Money & Marketing

Vlogs: Influence and Money

Will someone ever try selling a “best of” collection of their vlogs? … if you love doing something and someone is going to give you money so that you can do just that and not something else, the ad money will be will be hard to turn down.



Mobile Video Market Heating Up

The mobile market for video is heating up quickly.



Revver Hits $1 Million in Payouts to Site Contributors

Revver has just announced that they have now paid out $1 million in revenue to its video creators and sharers. The site has also just hit its one-year anniversary. Says Steven Starr, founder of the video sharing site: The time and place to be an independent creator is right now, online. Smart advertisers are financing an online economy that supports these creators, and the top talent will build fortunes. This is historic: It is the birth of a sustainable art form, and it’s happening before  [...]



Revlayer: New Ad Service for Video Bloggers

Revlayer is different from (so far) traditional video ads in that the ads are “layered” over already embedded videos from the likes of YouTube, Revver, Veoh, etc.



Indiana Jones Video Blog

If you haven’t heard, there is another Indiana Jones movie in the works with all the usual suspects — Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas.



Poker Video Blog Gives a Fresh Slant to an Established Field

The important lesson here for the vlogger is that even though the culture may already seem saturated with a subject, with a well-done vlog there’s still an opportunity to take a fresh look at it.



Vlog Spam

An interesting development to watch will be how vlogs will be turned into spam. No doubt they will be. Everything on the internet eventually gets turned into spam.



New YouTube Ads Create Sound and Fury

When YouTube announced the other day that they would begin using overlay ads on some of their videos, many in the online video world decided that throwing a bucket of gasoline on this small, burning match would be a good way to put it out.



Monty Python’s John Cleese Now Vlogging

The Podcast Network has recently announced that it has landed former Monty Python star John Cleese to do a regular video blog.



The Lies Continue – Another YouTube Fraud: Marie Digby

It seems we have another Lonelygirl15 on our hands — and by that I mean another lying little … ok, let’s call her a “lady.” She lies; we lie. What’s the big deal, right?