NBC/Universal used, without permission, a YouTube video by an indie comedy duo Brian Kamerer and Travis Irvine. The Jay Leno Show – then had the video taken down with a copyright claim. Despite growing internet outcry, both media giant and talk show host have not said or done anything to address the injustice. Almost every major…
The headline is a quote by Mark Cuban, who is very rich. The full quote, as captured by Adam Kleinberg in last week’s Videonomics event in Dallas Cowboys stadium, is: “Online video is irrelevant. The top videos most days on YouTube get 250-750k views. If you got that kind of traffic on TV, you’d be…
Watch on YouTube as Actor Isaac Lamb proposes to his girlfriend Amy Frankel to the tune of “Marry You” by Bruno Mars (which she enjoys on headphones as she rides a Honda CRV). An ensemble of dancers join a street parade, punctuated by Isaac dropping on one knee. Learn more on Broadway World.
Happy Birthday, YouTube. You’re Seven. In internet years, that’s 49. I didn’t get you a present because I think I only counted 5 YouTubers in this video.
There’s an elephant in the online-advertising living room. Suddenly the Emperor has no clothes. It smells and quacks like a duck. [Insert your overused metaphor here]. Recent news is shedding light on confusing and dirty practices in the buying and selling of online-video and other legacy forms of digital advertising. The whole thing reeks like the…
There’s a long-time debate about the merits of professionally produced content (TV commercials) and user-generated content (like product reviews or sponsored videos). A comScore report shows that the combination of the two are more effective as measured by lifts in “share of choice” — that’s a comScore metric to quantify the ability of an ad to influence…
WillVideoForFood was created to help creators build audiences and make money, but it obviously focuses on online-video marketing. Of course we’re not a news outlet… we’re an author blog. And when we say “we,” we’re using it in a Royal sense. (It’s just me, okay?) So here’s our definitive list of sources to feed your…
“The problem isn’t cost, it’s revenue,” writes WatchMojo CEO Ashkan Karbashfrooshan in a MediaPost story titled “What Revision3’s Sale Means for the Online Video Industry.” Indeed while I’ve long urged marketers and media providers to keep costs down for online video, that’s because revenue (via ad-sharing) is modest and dependent on finding an audience. There’s no cost…
Apple is rumored to be launching a giant new iPad to replace your television, and it likely will be called iPanel. Calling it a TV limits the perceived breadth of the device, and iTV is already owned by UK TV). Plus the branding of the existing (and ailing) AppleTV wasn’t consistant with Apple’s rhythmic and simple…