Author Archive | Ken McCarthy

That’s what I’m talking about

I found this example of selling via Internet video in the New York Times.

Not in an article about Internet video, but in a paid advertisement. An ad that took up one third of a full page of the newspaper …

I’ve afound that in order to see wherethe Internet is headed, it’s a good idea to be informed about where they’ve been.

Take video on the Internet. Now that the YouTube/Google sale has put Internet video on the map, what’s …

Mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow…

Here’s the first video that was uploaded to YouTube. This is one of the company’s three founders Jawed Karim, currently a grad student at Stanford.

Yes, this is how a $1.65 billion company got …

Does it make sense for Google to spend $1.65 billion to buy YouTube?

Sure it does – as long as they’ve figured out how to solve THE PROBLEM…

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Tracking the Internet video world – which practically no one was tracking just a year ago – has become a full time business for some.

Here are some of the more interesting numbers people have dug up recently…

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I have a lot of friends who are filmmakers. I even worked briefly in that industry myself. Who knows, I might even get back into it.

I wrote this piece specifically for a magazine for documentary filmmakers, but I think …