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CBS vs. NBC: The REAL Wall Street (Wallstrip) story!

In the Memorial Day battle of the "What is the REAL reson CBS "acquired" Wallstrip.com, diverse motivations abound:Grab the talent,Neutralize a potentially disruptive up and comer,Acquire the technology,Capture the brand,Learn about Web video...Digital Markets Blog has the REAL reason, though, REALLY!Why is CBS absorbing a bare-bones Web video start-up backed by...

Tags: Culture, Video

Blog posts 2007-05-27

YouTube on Memorial Day? Forget the ketchup

Picnic ideas for Memorial Day? Who needs ketchup!So suggests ABC in Chicago in a handy Dos & Don'ts for the holiday celebration:"Since burgers and hot dogs don't travel well and you won't be bringing them, you don't need all the condiments like ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, etc."That won't be Memorial...

Tags: Advertising, Culture, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-26

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

Can video make reading sexy? CBS to launch book channel online

“Video killed the radio star”? So sings The Buggles.CBS Corporation’s Simon & Schuster, however, is singing the praises of video to make books stars and is creating a new “book-centric” Internet video channel aimed at doing just that: BookVideos.tv!Slated for a June launch, BookVideos.tv will “humanize authors,” Sue Fleming, Vice...

Tags: Culture, Marketing, The Real Deal, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-10

YouTube hosts Authors @ Google: Beware, NO talking back!

YouTube’s top marketing exec Suzie Reider is fond of extolling the real “conversations” that YouTube hosted videos spark amongst YouTubers, warning prospective marketers not to “mess up” the “authentic” YouTube community.Why then does Google not wish to spark authentic conversation around its own videos that it posts to YouTube?Google proudly...

Tags: YouTube, Video, Social Media, Google, Culture

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Will Google follow Viacom's lead?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauds Viacom today for standing up for upfront “fair use” rights of YouTubers.Responding to Viacoms willingness to take steps to protect the free speech rights of those who post videos to YouTube and similar video sharing sites, the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Stanford Law Schools...

Tags: YouTube, Video, Legal, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Google's YouTube: Not so dirty little secrets

Why was Google CEO Eric Schmidt so ecstatic Thursday? Because he reported $3.66 billion in quarterly revenues to Wall Street, all fueled by advertising cum content.Google’s secret weapon is a four letter word I have oft said: SPIN. The most lucrative Googley spin of all? People WANT Google ads,...

Tags: Google, Advertising, YouTube, Video, Google Ads, Culture, Content

Blog posts 2007-04-21

Google: Any rain on My Maps parade?

Is the latest incarnation of Google Maps the closest thing to heaven on earth, literally?Perusing Techmeme would suggest so, starting with the Official Google Blog declaration that a new My Maps feature is “Map-making: So easy a caveman could do it.” Google’s message is on Googley target and typically widely...

Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Amateur Content, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Yahoo on the fringe! The big Y Goes underground, big time

Shouldn’t the holy grail of UGC, User Generated Content, really be all about the Users, as in user culture, as opposed to corporate culture?YES, and Yahoo gets it, big time, with the launch of “Yahoo Underground,” a funky, seeking to be no holds barred first-hand trip inside of “unexplored worlds,”...

Tags: Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Culture, Amateur Content

Blog posts 2007-04-01

Google news and views: Google hacking, domains and job interviews

NEW Digital Markets Series: Google News and ViewsNoteworthy Google links from all around the World Wide Web!A New Googely Hire, pre-indoctrinatedMark Pilgrim, "Two visions," 3/19/07There are two basic visions of the future of the Web, and one of them is wrong. Im going to work on the right one for...

Tags: YouTube, Yellow Pages, Yahoo, Web 2.0, Video, Google Software Applications, Google, Culture, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-03-30

Hillary Clinton, Democrats lead Republicans in Web race to the White House

Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton began her online presidential “User Generated Politics” presidential campaign 2008 “conversation” early and it is paying off. “Hillary for President” is leading in national opinion polls and on the Web. “If the...

Tags: Social Software, John McCain, John Edwards, President Clinton, Social Capital, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, User Generated Politics, Politics, Social Media, Self-Promotion, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Video, User-Generated Content, Culture, Government, Local, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Google vs Old Media: Who needs YouTube?

Who needs YouTube? That is the $1.65 billion dollar online video question. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confidently let it be known this week that every mainstream professional video content producer does, in very Googley take it or leave it terms. Vicaom does not believe it needs YouTube, however,...

Tags: Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2007-03-08

NBA video highlight mixer: Fans are in control!

AT NBA.com, fans users are really in control, of their own “NBA movie”!Get media, mix movies, share, the NBA Fan Voice declares. Steve Grimes, Vice President of Interactive Services for NBA Entertainment:The NBA.com Highlight Mixer provides our fans with easy-to-use editing tools along with the broadest selection and highest quality...

Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Software, Social Web, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-08

YouTube: What Google CEO Eric Schmidt really thinks

I feel as if I have been traversing the country with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week! Yesterday I enjoyed lunch with him during his address to the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco (read my first-hand report in “Google CEO extols $800 billion advertising opportunity”). I spent...

Tags: Wall Street, Search Advertising, Metrics, Content, Copyright, Google Software Applications, Television, TV, Brands, YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Media, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Web 2.0: Are Cisco, News Corp., Viacom, Gannett really clueless?

In the Web 2.0 social networking “users are in control” world, mega corporations must be feeling we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t! I polled a few weeks back “Poor Google?,” noting a string of setbacks and a underwhelming 2007 beginning. Google, of course, is “everyone’s favorite...

Tags: Newspapers, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Print, Video, YouTube, Content, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Culture, Google, Enterprise, Web 2.0, Usability, Media

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Why Google needs Viacom, big time!

John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...

Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-02

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 – CBS drama takes new video turn

Google Inc. is closing in on the ten year anniversary of its founding. As Google matures, it experiences new business life cycle impacts. For example, Google must not only aggressively hire to meet its growth needs, it also faces the risk of losing key personnel to competitors and other...

Tags: TV, Television, Culture, Google, Video, YouTube, Marketing, Advertising, Media

Blog posts 2007-02-28

Entertainment economy: Are YOU the new Hollywood?

The 79th Annual Academy Awards Hollywood self-promotional love fest broadcasts to the world tonight. Does it matter? Neal Gabler follows in the Times Magazine 2006 “YOU” are the “Person of the Year” tradition to proclaim YOU are the future of movies.Gabler puts forth movie industry statistics to conclude...

Tags: Amateur Content, Content, Culture, Media, Movies, Self-Promotion, Television, TV, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-02-25

John Edwards NOT Social Networking for 'User Generated Politics' campaign 2008

Edition number 24 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”John Edwards is "Social Networking" like a true politician, he is covering all his bases and promising action. But what is his actual Social Networking record?In “John Edwards: Be my MySpace...

Tags: Web 2.0, Local, Culture, Government, User-Generated Content, MySpace, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, Marketing, Facebook, Social Networking, Social Media, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race, President Clinton, John Edwards

Blog posts 2007-02-24