July 2008
9 posts
DIY Gary Vaynerchuk E-Mail Filter
Have you ever emailed Gary Vaynerchuk? We exchange a fair amount of emails and every time I email him, I get this auto-responder back:
Hey, here’s a link that will explain everything!
http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-inbox
Thank you Gary Vaynerchuk
It turns out that link has never explained anything and I asked him to remove me from his diss-list, but I just kept getting them. So...
Dr. Horrible - Hollywood's First Title?
In giving an overview of festivities last week at the San Diego Comic-con, Joshua Cohen over at Tilzy.TV pointed out the good news that Dr. Horrible has scheduled a sequel. Still trying to get to the bottom of the history of the people behind this (I’m kinda out of the loop here because this is coming out of a Hollywood traditon), I’ve found most people know Josh Whedon of Buffy the...
Embedding is not Aiding and Abetting
I found a story on Webpronews today about a couple of sites that are being sued for copyright infringement by way of embedding. Just like we all expect free air to breathe, we take it as a fundamental right of the web, based on the technical definition of what the web is, to be able to use the technology to create links. Embedding is the same as linking. If I provide a link to illegal content,...
Tube Mogul Top 40 List Updated
Major shake-up on the TubeMogul 40 list. Rocketboom drops 4 points, remains ahead of Warner Brother, PBS, Sony Pictures and MTV. Fred takes top spot. Beet.tv makes a showing. Uptake is in the house. CBS falls off the list.
Rank/User
1 Fred 2 Next New Networks 3 Howcast 4 Beet TV 5 Big Pictures UK 6 Chris Pirillo 7 Ford Models 8 The Uptake 9 Media...
CPMs for Online Video Lookin Good
Look ma, a new report is circulating which suggests there is good money to be made in online video. The conclusion is that CPM’s for video are high. For the noobs, CPM means cost per thousand - how much money an advertiser pays for every 1000 views, for instance. According to the report the average $’s range from $40 per thousand on pro long-form content, to $20 for short-form pro...
Podtech Sells for $500k on $7M Investment,...
Venturebeat has the scoop.
Why do Video networks fail again? My original post on Podtech from almost exactly a year ago on why it didnt seem as though Podtech would be making it:
http://www.dembot.net/013977.html
In short, they first came out of the stables thinking that building a studio ad network would be a no brainer and spent over $7M building out shows and an ad sales department. Not only...
The New Video Editor
Remember when it used to cost $25,000 for a 3-5 page html website for your business? And now it costs about $25? The same thing is happening in video editing.
Even as recently as five years ago, most people without extraordinary resources or time could not be involved in video due to the expensive processing speeds, software and other hardware required to get started. Of course that’s all...
More Videoblogging
That is, more blogging about video to come. I’ve been so busy writing for Rocketboom, and also microblogging with Twitter and Friendfeed, blogging has taken the brunt. Unfortunately, from where I left off long ago, the independent spirit of the independent online video medium is losing it’s way. The environment has changed drastically over the last couple of years. The word...
Friendfeed's User base now about Half that of...
I have almost exactly half the followers on FF as I do on Twitter too.
For people who still only use Twitter and may feel overwhelmed or too exhausted to try a new platform, yesterday I left a Tweet with a good “introductory” example (just one) of how the experience can be much richer on FF:
http://twitter.com/andrewbaron/statuses/850845463
Imagine that instead of your announcement being a...