video creator looking for income? Video website looking for revenue? It’s the YouTube Viral Video Broker. He’s got the answers. Tags: Laipply, Numa Numa, Emmilina, Brookers, Smosh, YouTube, Coke, Coca Cola, YouTube, McDonalds, Subaru, Verizon, Singular, Wireless, Advertising, Online,

How Will Online Video Sites Deal With Liability? Can They Have Their Souflee And Eat It Too?

ByNalts July 19, 2006December 20, 2009

Jean-Baptiste Soufron is French, Chief Legal Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, writes in this recent blog post that “more and more copyrighted content are being uploaded on their servers without the proper authorizations from copyright owners.” Says Soufron, their content is too often violating third parties copyright or privacy, they expose their users to the…

90 Percent of Online Video Sites Will Disappear

ByNalts July 19, 2006December 20, 2009

In this San Francisco Chronicle article by Ellen Lee, Charles River Venture Capitalist George Zachary predicts that 90 percent of online video sites will disappear. Some will simply shut down; others will be gobbled up by larger companies. (Brief ad here- if anyone wants to gobble up CubeBreak, make an offer… I just got a…

Google Video Ads… Not Too Obnoxious

ByNalts July 19, 2006December 20, 2009

Here’s a sample of the Google ads that will run via AdSense (but not initially on Google itself). Not too obnoxious in my opinion. Thoughts? They don’t auto load which is so critical.

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Ghosting

ByNalts July 19, 2006

One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost? P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my…

Get Discovered on YouTube (USAToday)

ByNalts July 18, 2006

USAToday reports that some YouTube amateurs are getting discovered and some producers are trolling it to find talent. To date my phone hasn’t rang. But if you’re reading, dear scouts, my stuff is here. Here’s a profile of 3 stars that “made it big.”

Mashable Reports on BlipTV’s Venture Capital Funding

ByNalts July 17, 2006

Mashable reports on BlipTV‘s financing and features. Interesting coverage.