A man spills his coffee. A woman gets angry. Using telekinetic power, she sends him flying upward against a wall. Then she sends coffee tables sliding away with the wave of her hand. Finally she screams, and pictures fly off the wall and books fly to the ground. I present to you the “Telekinetic Coffee…
YouTube just released 150 free music tracks that you can download and use royalty-free in your videos. Unlike the existing150,000 audio tracks that video producers can use as background music for their videos, these new tracks can be downloaded or remixed. This is a nice alternative to the free, royalty-free music Kevin McLeod has offered…
In case you share my obsession with “My Singing Monsters,” you’ll need a breeding guide to get the advanced monsters. Download the images below to your phone so they’re easy to reference. And friend me: 2846120DC – or visit me on YouTube! Real quickly- if you happen to be looking for a great entry-level digital…
I love small businesses (I got my MBA in entrepreneurship). I want them to succeed in online-video marketing because it’s a guerilla marketer’s dream channel. That said, small businesses make lousy clients. That’s part of why I wrote Beyond Viral, and the chief reason I wrote the REELSEO Online Video 101 for Small Business (it’s…
Looking for some new stats on YouTube and Advertising? Here’s a roundup thanks to eMarketer, Credit Suisse, Mashable and an infographic from MDG Advertising. Some highlights: US digital video ad spending will nearly double in only four years, climbing from $4.14 billion this year to $8.04 billion in 2016. The CPM for midtier sites and…
Variety reports that YouTube’s most popular comedy duo, Smosh, may be making its way to television. The YouTube veterans have hit 10 million subscribers, placing them as the #1 subscribed YouTube channels. Writes Variety: Alloy Digital, the company behind the top-ranked YouTube channel, is in talks with multiple cable networks about finding a second home…
Online video is growing faster than any other type of consumer service offering, and by 2017 will be more popular than Facebook, Twitter and Co, according to Cisco’s new Visual Networking Index forecast and this Gigaom article. The forecast is based primarily on data use. “Bandwidth points to social networking as the world’s most popular type…
A very recent AdWeek article (YouTube Stars Represent Massive Media Shift) alerted me to an oped piece by Hank Green (Vlogbrothers, VidCon, etc.). It’s titled “Lessons Learned From YouTube’s $300 Million Hole.” Hank observes the success rate of the YouTube creator grants, and how most of the channels failed. Go read it. What do you think?…
Wow I’ve let my blog go dark. It’s like a serial killer’s basement.
As you’ve no doubt heard, the new YouTube channel design is available for us unwashed masses. You shall like it, so proclaims some YouTube luminaries in this promotional video. So how do you activate the new “YouTube One Channel” and customize it? First you need to activate the new channel. Visit YouTube One’s overview page (which…