Is there such thing as a viral video writer? In most cases, viral creators are both writing and shooting their own work. But as the business matures, it’s highly possible that — just like television and film — writers will write and video people will produce. How long before they collaborate, and how will they…
I may not make the best videos on the web, but I’ve got a psychic power emerging. I make a video spoof of something and it comes real. I’m the friggin’ “Harold and the Purple Crayon” of online videos. This has happened a few times… the most significant one was when I created Crackberry Blackberry…
Check out the shorts at Invisible Engine. It won The People’s Choice Award at the Vloggies according to Revver’s blog. Buncha Cunch is a spoof of a cereal ad, and features disturbing but humorous moments.
I can just hear the internal dialogue on this banner campaign… AOL VP of Marketing: Why are we still running ads on YouTube? AOL Media Buyer: Because you told me it might help in our negotiations to buy YouTube. AOL VP of Marketing: Well Google bought them, idiot. They’re our competition in case you’re not…
It’s a strange thing when you get a call from the president. Especially during dinner. Here’s “Bush Calls Me.”
Lesson learned in this video. Don’t propose in public. Kinda reminds me of the last episode of The Office. Courtesy of a new blog featuring Google videos and information about Google.
In the most ridiculous lawsuit since the McDonalds hot-coffee one, here’s Universal Tube (owner of Smoking Gun reports on the story, and you can see some of the e-mails the company has received erroneously. Let’s all include hyperlinks to UTube.com and tag them with words like YouTube, video, viral. Maybe we can get it number…
LonelyGirl15 is lonely no more. She’s found Steven Starr, the affable The photo is from an interesting CNet story about Revver and Starr. According to the piece: Starr was formerly a talent agent at the William Morris Agency, where he worked with such actors, directors and writers as Ben Stiller, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ang Lee…
My brother just sent me a list of the top 10 earners on Metacafe. As of this writing, I’m number 10 at nearly $4,000. Check out Nalts. Congrats to regular WVFF contributor Zack Scott for his number 6 spot. So now I need to figure out what Metacafe viewers like and want… and create videos…
Mike Shields from MediaWeek wrote this recent article about viral video creators. Nice piece and encouraging for those of us that are aspring amateurs. I found it while ego surfing my own name. Don’t act like you don’t ego surf. The user-generated video media landscape, while still pervaded by frat boys filming themselves being jackasses…