Posts Tagged ‘interview’

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.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

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.”

Have you ever found yourself faking a trip to the restroom to check your email on your phone or slept with your laptop? Tiffany Shlain’s documentary, “Connected,” explores this phenomenon and what it means to be connected in the 21st century.

We had the opportunity to ask Dan Goodman and Bill Masterson, co-founders of digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment, about their take on the appeal web video and what they think is in store for the future of web series. Find out what they had to say after the jump.

I had the opportunity to ask YouTube sensation Denny Blaze, aka The Average Homeboy, a few questions about his rapping, his life, and what it was like to become a viral sensation on YouTube. Find out what he had to say after the jump!

Shahed Khan is CEO and Co-founder of Viatask, a pre-launch startup called Viatask. He’s been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Tech Cocktail and more, has been attending every networking event he can, pitching to VCs and—get this—he’s only 16!

“Wow! That’s like…a video!” If you’ve spent any time watching viral videos on YouTube in the last two weeks then you may have happened across a video of someone saying these five words. YouTuber itsaninterimweb has been tacking these words, in the form of video comments, onto virtually every YouTube video to go viral over the past couple of weeks.