Last night, Stephen King (of the Institute for the Future) was graceful enough to give me some video soundbytes about the future of online video. As you might expect, these get weirder each clip.
1) Stephen speaks about the eventual merger of online video devices (20 seconds)
2) How far out can the Institute predict? (1 minute)
3) Nalts thinks he's cool dining next to King (after a few Yeunglings) (13 seconds)
Walmart is just one step away from making Mentos & Diet Coke explosions in its parking lot to win the hearts of the 20-something crowd (you know, the ones that will be shopping at Walmart around the year 2057). Thanks to Adriana Cronin-Lukas’ “Furl” for identifying this AdAge story about Walmart’s MySpace account. AdAge refers to it as…
There are two things we know about videos. Boobies and animals are adored. You want to piss people off? Throw a puppy from a cliff. You want to get a video seen? Put boobies on the thumbnail image. Ladies and gentleman of the public jury, KFC may not be facing the worse public relations ever….
Panasonic is running a contest via YouTube for videos under 5 minutes. Panasonic is the first non-entertainment company to run a promotion with YouTube. Panasonic will award prizes to makers of the four weekly finalist videos, including a first prize of a plasma high-definition TV and digital camera, worth about $5,000. The electronics company is…
If you haven’t heard the name Brightcove in the past weeks you’d better check to see if your computer is plugged in. Given all of the buzz about Brightcove’s new offering, I spoke recently with Eric Elia, Brightcove’s VP of Content and Online Services. (Click his name to see one of the creepiest head shots ever)….
David Spark of SocialMediaBiz.net makes the case that social media isn’t all about ROI. “We’ve been trained that everything gets measured down to a sales lead. If that’s how you measure social media, then forget it,” said David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR and World Wide Rave. Here’s my…
One part of that Nightline report I can’t get out of my head… It’s how Ben Popken Consumerist.com refers to companies that monitor blogs without interacting… “ghosting.” Dear WillVideoForFood reader. Are you a ghost? P.S. Ben- would you please invite me to post on Consumerist so I can stop ghosting your blog? I’ve been biting my…