The Nerdfighters have spoken. We need our pioneers, our forefathers, our world desuckers… on Oprah. It’s a story beyond stories. Two brothers uniting a world via online video. It’s the highest altruistic use of social media. They’re fascinating. They draw, sing, write, perform, entertain. They’re the vlog brothers. And I’ve never seen so many comments as my initial post about them (except when I was giving away free cheese for the best comment).
Watch out television. The joyous home-shopping experience can be now experienced via the comfort of online video. The New York Times reports that Joyus is satisfying that raging unmet need: Unlike other e-commerce sites that use video to advertise products, Joyus uses video to sell the products, and cites comScore statistics showing that shoppers who…
TV Guide reviews some of the best YouTube “talent” moments. I need to broaden my definition of the word “talent” obviously.
Crows root through garbage, and caw us from our slumber. But what if I could train the species- which top the avian IQ scale – to be my minions? Then I read in a recent O Magazine about a hacker named Joshua Klein who spent a decade studying crows, and discovered they’re highly intelligent and…
YouTube went to great lengths to ask (and even threaten video creators with reminders of their contractual obligations) to prevent stars doing sponsored videos. As I’ve addressed before, some advertisers were circumventing lucrative media spends by working directly with top stars. That’s especially smarmy when the Google folks pitched the star, and the agency or…
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” opening has been a wild success, and the movie remains #1 in America for a second week. But as Steve Garfield reports, not all of the film’s extras signed on with an understanding of the film’s comedic nature. Star and screenplay author Sacha Baron…
Just when you thought pre-rolls were dead, both Hulu and YouTube are embracing them in recent weeks. Hulu has officially rolled out an “Ad Selector,” where viewers can choose among several ads from a single sponsor. And YouTube, whose parent Google once chastised online-video pre-rolls for causing 75% abandonment rates, is now quietly experimenting with…
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Ellen is better, I tell you. Somehow I feel she would be more amenable to having them on her show.
Okay, now you’re just milking it.
@2 Marquis- guilty as charged. Wait until I wear a vlogbrothers shirt with a megaphone in front her building. Then you’ll see some serious Nalts the Milkman. P.S. Pitch.
Hi!!!!
Billy “Nalts” Mays here!
Did someone say cheese?