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YouTube Prankster, Edbassmaster, Debuts Television Show
YouTube comedian and prankster, Ed Bassmaster, is debuting his new TV show on CMT this week.
Online Video is Irrelevant
The headline is a quote by Mark Cuban, who is very rich. The full quote, as captured by Adam Kleinberg in last week’s Videonomics event in Dallas Cowboys stadium, is: “Online video is irrelevant. The top videos most days on YouTube get 250-750k views. If you got that kind of traffic on TV, you’d be…
Hiding Gibberish Comments on YouTube
You can hide YouTube comments now with Google Chrome (see article on CNet). Writes Matt Elliott: Comments on YouTube are largely gibberish, mean-spirited, or profane. A Chrome extension lets you set a variety of options for YouTube videos, including hiding comments. Really? Gibberish? That’s weird. All the comments I get on this blog (and my…
Support Online Video: Spread Rhett & Link
Peoples of online video: we are entering the 5th or 6th year of the online-video, but we’ve seen precious few online-video peeps move to television. Sure there was LisaNova and Fred’s movie. And there have been a few shows that failed, and a few more in the works (Annoying Orange) But this we know. Most…
Weekly Prank Channel (pitch)
This is a rare post, and I’m not sure I should share this since someone may steal the idea. But I established this blog to “open source” what I’m learning as the only career marketer who is a prolific YouTube presence. Plus I think the idea is less valuable than the crafty execution. Here’s my…
Weirdest CES Photos
Our WillVideoForFood.com anonymous “roving photographer” sent us some of the weirdest photos from CES (Consumer Electronic Show). Enjoy…
“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…
Face Fail on Live German TV: “Jumping Stilts” Accident
Remember the jumping stilts (kangaroo stilts) you may have discovered on YouTube around 2007 (see SMPFilms video)? It’s probably not a good idea to use them to jump over the moving car your dad is driving. Here’s one for the Darwin Awards, Failblog, and “what did you think would happen?” file. Below is a video…
Jake & Amir (CollegeHumor) Make Entertainment Weekly Cover
Congratulations to Jake & Amir for the cover photo on Entertainment Weekly.
Online-Video: One-Man-Band to Brat Pack
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…