Interesting case study done by a team that wanted to see if they could make a video go viral.

Eight months ago the creative team at Red Bricks Media performed an experiment: we wanted to see if we could create a viral video on YouTube. There were a few videos that inspired us:
d*ck in a box
teaspoon [...]

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Variety is reporting that NBC Universal is launching a YouTube competitor called Didja.

NBC Universal is expanding its battle against YouTube and other viral video sites, using the weight of its top-rated USA cable network to launch an all-advertising website called Didja.com.
Set to launch early next year, site will offer a vast archive of current and [...]

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Yep, and it makes sense. Why not pay a small team of regular users to sit around and look for violations?
LOS GATOS, Calif. — A lot of people watch YouTube videos at work. A few are actually paid to do it.
A former bartender named Joe Bersik sits in front of a flat-screen monitor about [...]

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Search Marketing Standard has a great read called video marketing on YouTube.
Now, there is a WHOLE LOT MORE to this, but this is a great starting point. I’ve had a ton of success with this video, which is a simple “here’s what I can do and how I can help you” video. I shot this [...]

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Reuters has the story.

NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters Life!) - Wanted: Rap music impresario Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks assistant with attitude, confidence, ability to count — and a good video resume.
Eschewing written resumes Combs has turned to video sharing Web site YouTube to recruit his next personal assistant, saying only people with a burning passion [...]

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Mashable points out that Google is looking to release its long-awaited anti-piracy technology on YouTube this September.
The news came out during a hearing today, regarding the $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit that Viacom has filed against Google. The hearing was for setting the schedule of the case, including choosing a date for the trial. An [...]

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We’ll be discussing this on Video Ninjas radio show next Tuesday at 4pm live on WebmasterRadio.fm.

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The Google Operating System blog is showing off YouTube’s new customized players.
You can now create customized YouTube players, choose a color theme, a video playlist and share your favorite videos. My green player shows three collections of incredible places from Google Earth, but you can use it as your own TV channel: it’s easy to [...]

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Came across an awesome new tool today called Video Post Robot. Video Post Robot allows anyone to upload your videos to multiple online video sharing, like YouTube, sites with the push of a button! It’s the one and only tool that supports Flash video sites - like MSN, Metacafe, Revver, Break, Brightcove and many others.
Video [...]

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Techcrunch breaks down the “ads in video” playing field by showing how all the top online video sharing sites are handling this type of monetization.

Coming up with a kick ass, scalable ad platform solution for social video that satisfies the needs of publishers, advertisers, and viewers is only a piece of the problem. While finding [...]

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