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Future of User-Generated Online Video: Drives Content Not Advertising

ByNalts

Only a small fraction of online video-based advertising will be picked up by user-generated sites like YouTube and MySpace, according to a new report.  Over the next four years, just 15 per cent of the total online video advertising budget, will go to user-sites, according to analyst Screen Digest (Financial Times via Next Generation). Arash…

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What I Learned from Being Featured on YouTube

ByNalts

I may be on vacation, but I’ve learned a lot in the past 24 hours since I was featured on YouTube (with Viral Video Genius). Let me share these with WillVideoForFood readers… YouTubers think this is a “you’ve made it” move, and I’ve received dozens of really encouraging notes from folks. The people in the…

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Barats & Bereta Return With 2nd Coming

ByNalts

Barats & Bereta, the most popular duo in viral video, are back. Here’s their latest video titled “The Other Son.” In this one, Barats (or Bereta) plays the role of God’s second son. I think it’s one of their finest videos since Mother’s Day because it’s hysterical and managed, I think, to avoid insulting Christianity….

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iPhone Already Matched by Microsoft

ByNalts

It didn’t take the Microsoft long to counter the iPhone. Now DogRodeo has a spoof ad for the ZunePhone. Check out this video, and be sure to watch the last few seconds. I’m not usually one for parody commercials but this was extremely well done. Funnier than most Saturday Night Live commercial parodies and produced quickly…

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Mentos Sponsors Video Creators to Move Beyond Mentos Geysers

ByNalts

The good folks at Mentos were kind enough to sponsor my “Smuggling Mentos Into Movie Theater” video (see it on Revver here). Mentos provided modest funds to offset my time and production costs, and more importantly provided me with a big ol’ shipment of Mentos. I’m eating them at 9:35 a.m. as I type. They…

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Drool at the Mac iPhone… Engadget Has the “Blow by Blow”

ByNalts

My sister sent me this elevator photo this morning and titled the e-mail “Nerds.” It’s the crowd going to Macworld. She works for “big media” and they’re interviewing Jobs today. But she doesn’t deserve to. It would be like her watching me interview (insert name of famous fashion designer). So have you been reading the blow-by-blow on…