Jimmy Kimmel, Norah Jones and YouTube's 12 Days of Christmas
How do you get a video to go viral on YouTube? One tried-and-true method: Rely on other videos that have gone viral on YouTube. Also, it wouldn’t hurt if you got it on national TV. And if you got...
View ArticleYouTube's Sincerest Form of Flattery: The "Response" Video
I didn’t love “David After Dentist,” the YouTube clip of a doped-up seven-year-old talking to his dad after surgery. Kinda creepy, imho. But that’s just me: It was one of most popular things on...
View ArticleIs YouTube Finally Ready to Turn a Profit This Year?
Starting last summer, Google executives have consistently promised that YouTube was close to becoming profitable. When will that finally happen? This year, says Barclays analyst Douglas Anmuth. He...
View ArticleVevo Bounces Back From a Rough Start With 20 Million Streams a Day
Remember Vevo, the “Hulu for music video” service that launched with a lot of fanfare, then earned a ton of lousy press for an error-filled launch? It has fixed its tech problems and is doing just...
View ArticleMeet Merton, the Chatroulette Piano Guy (Who Isn't Ben Folds)
The intrepid team at Mashable has an excellent get: An interview with “Merton,” the Chatroulette Piano Guy. The important takeaway, which I’d basically deduced on my own: He’s definitely not Ben Folds....
View ArticleThe Return of Merton, the First Chatroulette Celebrity
What’s the half-life of a YouTube sensation? We may get to find out in real time. Here’s the second video from Merton, the guy who became Internet-famous by playing piano on Chatroulette. It went up...
View ArticleWeb Surfers Love the Tiger Woods Ad. Especially When It's Not the Tiger Woods...
No surprise that Nike’s (NKE) creeptastic Tiger Woods ad, featuring the disembodied voice of the golfer’s dead father, is a hit on the Web. Or at least, “well-viewed”; I’m not sure “hit” is the right...
View ArticleAnother Web Ad That Wants to Eat Your Screen (With Your Permission)
Another entrant from the giant-ad-that-takes-over-your-entire-screen competition: Firefly Video, which is launching an ad network today. Firefly’s ad unit is a mashup of lots of things we’ve seen in...
View ArticleConan O'Brien's Angry YouTube Rant
YouTube is celebrating its fifth birthday by announcing that it is now generating a staggering two billion views per day. Context: In October, Google’s (GOOG) video site announced it had crossed the...
View ArticleNike's Not-So-Secret World Cup Ads Go Viral Before They Launch
The World Cup starts next month. So where’s the blitz of Nike (NKE) ads that always accompanies the globe’s biggest sporting event? Funny you should ask. Nike will formally start pushing out its new...
View ArticleHulu's Growth Curve Flattens Out
ComScore’s newest video data are out. The takeaway: In April, Google’s (GOOG) YouTube dwarfed every other site. And Hulu came in second, with about 960 million views. Does that sound familiar? It...
View ArticleGoogle's Victory Dance: Check Out Our Go-Go Numbers!
After showing off financial numbers that blew away Wall Street’s earnings estimates, what could Google do for an encore? Trot out even more numbers, via a tantalizing but not-that-revealing striptease....
View ArticleElection 2010: The View From YouTube
Google rolled out some fun facts on last month’s election-related YouTube video views today, with the rankings reflecting viral popularity as much as political viability. For what it’s worth, all 10 of...
View ArticleHey Look! That Crazy Stunt Bike Dude Has a New YouTube Video
In April 2009, Danny MacAskill posted this amazing video of him and his bike jumping on and over fences, stairwells and buildings. Since then it’s generated more than 21 million YouTube views. So...
View ArticleYouTube Hands Out $500,000 to Video Makers, Prepares to Spend a Whole Lot...
Here’s a cutesy press stunt from YouTube: It is handing out $500,000 to some of its semi-pro video makers. The money, doled out via 500 $1,000 credits to photography mecca B&H Photo, is meant to...
View ArticleVideo Meme: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs!
Flash mobs: They’re no longer elite events for cool kids with secret passwords. This holiday season has seen a remarkable run of flash mobs in North America (and subsequently on YouTube), with both...
View ArticleI Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business
Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud? That’s what Foundry Group, Madrona Venture Group, Avalon...
View ArticleYouTube Revenue Doubled Last Year. Which Means…What?
True to form, Google didn’t offer much real insight into its operations during yesterday’s earnings call. But pressed to talk about some of the company’s non-search businesses, Chief Financial Officer...
View ArticleDemand Media Says It's Getting Along Just Fine With Google, Thank You Very Much
So the first wave of investors has taken a look at Demand Media, and they’re buying: The “content creation platform,” as the company likes to describe itself, closed at $22.65 yesterday, up 33 percent...
View ArticleViral Video: "Never Say Never" to Bieber (Or the Hair)
Guess what movie BoomTown is being force-marched to this weekend by the Swisher boys? Not just “Gnomeo & Juliet,” but the debut of the Justin Bieber movie hagiography “Never Say Never” in 3-D is...
View ArticleSharethrough CEO on Why You Should Care About Social Video Ads (Video)
Sharethrough is a new kind of ad platform: One focused exclusively on video and social sharing. It doesn’t make viral videos, but it does help sites create custom ad units that fit with the flavor of...
View ArticleA Further Blow to Online Lurking: Quora Will Now Publicly Show Who Has Read a...
Quora today is introducing a feature that shows which of its users have read each Quora post, and how they found it. It’s another move by a social Web service to share passive activities, making the...
View ArticleQuora Debuts Embedded Quotes to Better Court Publishers
Quora announced a new function on Monday that allows third-party publishers to more easily highlight Quora content on outside sites. With “Embedded Quotes,” publishers can now click an embed link from...
View ArticleReady for His Close-Up: Ross Levinsohn to Join Zefr Board
Former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn, who has laid pretty low since he left there earlier this year, will be joining the board of the Venice, Calif.-based video start-up, Zefr. “Ross is a perfect...
View ArticleYahoo's Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently met with top execs at Hulu, the premium video service whose big media company owners have been considering...
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