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You’re on the news dude!

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Got an email from Tikva today:

Jamie,
How is it going? A friend just sent me a link to this website, and you are all over it, is this really you? www.News3Online.com

Clever viral marketing campaign for livecasting/video conferencing service PalTalk, which is where all those “blog buzz” screenshots in the video are from.
Entire website is just [...]

Ad Bureau Releases Internet Video Ad Guidelines

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Interactive Advertising Bureau members are responsible for selling over 86% of online advertising in the United States, so it’s kind of notable that they recently finalized standard formats & jargon for video ads, which are still a pretty undecided frontier.

The new guidelines cover three basic forms of online video ad formats: linear ads — interruptive [...]

March online video by the (skewed) numbers

Monday, May 12th, 2008

comScore just put out their March 2008 online video report: “Number of Online Videos Viewed in the U.S. Jumps 13 Percent in March to 11.5 Billion”
YouTube clocks in at only 50.9% of unique visitors and 38% of total videos watched, which is a radically different figure than the Hitwise’s “73% market share” number. Seems Hitwise [...]

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 share [...]

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 their [...]

Week in Tech Ish: Flickr Vids, Google App Engine, Adobe Media Player+TV

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Flickr Video: totally integrated w/i the site, but limited to 90 seconds. I dig the Vimeo-style no-chrome player, and the 90 second limit seems like a good way to encourage “enhancing” photosets rather than turning Flickr into a video community.
» blog.flickr.net post
Google App Engine: the big G is competing w/ Amazon by offering its infrastructure [...]

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