How Does an Entrepreneur Tap Online-Video Talent?
How can entrepreneurs find digital talent?
New Sitemaps: Can Google Crawl the Video on Your Site?
An important note from Google about how to ensure your videos are easy for Google to find… Video Sitemaps: Make your videos discoverable [Original Post by Amit Paunikar, Product Manager] Indexing video content presents some unique challenges, and if you have videos on your site, you’re probably wondering how to make sure your videos are…
FailBlog: Doritos for the Brain
My friend used to call MTV “Doritos for the brain.” It won’t help you nutritiously, but it makes your brain happy in moderate doses. And that phrase is a wonderful way to think of the “fail” movement. I’ll now introduce you to (or perhaps remind you of) 2009’s “Doritos for the Brain”: FailBlog.org. The term “Fail”…
Bigelow Tea Putting Face to Brand… But Nobody Will See It
Chris Brogan uses this Bigelow Tea example (see video below) of how to “put a face to a brand.” He’s right.. In just a few seconds, you’ll think differently of Bigelow, and it might change your behavior when you confront dozens of choices of tea (many with more exotic packaging and higher price points). BUT…
Spend Your Way Out of a Depression
A story of spending your way out of depression/recession… with lessons of Universal Attraction and affiliate links to digital cameras.
“World Wide Rave” Party
Book review of David Meerman Scott’s “World Wide Rave” book about rules of social media, PR and marketing.
Dismal Advertising Forecast- But Online-Video Has Immunity Idol
Despite this gloomy IDC report (AdAge) about online-advertising contracting, online video will flourish. And I’m not the only guy who thinks so. IDC’s director for digital media and entertainment, Karsten Weide, tells AdAge that online advertising spending will be soft the first half of 2009 (but online advertising will do better than the economy at large)….
Using YouTube to Sell Songs Via iTunes & Amazon
When I saw the recent “I’m on a Boat,” feauring SNL’s Andy Samberg and T-Pain, I felt like I was seeing an ad for a song. Turns out, Samberg has created an album/label called The Lonely Island (with NBC and others) to market his rap parodies. Interestingly, he’s not using the YouTube/Google “sell video” checkout feature I…
TubeMogul: 1 GB Per-Video Distribution, Upload, Analytics and File Backup
TubeMogul upgraded its total file size to 1 GB, and Brett Wilson (its CEO and founder) claims they did it for me (I begged). You see, if you’re posting videos online, you might as well post everywhere you can (even if 95% of your views are on YouTube). As long as you set up your…
Video Tips and Maybe Win YouTube Book
ViralVideoWannaBe (aka fallofautumndistro) is offering 3 copies of his YouTube book if you sign up to his e-mail… I’m mentioned in the book, and if you read it, you’re guaranteed to be an instant YouTube celebrity I think. I’m not really sure. I kinda scanned it.