The beauty about online video is that it forces you to compress your story. Both in size and time. BlipTV is a nice model for this, and I'm surprised I'm just discovering it. The tagline says it all: "Nobody Does it Shorter." It's 5 second to 3 minute bits that can be streamed on phone…
Just what I needed. One more thing I can do while I drive (instead of drive). Now you can upload videos to YouTube remotely via your phone. We're getting closer to the reality of my story about a the bank hostage that makes money from her traumatic experience. Imagine soon that you'll be able to take…
I want to share my amazing gift with my readers. At first, I thought it was a coincidence but now I realize it's a special talent. I have the power to make an electronic device drop in price. All I have to do is buy it, and it goes down in price about 20% within…
There's nothing like shooting a low-budget video and scoring it with some recognizable music. Most sites aren't preventing amateurs from using copyrighted music, but this will become a bigger issue in the months ahead…. especially if you're making income on your videos on sites like Revver.com. In the meantime, you have four choices: 1) Go…
This is in an interesting unbranded initiative by Gillette, which has taken some bold and risky targeting/positioning/branding moves including a close affiliation with Howard Stern. This site, NoScruf.org, has the look and feel of a low-budget association. Yet the viral videos are clearly top quality (and pretty funny). So I view this with mixed emotions….
Okay we’ve all got to pay the rent. But iFilm is taking intrusive advertising to a new level. I just clicked the link on iFilm’s video of the day, and here’s what I got: 1) When I arrived at the site, I got a streaming ad. I was able to skip it. 2) Suddenly I…
I like to give my blog readers an early scoop on things, like I did Wednesday with Google Coop. Here's a press release that goes out tomorrow (Saturday, May 13) from CubeBreak.com (a video site I manage instead of sleeping).. It identifies the most boring cities in the world. If you're a journalist, you don't…
I don't pretend to have mastered the prank call video, but I've been learning a lot in the past week or so. The above video frames are from 2 prank calls from last night. First, I need to pay tribute to Crank Yankers and a crazy guy that dresses as a girl and does video prank calls…
This article on Adotas describes ViTrue., which was launched by Reggie Bradford, the former president of Tanberg Television, CEO of N2 Broadband and CMO of WebMD. ViTrue, Inc will, according to the release, be the world’s first user-created advertising platform, and the company will receive $2.2 million in funding from General Catalyst Partners and ViTrue’s…
Bloggers are supposed to be experts, but in this case I'm making an appeal to people who know more than me. I currently manage a site called CubeBreak.com which includes select Revver.com videos that are hosted on Yahoo Site Builder. Low cost and it's really easy to use, but it's slower than mud. When I open…