My sister sent me this elevator photo this morning and titled the e-mail “Nerds.” It’s the crowd going to Macworld. She works for “big media” and they’re interviewing Jobs today. But she doesn’t deserve to. It would be like her watching me interview (insert name of famous fashion designer). So have you been reading the blow-by-blow on…
Woah. This Wall Street Journal (a print newspaper based in New York City) is coming dangerously close to my “beat” today. They’re clearly running online video stories to see if they can steal from the rapidly growing readership of “Will Video for Food.” I may not be as classy, accurate, easy-to-read or comprehensive. But I’m…
Martin Sorrell, chairman and chief executive of advertising giant WPP Group, recently used the term “Frenemy” to describe Google. But David Eun, Google’s vice president of content partnerships, is fostering a “friend not foe” approach, according to the LaTimes. Eun, the former NBC and Time Warner Inc. executive, is Google’s ambassador to the television, movie,…
If you’re interested in online advertising and video, this is a must-hear 10-minute podcast by Hoag Levins in the AdAge “Why It Matters” audio show. Levins interviews Advertising Age Editor Jonah Bloom and addresses the following: Why will ad agencies be forced to further trim their staffs? Why will media companiesl be “required to prove their…
I’ve been long begging for a technology that allows amatuer videographers to populate multiple video sites with ease. You may like the popularity of YouTube and the money from Revver, blip.tv and Metacafe. But you can’t afford to miss sites like AOL Uncut, Yahoo or Google Video since they do deliver volume. I think I…
I don’t track technology stocks well, and I certainly don’t understand the nuances of video compression. But my friend Jim Walker (www.mindpalace.com) is the one that told me to buy Cisco stock in 1996. I didn’t. Now he’s hot on ON2. Here’s a recent press release the company issued. According to the release, ON2 is…
I’m sure the Disney PR folks are having fun with this video of Tigger punching some kid. What’s next? Mickey strips nude and frightens toddlers? I have a former co-worker that used to play Chip (of Chip & Dale). She said the characters all had mixed romantic relationships. Snow White was sleeping with Aladin. Actually,…
During the holidays a bunch of video bloggers (the kids call us vloggers) got together in Philadelphia. Micki Krimmel, the Revver’s V-Pixie, captured some of it and made a talkie. See it on Mickipedia. She did a lot of editing because I’m pretty sure she had about 30 minutes of b-roll of the raw meat…
As the “auteur of the awful,” who has also marketed vaccines, I believe I have a unique ability to instruct you on how to vaccinate the world from your viral video. Follow these 10 tips and I can almost guarantee you a non-viral video. Make it long. Say 5-10 minutes. Videotape yourself describing your day….
I was profiled in this important video about viral video. I’m so glad Nalts had an opportunity to share the meaning behind my viral video work. So often I get the questions: Is viral video be taught or is it an innate skill? What makes you an undiscovered legend? What is the greatest of all…