So the NextUp YouTube winners are in NYC right now… receiving loads of love from Google/YouTube. It made me happy seeing the next generation of amateurs… and to see that Google/YouTube still encourages them even while commercial content is on the rise on the world’s second-largest search engine. I was invited to speak to the…
Hey it’s Friday. With only one more day before the Apocalypse/Rapture begins, here are some last-minute things you can do. Hey, if you’ve been procrastinating, don’t worry. These are fairly quick ones.
It never seizes to amaze me the “street cred” I get for being the knife in Annoying Orange. Grant, my parts are small with the exception of my debut (No More Mister Knife Guy). My “Mommy and Me” part was especially brief, but at least Wifeofnalts made her debut on the series. Now let’s take…
Well it seems things are fine in TV Land. A recent study shows that TV ads beat the web in creating engagement (specifically by 38 gagillian times). And a previous study shows we don’t miss the ads we skip. Good news, media buyers! Get those bucks back on television. Next week: Print is alive!
Grant Crowell, one of our favoritest writers at our favoritest websites (ReelSEO), tackled the subject of online-video webstars and their sponsored videos. He interviewed Hitviews‘ Sam Levine. Check it out…
She was just a girl watching trailers. He was a country boy looking to go viral. But now…
Imagine Facebook as a pair of potentially Morman Aussies? Would you trust them with the information you share with the website? This is a well-timed video considering the recent attempt by Facebook to smear Google for social-networking privacy issues. Here are the folks from Burston Marsteller that were behind Facebook’s poorly executed op-ed campaign…
Eat your hearts out vloggers. You may be regular, but can you show clips of yourself vlogging for 35 years? Here, Sam (also known as MisterEsoteric) shows his highlights progressing from 2011 backwards… to the 1970s. When most vloggers weren’t alive, and the term itself wasn’t yet born. Stay tuned to the end where Sam…
Uncle Newt told me last night that he’s running for president. He made a YouTube video about it too. I’ve added 3 embeds for the video below, and I recommend starting the second about 2 seconds after the first (then the third 2 seconds later). Let’s work side by side… side by side… side by…
YouTube puts Yahoo and even About.com for the most intrusive ad campaign in the history of online-video advertising: Kung Fu Panda 2. While it’s not exactly consistent with Google’s ad model (subtle and relevant) it wins a few points for creativity. And hey… What would YOU do to market this Dreamworks sequel? http://mashable.com/2011/05/11/kung-fu-panda-2-youtube/