There has been lots of recent news and opinions about two “video-on-demand” alternatives for those of us looking beyond cable television or those cute round things you call DVDs. In one corner, Netflix’s ubiquity with its “all you can eat” buffet of 10K movies for about $10 a month. In the other corner, Amazon is offering “Prime”…
Heh, heh (in Beavis & Butthead impersonation). A “Featured Video Fail.” It won’t soon make 4Chan, but it made us giggle. It won’t come as surprise to you WVFF loyalists that I’m not a big fan of prerolls. Sure only about 16% of us skip them, but my ADHD “instant gratification” tendency, like maybe yours,…
Okay I forgot I had a blog again. The past two weeks have included trips to (in sequence) Virginia, Minneapolis, NYC, Washington, D.C. and NYC again. Enough about me. Let’s focus on YouTube today, since it’s turned 6 (that’s a near-death 94 years in TechCrunch years). If you missed the comment stream on my last…
Send someone you love this cheap-ass Valentine’s video. It’s packed with bad poetry, cheesy stock footage, and a fat bloke running with horses. At least it’s classier than the greeting card Tiger Mother’s daughter sent to her. Happy Valentine’s Day from WillVideoForFood.
Several trends are causing many independent “YouTube Creators” to sign with “new establishment” (web studios) such as Makers Studios (good luck finding its website), Next New Networks, The Station, Howcast and Machinima. Many early web studios were formed to create and promote custom shows for wide distribution. But the high investment ($1-$5K per edited minute)…
On a visit to Smosh.com, I noticed the fellas had a little widget that recognized me as Nalts and had a subscribe button. So I snatched the HTML iFrame thingy, and managed to insert it as a wordpress widget. iFrames usually make my blog puke, but they’re working okay. Here’s the code: <p><iframe src=”http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=nalts” style=”overflow:…
RIPFilms with the ScarySnowman series. Very funny reactions. At the risk of appearing unintentionally racist, I’d observe that African Americans seem far more prepared to kick ass on pranks like these. For further evidence, observe the well-dressed midget in the suitcase at the bus stop (can’t seem to find it), or the Halloween prank (where…
Back in October 2010 I made my debut on Daneboe’s Annoying Orange channel as “KNIFE.” Daneboe just got engaged according to his Facebook account… so congratulate him! Today I’m back in the adorable fruit’s Valentine’s Day special. iJustine plays Passion Fruit, and I play the grape-murdering knife. I feel like a wine maker. Advance to…
You don’t have to like BP or its Deepwater Horizon handling to be impressed with the way it’s using YouTube. Let me demonstrate. If you search YouTube for “BP parody” you see the following image. Below the ads for BP’s YouTube channel and Old Spice (in yellow), the first user-generated video is a hysterical UCBComedy…
I’m a capitalist. There I said it. I like free, but I respect fee-based services for valuable solutions. Innovators should get paid, and heavy users should open their wallets. There are two ways to transition between free and paid: fair and uncool. Let’s examine two models for each, and explain why Ning (who failed at…