“YouTube’s future is being held back is the typical innovator’s dilemma, or rather, billionaire’s dilemma,” writesAshkan Karbasfrooshan is CEO of WatchMojo.com. I included some of Karbashfrooshan’s pieces in Beyond Viral, and he’s one of the authoritative writers about the online-video industry and media monetization. Indeed YouTube is but a toy kiosk in the Google “Mall…
First- the disclaimers. I share in advertising revenue from YouTube. And I’m a content partner for Next New Networks, but not an employee or quite the size of these guys. I’m just some marketing clown with a video camera, no writing staff, but 175 million views. Big deal. My blog’s still ugly. So I’m not privileged to any…
This week I officially joined Next New Networks as a content creator (not employee), and the above video is by the amazing Justin Johnson. Read the NNN blog for more, and check out Liz Shannon Miller’s NewTeeVee article on this news…This WVFF bloggedy post puts that decision into context, since the move was a non…
How many views does it take for a video to be defined as going “viral”? It’s not 1 million, and it’s not 2 million… read on. I’m a big fan of Smosh’s Teleporting Fat Guy (see original video seen more than 4 million times). So I was thrilled to see the adorable chubby guy return…
In a YouTube binge, NewTeeVee writer Liz Shannon Miller is rounding up some major online-video news: Chad Vader was aquired by Babelgum Next New Network is going fitness (Click Fitness) Revision3 has an iPhone App (just in time- I hear iPhones are gonna be big) and Michael Buckley got Lasik surgery. What next? A transplant?…