One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost?
P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my tongue for long enough!
I just took this photo, and had to post it even if it has absolutely nothing to do with this blog. It’s Charlie Nalts and Triscuit (the kitten of babysitterofnalts). See babysitterofnalts’ video that was supposed to go on sevenawesomekids but she hijacked it. It’s the Nalts kids dancing.
I love a slow-boil video, and this one delivers some hysterical prank bits that become increasingly tasteless… from desktop and fax pranks to “shivving” and murder. All with whispy 1940s commercial music. “Five April Fool’s Office Pranks” on Break.com. I also enjoy the repetition of a gag, like this skinny Brit’s unbridled enthusiasm when his…
I’ve been avoiding this for a while, because it’s a bit cheesy even for a commercial bastard like me. But I’ve had some requests for Nalts gear, and coincidentally Gage Skidmore of Cosmic-Flight.com send me some artwork recently. So now you can buy Nalts stuff at the CafePress store… hats, t-shirts, shirts and other random…
Seriously- this has got to be done by the interactive agency that wasn’t selected by Butterfinger to run the Yahoo contest. And it’s been watched a few hundred times, no doubt fueled by Butterfinger’s media budget.
Interesting note from Eefoof. My Revver experience is more like $1 per 1,000 and others have cited as much as $1.30. But either way, this would suggest that the ROI on Eefoof videos is higher. However the profit per video is probably a lot lower since Eefoof is new and not getting loads of visitors….
Do you want YouTube and amateur videos from the comfort of your living room or bed? I’m the only person I know that uses AppleTV to surf YouTube, but the YouTube blog announced a series of distribution partners. I usually think of YouTube as a company that has been fairly slow to introduce new technologies,…
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Monitoring blogs is the only way to get familiar with what individual bloggers say.
I have been ‘ghosting*’ many a blog over the last 5 years and there are about 19,800 people ‘ghosting’ my political blog every day! This is based on an estimate that only 10% of my readers actually comment. What am I going to do?! I have been ‘ghosted’ over and over again!
*for ‘ghosting’ read ‘reading’ throughout.
I must be old-school. I call it ‘lurking.’ ANd now with my own blog, I get lurked all the time. Even by my own family.
And since I’ve posted all of two times here, have I been de-lurked (or is it de-ghosted)?
Since the WVFF post-to-read ratio is .000023… both of you qualify as full-fledged participants.
I see monitoring blogs and ghosting as different. Monitoring is learning about your customers with interest. Ghosting is watching them and never engaging.
And I’m hoping that (with the help of people like Adriana) companies realize that… in the age of consumer-generated media… the best companies will go beyond ghosting.