MediaPost reports that LonelyGirl15’s jig is up. By last week, three consumer-detectives who had corresponded with “Lonely Girl” figured out that Bree’s e-mails were originating from Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency. The revelations forced the site’s creators to finally admit the jig was up, though they have yet to reveal the entire story. “Thank you so…
Wowza. I thought I was on top of online video. I’m hanging my head in humility. Check out this post featuring a timeline of online video by Steve Bryant in his new blog, “ReelPopBlog.” Included is this dreamy graphic. Click to see it up close.
The Daily Reel reports that filmmaker Steven Rosenbaum is presenting his film 7 Days in September, which was released theatrically in 2002, on Google for free viewing until September 15. “I wanted to make sure the footage captured by 28 individual storytellers accurately matched their emotions on a moment-by-moment basis,” Rosenbaum recently said. Rather than…
The Numa Numa Kid returned yesterday with a new video: “New Numa” video. And here’s a promo to his new contest. Visit his NumaNuma site for details and you can even get ring tones. Of course nothing tops the classic Numa Numa bit. The comments seem to support that the sequel rarely tops the original….
I’ve been studying online-video comments for a few months, and I’d like to share my unscientific but well-documented conclusions. Online-video commenters come in three segments: Angry cynics (66%) Supportive fans (23%) Self promoters (11%) For some of my videos it would take more time to read the comments than it did to shoot, edit and…
Look where Napster is advertising. YouTube. Alex, I’ll take “irony” for $1,000 It reminds me of high school when my friend Lee would cheat off of our friend Paul… neither studied. Napster’s “online media buyer” reports the YouTube buy is part of a fantastic suite of CPMs he nailed on sites that also include WebVan,…
YouTube recently hired Yahoo Treasurer Gideon Yu as its chief financial officer (TheStreet). He joins 60 people working for the San Mateo company, including Tony Nethercutt, a fellow Yahoo alumnus that runs YouTube’s advertising. What are the top 10 things Yu will do? We speculate… Get stoned with Chad Hurley and Steven Chen to show that he’s…
Dear regular WillVideoForFood readers: permit me to speak directly to the media in this post. Read this if you wish, but most of it’s not new to you. My friends in media. You’re under deadline. You want to do a story about online video. Your instincts tell you to package another human interest story about…
Barats & Bereta’s latest video… If God Had a Facebook. If online video hadn’t come along, the only people enjoying this would be their buddies, classmates and friends. If these two were as business savvy as they are comedic, they’d be rich already. Remember I’ve maintained that entire amateur (consumer generated) online-video market will be…