YouTube Sketchies (and Stupid Thumbnail Ad by Dove)
You have until March 3 to enter your comedy video into the first round of YouTube’s Sketchies II. Corolla, leveraged popular YouTuber LisaNova to promote the contest (she was second place last year with this “LisaNova does George Bush” video).
I spoke with LisaNova via phone for the first time on Saturday, when TheMightyThor1212 was good enough to put her on the line while at the YouTube San Francisco gathering.
Here’s a recap (wish I had videotaped it since it doesn’t quite translate as a manuscript):
Nalts: Hey, Lisa- Lisa: Hey
- Nalts: Are you getting bombarded?
- Lisa: What?
- Nalts: I’m a big fan. I liked your recent video about the comedy contest.
- Lisa: Which one?
- Nalts: You know- the one on the beanbag. With your face on the homepage.
- Lisa: Oh- the Sketchies.
- Nalts: Yeah. Will you do the BubbleGumTreeShow? (a show featuring viral creators, like Mark Day, who will perhaps be juding the Sketchies?).
- Lisa: Sure. Just send me the information.
- Nalts: Kay. Have fun.
- Lisa: Some kids is asking me to autograph their shirt.
- Nalts: Go make their day. Nice speaking with you.
- Lisa: Nice speaking with you too, Renetto.
Too bad I don’t have a screen grab of the YouTube homepage when it featured LisaNova’s video. It was framed so the ridiculously huge gray play button doesn’t obscure LisaNova’s face. Unlike the image here by Dove.
Honestly. Who lets an ad like this go live?
Just before I posted this, I hit refresh and found this version. Now instead of featuring the Dove host, they’ve got an image from the winning entry (by Celeste Wouden) of the Dove Cream Oil Body Wash advertisement contest.
Hmmm. Two-star rating with the last 4 being the lowest possible. Hmmm. Either the YouTube audience doesn’t care for this video or some of the losers are launching an attack on this video.
Too bad about the thumbnails. You know, Dove, this gal isn’t going to drive nearly as many clicks as a woman with a slender neck and face shaped like a play button.
Boy I am so excited. I can’t wait to see that bubble gum tree episode. Please let us know the date so I can mark it on my calendar. Then I’ll start counting down the days til it arrives. I won’t be able to sleep the night before. It’ll be like the second coming.
If you really want to interview someone interesting you should do that woman AstridVonAij who was in the last affirmation girl video (at least the last one I saw). She totally kicked lisa’s ass.
Ha. Great transcript of your LisaNova interview…Renetto! Too funny.
This is what happens when marketers take TV assumptions into online video. There’s no “play” button in the middle of a TV screen.
i have other footage of you talking to lisa it appears in one of my videos already uploaded, did you wat it? let me know. just to be clear there are two clips of you talkingto lisa, the first one when she surprisingly showed up and the second when Mast handed her the phone.