So here’s the Easter “Dance Your Shoes Off” performed by 2,000 people from the Second Baptist Church in Texas. And here’s the “Easter Bunny Hates You.” Which one’s better? I find it more fun if you watch this video to another song. For instance, if you click here, play this Bruno Mars “Lazy” song in…
The Huffington Post shows off the best viral videos by weekly running a YouTube Trends report and turning it into journalism… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/23/watch-top-youtube-videos_n_852890.html Now we just need a YouTube amateur vlogger channel that summarizes the week’s most popular Huffington Post articles. And *boom* the Aol Video strategy is born. P.S. Post your worst videos below. It’s…
Why has America’s Funniest Videos (AFV) not died in 20 years even despite the age of “instant gratification via YouTube”? How does AFV manage the logistics of culling through massive amounts of user-generated clips? How many clips does AFV producer Vin Di Bona own? Why has no other show or format “cracked the code” of…
Remember that video curation was supposed to be all the rage last year and 2011? I’m still not seeing it get enough attention, but that will change as online-video consumption moves from desktop to simpler devices: mobile and remote controls. Why? Sans keyboard, it’s just not as easy to self-select videos, so we’ll need simpler…
As Hannibal used to say on A-Team, “I love it when a plan comes together.” One of the most rewarding things about participating in online-video campaigns for big brands or network shows is seeing these launch simultaneously with television and print advertisements. We call it “integrated marketing,” and it’s easy in concept and difficult but wonderful in…
Here’s the “baby monkey” riding backwards on a pig song on YouTube… the one for which you’ve searched your whole life. You can buy “monkey on pig” song on iTunes too, and I did so just to support the singer (ParryGripp). Note that he’s not riding on a dog, which might have been your impression…
Who’s the YouTube CEO? Not Chad Hurley anymore. It’s Salar Kamangar. Let’s introduce the YouTube community to Salar Kamanagar, and get him to Vidcon2011 (the YouTube version of South By Southwest spawned by Hank/John Green and the Nerdfighters). This article gives you some interesting cultural nuances about Google and YouTube which are rare in print….
Okay let’s just get this out. I’m a big Google fan, user, and customer. I’m also making non-trivial income from Google’s YouTube Partner program (through ad sharing on my Nalts videos seen 200 million gazillian times). So I really hesitate commending the company in a post headline. It looks I’m friggin’ shilling incognito and I…
What was the best season of SNL you can recall? Wait let me ask it a different way: which of these years did you like best and why: the Belushi years Eddie Murphy Dana Carvey Chris Farley Tina Fey And why is it that 85% of the best potential comedy fail one one singular account?…
Remember Mark Day? Showing he still cares, he’s jumped on the Double Dream Hands wave with a cat. It’s a rather perfect formula, and an irresistibly inviting thumbnail even before I knew it was Mark’s cat. Cats sell, kids. Forget what your marketing teachers ever told you about cows. To recap the “Double Dream Hands”…