Another big media player enters the viral space. It’s NBC, who stumbled initially in the “new media” space by suing YouTube for running SNL’s “Lazy Sunday.” But now they seem to be the leading major network to embrace viral video. Carson Daly and NBC have launched “It’s Your Show TV” (www.itsyourshowtv.com). Viewers can submit short…
Visit JibJab to see the latest: Six 5-minute sketches directed by John Landis (Animal House, Trading Places). The winning sketch gets a $10K development deal with JibJab. The videos are all a bit long for web viewing- should have been capped at 3 minutes, since it’s almost impossible to endure 30 minutes of video unless…
Google is a verb. Nobody looks at you strangely if you say “I Googled it.” I believe I started hearing Google used as a verb almost exactly two years ago, although I’m sure it was around for much longer. So MarquisdeJolie posts the following… will we be saying “I YouTubed a Video” in a few…
I discovered Neave.tv via Joe from WebVideoZone. He couldn’t describe it. Neither can I. Can you? It’s strangely enchanting.
In a marketing decision that always perplexed me, Coke spent the better part of this year distancing itself from a cultural wave involving its product… the geysers resulting from mixing Mentos mints and Diet Coke. The Mentos team jumped on it almost reflexively — running ads behind the famed www.Eepybird.com ads via Revver and initiating…
Go back to summer with SunbathingTV.com. Relive the magic of the summer through the ideas of the videographer that created Idonothingallday.com… Pretty young women walking the streets of NYC. In defense of Sean and his sites, he asks permission. And, he ads, “I didn’t dress them in the morning.”
Well I never expected to be anonymous on the web. But I also didn’t expect to be targeted by this Google Adsense advertisement. Hmmm. $1000 a month to blog about my sexual dysfunction? Now there’s some interesting reading.
Post illegal content to YouTube and don’t expect it to protect you. Here’s an “All Headline News” article that shows violated copyright owners can go right to the uploader… When Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures asked for the name of a YouTube user who posted a 12-minute clip containing dialog from the movie the “Twin Towers,”…
CinemaTech Editor Scott Kirsner has prepared the definitive chart for video producers interested in making money via online video. In his article, Getting Paid: Sites that Help Video Producers Make Money, you’ll find everything you need to turn your videos into cash. This is the most comprehensive list of its kind online. Thanks to WVFF Reader…
Meet the brains behind Maria Sansone. See the supervising producer of The Yahoo 9! Jared Heinke. He may look like he’s 19, but he’s controlling the puppet strings. Dazzle in the magic behind each episode. Here’s hoping they pick the weatherguy’s catfood eating as one of the 9. It could happen.