Madison Ave Blues

Good enough for Stephanie Clifford at the NY Times (@stephcliff), good enough for us! Enjoy the parody, Madison Ave Blues, while I tweet away at the OMMA Publish conference. They should play this video on the screen between panels.

Nalts Loves Our Tweets

I had the pleasure of meeting Kevin Nalty, aka Nalts, of WillVideoForFood.com, one of my favorite blogs about online video. And as it turned out, he likes us too!

Over a post conference drink, he shared his blog post, declaring me the winner of the “best Tweets from the OMMA Video conference” award. Woohoo!!

Great [...]

Lack of Online Video Ad Revenue is My Fault

Thanks for the tongue-in-cheek (I hope) comments from Tom Cunniff, regarding my question to the OMMA Video panel this afternoon about online ad revenue.

I offered the panel the proverbial bat to hit any part of the video ecosystem over the head with, to point the finger, to place blame for the lack of online [...]

Where’s the Live Streaming from Iran?

That protests in Iran following last week’s disputed election prompted the State Department to reach out to Twitter to keep the lines of communication open is a no small endorsement of the medium’s power, slights about monetization be damned.

An ongoing cyberbattle is being waged by Iranian hackers. The Iran Republic News Agency website is currently [...]

OMMA Video: Morning Review

Greetings from the OMMA Video conference. Its been an interesting – and sometimes insightful – morning, so here’s a few takeaways so far. Follow @ckronengold on twitter for my live updates and pithy commentary.

The keynote, Google’s Eileen Naughton, was underwhelming. Lots of stats and broad generalizations. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Did you [...]