Even the niche interest groups are looking at online video. Jim’s blog on bikingdiscusses how to use online video to enhance the community of bicycling. Jim’s a friend, and I have no idea about the biking world (except that Tour de France accidents are interesting to watch on video). But he’s performed in a number of my videos and inspired a few. So visit his blog today. Or at least click the link so his traffic goes up.
Sorry. This is the kinda post that industry people don’t care about, but some of my viewers might. I’m going live with Rhett & Link tonight (Thursday, April 17 at 9 EST). That’s 2 am for you folks in England, but you never sleep anyway. [Added April 21: here’s the archive of the show]. Rhett…
Rob Cantor impression song, “Perfect” on YouTube was hoax: professional impersonators helped
DeathWish808 ripped my video and passed it as his own on Break.com. Now “Pennies for the Tollbooth Driver” has 400,000 views on the homepage. Am I ticked or flattered?
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…
Organize the world’s information. That was the initial mission of Google, so I have found it ineresting that the company has taken significant steps (like buying YouTube and launchin Knol) to host and distribute it. You see, there’s a big difference between organizing information for easy search… and actually hosting it with ads. In a non-trivial…
I didn’t care much when some of the online video sites retired “consumer generated” accounts, and killed my Nalts channels. Metacafe, Revver, Yahoo video, Google video. But I’ve been rooting for the Blip.tv underdog since its infancy. So when I learned today they deleted my account, I felt totally betrayed. Blip.tv is now owned by…