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.
My wife and I used our babysitter night to buy a bucket tonight. Well actually, it went like this. She said we needed a bucket. So I decided to make a video about how pitiful we are to use a date night to buy a bucket. Then we ditched the video, but ended up doing…
Two of the funniest YouTube creators groove together. Brandon Hardesty (best known for “Strange Faces” and his movie impressions, but my favorite is “Extreme Toothbrushing“) and EdBassmaster (best known for “Dog Drives Car,” but my favorite is “I Like Dogs” and when he cracks up during his prank calls). It has some dance moves you…
Home Purchasing Club is a new web-only video series by cast members of Saturday Night Live, The Groundlings, Napoleon Dynamite, The Drew Carey Show and Office Space. Spoofing ridiculous home shopping network segments, HPC just launched its first episode as part of VH1’s V-Spot player on and will premiere new episodes on the site every…
I’ve spent the past dozen years or so working primarily in the pharmaceutical industry. So when I hear “government-run healthcare” or “socialized medicine,” here are some of my spontaneous thoughts: Medicare pinches profit and incentive out of system: the end of medical and pharmaceutical research & development. A visit to the doctor becomes like waiting in a…
Just stumbled into this article by John Leland from a Jan. 1997 article in Videography magazine. Title: Making Money with Online Video. Check out some highlights. This is almost a decade old! What relevance do the Web’s financial realities (virtual and otherwise) have for video professionals? One very lucrative site that has proven the viability…
comScore’s February data once again shows Google’s dominance in the online-video market, but Facebook is catching up. It’s now the fourth-largest online-video sharing property (see Facebook’s unofficial resource for more information). Facebook, as a sharp contrast from other sites, has short bursts of viewing (far shorter durations than other properties like YouTube, Hulu or Viacom…