I’ll get the out takes up soon. They’re much funnier than this spoof of a worker trying to get laid off for the severance. Pretty cool that my real boss agreed to helping on this. And she managed to not crack up once… even while I was eating crayons.
Warning: YouTube prank spoiler here. If you haven’t spent some time on YouTube’s homepage today, stop reading immediately. If you have been there, you might have noticed that each of the attractive thumbnails take you to the same video. Rick Astley’s supah cheesy “Never Gonna Give You Up.” You’ve been “rickrolled.” My hats off to…
In industry-shaking online video news yesterday, YouTube Art Director David Scheyd said it changed the “director logo.” The director logo is a symbol of great prestige on YouTube held only for the best of the worst. “We new it was time for significant changes at YouTube to change our flawed business model,” said Chad Hurley,…
“Dear Stupid Marketer and Your Clueless Agency” was my original title for this article in Advertising Age. Fortunately I tamed it down given the audience. But hopefully a few folks will read it and overcome the myriad of myths about online video and marketing. If I can just change one clueless agency or stupid marketer,…
Brilliant parody of SNL Shorts and Andy Samberg from Landline.tv (who I found via barely political). It’s been out for three months, but I just discovered it. The weekly schedule is hysterical and it hooked me at “I’m not sure if it’s effort, or…”
The true sign of a viral video star is when viewers simply can’t wait for the next episode. I’ve been watching Jorg’s two clips (the original, the E Holywood Story, and the dance contest) over and over and over. I want more. Jorg’s creator is BrettNovak.com. His first video got more than 300K views on…
I’ll bet you thought this would be a post about Apple’s Facetime (glorified video-conferencing via a wireless network but not carrier). Maybe you expected people to be Facetiming via the DVD players in their car. Oh contrair. You get a free mini-MBA lecture in high-tech marketing with a few topical references. If you’re an MBA…
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That had a Klingeresque Mash-like feel to it with an Office Space vibe. Nice job.
That guy who allowed his tie to go in the shredder was a brave soul. He could have died!
Thanks- someone did suggest I wear a Klinger dress, but I thought that might come back to haunt me.
I tested the tie shredder bit before doing it, and assured him that there’s no “pull” effect. At any point, you can pull the tie out. He had to fake like it was bringing him into the shredder, in fact. The minute he sat up it’s released. It was his idea to walk by with the mini tie in a later segment.