An ad for Suboxone (a pharmaceutical medication that helps people get over opoid addictions) appeared on my YouTube video called “Ten Fewer Holiday Things to Stress Over This.” Targeting or luck? Why do I have a feeling this blog post is going to attract a lot of spam for Percocet and Oxycontin?
Stephen King (not THAT Stephen King, but the one from the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto) spoke yesterday at my day job. He discussed the difference between legacy television viewing ("leaning back") and online video viewing ("leaning forward"). Obviously our attention span is different for each task- 30 minutes to hours for "leaning…
If it’s one thing that puzzles me — maybe even annoys me sometimes — it’s the proliferation of videos that are simply video screen captures of a video games with added dialogue or music. They’re hard to ignore, though, and often dominate YouTube’s “most watched” and “best rated” videos. But along comes this masterpiece and…
Fresh new data about online-video views, sharing and viewers! The source is YouTube, Next New Networks and Frank N. Magid & Associates (see press release and blog), and the data was collected between May 18 and June 4, 2010. While it’s not super fresh, it’s filling a void in the past year. Two important take-aways:…
[NOTE- THIS POST IS OLD. FOR THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THE BOOK, SEE THIS POST] On Friday I’m releasing a free eBook titled “How to Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent.” I won’t make any money for each copy downloaded, but I’ll make it up in volume. Below is a draft that still…
A colleague of mine has developed a cool site (Tasty Apps) that hosts low-cost widgets and software for Macs. I love this new “FLVR” tool because it’s horrendously painful to otherwise download videos from YouTube. For instance- I received 60 video responses to my “Save the Junk” video. I wanted to compile the best videos into…
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Too funny, but you know, your next ad will be about child labor laws.
Mark my words.
Refresh. 🙂
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:
http://media.revver.com/broadcast/19890/video.mov/209