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The Marketeter’s Cheat Sheet to Viral Video

ByNalts

You’re running a brand that is trying to “dip your toe” into social media and online video, and you’re facing some important questions: Is my brand right for this? How can I experiment without ending up as a “case study” failure? Can I convince my company that we should do this? What are my options…

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Politics and Viral: McCain and Obama Music Video Parodies

ByNalts

This is the year where viral video will, no doubt, shape the election. And while this blog cannot possibly keep up on the political satire that’s overtaking YouTube, this one felt worth a mention. Barack Obama’s speech inspired this music video featuring Black Eyed Peas. It’s called “Yes We Can.” That spawned Election08 (comedians in…

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YouTube as Marketing Channel: Live With Bloomberg

ByNalts

Marketing Consultant Toby Bloomberg (Marketing Diva Blog) is hosting a radio/podcast show on the topic of YouTube as a marketing channel. It’s live tomorrow night (Tuesday, 6:30 PM EST). I’ll be a guest along with Ben Relles, creator of the wildly viral “I Got a Crush on Obama” and Barely Political. Here are the details:…

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The Devil is in the Device: How We’ll Consume Online-Video Via BoobTube in 2008

ByNalts

I’m going out on a limb here, but I predict that independent web-to-tv boxes will be (albiet perhaps temporary) an inevitable part of the pending collision between our television sets and Internet. We’re past that debate about whether TV or online-video will prevail. There will be a hybrid model, and quite frankly I can’t wait…

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Bubble Bursting for Video Creators Hoping to Monetize Content?

ByNalts

Online-video creators are sobering up after an intoxicated 2007, as they realize that the “road to riches” via online video is fraught with challenges. Business Week proclaimed “amateur video hour” as over in December. Crackle and other sites migrated from UGC (user-generated content) some time ago. And here are some quite recent data points that,…

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Ad Blindness and Online Video

ByNalts

The more we surf online video the more savvy we become about content versus advertising. A marketer recently told me he was pleased by the impressions he got from a YouTube homepage advertising buy, but…” I finished his sentence for him.. “your featured video didn’t get a lot of views.” I told him we’ve been…

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Online Video Contest for HomeCamera.com

ByNalts

The nice thing about moderately promoted online-video contest is that your odds are really good. HomeCamera.com (a free home surveillance system) asked if I’d do a sponsored video. I offered instead to promote a contest if they’d give out some of the D-Link wireless cameras (see image below) that are being sold with HomeCamera preconfigured….

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Free Online Monitoring Via YouTube

ByNalts

Marketers debate whether they should engage in online video, but there’s simply no excuse for not paying attention to what’s being said about your brand. There are good services that can do comprehensive audits (such as Buzzmetrics). But here’s the poor-man’s solution… Subscribe to your brand’s name on YouTube. If you’re Coke and you’re not…

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OMG a Good Article About Viral Video Marketing?

ByNalts

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)…