Remember the Balloon Boy episode from 2009? Huffington Post reported that Richard Heene hasn’t given up his quest to extend his 15 minutes of fame.
Here’s the fruit of his labor: Aluminum man. So sorry I didn’t provide you with this earlier.
First- the disclaimers. I share in advertising revenue from YouTube. And I’m a content partner for Next New Networks, but not an employee or quite the size of these guys. I’m just some marketing clown with a video camera, no writing staff, but 175 million views. Big deal. My blog’s still ugly. So I’m not privileged to any…
I’ve written many times about what separates a good online-video contest from the myriad of failures. I’d like to add an important attribute that has been demonstrated recently by GoDaddy: listening and adapting. GoDaddy broke one of The Cardinal Rules of a good online-video contest by providing a meager first-place prize and even less for…
So here’s a real-time gold-standard case study of social-media monitoring and action in just hours. We’re at this 9Beaches resort in Bermuda (wifeofnalts found it via The Today Show and it’s far more casual and affordable than most places in Bermuda). I did a small video this morning on my responseofnalts channel, and was planning…
It was absolute torture to be spending 3 hours on my 1-hour commute (snow) and not having the time to parody the iPad. So many thoughts, and no time to make a video. But I took solace in finding that MidnightBlade created this brilliant parody of Hitler’s response. The Hitler parodies are not new, and…
Sam Gustin from the New York Post does another story with speculations of YouTube’s worth. Techcrunch sips the YouTube $1.5 billion kool aid. I just feel like I keep needing to air this. YouTube Rant… Then again. I’ve already lost the YouTube “goes bust” pool.
Guest blog post by Zack Scott. As your popularity on YouTube or other video sites climbs, you’ll notice that more people want to talk to you. This is something you will have to deal with, and how you deal with it can have a drastic effect on both you and your fans (or haters). For…
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This family’s story would be so much better if their last name was spelled heinie instead of heene