Update on 10/19/12: Apparently YouTube is counting raw minutes not percent of video as I have indicated. According to this source a video will rank more highly based on total minutes viewed — even above a video with more views that were shorter. YouTube, the second largest search engine, is increasingly following the “Google” approach…
If you post a comment with a URL it get lodged in comment pergatory. Everyonce in a while I remember about this area, and I free the comments to heaven. In this case, this comment from September was worthy of a post. Writes ZackScott: “Interesting story… I’m a deputy at TomGreen.com which means I get…
CCC. That’s what I call ’em. Others say “consumer generated media,” but open-source ads are a subset of CGM. So here’s Yahoo’s collection of volunteer ads. The grand prize is… um… there’s isn’t a prize. But you’ll win the hearts of Yahoo. So go for it. Best of all, you can send yourself a reminder…
Saddleback leather founder Dave Munson is using YouTube to teach counterfeiters how to knock off his bags. The video is instructional, persuasive, sarcastic and funny. By showing how counterfeiters do and can save money (using lower quality leather, cheap stitching, inferior metal buckles), Saddleback manages to fortify its own high price point. The clip also…
My damned “expedited” Chumby is stuck in Anchorage (see UPS). For four days. You Chumby folks will get some good videos out of this if you send a couple extra ones. Stupid Anchorage. Her reply came from Anchorage, Alaska. It’s been over two years now my old friend. I took time out to write to…
I’ve been getting some comments disparaging Revver (the first online video site that paid video creators). That same commenter was claiming Eefoof was making him rich. I realized that I didn’t give Eefoof enough of a chance on my first glance… it just didn’t seem serious. So I’ve done more homework: User Interface: Eefoof is…
Red Herring article on how to make money on your videos