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Lonelygirl15′s acting career vs. BloodCell

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

You’ll recall Lonelygirl15 was killed off after the first “season” after actress Jessica Rose moved on to better and brighter things. But this here BloodCell preview is doing 100k views since it was posted two weeks ago, no slouch for a web drama. Will it be better than Quarter Life? worstpreviews.com sez: Jessica Lee Rose, [...]

Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

ReadWriteWeb/Hitwise sez: Report: YouTube Dominates Video More than Google Dominates Search Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 – YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market [...]

Magibon is fake, TINA is fake, Internet video a hoax

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Hot on the tail of suspicion about Tinaecmusic come accusations against gang-sign-waving, eyelash-batting mystery azn Magibon. There’s no real proof, of course — this is the internet. The controversy heated up when an obsessed fan created magibon.com, which suggested it was all a viral marketing campaign for a new Japanese horror film. Now debunked, and [...]

There’s no money in Internet video

Monday, April 14th, 2008

YouTube series Break A Leg weighs in on trying to make a living in the world of straight-to-YouTube: With over 2 million views on YouTube, we’ve received roughly $1,600 from their Partner Program. We also over half a million views at YouTube competitor Blip.tv, worth a whopping $100. Finally another competitor MetaCafe featured us on [...]

Get famo and be on TV with Paris Hilton

Friday, April 11th, 2008

MTV is 5 days into parisbff.com, where you, yes you, can fight to become BFF-4-LIFE w/ Paris Hilton by amassing votes… lots of votes. Create a site profile and accumulate votes. The more popular you are the greater your chance of getting on the show! Pretty smart — pre-selling viewers for an American Idol-style run-off. [...]

A peek inside YouTube’s copyright identification system

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

yawn2000 posted a rickroll vid… —— Forwarded Message From: Copyright Notice Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:10:52 -0700 (PDT) To: [redacted] Subject: New Video Identification Match Dear Member: This is to notify you that your video sisters kissing (twins) has been as containing content that may be owned by someone else. The material identified in [...]

How to Buy YouTube Views

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Evan Roth ran an experiment during class last semester: how many hits will $150 buy you? The rough data’s in: about 57k uniques on the page =~ about 44k views on the embedded YouTube video. The video in question being a screencast of the purchase, of course. More info: This was an experiment we did [...]

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