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…
“Who Are Today’s YouTube Stars?” is a recent story title from The Washington Post. Hayley Tsukayama also wrote a Post article about minorities reaching more individuals than popular television shows: …Almost most each of (Kevin Wu’s comedy) shows command at least 2 million views — rivaling the nightly TV audiences of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert….
Note the name of this online-video preroll ad on YouTube. “Droid Razr Maxx by Motorola- TV Commercial.” It’s like saying: “Not only are we too lazy to tweak this ad for this medium, we’re just going to call it a TV ad. So suck it, YouTuber.”
YouTube, once extending “partnership” status to select video creators, announced this week that it would invite anyone to become a YouTube Partner — as long as they own a computer and have a pulse. Animals are not excluded. Here’s the news as announced in the YouTube Partner blog: Whether you’re a novice or a mogul,…
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen may be hoping to do for digital magazines what they did for online video. According to Fusible, the duo have launched Zeen, and you can reserve your username for this cryptic new offering that may allow users to create and share custom magazine currations. Zeen announced on April…
Yes, Virginia. You can still go viral… if you have an original idea and push production to a new level. It also helps to pay tribute to a popular video game. Here’s a video homage to Skyrim Elder Scrolls (a video game), an epic video that’s been seen more than a million times in the past…
Sophie Roessler’s “Am I Pretty or Ugly” video caught some media attention and a quarter of a million views. So what did the tween do? Like anyone else, she pretended to be a 21-year-old artist who knows all about the “struggles a girl transitioning into womanhood must go through. Roessler claimed the video “acted as…
Need a boot camp on YouTube marketing? Too lazy to read a whole book? Here’s a four-part series featuring Greg Jarboe, author of “YouTube Marketing: an Hour a Day“
comScore reports that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 40 billion videos of online video content in January. YouTube ranks first with 152 million views, and the rest of the pack (Sony’s VEVO, Yahoo, Viacom, Facebook) attracted about 45 to 52 million viewers (about one third of the Google-owned leader). Some interesting statistics from…
Look out “I Are Cute Kitten.” There’s a new cat in town, and she says No No No No. And according to research it’s the funniest video out there. Google is trying to create an algorithm that ranks a video in terms of humor/comedy. Here’s an article about the subject, and here’s a BBC World…