By Corey Kronengold, March 29th, 2007
Sorry, Yahoo!, but you are being called out on this one. In one of the worst examples of poor targeting and pre-roll abuse, I just received a :30 second pre-roll ad before a 1:22 news clip. But what makes this blog worthy is that it was an ad for Dove body wash. Worse, the clip [...]
By Corey Kronengold, March 17th, 2007
I’m currently watching Vandy vs. Washington State on the CBS Sposrtsline streaming player. Not much has changed since the last version of the player I’ve posted earlier. Same advertisers, too.
But the quality is what its all about. CBS’s doubling of their bandwidth seems to have paid off. I’m curious how many concurrent streams they’re [...]
By Corey Kronengold, March 13th, 2007
Ah, user generated media. Finally a creative example of how people can use the medium.
Thanks to “FantasticBabblings,” for demonstrating how to properly marry the medium and the message.
Too bad it is so fundamentally misguided. A generation of people who have come to expect that all content should be free.
How hard is it [...]
By Corey Kronengold, March 13th, 2007
It was bound to happen. The brush-up between Viacom and YouTube was bound to come to blows, and today it did.
Enough was apparently enough for Viacom, and they brought out the legal big dogs.
Is there anyone who didn’t see something like this coming? Rumors of Google setting aside some cash reserves for a long, drawn [...]
By Corey Kronengold, March 11th, 2007
Amen. Watching the NCAA tourney last year online was just play lousy. It was like listening to the radio, with a slide show. Just didn’t live up the expectations.
This year CBS is doing something about it. Should be an improvement, but we’ll have to wait and see.
I did get a nice chuckle out of [...]