There are plenty small sites out there that sell ad space around videos they scrape from television. I'm not a fan of this piracy, but I can't help enjoying what's available… especially this clip from Sci-Fi's "Scare Tactics." Imagine you're a plumber fixing a toilet and the owner gets stranger and stranger by the minute. He's smearing lipstick and asking "do you think I'm pretty?"
You have until March 3 to enter your comedy video into the first round of YouTube’s Sketchies II. Corolla, leveraged popular YouTuber LisaNova to promote the contest (she was second place last year with this “LisaNova does George Bush” video). I spoke with LisaNova via phone for the first time on Saturday, when TheMightyThor1212 was good…
Well, I couldn't have seen this coming if I had a Deep Throat at Google… In a test, Google Video will serve ads for about 2,000 videos from 8 providers. Advertisers will select the videos on which to advertise their products through a combination of banner ads and 15-second video ads (at the end of…
The online video market is getting more crowded. Here’s another revenue-sharing model in the lines of Revver and Eefoof and Motion.tv. It’s called Flixya. I discovered it from some self-promotional comments posted on popular YouTube videos. Looks interesting, but the proof is in the pudding. I’ve asked Marquis to post his earnings to date on…
When you leave town do you have someone watch your house? And your MySpace account? Here’s a wonderfully self depricating piece called “House Sitting,” by Mo Collins (MadTV, 40 Year Old Virgin). She spoofs her own neurosis and her career, and it’s a fantastic low-budget irreverent piece. Via Revver blog.
Oh it’s so rare when someone writes an intelligent article about online video (aka viral) marketing. And it’s pretty funny when you’ve never heard of the author but she happens to work for the digital agency you employ in your day job. Anyway, here’s “Strategies for Making Video Ads Go Viral,” by Christine Beardsell (Digitas)…
I once spent a summer in NYC and I couldn't believe I had access to sushi 24/7. Each day I'd have sushi for dinner and lunch, and this went on for about 2 weeks. Then suddenly one day during lunch, I spit out my sushi into a garbage can. I couldn't eat it again for…