Do a Google on "YouTube Sucks" and you'll find some interesting comments. But it's not fair- YouTube is a market leader and pioneer. YouTube began last year inviting anyone to easily share videos regardless of copyrights. It quickly became the most popular video site on the web. If you want to be seen as an…
Let's put aside YouTube and Google Video for a moment, and focus on video services that share advertising revenue with content creators and the websites that host the videos. I review here three sites with different business models, technology and ad serving, but they all have one thing in common. They share revenue and they're…
There are plenty small sites out there that sell ad space around videos they scrape from television. I'm not a fan of this piracy, but I can't help enjoying what's available… especially this clip from Sci-Fi's "Scare Tactics." Imagine you're a plumber fixing a toilet and the owner gets stranger and stranger by the minute….
One intriguing site for online videos is www.idonothingallday.com. The site owner and videographer, Patrick, runs the site on his free time and has significant traffic. His videos feature beautiful women in NYC… walking down the street, reading a book, laying in the sun. Patrick asks for permission, but according to this Wired article, maybe that's…
Stay tuned mobile couch potatoes… you'll soon not just hear Howard Stern but watch him on your commute. Sirius has confirmed plans to launch its live, streaming video service soon after the Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 8-11) in 2007. For more see this article from www.engadget.com. We at "Will Video for Food" think this is…
The online giants are waking up as YouTube continues to soar. More than 12 million unique visitors per month watch over 40 million videos per day on YouTube, making it the undusputed leader for online video. The silver and bronze go to MSN and MySpace. Google remains fourth, and has made two changes recently. First,…
This is in an interesting unbranded initiative by Gillette, which has taken some bold and risky targeting/positioning/branding moves including a close affiliation with Howard Stern. This site, NoScruf.org, has the look and feel of a low-budget association. Yet the viral videos are clearly top quality (and pretty funny). So I view this with mixed emotions….
Okay we’ve all got to pay the rent. But iFilm is taking intrusive advertising to a new level. I just clicked the link on iFilm’s video of the day, and here’s what I got: 1) When I arrived at the site, I got a streaming ad. I was able to skip it. 2) Suddenly I…
I like to give my blog readers an early scoop on things, like I did Wednesday with Google Coop. Here's a press release that goes out tomorrow (Saturday, May 13) from CubeBreak.com (a video site I manage instead of sleeping).. It identifies the most boring cities in the world. If you're a journalist, you don't…
This article on Adotas describes ViTrue., which was launched by Reggie Bradford, the former president of Tanberg Television, CEO of N2 Broadband and CMO of WebMD. ViTrue, Inc will, according to the release, be the world’s first user-created advertising platform, and the company will receive $2.2 million in funding from General Catalyst Partners and ViTrue’s…