A nice blog post here from “Virtual Hosting Blog.” It’s called “The Video Blogging Toolbox: 100 Tools, Resources and Free Software Packages.” ‘Nuff said.
While we’re precluded from revealing specifics about YouTube revenue, it’s now becoming more common for YouTube “partners” to know what others are making. While the CPM (cost per thousand views) once seemed to have settled, the creator income fluctuates wildly. As noted in this chart, the month of May took a nose dive for me–…
In a significant first, YouTube has decided to let advertisers inject their messages inside the video frame for select content on its site (see ClickZ or MediaPost). For an interesting piece that projects revenues for YouTube, see this post by Silicon Valley Insider. For an example of the ad, see this Smosh video and watch…
The nice thing about focus groups is that even when you learn nothing, you get to spend some time out of the office eating M&Ms, stealing facility premiums, watching YouTube videos, and blatantly ignoring customers on the other side of the glass. What if cavemen took the concept of fire to a focus group before…
Thanks to a comment by TK42one, we’ve picked up on this post by Rebelscum. Seems YouTube pulled some fan clips, and the Star Wars fans raised it with LucasFilms. Here’s the announcement from LucasFilms: Lucasfilm has been informed that YouTube recently removed from its site several fan-made Star Wars spoofs and parodies. We would like…
How many views does it take for a video to be defined as going “viral”? It’s not 1 million, and it’s not 2 million… read on. I’m a big fan of Smosh’s Teleporting Fat Guy (see original video seen more than 4 million times). So I was thrilled to see the adorable chubby guy return…
It’s pretty clear that consumers are hesitant to buy professional video content much less amateur content. Given that I’ve sold exactly 13 copies of my “best of Nalts DVD” it’s no surprise to me to see that Brightcove is abandoning its “pay for content” model: On July 31, 2008, we plan to discontinue the Pay…
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Yeah that toolbox looks great … what a pity I’m not making videos any more. Actually I was overwhelmed just reading through that list of resources.
100 sites & resources? youre just trying to keep us busy so you wont have any competition! 😉
What? No contest here, too?
Hey Nalts,
Put an RSS feed by email or reader link on your site and direct them to subscribe. It will help with advertising.
Sukatra – Nalts has a contest going on?
yumajohnny on youtube
The Techcrunch comments contest is the only one I know about.
that’s the one i’m talking about
Wow, this is great info Kevin, thanks. Especially the stuff about what YT does with video, and how best to encode it. You are truly a SME. Thanks
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Hola
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQLf-Zxy_pQ
It’s a willvideoforfood jingle (sorta)
Since YT is down ATM…I figured I would come here and spam your blog just for the hell of it. LOL
Oh, wait…I see there is a request to spam tech crunch!
on my way!