I won’t ever remind you of when I’m wrong, but I will say I predicted in October that Metacafe would be sold by the end of this year. Looks like Yahoo could be a suiter according to TechCrunch.
I’m going with “MetaHoo!” because YahooCafe sounds like something out of a bad Western.
The true sign of a viral video star is when viewers simply can’t wait for the next episode. I’ve been watching Jorg’s two clips (the original, the E Holywood Story, and the dance contest) over and over and over. I want more. Jorg’s creator is BrettNovak.com. His first video got more than 300K views on…
What video site pays you the best? Visit this post from Mashable for details, and you may see blip.tv winning by a long shot. The focus is on the raw $ per views. Keep in mind that I’d take a significantly lower payment per view (average seems to be .05 to 1 cent) in exchange…
When my “Bored at Mall” was featured on Break.com I was reminded how much people like real reactions to staged situations. It’s what made Candid Camera, Punked and “Trigger Happy TV.” This weekend we did two similar videos, which are currently topping the list of most discussed and highest rated comedies on YouTube (see image…
Now that Google gulped YouTube, the obvious next acquisition target is Metacafe. It’s the highest independent site on the top 10 lists, and I would predict it’s purchased by a paranoid media player by the end of the year, but certainly no later than end of Q1 2007. ReelPopBlog has a nice review of Metacafe,…
We creators don’t take offense to poor ratings. But sometimes our body parts do. Watch in horror as this video creator’s hand removes itself and pursues revenge on someone who ranked its owner’s video poorly. This type of reaction is fairly typical of users of Metacafe, since ratings determine a video’s eligibility into the profitable…
Which online-video site is mostly likely to be part of the bridge between television and the Internet? You can fault the model, and question it’s sustainability. But Yahoo TV is well poised to leverage its partnerships with Verizon and TiVo to start serving its bite-sized video content via television sets equipped with broadband boxes. Take,…
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“I’m going with ‘MetaHoo!” because YahooCafe sounds like something out of a bad Western.”
You’re right, that’s what it sounds like, but it never stopped them from naming Yahoo that in the first place…
MetaHoo sounds like a town in a Dr. Seuss book… come to think of it, so does “Vlogger”
How about “hoometatthecafe?”
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