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‘Charlie Bit Me’ Family Has Made Half A Million Dollars Since 2007 [Video]

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:45:11 +0000

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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Online Video Discovery Is Still Problematic

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:18:10 +0000

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.”
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Forest Whitaker On Social Media, The Future Of Film & His New Venture, Juntobox Films

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:55:35 +0000

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. In the interview, Whitaker talks not only about Juntobox Films, but also about the future of filmmaking, social media and more.
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The Evolution & Future Of Social TV [Interview]

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:07:22 +0000

Earlier this month, Beet.TV posted an interview with Alan Wolk, Global Lead Analyst at KIT Digital, about KIT’s new white label social electronic program guide. In the interview, Alan talks about how the current social TV apps out there are limited in scope because they work independently and do just one or two things (i.e. check-in, chat, etc.). He hints at a future in which the different functionalities of these apps will be rolled up into one and working off of the electronic program guide (EPG) on our TV screens. KIT Digital is positioned to be at the forefront of this evolution.
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LinkedIn CEO Discusses His Vision of Human Ecosystems [Video]

Neil Vidyarthi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:47:20 +0000

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.

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YouTube Marketing Expert Greg Jarboe On Why Online Video Is A MUST For Your Brand

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:48 +0000

These days more and more brands are jumping on the online video bandwagon, but a surprising number still have yet to catch on. 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.
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YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar On Why YouTube Is “Channelizing”

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:13:20 +0000

YouTube is taking things in an entirely new direction in 2012, as you’ve probably heard. They’ve spent somewhere in the vicinity of $100 million to launch 100 new professional content channels over the course of this year, with channels ranging from the Wall Street Journal to action sports, education and entertainment being among the first to launch. 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.
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Will Marijuana Questions Top The Charts For Obama’s YouTube Interview Again This Year?

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:12:59 +0000

Last January over 139,000 questions were submitted for a YouTube interview with President Obama. This year, YouTube is accepting question submissions for the next interview with the President, but this time they’re taking things to the next level—the interview will be conducted in a Google+ Hangout and participants that submit the top-voted questions will actually get to join the President in the Google+ Hangout and take part in the conversation live. Last year the most-asked questions were about the legalization of marijuana. Will the same happen this year?
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Jun Group CEO: “Viral Video Is A Myth”

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:30:00 +0000

“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, he means that 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.
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Wibbitz Turns Text Articles Into Videos So You Never Have To Read Again

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:00:23 +0000

Wibbitz is a new service that can convert any webpage into an interactive video. They’re calling themselves, “The Play-Button for the Web.” With Wibbitz you’ll never have to read again—you can surf over to any webpage, click the play button and be served up with a 60-second video summarizing everything you need to know about what’s on that page.
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Filmmaker & Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain On Her Thought-Provoking Documentary ‘Connected’ [Interview]

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:40:24 +0000

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, filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, is definitely guilty of sneaking off to a fake bathroom break to text, email and tweet and this habit has caused her to ask, “What have we become?” We are all so uber-connected these days that it can be overwhelming and so she set out to create a film about what it means to be connected in this day and age. The result is Connected—one of the most thought-provoking and inspiring documentaries I’ve seen in awhile.
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Believe Entertainment Group Co-Founders On The Growth & Future Of Web Series [Interview]

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:35:02 +0000

The size of online video is growing at a rapid pace—it has tripled in size since 2003, more people are watching online video every day and people are craving longer and more professional content on the web. I had the opportunity to ask Dan Goodman and Bill Masterson, co-founders of digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment Group, about their take on the appeal web video and what they think is in store for the future of web series. Read on to find out more.
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Rapper Denny Blaze On His Rise To YouTube Fame As The Average Homeboy [Interview]

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:55:35 +0000

Rapper Denny Blaze, aka The Average Homeboy, is one of the most recognizable YouTube memes. He rose to viral fame back in 2006 thanks to a demo tape that he recorded back in the late 1980s. The tape features the song ‘Average Homeboy’, and Denny Blazin Hazen explaining what he’s trying to market. “In mainstream music right now, there’s not a middle-class, average guy telling his point of view that’s white.” His mission was to fill this gap.
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16-Year Old Entrepreneur Shahed Khan On Starting A Company In High School

Megan O'Neill — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:45:21 +0000

Shahed Khan is CEO and Co-founder of 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! That’s right—Shahed is part of the rising phenomenon of teen entrepreneurs. Although he’s only in high school, he’s not letting that stop him from following his business dreams. I had the opportunity to ask Shahed some questions about Viatask, as well as his experience with starting a business at the age of 16.
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How Five Words Made One YouTuber A Legend [Interview]

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:10:09 +0000

“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 responses, onto virtually every YouTube video to go viral over the past couple of weeks. His channel consists of 179 videos so far, all of them proclaiming this same message. “Wow! That’s like…a video!”
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