Saturday, April 19, 2008

Squirrels Love Pizza

As of April 16th on StupidVideos.com, CrazyStudios had a total of 29 views of our videos combined for all videos over a 3 month period. That is a approximately 1 view per video for 3 months. On April 17th there were 4,469 views of "Squirrels Love Pizza".

Congratulations team! Pardon me while I throw myself off of my rooftop.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Flickr Charges for Video Uploads

From what I can see it appears that the most recent confused press release from Yahoo, in an article from Information Week, Yahoo Launches Video on Flickr that Flickr will take video uploads, is true; that is if you pay them $24.95 for a pro account for the year!

For anyone that uploads videos to Yahoo, navigating through the confused tangle of seemingly dead end links is more than enough. The old adage that you can't get there from here proves true on this site. The only way to access subscribers videos is through Videos.Yahoo.com. I know this may seem idiotic but after having an account there for more than a year I still have no idea how to see a producers main collection of videos. It would seem that they would at least copy one of the other video companies templates for ease of navigation. Like YouTube perhaps, Duh!

Now the idea that they are going to start a whole new service, without fixing the previous one, seems like the ship is being running by the people swabbing the decks.

It's unfortunate that the number one site in the world truly is a three ring circus.

Albert Wilking swabs the decks for CrazyStudios.com.


Sexy Costume Party Upload Debate

Here is an exchange that took place yesterday while trying to upload the Horned Ball video to Revver.

Your video "Sexy Costume Party" was rejected because our reviewers found it to be in violation of the Revver Member Agreement, which prohibits users from uploading adult content. For more info on content upload guidelines, please review this section of our Member Agreement.

If you have any questions or feel this video has been rejected in error, please respond to this email.

Response:

Everyone is clothed in this video! This is rated R. I typed in "Naked Ass" on your site and this is what your search engine found. I believe these are all videos that are posted on your site, are they not?

Hi there,
your video was rejected because it pushes our limits as far as adult content goes.
there is a portion where a woman is completely topless.
Please review our policy which you agreed to upon joining Revver:

Response:
There is no portion that I can see where a woman is completely topless. Which portion are you referring too?

So you are telling me this video on your site
http://revver.com/video/473444/half-naked-tits-big-boobs-hot-girl/
is approved and ours is rejected?

What do you think people are doing to that video, huh?

At least with ours they get a mouthful!

Hi there,
your video will be online shortly.
It is now rated 17+.
Thanks for using Revver.

and finally the video uploaded:

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Internet Video Marketing Concepts

As you guys know I've been saying for a while that we are in the midst of a revolutionary change in the industry standard for promoting one's product, ie advertising. One of the most compelling aspects about product placement inside a video is that it is up on the internet indefinitely. Consider Etrade's Baby Trader commercial during the '08 superbowl. It's a funny video and it can be seen by anyone at anytime. Need a laugh. Check it out.

Here are some other examples of a new wave of internet marketing.
When viewing the Red State Update, as compelling as it is, what do you think it would be worth to Pabst to have Travis and Jonathan get them to do an exclusive for a year with their beer? If Jonathan switched to Pabst, think about the mileage and the content and Pabst eclipsing Budweiser!


Then we have the major brands like Cheetos, making their own 'Underground' production called OrangeUnderground.com

We have a company like Nesquick running a Nesquick Contest on You Tube to see who can make the coolest Nesquick video. We think this will be perfect for Chocolate Hunt to enter into. If Nesquick can get a buzz going, that's yet to be proven, the 10k first prize will prove to be a drop in the bucket for them. My quess is that they've already covered their design costs by the amount of traffic they are receiving.

TurnHere.com is a company that seems to have really stepped into a successful niche position. They are about 125,000 in Alexa ratings, which is pretty high. They have probably thousands of video editors that have applied with them allowing massive projects like these to be undertaken. Turn Here's Big Clients