Slept Through 2010? Catch Up with WatchMojo
Who got better? Who got better at sucking? WatchMojo helps you out… if you were under a rock all year.
CableTV’s Funeral Attended by Nobody
TechCrunch’s “2010 year in review” featured CableTV as a “loser.” It had a funeral. Nobody came. Check it out: Losers: Huzzah! Cable companies are losing more and more subs every month! Victory! Well, sort of. Sure, pay TV companies are having a hard time holding on to subscribers, but that’s only going to mean prices will…
Best Agency Holiday Card Celebrates Viral Memes
Well we did a recap on the worst corporate egreeting cards, so it’s only fair to share the winner of the 2010 WillVideoForFood Best Agency Holiday Greeting Video Award. I just made that award up, but it does come with a trophy and a piece of cheese. Courtesy of CNN I give you the Klick!…
From Our Dysfunctional Family to Yours
Happy Christmas!
What Net Neutrality Vote Means To You (No Dick Rule)
Lots of news today about Net Neutrality, and basically little changed at all. You’re still entitled to your free Internet, and you’re still entitled to whine when you start paying for more broadband. And you will. But so you sound smart in work, school or at holiday parties, let’s give you “the least you need to…
“Just Give Me a Damned Cigarette” : JibJab Goes Puppets for Year-End-Review
One of the things that gets me through the holidays is the anticipation and enjoyment of JibJab’s annual year-end song parody. When Twitter rumors about CNN’s announcing Morgan Freeman’s death this week, I called JibJab’s Voice Jim Meskimen (website/on YouTube) to see if he’d do his classic Freeman impersonation. He did in this “Morgan Freeman…
YouTube’s Viral “Year in Review”
Enjoy a collage of some of the seminal viral-video moments in 2010. I’ve already posted about what we can learn from these, but I thought you might enjoy YouTube Trend’s video montage. You can see all the videos at “TheYearInReview.” Don’t laugh at the name. There were only 11 unparked usernames. Thanks for the feedback…
What We Can Learn from Most-Viewed Videos of 2010
What can we learn from the most-viewed “viral” videos of 2010? How are they similar and different from years past? First, let’s take a look at the run-down, courtesy of YouTube and ReelSEO, here’s the list. YouTube has a new trend blog/website that’s worth bookmarking or RSS’ing: YouTube Trends. The BED INTRUDER SONG! (a news clip…
2011 Prediction 6-9 Trillion Display Ads Seen by 45 People
comScore today announced that in the third quarter of this year (3Q 2010) about 1.3 trillion Internet display advertisements were served to people in the U.S. (a 22% growth from the same period in 2009). We were too lazy to register to download the report, but not so lazy as to avoid making “wild, unfounded…
iJustine Gets Killed in Criminal Minds: Episode “Middle Man” (season 6)
I’m a huge fan of iJustine (Justine Ezarik), and we did a video a few years ago when (believe it or not) I had twice the subscribers as her. Now she’s appearing in Fast Company and on a recent episode of Criminal Minds (the episode is called “Middle Man”) so I’m exploiting it of course….