Okay. This is a video blog. But may I direct you to HairofNalts (“Insider’s Blog on Hairloss”) to how a few guys used live video to break the stigma of hair loss and treatment? Recovery is going well, and the plane back to Philly (from Florida) is boarding…
Nalts, a most-viewed YouTube comedian, will be having a hair transplant at Bauman Medical in Boca Raton, Florida. To watch it live: Alan (fallofautumndistro) will be MCing a 30-minute session from 12:30-1:00 EST at this blogv.com location. Updates, if anything changes, available on Nalts’ Twitter. To learn more about the journey, see HairofNalts.com.
What a great way to promote the new Madden video game. Madden crushes the videos adjacent to his video ad. Not the first use of an ad interacting with surrounding content, but a brilliant application. Hats off to the agency. Dare you identify yourself?
This week I saw my first YouTube heat map (which shows yellow and red around the places eyes typically go). YouTube has one of these eye-measurement devices in its office, and I really wanted to try it… but was afraid they’d catch my eyes looking at the wrong thumbnails… if you know what I mean….
The Nerdfighters have spoken. We need our pioneers, our forefathers, our world desuckers… on Oprah. It’s a story beyond stories. Two brothers uniting a world via online video. It’s the highest altruistic use of social media. They’re fascinating. They draw, sing, write, perform, entertain. They’re the vlog brothers. And I’ve never seen so many comments…
New York Fries (via agency zig, which has the best agency website I’ve seen) has found a new pitch man in Gary Coleman (Different Strokes, and most recently seen in the National Inquirer falling asleep as a call-center employee). It’s so bad it’s good again! A Facebook app will give you your fortune predicted by…
You know who you should have on your show, Oprah? Hank and John of Vlogbrothers, who became popular when they communicated for a year strictly through alternating “video blogs” (vlogs). Here’s the pitch, Oprah producer (or someone who knows them and will forward this on). The two guys have a loyal following of “Nerdfighters” who…
It’s official. I’m getting a hair transplant on Monday, Aug. 17 with one of the leading physicians in the field! If you’d like to watch part of it live, Alan (fallofautumndistro) will be MCing a 30-minute session from 12:30-1:00 at this blogv.com location. I’m writing my book about online-video marketing (likely publishing with Wiley) and…
“Kevin just does a great job of bringing together the advertising perspective and creator perspective of social media and online video,” says Daisy Whitney, Queen of Online Video, in reference to this blog. Whitney is now working with iMediaConnection, which was news to me during this week’s “This Week in Media“ (I’m one of two…
Would you trust your corporate or personal brand to strangers via UGC (user generated content)? I don’t mean the “conversations,” but the actual logo of the brand. Well I did, and it paid off! I made a video and tweeted last month inviting people to submit NaltsConsulting logos (offered a $100 prize for the winner),…