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- YouTube to video artists: Wolf in sheep's clothing?
- Is all good in King Chad's YouTube Kingdom now that he agreed to share the video wealth, in his own small, very selective way?NO, both newly ordained video elite and newly dissed "non-populars," are lamenting a YouTube calculated business move that moves YouTube away from its original community spirit.The chosen video few are wondering if they are...
- Tags: Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising, Google, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Google's YouTube divides community: Advertising rules, not users
- Google’s YouTube blog post headline says it all: “YouTube elevates most popular users to partners.”There goes Chad’s pet “community”?While Google YouTube will undoubtedly be lauded for “finally recognizing” the hard work of dedicated YouTuber legitimate uploaders, the video sharing picture is not as pretty as it is painted.YouTube on its...
- Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Web 2.0 Social Media: Voyeurs rule, not amateurs!
- In my “Social Freeloaders” User Generated Content UGC series last year. I created a Web 2.0: Top five social risks list to evaluate the sustainability, or not, of UGC based models. In asking Social freeloaders: Is there a collective wisdom and can the Web obtain it? last June, I used...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Networking, Google, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- YouTube gets religion: Matzoh Balls and Chocolate Bunnies
- What is part of organizing all the worlds information? Celebrating the holidays YouTube style!PASSOVER/PESACH 2007: MATZA BALL RAP! by Giving Tree Productions, described as "hysterical rap to the music of baby got back by sir mix a lot."Anita C. Rich comments: "Nice, makes me want to get up and have...
- Tags: YouTube, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Amateur Content
- Blog posts 2007-04-05
- YouTube: Presidential candidates cool in 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008
- Edition number 27 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Did you ever want an online place where you could go to watch all the slick presidential campaign videos produced by the candidates?YouTube to the rescue: A “You Choose ‘08” channel...
- Tags: Social Software, President Clinton, John Edwards, Presidential Race, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Politics, User Generated Politics, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Social Networking
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Google: Hollywood vs. YouTube video games
- Will the Google-YouTube-Copyright Holders video game ever end?Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscars via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips, Variety stated yesterday.I just relived...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
- YouTube scores NBA deal
- Do you dream about being the next Michael Jordan? You can have your basketball shot at clip-culture fame courtesy of the NBA and YouTube:“Post Up the NBA” debuts on the new “NBA Channel” on YouTube to “provide fans around the world and the entire YouTube community with the opportunity to...
- Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube, Video, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Google, Search, Advertising, Web 2.0, Media
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Google: Why TV networks will trump YouTube
- It is a mainstream media irony when the very old print media guard characterizes the broadcast old media guard as merely “posturing” before the mighty, inexorable Google. While the “old gray lady” strives to maintain an apparent “balanced” discussion of Viacom and NBC and News Corp. versus Google, Richard...
- Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Local, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Newspapers, Search, Search Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-18
- Universal Music vs. MySpace, Grouper, Bolt, YouTube?
- Is today a landmark day for rights holders in the world of online video? Early this morning I noted “Google’s $1.65 billion DMCA gamble” asking “Does Google’s YouTube facilitate the theft of copyright content?” Universal Music Group has sued MySpace, Grouper, Bolt…but not YouTube.Will Google soon be asked...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Movies, Music, ROI, Television, TV, Universal Music Group, User-Generated Content, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Google's $1.65 billion DMCA gamble
- Does Google’s YouTube facilitate the theft of copyright content? Perhaps, as I discussed over the weekend in “YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?” Google is undoubtedly considering the ramifications of news out today that veteran video sharing site Bolt is negotiating a multi-million dollar settlement with...
- Tags: Business Models, Legal, Google, Government, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Music, Social Networking, Metrics, Universal Music Group, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?
- Nicholas Carr underscores that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each pulled down about a third of a billion dollars in selling their video-sharing company to the search giant Google, asserting they “came by their windfall fair and square.”How so? “They built a better mousetrap,” says Carr.Perhaps, but what...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- YouTube: NOT future of media?
- Does the future of YouTube portend the future of media? YouTube was not present at the 2007 Media Summit in New York City this week, but it was on everyone’s mind. YouTube may be following in corporate parent Google’s industry conference strategy: Minimal (non-guaranteed) presence. Rare is the...
- Tags: Business Models, Media, Google, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Movies, Social Networking, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- YouTube: Are YouTubers at risk?
- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School strives to “pioneer” the development of cyberspace. The Center’s pioneering efforts include “advocacy”:We engage in targeted efforts to effect law reform where we deem such activism to be necessary, both domestically and internationally, to protect and foster openness on...
- Tags: Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Why Google will lose its multi-billion dollar video bet
- In the immortal words of presidential candidate Ronald Regan to President Jimmy Carter “There you go again.” Google is at it again, big time, $1.65 billion worth. Google’s YouTube copyright owner be damned DMCA umbrella philosophy inspires a YouTuber “broadcast yourself” by uploading pirated videos owned by television...
- Tags: Advertising, Search, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, Google Inc., Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc., television network
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC
- Way back in November I underscored “Google’s fuzzy YouTube logic.”In “Google to TV networks: Believe in YouTube” I analyzed how Google made its mark at YouTube, a PR mark, just one week after officially taking over the YouTube reigns. In a joint announcement with CBS, Google did what it excels...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?
- Corporate media giant Viacom is taking a stand against corporate advertising giant Google to defend itself against alleged copyright infringement at YouTube (see “Is the Google YouTube honeymoon over?”). Are innocent YouTubers caught in the high-stakes crossfire?Jim Moore recounts how he innocently uploaded a “friends and family” video of...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Legal, Google, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Google CEO on YouTube: We have the fans
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked on Wednesday at the company’s 2006 Q4 earnings call about YouTube monetization and the uploading of copyright content at YouTube.Schmidt responded with typically vague Googley "philosophy": The real value we found with people who have produced copyrighted work and the reason that they want...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Can YouTube make revenue sharing work?
- In the recent Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the “little” video people that is, many celebrated a seemingly greater democratization of Web 2.0. As in all democracies, however, the Web 2.0 variety has a messy underbelly of conflicting motivations and inherent obstacles....
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Will YouTube 'King Hurley' really share video riches?
- YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley & Steve Chen celebrated their $1.65 billion buyout by Google in a giddy “broadcast yourself” YouTube clip culture video proclaiming the joining together of two Internet “kings.”The two kings are currently being feted on the international stage at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2007 convened...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Brands, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, Search Advertising, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- Is YouTube really a $1.65 billion Web 2.0 success?
- Is Chad Hurley the poster “king” for Web 2.0 entrepreneurial success?Does the YouTube “story” reflect a Web 2.0 start-up model to be emulated? Googles $1.65 billion stock acquisition of the free-for-all, no fees required, online video hosting property undoubtedly leads most to shout a resounding NEED YOU ASK!NewTeeVee says...
- Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Local, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, User-Generated Content, Venture Capital, VC, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content, Social Networking, Social Media, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-26
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