By Ben Homer, July 30th, 2009
The YouTube Biz Blog today has a post boasting of the rev gen potential of YouTube using the JK Wedding Video which has received so much attention over the past week, as a case in point.
YouTube has placed “click-to-buy” overlays on the video which is to the music of Chris Brown’s Forver. YouTube claims that [...]
By Ben Homer, July 30th, 2009
Online video startup Veodia recently launched ScreenJelly, a really useful, simple application for screen capture. Developed on the heels of recently acquired ScreenToaster the java app allows anyone to create a 3-minute video of their desktop and the computers built in mic or a DV audio source.
Like many recent Twitter apps all that is required [...]
By Ben Homer, July 30th, 2009
On a daily basis I see mistakes being made with live streaming video. Having worked in this space for about four years now (considering Live Flash only came around in 2007 it’s a while in this space) I figured it’s worth putting forth some best practices. So here is the first in what may be [...]
By Ben Homer, July 28th, 2009
Pre-roll isn’t so bad, but a 5 second pre-roll coupled with lower third overlays is tops according to an MTV study.
At the July New York Video 2.0 meetup last night, MTV Digital Fusion’s Jason Witt presented the findings of a study done by MTV in partnership with InsightExpress and ad-serving partner Panache across five [...]
By Ben Homer, July 24th, 2009
Back before Mike Rowe was on Dirty Jobs (and in Ford commercials, seriously, what’s with the Ford commercials?), he was working at QVC. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Enjoy. (h/t Mark & eGuiders.)
Above: Mike Rowe on QVC
In other viral videos this week, we can’t not point to the clip [...]
