I’m Linking to Vegemite
I’m linking to Vegemite’s website because you’re not allowed to.
I’m linking to Vegemite’s website because you’re not allowed to.
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This is the video I did last night to spoof the recent news that AOL released private data from 650,000 of its customers. I was getting the shakes last night because I hadn’t made a video in about a week (new job). So I cranked this out after reading a TechCrunch article about this AOL…
Nice clip featuring “internet superstar” Charlene Li (Forrester) ruminating about online video. (Source: BeefTV via My thoughts: I can’t believe she’s so easy on YouTube. Yes they have an audience but can they commoditize that? She seems surprisingly optimistic. Not sure advertisers need video ads to promote on video sites. I’m doing my own experiment…
AdAge called out the biggest YouTube sellouts— those known for sponsored videos for top brands. Naturally my headline would have read “YouTube’s Most Prolific Sponsored Artists” had I been included in the list. For those of you whose nipples don’t get pointy when you hear words like “advertising, marketing, Mad Men, spot, creative brief, storyboards,…
Visit JibJab to see the latest: Six 5-minute sketches directed by John Landis (Animal House, Trading Places). The winning sketch gets a $10K development deal with JibJab. The videos are all a bit long for web viewing- should have been capped at 3 minutes, since it’s almost impossible to endure 30 minutes of video unless…
Time to test out your “is it real or fake” instincts. Watch this video where a random Verizon caller is surprised when that Verizon Wireless “Can You Hear Me Now” guy shows up with an army of Verizon people personifying the Verizon network. Is it truly candid, or is our “victim” an actor? Shaky camera…
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It’s reverse psychology, see? Scads of people are gonna link just because they’re told they can’t. It’ll be the first reverse-psychology viral social media campaign in history. (click)
Vegemite is some nasty shit.
“You are also prohibited from linking the [Vegemite] Site to another website in any way whatsoever.”
Does this necessarily mean you are prohibited from linking the Vegemite site *from* another website? Maybe it does, but maybe that’s not what they meant.
Web-linking is not a commutative operation.