I wrote this article for The Daily Reel about finding the right online video site — whether you’re after fame, fortune or friends. Contrary to popular belief, YouTube isn’t the definitive video-sharing site for everyone. Knowing what you want is the first step in figuring out where to share. When it comes to sharing videos…
Hitwise recently released a report of the market share of online video websites between February and December 2006. Hitwise gets its data on the traffic of about 15MM U.S. surfers via ISP data. We see a huge jump for MySpace in March (believe that’s when they dropped YouTube and got their own player?) and another…
If you’re already familiar with the Chicken Noodle Soup Dance craze, I apologize. I have a feeling this is well on its way to be the next Macarena or Electric Slide. Sure Chicken Noodle is not as group oriented as the old wedding-destroying dances. But it’s tearing across YouTube and being heavily searched on the…
The real test of a video site’s audience is what videos are featured or highly rated. This analysis by Steve Bryant of ReelPopBlog shows the top video of each site. Partially fueled by this research and partially from my own vast experience of getting lost in these sites, here is… Nalts‘ analysis on the “persona”…
Earlier this week I meant to sent my photo to Alexandra of TheDailyReel. Instead I accidentally sent it to Alex (the tatoo lady) at Revver. This is what I get for it. It’s a couple photos of Revver’s Micki (head of community) and Steven Starr (Revver’s mascot) appearing with my big head. I did speak…
Ziddio is running amateur video contests where the payoff is cash and appearing on televisions via “video on demand.” When you arrive to the Ziddio homepage you’ll get an auto-load (yuck) video of LonelyGirl35 talking about how you can now do more than “purge your inner creative demons.” Two contests running now. Jedi and “clean…
It’s 2006 meets 1975. A viral video (courtesy of ViralVideoChart.com) that has its own laugh track. Groan.
I am continually amazed by how my video titles and tags rank on Google. For almost all of my titles — especially the uniquely worded ones — I appear on the first page. I’m number one for the word “Healies.” I’m all over the first page for Mad Turkey. Too much competition for the word…
Okay, now I’m bummed out. Someone just pointed out that the ripped-off version of my Burger King Outsources Ordertaking got more than a quarter of a million views. Google isn’t running many ads on its videos so I know they didn’t make a mint on the content. But let’s do some “back of envelope” math….
I keep finding my videos making their way to Google in someone else’s name. Here are two people claiming my Burger King bit. It’s flattering, and it’s not like they’re making money on it. But I do wish they’d provide accurate credit in their descriptions. They’re trading on my worthless brand. The Google video folks…