We’re three days away from when participants of the Kony 2012 movement will be blanketing the town with posters, but one could argue they won’t do much better than the 180 million views to date. Visible Measures has a stat roundup of the social-cause campaign that popped in early March 2012. For comparison, M&M’s 2012…
Can streaming-video service Netflix survive recent losses by substituting new content? According to the Associated Press, major movie studios are refusing to license Netflix the rights to most of their latest movies. They studios also are withholding their most popular series, including “Game of Thrones” and “Dexter.” Associated Press writer Michael Liedtke said Netflix may lose…
Note the name of this online-video preroll ad on YouTube. “Droid Razr Maxx by Motorola- TV Commercial.” It’s like saying: “Not only are we too lazy to tweak this ad for this medium, we’re just going to call it a TV ad. So suck it, YouTuber.”
It was a good week for YouTubers on NBC. Key of Awesome’s Mark Douglas appeared as Ian in the “Woggles,” a PG-13 version of Australian children singers, “The Wiggles.” And “Chocolate Rain Guy” (TayZonday) gets an SNL impression by Kenan Thompson! See Buzzfeed for a collection of Woggles media or see the entire episode of “30 Rock”…
YouTube, once extending “partnership” status to select video creators, announced this week that it would invite anyone to become a YouTube Partner — as long as they own a computer and have a pulse. Animals are not excluded. Here’s the news as announced in the YouTube Partner blog: Whether you’re a novice or a mogul,…
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen may be hoping to do for digital magazines what they did for online video. According to Fusible, the duo have launched Zeen, and you can reserve your username for this cryptic new offering that may allow users to create and share custom magazine currations. Zeen announced on April…
Yes, Virginia. You can still go viral… if you have an original idea and push production to a new level. It also helps to pay tribute to a popular video game. Here’s a video homage to Skyrim Elder Scrolls (a video game), an epic video that’s been seen more than a million times in the past…
I’m just back from iMedia Connection’s Video Everywhere event in San Antonio, and a highlight was Paul Kontonis presenting a bunch of new web series. I’m not sure these are yet posted online, but this much I can say: online video production is beginning to resemble that of television. Matt Timothy (Vindico) had a visceral…
And TheQuadSpot interviewed me for a surprisingly polished show for amateurs. Watch. Again it’s free. Seriously I’m just going to blog about myself for a while. It’s what bloggers do, right? I had a chicken sandwich on Weight Watchers bread. I’m down more than 20 pounds since I shot The Unlicensed Therapist. As Zipster08 might…
Tim Schmoyer interviews the Viral Video Genius for ReelSEO. Get smart, be entertained, watch Tim try to salvage an interview with me. Three so far… three coming. Enjoy. They’re free. Comment below about how awesome we are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuO7lgecyYc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiIlDqD4TrM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXKjjQSJsJA