Most marketers and public relations agencies have “clipping services,” via which they receive copies of newspaper articles covering topics of interest. Say you’re marketing M&Ms. You probably want to know when the chocolate candy appears in the news. It occured to me that YouTube’s functionality can provide this service to you for free. Google Alerts…
News earlier this week suggested NBC pulled out of iTunes because it wanted to charge more per episode than iTunes felt comfortable. But NBC is now going with Amazon.com for the exact same price ($1.99 an episode) – source WSJ. So we can only conclude that NBC wanted a bigger cut of the action, got ticked at…
(This is my video rant on this subject) Note to public relations professions everywhere. Don’t let your company turn into the poster child for copyright insanity. In one of the more tasteless moves yet, the company used an independent film maker’s video on its hopelessly unfunny Web Junk 2.0 show without permission. Then when the…
[Update September 2: A&P responds to my note- see “more” below] Fox News reports that two brothers — fired from their jobs for filming a gangster rap parody at an A&P grocery store — now face a defamation lawsuit from their former employer. The video is at FakeLaugh or here on YouTube. Fox reports: A&P…
Yesterday I was the #52nd most subscribed director on YouTube, but today I’m the #5th most subscribed comedian. How’d I do it? Read that carefully. I changed my “channel type” from the default “director” to “comedian.” This is something I’ve debated because I don’t consider myself a comedian. But I do classify most of my…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=G3udbyC_ydQ] Here’s Jolene Sugarbaker (the “original net celebrity”) pitching my wife on my attening the Washington, D.C. “DCTube” gathering that’s taking place September 8, 2007. For details of the event, visit the DCTube account on YouTube. Or check out this video by “The Trailer Park Queen,” where she talks about events taking place at Floyd’s…
Don’t ask. Just watch Dr. Slasher’s acting reel. It’s really quite difficult to explain but strangely compelling.
You only came here because YouTube is down, again. Right? Maybe they’re fixing the stupid comments functionality.
I bought a pack of letters yesterday and decided to make a t-shirt. But there weren’t enough of each letter to say much. So I invited YouTubers to help in a video that I planned to delete. I was only going to leave the video live for a few hours, but I fell asleep and…
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=O7eAg4F_nFY] Some people have expressed interest in the “making of” my videos. So this post will describe the “behind the scenes” of how I made this short video titled “Pranking the Garbage Man- Part 2.” You should watch the video first, since this reveals key plot elements. Its prequel to this was titled “Prank the…