Do a Google on "YouTube Sucks" and you'll find some interesting comments. But it's not fair- YouTube is a market leader and pioneer. YouTube began last year inviting anyone to easily share videos regardless of copyrights. It quickly became the most popular video site on the web. If you want to be seen as an…
Let's put aside YouTube and Google Video for a moment, and focus on video services that share advertising revenue with content creators and the websites that host the videos. I review here three sites with different business models, technology and ad serving, but they all have one thing in common. They share revenue and they're…
Here's a new online video service that shares ad revenue like Revver. It's called ClipSyndicate, and its partners include Bloomberg News, The Associated Press and other news outlets. The idea behind ClipSyndicate, says The International Herald Tribute, is "to give local U.S. television stations, which have watched as online upstarts have stolen viewers and advertising…
It's a little early in this blog's life to wander off topic (as I'm prone to do on Revverberation), but this is worth it. I've discovered two great photo sites this morning. Each worth some time. 1) Worth1000: A site that features contests for PhotoShop junkies. Some hysterical images, including a collection of presidents in…
Here's a recipe for success… http://www.chapter11tv.com/. During this video, an overzealous CEO demonstrates how much he has spent, and how he has no apparent income model.
There are plenty small sites out there that sell ad space around videos they scrape from television. I'm not a fan of this piracy, but I can't help enjoying what's available… especially this clip from Sci-Fi's "Scare Tactics." Imagine you're a plumber fixing a toilet and the owner gets stranger and stranger by the minute….
One intriguing site for online videos is www.idonothingallday.com. The site owner and videographer, Patrick, runs the site on his free time and has significant traffic. His videos feature beautiful women in NYC… walking down the street, reading a book, laying in the sun. Patrick asks for permission, but according to this Wired article, maybe that's…
Stay tuned mobile couch potatoes… you'll soon not just hear Howard Stern but watch him on your commute. Sirius has confirmed plans to launch its live, streaming video service soon after the Consumer Electronics Show (Jan. 8-11) in 2007. For more see this article from www.engadget.com. We at "Will Video for Food" think this is…
This is one of the funniest videos that is painful to watch. For a segment about online audo downloading, a BBC interviewer thinks she's speaking with the editor of a technology website- New and Wireless. What she doesn't realize is her interviewee is a cab driver that was booked for another segment. What makes this video…
The online giants are waking up as YouTube continues to soar. More than 12 million unique visitors per month watch over 40 million videos per day on YouTube, making it the undusputed leader for online video. The silver and bronze go to MSN and MySpace. Google remains fourth, and has made two changes recently. First,…