Monetizing videos – long videos
We’re coming up on the fourth anniversary of the System Video Blog so I took some time to go over the past four years worth of articles. I’m happy to say in all that time, …
Author Archive | Ken McCarthy
Why the web and why NOW!
Why the Web and Why NOW!
Transcript of a talk given by Ken McCarthy, November 5, 1994 in San Francisco to an audience of advertisers, publishers, and multimedia producers at Pacific Bell’s Yerba Buena Media Center
“This was a great …
Hacker makes clueless company $590 million
Hard to believe, but it’s been three years since I wrote about a little company called Pure Digital and its interesting – but dumb – idea for disposable video cameras.
While it was cool to be able to buy a …
“Attention jazz fans…”
Can you put your offering in a headline with the formula “Attention (fill in the blank)”?
If not, you may have what I call a “diffused” (widely scattered) audience.
Not that “diffused” and “difficult” start with the
same four letters.
11,000,000+ video views in 2008
I’d didn’t have much time for blogging this year.
Instead I spent my free time making and promoting videos.
(Hint: Making and promoting Internet videos pays better than blogging.)
Results: We crossed the 11,000,000 video view mark for 2008 yesterday. …
If you can’t beat them…Viacom and MTV figure it out
It seems like a hundred years ago.
Overnight, it became dead simple to copy and post video to the Internet and everyone started doing it.
Copyright owners wailed and gnashed their teeth. Can you blame them? Suddenly, it was easier …