Well after the Comcast Sleeping video and the AOL cancellation video, I thought I’d give this a go. I needed to cancel Comcast anyway… so I tried to see if I could provoke this rep. No such luck, but I had fun anyway.
I find it very interesting that Comcast (and probably other companies with call centers) are making representatives aware of the latest online videos. As you’ll see in this 2-minute piece, this guy knew about both of the videos I mention above.
Dear regular WillVideoForFood readers: permit me to speak directly to the media in this post. Read this if you wish, but most of it’s not new to you. My friends in media. You’re under deadline. You want to do a story about online video. Your instincts tell you to package another human interest story about…
You’ve no doubt seen this already, but I feel the need to harass BP this afternoon… if only to ensure that BestBuy and GeekSquad isn’t singled out. I give you the BP coffee spill parody, one of the most viral videos of the week. It’s by the funny folks from UCB comedy… that improv theater…
“With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory,” Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the “world’s first anti-stupidity pill.”
Remember the short story “The Lottery”? The town would hold a lottery and the “winner” would get stoned to death. That’s how I think about online-video comments. They’re usually demoralizing. Then suddenly I posted a video that almost never made it online. It’s me and my son sharpening pencils. Yahoo featured it on its homepage,…
TubeMogul’s blog did a nice summary of the online-video sites it feeds, and provides user feedback about the site and monetization status (whether you can make money on the sites). You can also read the “Zagat’s”-like report as a PDF. Thanks to Mark from TubeMogul for bringing this to our attention.
DeathWish808 ripped my video and passed it as his own on Break.com. Now “Pennies for the Tollbooth Driver” has 400,000 views on the homepage. Am I ticked or flattered?
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Are you just trying to make yourself famous guy? Come on .. there is better things you can be doing than trying to cause trouble for others.
Get a life!
Make myself famous? No… I was trying to make a point about consumer empowerment (he said, sarcastically).
Consumerist picked it up:
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/top/comcast-is-nice-frustrating-man-185637.php