ChannelBlast will launch today three live, ad-sponsored interactive streaming video programs that allow visitors to interact with others via chat rooms and webcams (source: Adotas). Now I just spent 15 minutes on ChannelBlast.com and I have no idea what the site is. Can someone smarter please post an explanation?
By the way- that Avitar totally creeps me out.
Daisy Whitney, creator and producer of “The New Media Minute” is ending the nearly 5-year-old show. Whitney posted her final episode last week, and says she’s, “just going old school reporting on media in articles and columns instead.” Whitney will continue her reporting on new media for such outlets as MediaPost, Cynopsis, @Beet_TV. For as long…
Francis Stokes, creator of “God Inc.” posted this video to update us about pitching the show to networks. God Inc. is a series that portrays Heaven as a company. This clip contains a hysterical spoof of the perils of pitching television. I met and interviewed Francis when I was in LA, and he’s as cool…
We’ve all seen the YouTube comments full of rage, sarcasm and criticism. The angry YouTube commenters say things like: WTF That’s gay Lamest thing ever on YouTube I want my two minutes back That sucked NOT funny Now let’s take a look into the psyche of an “online video commenter.” Here we’ll understand what makes…
A YouTube clip from a film in England of President Bush Getting Assasinated. Not real of course. Oh- let’s see if mispelling asasination or assassination helps drive views to this. Let’s hold our opinions about whether Bush should/shouldn’t be assasinated, and instead deconstruct the video: Looks like film. Raw edgy video would have been better….
How to secretly upgrade to the new YouTube channel beta.
Two years ago I discovered Revver (the pioneer of creator ad-sharing via video), and she’s growing up. Here’s a Revver blog announcing the new Revver, which includes the ability of viewers to finally comment. Revver has always suffered from low views relative to larger sites, and the new “Quilty” (see Revver homepage) addresses that. It’s…
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The channelblast.com site is the portal through which all ChannelBlast live shows can be viewed. If you go back on the site and click on the show logos to the right of the avatar, you will be taken to a ChannelPage for each show. This is where you view the shows live or view past episodes in the video vault. When the shows are airing live in the ChannelPages, you can participate live with the show’s hosts, guests and other chatters through chatrooms attached to video screens, and through live call-ins. The view screen on the channelblast.com home page is for viewing previews of all ChannelBlast shows so you can decide which ones you want to watch. If you click on the thumbnails below that screen, that will start the preview in the main screen. The current slate of shows include NewzViewz, where you can sound off live about headlines of the day selected by the viewing audience; Room 1015, a live music show that follows the carreers of up and coming artists, and VidiotsLive, a live unscripted comedy show. More shows will roll out in the coming weeks. The channelblast.com site itself has many features to keep you entertained when you are not watching a live or archived show. Features include a chat room narrated by life-like conversational avatars who you can chat live with monday – friday from 6AM -3AM; blogs, up to the minute news, promtions (PromoBlasts) and user contributed content. Many of these features will go live in the coming weeks. ChannelBlast is definitely a new frontier of video viewing on the Internet. I hope you will come back and enjoy the shows and the interaction with the show personalities and other viewers. Thanks for the input. Jani Aronow, Chairman & CEO, ChannelBlast