I was just trying to figure out why my “How to Make Your Own Healies” video (its title is actually “Poor Man Healies” was getting so much traffic. Then I realized… at the moment, it’s the number one ranked listing on Google for the keyword “healies.” Turns out there isn’t much competition since Healies is actually spelled “Heelys.”
I guess there’s a new viral video law. Optimize your tags to mispellings. Or just spell poorly naturally like I do.
Do you vlog? Then YOU might be dull enough for television. TV Diaries, a sparse but new blog, claims to be building a show with The Conlin Company, who is behind such reality-hits as “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Nanny 911.” Says this post: We’re seeking Emotional Exhibitionists who have nothing to hide. If you can entertain,…
According to eMarketer, Jupiter is cautious about online video advertising near-term’s growth. Jupiter is “advising that online video advertising’s best years may be yet to come, not until 2009 or 2011, when video is expected to become a standard offering of online publishers.” The reason that online video ad revenues are not growing faster, according…
Pay attention now, online-video and advertising peeps. This lil’ blog post is going to be on the final exam. It might even spawn a trade article and a new business. Search engine marketing (SEM) is big business today, with agencies charging retainers to help websites rank high on search engines (increasing qualified traffic) and help manage paid advertising….
This is pretty funny. It’s Smirnoff’s viral ad featuring rich Northeastern guys rapping… in top siders and circa 1980 preppy clothes. Again- subtle with the branding so it will probably get viralicized. But not pretending to NOT be an ad. Good balance. Tea Partay by Prep-Unit Raw Tea Records Director: Julien Christian Lutz
I’m getting so tired of the hype articles, or the latest story about an instant viral video classic. Finally, here’s an interesting piece. Source: The Ultimate Middle East Business Resource. Go figure. On YouTube: “But this bandwidth is expensive. It’s estimated that bandwidth costs YouTube US$1 million per month. But the investment – YouTube has…
When PR Pro Laura Hart (Beck Media & Marketing) contacted me in early August about how-to video site “Wonder How To,” she suggested a WVFF blog post on top video sites, and told me her client’s website had 145,000 videos. I was impressed with her pitch (she had bothered to read the blog), and promised…