Digiday writer Saya Weissman lists Bank of America in the top-5 brand fails on Twitter, and I just had my own amusing experience with the bank. Today’s lesson for brands is simple: while it can’t hurt to integrate your customer service help desk with your social media efforts, you probably shouldn’t have customer service reps…
Fox (News Corp.) and NBC Universal said on Thursday they will launch a free online video site this summer, featuring full-length movies and television shows in a challenge to YouTube. (Source: Reuters/Yahoo News). The two companies have also enlisted Yahoo, Microsoft and TimeWarner (AOL) as distributors of the entertainment on their websites.The move underscores how…
My favorite roving reporter, Alex Delyle (TheDailyReel), reports that Variety reports that YouTube may share ad revenue… some… day…. soon. Says Variety: Content creators who upload their videos to the site will be offered the option of having short ads shown at the beginning or end, with the resulting revenues split 50-50, according to Howard…
Avid announced the grand prize winner and five runners-up from its video contest that challenged entrants to capture their passions and tell a story, via video, within 60 seconds. More than 200 people entered. Taking viewers on a cross-country road trip, Brian Sharpe, a 27 year-old independent filmmaker from Chicago, IL, won the grand prize…
A YouTube clip from a film in England of President Bush Getting Assasinated. Not real of course. Oh- let’s see if mispelling asasination or assassination helps drive views to this. Let’s hold our opinions about whether Bush should/shouldn’t be assasinated, and instead deconstruct the video: Looks like film. Raw edgy video would have been better….
NewTeeVee teased us last month about first-time director Chuck Potter (thirdcareerfilms) and his new YouTube documentary, “I Want My Three Minutes Back.” Now the film has a website with a blog, the trailer and some more information about Potter’s efforts to get the new film into film festivals. While it’s true there’s only a niche…