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…
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,…
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…
It’s not the first, and it won’t be the last. This time C-Span has demanded that YouTube and iFilm remove the video of Stephen Colbert’s April 29 performance at the White House Correspondents Association. So the battle continues, and the online video properties are going to be pressured to filter content or become “Napsterized.” To…
For starters, let me get two things out in the open. I'm a Revver addict, and this blog is a spinoff of Revverberation, the unofficial blog of Revver. I'm also not a film pro, so we won't be exploring how to get your feature length film into Sundance. This blog focuses on how the average…