Archive for the ‘Web Video’ Category

Best Social Media Video Ever

Monday, August 17th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I have to give a big shout out to Erik Qualman from Socialnomics.net.  Socialnomics.net is what I wanted DigitalBlab to be: a blog designed to cover the latest trends in social media.  Qualman just put out a video full of great stats (with a fun soundtrack) to prove ...

How Not to Make a Web Video go Viral

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

By Matt Clark So my Web video experiment did not start well. I’m not upset though, it can still turn around. The best thing about this video starting poorly is learning what not to do in the future. That’s great for you, my loyal readers (all five of you… hi mom). ...

Riding the Search Wave with VideoSurf

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash With the TC50 finally over lastweek, we've seen a lot of cool companies launch recently, including Ashton Kutcher's Blahgirls and tons of other great startups. Here at DBlab we'd like to take a more indepth look at VideoSurf, one of the 50 (well, actually... 52) companies that unveiled ...

JibJab’s Jabs Make for Great YouTube Page

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

By: Matt Clark I don't have too much to say to this.  JibJab has really impressed me with their satire videos.  The one below is particularly great.  I have played it 10 times today at work.  I have to give props to my old man for finding it and sending it ...

Is Facebook Making a Video Push?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

By: Matt Clark Get on the Facebook video bandwagon now. I’m just saying… As reported by Silicon Alley Insider, this week CBS announced that it’s feeding TV content to Facebook, MySpace and Google homepages. Althought other stations already have deals with social networking pages, CBS will not require users to leave their ...

Best Social Media Practices for Roomorama

Monday, September 8th, 2008

By: Matt Clark & John Cantwell Yup that's right, Johnny boy is back, for a limited time only. He signed a short term deal with DBlab to help with this post. Unfortunately John is too busy with "higher education" and trying to "better his life" to contribute more. Anyway, today we're looking ...

NBC Belly Flops Olympic Games Online Video Initiative

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

By: Matt Clark According to the Wall Street Journal, NBC failed to hit its revenue goals with their Olympic web-videos. eMarketer estimates that NBCOlympics.com will only generate $5.75 million in video-ad revenue from the Olympics. NBC went wrong in a few places. For one, they only aired a few events over the ...

Funny Social Media and Digital Marketing Videos

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

By: Matt Clark Microsoft's digital advertising solution video Tech Bubble Bust video by Richter Scales. Yes, I posted this before, but it never gets old!

Marketing Through Twitter (Twarketing)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

By: Mallory Dash You can call it "getting to the point" to an extreme level. If you can say what you want to say to your audience in 140 characters or less, then you're ready for Twitter. While the micro-blogging service is already popular among Web 2.0 enthusiasts, Twitter is also breaking ...

Adidas Cheats on MySpace with YouTube

Monday, April 14th, 2008

By Matt Clark Adidas launched a YouTube marketing campaign to promote their new microbounce and megabounce shoe line. The YouTube channel, CanYouBounce, is fully branded and attempts to engage users in a fake competition where users vote for the King of the Bounce Champion. Adidas has loaded five videos of ...