I love it when media picks up my clip, and I hereby grant any and all media sources rights to use clips with stories (as long as I’m credited, and ideally informed). Here’s a question for you, though. Obviously we can’t rip a Viacom show and post it on YouTube. But it appears that newsclips…
Last night I had the pleasure of dining with Filmmaker Chris Barrett, actor Efron Ramirez (best known for his role as Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite), YouTube Comic EdBassmaster, and Barret’s Publicist partner. Barrett and Ramirez had spoken to a group of underprivileged highschool students in Camden, NJ yesterday afternoon, and were doing a media circuit…
TubeFilter, which tracks the “best scripted web series,” reports that NBC Universal Digital Studio will create a slate of new original web series to be produced with 60 Frames Entertainment. NBC promises to bring the “most talented writers and producers in entertainment” in efforts to “create a much higher-quality production value than what is normally…
I’m all about dignity today, folks. From this video on HBOLabs’ “Hooking Up” to my “Ear Worm” (now called MySpace because Jan said it would make it more popular).
Yeah but don’t take my word for it. Check iStardom. I guess the rankings are based on YouTube and MySpace (which unfortunately is a site I ignore). I’m just so glad to se that fatty photo from the YouTube gathering in 7/7/7. Getting it off my Wikipedia page is like trying to get rid of…
Online-video advertising is still dwarfed by television advertising. But fear not the recession, online video advocates! Fear not these gloomy photos of the depression that you’re seeing on all of the weekly magazines. And this is according to Christine Beardsell from Digitas writes in a ClickZ article. Here are three reasons Beardsell says online video advertising…
This Advertnews.com post has a series of student-created ads that showcase creative advertising ideas that blend into their environment. A PSP2-shaped tennis court. A shopping-cart belt that shows Expedia and illustrations of luggage. A Toblerone bike rack. The form and function become the ad, or vice versa.
Do you vlog? Then YOU might be dull enough for television. TV Diaries, a sparse but new blog, claims to be building a show with The Conlin Company, who is behind such reality-hits as “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Nanny 911.” Says this post: We’re seeking Emotional Exhibitionists who have nothing to hide. If you can entertain,…
The trick to being happy is to feel good. So watch this albiet archain video showing a real-life Thumper and Bambi. This deer and rabbit get along wonderfully. Now relax and feel wonderful about your week. Yey! Thanks, Jan. We don’t know how you find these, but love that you keep sending ’em. Speaking of…
If you haven’t read Daisy Whitney’s TVWeek article about how her phone-tossing habit led to an online video, check it out here. Says the new media journalist (in an article that was published in TVWeek’s print edition). So what’s the takeaway? What’s the trick to making a viral video? Well, I don’t know if this…