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consumer-generated media buys up traditional media space

Posted on November 27th, 2009 Written on -
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Sure, there were Best Buy spots announcing the 5:30 a.m. open-time for Black Friday, but between Flip, iPod Nano and one of the digital cameras that now takes video (I guess the commercial didn't quite work), consumer-generated video occupied nearly 50 percent of the ad buys during Thanksgiving football.  Consumers love to take video, and companies are responding. Here's a response video to the current Flip ad campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVNucJ8LrVw

Tags : commercials , video , flip , ipod , nano

Frontline Shoots Doc with 35mm Canon Camera

Posted on October 3rd, 2009 Written on -
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  Frontline, the award-winning PBS documentary series announced today that it shot segments for it's latest show, "OBAMA'S WAR" with a Canon 5dmkII camera. This is a 35mm digital stills camera with video capability. The decision by Frontline to use the Canon marks a turning point in the evolution of video technology.  Frontline is best known for the quality

Tags : Canon , Frontline , B , roll , net

billions served

Posted on September 8th, 2009 Written on -
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  Watch this space… US Internet viewers watched a staggering 8.9 billion videos last month. Last month! 99% of these were on Youtube. So reports  247wallst.com. This number is simply astonishing. On Youtube, the average number of videos watched per person was 74. The vast majority of c

Tags : Youtube , Video

Blip.tv does content deals with YouTube, NBC and others

Posted on July 28th, 2009 Written on Alex's Scattered Thoughts
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As part of this deal, Blip.tv will be able to place ads on thier users videos on Youtube.   The question I have is this - are they planning on sharing that revenue back with the creators of the content?    If so, we're starting to see the accelerating emergence of a money-making model for video creators who know what they're doing.  

Tags : blip , blip , tv , youtube

Bill Gurley on the Changing Landscape in Video

Posted on May 13th, 2009 Written on Alex's Scattered Thoughts


A friend of mine named Brian Phillips shared this video with me.   This is from a recent presentation by Bill Gurley (Benchmark Capital) at the AlwaysOnHollywood Conferecne.    It's a very interesting presentation and is definitley worth a watch.   I wish I could have gotten the powerpoint to synch witih the video, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.

A friend of mine named Brian Phillips shared this video with me.   This is from a recent presentation by Bill Gurley (Benchmark Capital) at the AlwaysOnHollywood Conferecne.    It's a very interesting presentation and is definitley worth a watch.   I wish I could have gotten the powerpoint to synch witih the video, but I couldn't figure out how to do that.

Tags : Bill , Gurley , Video , VC
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