Well it looks like Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone has a new vehicle for choosing talent for his many television networks. YouTube today announced that it will hold the first YouTube Video Awards to recognize the best-user created videos of 2006. The awards will be handed out in seven categories: most creative, most inspirational, best series,…
Who is Ray William Johnson, and why might YouTube need to change its name to RayWilliamJohnsonTube.com? How is YouTube, perhaps, moving the wrong way along the longtail, providing typical viewers (grazers not bingers) with an increasingly homogeneous experience? If you’re not familiar with the term “longtail,” it was popularized by Chris Anderson (Wired) in 2004….
Dan Meth produced “Internet People,” an incredibly satisfying recap of some of the finest moments in online video. From Numa Numa to “Dick in a Box,” and all of the little moments in between. Misses a few highlights (like Pearl and Nalts) but it’s pretty comprehensive and entertaining. If you’ve come late to the online-video…
Like lemmings to the sea, everyone’s throttling YouTube with their stuff in hope of fame. Want a little secret? It’s hard as hell to breakout on YouTube. If you want quantity of views, you’re much better off in Google Video, Yahoo Video and some of the third-tier sites. Why? It’s the best kept viral…
I tried Second Life last weekend, and was so perplexed I decided to spoof it in this video called “Drunk Naked Flying in Second Life.” The video viralinated (became a top video in the “Gadget and Games” section), and I started receiving dozens of friend invites from people (I’m named “Nalts Writer” on Second Life but…
Nice clip featuring “internet superstar” Charlene Li (Forrester) ruminating about online video. (Source: BeefTV via My thoughts: I can’t believe she’s so easy on YouTube. Yes they have an audience but can they commoditize that? She seems surprisingly optimistic. Not sure advertisers need video ads to promote on video sites. I’m doing my own experiment…
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Too funny, but you know, your next ad will be about child labor laws.
Mark my words.
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Call Bob Dole. He’s got a strong lead on pharaceucticals. Apparently.
True. True.
I can’t imagine that there would be so much interest in such a flaccid subject. I mean, who wants to spend their time reading about guys with not enough lead in their pencil? Not me. Some other pharmacuetical subject, maybe. Like incontinence. Yeah. Explosive Bowel Syndrome. Now there’s a volatile subject:
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