It’s hard to avoid Strike.tv in conversations or a story about new shows. And I’ll admit that I first tried not to like any of it, but I’m now trying to embrace the genre. I’m not there yet. There are a few things that are unnerving about the increasing proliferation of quasi-professional online videos, even…
“I AM A STRONG, HEALTHY, HAPPY, VIBRANT, AND CREATIVE WOMAN!” What? You don’t say that to yourself daily? Then you need a better psychiatrist. I think I’d better do a video of me reaffirming that in a public place.
SomeCallMeJim has some nice tips for becoming popular on YouTube. Isn’t that a funny term? Didn’t you hate “popular” people in school? Anyway- here it is on his blog called SomeCallMeJim. For the record, I hate to think about how many people have written me and I’ve missed them because they weren’t persistent and I…
Here’s a simple way to increase your subscribers on YouTube I just discovered (see my free eBook called “How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent” for more). I can’t prove this works, but it’s fairly obvious it should. It requires that you have at least one video that continues to get a lot…
My 8-year-old son asked for help putting on his calculator watch this morning. He joked that he might use it during tests, and I quietly told him it might be a big mistake. His eyes perked up. “Why, dad?” “The alarm goes off… it’s really embarrassing when the ‘cheating alarm’ goes off.” He smiled, realizing…
hot off the press… A YouTube for All of Us As a community, we have come to count on each other to be entertained, challenged, and moved by what we watch and share on YouTube. We’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to make the collective YouTube experience even better, particularly on our most…
Now thisis a speech worthy of mash-ups. I’m ashamed that YouTubers haven’t had fun with this yet. Enjoy 6 “guilty-pleasure” minutes of Robbin’s tuff love to the broadcasters at NAB. You know- the power elite that steward the Great American Ideal… The video wasn’t captured, ironically, because TIm Robbins forbid video recording of his speech. But…
When we weren’t having “my dad can beat up your dad” debates as children, we had the “Burger King versus McDonalds” debate. Of course, now I go wherever my kids tell me because they’re not going to eat a thing anyway until the meal toys are edible. But the WillVideoForFood 2008 “Fast Food Online-Video Award”…
Okay- I can respect the fact that MrSafety (SMPFilms) has the “top favorited” animal video in history (Mean Kitty). People love cats and rap songs, so the video deserves some love (even if 9 million of the 12 million views are from the same IP address, that happens to belong to MrSafety’s mom). Don’t get…
As you regular readers know, this WillVideoForFood blog is designed for three audiences: online-video creators who aspire to generate income from their work, marketers, public relations firms and advertisers looking to access the most visceral form of social media: online video (in a way that’s neither a “viral video gamble” or as uncontrollable as “consumer generated…