There is a lot of money to be made on Youtube. In fact, these ten YouTube stars are rumored to have earned close to or more than $100,000 dollars from ad revenue based solely on their Youtube video postings. TubeMogul, an advertising company, used the page views from these “independent users” to come up with Read more »
The company that produces men’s grooming products under the label Old Spice, P&G, has done what millions of social media marketers have only dreamed of doing: converted a video campaign into a viral sensation, and that viral sensation into sales. Read more »
Today Mashable reported that Google will soon phase out all YouTube accounts that either preexist the implementation of behind-the-scenes technology linking Google accounts and YouTube accounts, or have not taken the step to link the Google and YouTube accounts manually. Read more »
How do you top one of the most successful television and online ad campaigns of the summer, if not the entire year? To the marketing team at Old Spice, the answer was clear: keep the ball rolling on a massively ambitious scale by recognizing the “social” in “social media marketing”. Read more »
KARK in Little Rock, Arkansas is hiring. The NBC affiliate canned three on air talent and one photographer after they conspired to make and upload a profanity ridden rant about how Pete Thompson hates his job. The video (shown below) is called “Report This.” It no doubt reflects the feelings of tons of small market Read more »
CNN is reporting that Google won the draining three-year battle with Viacom on Wednesday. It was ruled in a federal court that YouTube subsidiary would not be accountable for any of the copyright infringements made by YouTube users. According to the site, the U.S. district court, located in New York, ruled in favor of YouTube Read more »
YouTube is trying to be more like TV, hoping to offer a more passive viewing experience which keeps users on the website longer. YouTube will be trying on a new look this fall with YouTube Leanback, The New York Times reports. Leanback will have a separate Internet address and will begin playing video as soon Read more »
Greyson Michael Chance is an incredibly talented 6th grader who has an affection for Lady Gaga. Chance paid tribute to his musical idol with a piano rendition of “Paparazzi.” And it was good. It was very good. It was better than Lady Gaga’s version of “Paparazzi.” The video has gone viral and already has more Read more »
YouTube has a new video sensation on the popular video streaming site, according to the New Zealand Herald. The video is of a workshop performance by 12 dancers at the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Posted 13 days ago, the video features the ballet group dancing to Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance,’ is now a huge hit Read more »
Today, Youtube turns five. April 23rd, 2005, marks the day that the first video was ever uploaded to Youtube. The video is a 19 second clip of Youtube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego zoo. Youtube’s first video has been viewed around two million times. That’s nothing compared to the number of times that Read more »
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