We’ve all seen ‘Charlie bit my finger,’ the adorable viral video in which baby Charlie bites his brother’s finger and it “really hurts.” It’s the most popular viral video of all time, with over 436 million YouTube views and, according to ABC News, has made the family over half a million dollars since it was uploaded in 2007.
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In a recent talk at the Beet.TV Executive Retreat, Joy Marcus, venture partner at DFJ Gotham Venture and formerly of Dailymotion, brings up some interesting points about video discovery. Marcus says, “I think discovery in the video space is still problematic.”
Over the weekend, Shira Lazar of What’s Trending sat down with Forest Whitaker in the SXSW Samsung Blogger Lounge to talk about Juntoboxfilms.com—the collaborative film studio that makes filmmaking social that just named Whitaker as their co-chair.
KIT Digital’s Global Lead Analyst Alan Wolk talks about KIT Digital’s new social electronic program guide and about the future of social TV.
In a fascinating discussion with CBS This Morning, LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman discussed his vision of the social web and its future. Specifically, he visualizes social networks as human ecosystems, and he discusses how the future hasn’t even been written for how these human ecosystems will interact with one another.
I had the opportunity to interview YouTube marketing expert Greg Jarboe, who told me why every brand or business should be using online video and offered up some advice on what marketers can do to maximize the success of their online video campaigns.
Why has they decided to “channelize”? CEO Salar Kamangar explained in an interview earlier this week at All Things Digital’s D: Dive Into Media conference. Check it out after the jump.
Last year the most-asked questions for Obama’s YouTube interview were about the legalization of marijuana. Will the same happen this year?
“We believe that viral video is a myth,” Jun Group CEO and Founder Mitchell Reichgut told me in a Skype call yesterday afternoon. What does he mean by “myth”? Basically, the idea that a video can get millions of views on its own, without a very well funded and constructed strategy or a push from mainstream media, is bogus.
Wibbitz is a new service that can convert any webpage into an interactive video. They’re calling themselves, “The Play-Button for the Web.”
