Kayak, a travel site, has been running a “trip ideas” campaign with simple quirky 15-second ads, such as a “visit Alaska before the big oil companies do.” Or “discover a coffee before it’s available at Starbucks.” The latter I find myself playing over and over for the cappuccino echo.
Here’s the lot of them. Make your own and win a trip to NYC.
Sometimes you have to do a blog post just to secure the number one position on Google for a particular word. In this case, I’m going to place number one for organic listings on the word “Aphoofies.” Now it doesn’t matter that nobody searches that term, because a good paid-search agency doesn’t tell their client…
In my unscientific study I have identified the best and worst site for getting videos viewed quickly. This is based on my own experiments as well as feedback from some of you that have found this to be true as well. Best site for getting views quickly: AOL Uncut (the consumer-generated portion of AOL). Example-…
I hate elections. People coming to my home, boring converations, phone calls from spinsters. And all the most-viewed videos are political satires or ads. If you watch my channel, you’ll notice I haven’t been posting videos. I’m eagerly waiting for the wonderful calm after the political storm. Too much noise now. It’s like trying to…
Congrats to the YouTube “NextUp” Winners (source). Check out the NextUp winner playlist here. Hey Matt Koval won. Cool.
A lie-detecting video camera may be out in a year, and allegedly works 2/3 of the time. Cool stuff via Crave: Hassan Ugail of Bradford University worked with colleagues at Aberystwyth University and the U.K. Border Agency to develop a camera that picks up on changes in blood flow and expression in a subject’s face when…
Revver, one of the less popular video sites, just got invited to the “big media” party. In its B round funding, Comcast Interactive Capital and Turner Broadcasting have invested. Revver will use the funding to drive market expansion, team-building and technology development. This is fairly significant news as it’s the first start-up in the online…