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The 10 Immutable Laws of Viral Video

ByNalts

So my joking reference to the “second law of viral videos” at the close of this “YouTube Viral Video Broker” clip resulted in this question from Joe Chapuis: What’s the first law of viral videos? Fair question. I hadn’t really considered the rules yet… I was spoofing someone that would have the arrogance to cite…

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There Goes My Chance to Run for Office… Ever

ByNalts

One of the things that’s always comforted me about putting my videos online is the power I maintain to remove them. Any of them. At any time. Whether they’re on YouTube, Revver or Google Video. Then I saw this report below from Google Video. Nearly 300,000 people have viewed my “Google Earth: Has it Gone…

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Are Your Videos DO Belong to Us (YouTube)?

ByNalts

Thanks to Joe Chapuis (WebVideoZone) for pointing this Boing Boing report out. It appears that the language around YouTube’s ownership of your content is getting a little tighter. Fortunately, they’re not trying to go for “exclusives.” Here’s a Boing Boing post by David Gulbransen that reminds us that a) we can always yank our videos,…

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How to Advertise in a TiVo Age

ByNalts

This EcommerceTimes article by Keith Regan (via Technewsworld) offers the following bold statement: Fifty percent of U.S. homes will have DVRs by 2010, according to Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff. He added that the devices will soon enter a “hypergrowth” stage and begin to spread to second and third television sets in many homes, dramatically…

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YouTube Viral Video Broker!

ByNalts

Advertiser looking for reach? Viral-video creator looking for income? Video website looking for revenue? It’s the YouTube Viral Video Broker. He’s got the answers. Tags: Laipply, Numa Numa, Emmilina, Brookers, Smosh, YouTube, Coke, Coca Cola, YouTube, McDonalds, Subaru, Verizon, Singular, Wireless, Advertising, Online,

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How Will Online Video Sites Deal With Liability? Can They Have Their Souflee And Eat It Too?

ByNalts

Jean-Baptiste Soufron is French, Chief Legal Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, writes in this recent blog post that “more and more copyrighted content are being uploaded on their servers without the proper authorizations from copyright owners.” Says Soufron, their content is too often violating third parties copyright or privacy, they expose their users to the…

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Viral Video: The NEW Reality TV

ByNalts

Reality TV has obviously hit its peak and on the decline. What’s next? Viral video according to this Pittsburgh Tribune article by Andrew Johnson. It’s a nice article that tracks the EepyBird explosion and identifies a number of other top viral sources (see more below). Obviously we at WillVideoForFood hope the viral video fad sticks…

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90 Percent of Online Video Sites Will Disappear

ByNalts

In this San Francisco Chronicle article by Ellen Lee, Charles River Venture Capitalist George Zachary predicts that 90 percent of online video sites will disappear. Some will simply shut down; others will be gobbled up by larger companies. (Brief ad here- if anyone wants to gobble up CubeBreak, make an offer… I just got a…