Floyd is back with another Five on Fridays, which is a very low budget piece that reviews interesting pieces of new media and advertising. Although I can't say he doesn't creep me out just a little, he finds extremely engaging photos and stories, and delivers it with an English sense of humor right from NYC.
Mark Simons at The Viral Garden started a “Z-list” of blogs that weren’t getting enough attention but deserved it. Paul from 8Wishes was good enough to add WillVideoforFood, as cited in the entry by All My Causes. Then Seth Godin put an adapted “Z List” on Squidoo. I’m as confused as you are. But there…
I was happy to hear Threadless founder and former CEO Jake Nickell on public radio’s “Markeplace” tonight, and how he was “crowdsourcing” in Threadless’ decade of business… even before there was a name for it. “Last year we paid over $1.5 million out to artists,” he told interviewer Kai Ryssdal. Designers upload their creations, and…
“Dear Stupid Marketer and Your Clueless Agency” was my original title for this article in Advertising Age. Fortunately I tamed it down given the audience. But hopefully a few folks will read it and overcome the myriad of myths about online video and marketing. If I can just change one clueless agency or stupid marketer,…
Television advertising is learning a “new trick” from online advertising, writes Greg Pulier from MediaPos’s Online Video Insider. Pulier obserbed that the recent Ad:Tech conference in San Francisco had just one panel was devoted to television Some of the most well-known cable operators and telephone companies have been modifying their networks in ways that could…
TiVo is diversifying by adding web video from such providers as the NBA, New York Times, CNet and iVillage. Interestingly, the deal is TiVo's way to provide more value not more revenue. The content providers (at least iVillage) will maintain 100$ of the ad revenue generated by short ads associated with the content. TiVo, which…
I’ve written many times about compressing videos for YouTube, but it continues to be the most-frequently asked question. Many of the previous articles on this subject assume you can’t upload more than 100 MB files, but YouTube now permits files to be 1 GB (1000 MB). If you’re still uploading 10 MB files (as I…
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ha ha! Thanks very much for the ‘creepy’ comment!
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Are you still putting ’em out? If so- please send the RSS! Creepy but useful. 🙂
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Well, I might do a second ‘series’ for the Fall…I wanted my Wednesday and Thursday evenings back 🙂
It was just an experiment really to see if I could learn how to film and edit etc…Mind you, had a really good response, I was pretty happy with it.
PLUS I almost made $50 on Revver! ha ha – off to retire now…
I might have to do a super creepy Halloween special, just for you!
Anyway, thanks for posting,
FH.