Girl Asks Santa for Dad’s Return from Iraq. Santa Removes Beard.

I still wouldn’t bet on Google making its money back on the YouTube sale. But I do need to confess to spending an inordinate amount of time on YouTube lately. I satired myself with this video celebrating my approach of 200 subscribers.  And today I finally made it (see graphic). In other noteworthy YouTube news…

Naturally the major networks (ABC, NBC, CNN, CBS, PBS, Disney) monitor this blog daily for story ideas. On slow news days, they either make up stories or fish blogs for anything that can boost viewership- even if it’s a pancake video.  Turns out all of the energy around the recent scandal on the NSA Eavesdropping…

The Smart Show is a new pilot that will feature a 2-month road trip by Henry Dittman plus an amateur host that will be selected via online-video entries. The duo will tour America at the hospitality of sponsor Holiday Inn Express, and explore odd and interesting things in various cities. I’ve been debating my wife…

“The problem isn’t cost, it’s revenue,” writes WatchMojo CEO Ashkan Karbashfrooshan in a MediaPost story titled “What Revision3’s Sale Means for the Online Video Industry.” Indeed while I’ve long urged marketers and media providers to keep costs down for online video, that’s because revenue (via ad-sharing) is modest and dependent on finding an audience. There’s no cost…

Good Morning Starshine. Here’s Bob singing on the first season of Sesame Street with a bunch of hippie muppets. Wait- not Hippies. Deadheads. Power of positive names.