According to an In-Stat study, this online video craze may be more than a “pet rock” phenomenon.”The worldwide market for online content services is expected to expand by a factor of 10, growing from about 13 million households during 2005 to over 131 million households by 2010,” said the report. Read more in “Online Video Makret to Surge Tenfold by 2010” in MediaPost, or a ClickZ article “Online Video Growth To Continue.”
Business Week wrote about Best Buy’s increasing influence, which worries several major electronics companies (not the least of which are those formerly of Circuit City). Seems Best Buy’s influence is beginning to take a Walmart tone. “We used to call them the 800-pound gorilla,” says the executive of one company that sells televisions and other…
No offense to Kodak (they were a sponsor), but I do think the term “a Kodak moment” is lost on this generation. So Kiddsock, the affable sock puppet, suggests “a YouTube moment.” That seems like a fair enough phrase… since YouTube probably has better name recognition than any camera manufacturer, and stands for amateur moments….
Francis Stokes, creator of “God Inc.” posted this video to update us about pitching the show to networks. God Inc. is a series that portrays Heaven as a company. This clip contains a hysterical spoof of the perils of pitching television. I met and interviewed Francis when I was in LA, and he’s as cool…
GE launched a health campaign today on YouTube that is part of trend toward softer advertising that, I believe, will have better long-term dividends even if it’s hard to measure. GE is taking a lightly branded approach to promoting health and wellness by sponsoring a “Healthymagination” challenge among people on YouTube. There’s very subtle branding…
“The seventh son of the Alligator King Was a thoughtful little whelp. He said, “Daddy, appears to me That you could use a little help.” Sesame Street’s “Alligator King” (via Hulu) was performed by Bud Luckey, who according to Fr. Wiki also is the voice of Winnie the Pooh’s Eeyore, and a character designer on…
Here’s the latest two entries to the “Crap in a Tiffany’s Bag” contest. The bar is set wonderfully low for this contest. All you have to do is enter and you’re pretty much guaranteed to be a finalist as long as your video isn’t that good. Remember the rules- it has to garner lots of…