Twenty hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, nearly a million blog posts each day, 600,000 new members of Facebook and around four million tweets via Twitter every 24 hours – some social media numbers are quite hard to…
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The Pope, Sarah Silverman and another Google Ads Fail
“Sell The Vatican, Feed The World,” comedian Sarah Silverman urges in a three minute Papal pounding routine currently doing good business on YouTube. It’s not for the easily offended, replete with the f-word and drawings of male-genitalia. And it’s unlikely…
The 2010 YouTube Election Has Just Begun
Tim Montgomerie and the Conservative Home team were quickly out of the traps on Tuesday night with a video response to Gordon Brown’s “cuts, cuts, cuts” speech at the TUC. Slickly and quickly made, uploaded onto YouTube and embedded across…
Ron Wood Bee Sting Returns To YouTube
It’s back, but for how long? This clip was removed a couple of times earlier this week by Newport Television, the company that controls ABC affiliate WSYR-TV 9. Enjoy it while you can… Related: – Ron Wood, Anchorman: Stung On…
Ron Wood, Anchorman: Stung On YouTube
A local newsman exits his offices on a bright and sunny day in Syracuse, New York, and delivers the latest headlines. He heads towards the camera but, perhaps 30 seconds in, he gets stung by a bee. Not one to…
Chris Brown, JK Wedding Entrance Dance And Unintended Consequences
The trouble with applying offline rules to online business is that you fail to account for new models. The music industry has fought perhaps the longest, and most misguided, battle of this sort. In an effort to protect what has…
When Is The Best Time To Publish Online?
Larry Weber thinks he knows. In his latest book Sticks & Stones: How Digital Business Reputations Are Created Over Time and Lost in a Click, the co-founder of PR giant Weber Shandwick says that if you are posting a video…
Which Is The Second Largest Search Site After Google? (Clue: It’s Not Yahoo!)
And for those who are thinking quizically, “It can’t be Microsoft Bing, can it?” you’re right, it can’t be. The truth is that the biggest search rival to Google is … Google. In the guise of YouTube, that is. Of…
Tracking Obama’s Global Appeal, YouTube-Style
One of the by-products of social media is that it reaches people and places in the sort of numbers conventional platforms cannot reach. Let’s call it the Heineken effect. So Flickr has become the go-to place for pictures, Twitter for…
What We Learned About Online Video This Week
From YouTube to the iPlayer via newspaper sites offering moving pictures, the digital landscape for video already looks well-established. But four years on from the moment we went from Dial-up Britain to Broadband Britain, we still have much to learn.…
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Previously, I was digital director / deputy editor at the New Statesman, the multimedia editor at Channel 4 News, launch editor of Channel 4 FactCheck, editor-in-chief at Directgov and editor-in-chief of silicon.com.
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