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Top 10 Things YouTube’s New CFO Will Do

ByNalts

YouTube recently hired Yahoo Treasurer Gideon Yu as its chief financial officer (TheStreet). He joins 60 people working for the San Mateo company, including Tony Nethercutt, a fellow Yahoo alumnus that runs YouTube’s advertising. What are the top 10 things Yu will do? We speculate… Get stoned with Chad Hurley and Steven Chen to show that he’s…

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Mandatory Reading for Journalists Covering “Online Video”

ByNalts

Dear regular WillVideoForFood readers: permit me to speak directly to the media in this post. Read this if you wish, but most of it’s not new to you. My friends in media. You’re under deadline. You want to do a story about online video. Your instincts tell you to package another human interest story about…

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Viral Video Popularizing Far Faster Than Blogging

ByNalts

Blogging has been all the rage for a few years — with cover stories on major magazines, blogs about blogs, and some bloggers literally becoming credible media sources that rival legacy print and television brands. Interestingly, there’s a trend that appears to have accelerated far faster and more dramatically than blogs. Online video. Take for…

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God Has a Facebook

ByNalts

Barats & Bereta’s latest video… If God Had a Facebook. If online video hadn’t come along, the only people enjoying this would be their buddies, classmates and friends. If these two were as business savvy as they are comedic, they’d be rich already. Remember I’ve maintained that entire amateur (consumer generated) online-video market will be…

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Forrester’s Charlene Li Speaks About Online Video

ByNalts

Nice clip featuring “internet superstar” Charlene Li (Forrester) ruminating about online video. (Source: BeefTV via My thoughts: I can’t believe she’s so easy on YouTube. Yes they have an audience but can they commoditize that? She seems surprisingly optimistic. Not sure advertisers need video ads to promote on video sites. I’m doing my own experiment…

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Eefoof Exeriment: Can It Make Me Money?

ByNalts

I’ve been getting some comments disparaging Revver (the first online video site that paid video creators). That same commenter was claiming Eefoof was making him rich. I realized that I didn’t give Eefoof enough of a chance on my first glance… it just didn’t seem serious. So I’ve done more homework: User Interface: Eefoof is…

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Is YouTube Cleaning Up? Rejections, Suspensions, & Bears. Oh My.

ByNalts

Remember that girl in high school that slept with everyone? If she rejected you, you knew you were beyond hope? I think we’ve all lost hope. Many signs point to YouTube cleaning up. YouTube appears to be policing obscene content and maybe some of the vast amount of copyright violations (which, remember, are you the…