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YouTube Rival Has Killer App (Advertising Age)

ByNalts

Advertising Age writer Beth Snyder Bulik called Revver.com a TouTube rival with an model that’s a “kill app.” She describes the $30K profit Steven Voltz and Fritz Grobe made through their infamous “Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment.” Revver advertisers include Microsoft, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and American Apparel. Larger content creators are contributing to…

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Turn Your HDTV Into a Computer: Online Video Without Restraints

ByNalts

(See 4/13 update below and learn the secret to connecting your Wireless keyboard to an Acer, which you won’t find after an hour on Windows help). You loyal WVFF readers will know that I’ve been predicting the “killer web-to-television online video viewing” device for several years (here’s me wishing back in January 2007 and here’s…

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Best and Worst Site for Getting Your Videos Seen Fast

ByNalts

In my unscientific study I have identified the best and worst site for getting videos viewed quickly. This is based on my own experiments as well as feedback from some of you that have found this to be true as well. Best site for getting views quickly: AOL Uncut (the consumer-generated portion of AOL). Example-…

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Joost: Television and Online-Video Collide

ByNalts

Many years ago, I said the word “Google” to my wife. I said, “remember that name because it’s going to be big.” I’m having the same feeling about Joost. I’ve been meaning to post on Joost since I read this article about the company in Wired magazine. The foudners created Kazaa and Skype, and announced…

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Ketchup Contest

ByNalts

What do you do when you hold a ketchup contest and about half of the entries are from one guy? Here’s Heinz’s YouTube site, and here’s the gratuitous contest site the agency presumably convinced the brand to build (equiped with auto-rolling video- ick). Still, it’s a good brand for a contest, isn’t it? Who can’t have…

4 Comments

  1. You are SO funny, Kevin! I don’t want my 2 minutes back. Look out zefrank, a new genre has emerged: Commute Video. I predict it will replace Commentary Video. It’s got wheels.

  2. On the YouTube post I’ve got some guy berating me about how irresponsible to video tape and drive. Um- I was destroying federal currency, lighting a fire in a moving auto, and berating the very channel that I was using to berate it. And DRIVING while videotaping was the irresponsible thing?

    I shouldn’t have named it YouTube Rant. There are about a million videos with that same name…

  4. Dude, you need some audio books to listen to. Even after a 45 minute commute to work (each way, each day), I STILL don’t get that loopy. Maybe your exhaust is leaking into the cabin?

    But the point is valid. Don’t they always say “buy low, sell high.” I think he’s high for not selling.

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