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HomeAway Integrates Online, WOM into Griswold Super Bowl Ad

HomeAway, an online vacation rental marketplace, is launching its first national integrated marketing campaign on Super Bowl Sunday not only by reprising the Griswolds from the 1980s movie "National Lampoon's Vacation"  but also by incorporating an extended online campaign. This online piece includes a word-of-marketing sty  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 27th 2010

TV Network Site Viewers up 155% in September

All four major TV networks enjoyed month-over-month growth in online video viewers in September, fueled by high interest in season premieres, financial news, and political news and comedic parodies, according to (pdf) data from Nielsen Online, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 10th 2008

Divx Nixes Thriving Site Under Mysterious Circumstances

San Diego-based DivX is shutting down video sharing site Stage6, a site that supported about 17.6 million monthly visitors. Stage6 was launched by Divx in 2006. It was positioned as a way to market the capabilities of the DivX codec to a mainstream audience. The high-quality video site drew generous views, despite little promotion. Speculations about the reason for the shutdown stem from potential piracy issues or the high costs of strea  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 27th 2008

w00t Deemed Worthy of Word of the Year

Based on previous words of the year, Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2007 has a lot of people puzzled, according to The New York Times blog The Lede. w00t, typically spelled with zeroes, is defined as "an expression of joy coined by online gamers." GOOD Magazine   [...]
Posted: Friday, December 14th 2007

Top 5 Viral Video Ads of 2007 Ranked; Gorilla Drummer Tops Pile

Cadbury's gorilla drummer ad, with more than 5 million views for the original video on YouTube, was the top viral-video ad, followed by Smirnoff's Green Tea Partay, with 3.4mm views, according to agency GoViral, reports the Financial Times (via MarketingCharts). The   [...]
Posted: Thursday, December 13th 2007

Facebook Serves as Sociological Platform for Displaced Aliens

A new Facebook app has launched, asking members to Save an Alien. The mythology behind the app is as follows: A meteor is approaching an alien planet in six months and will kill its population of 10 million unless citizens are "adopted" by Facebookers. Each alien is algorithmically unique. Once an alien is adopted, aliens are to safety in Antarctica. You can then download pics of it, add its image to pictures of yo  [...]
Posted: Monday, October 29th 2007

After Caruso's Endless One-Liners, CBS Launches Video Mash-Up Site

CBS is erecting a site dedicated to short-form video "mash-ups" in hopes of garnering the million views enjoyed by the Endless Caruso One-Liner clip, which revealed the intro formula to CSI:Miami. Dubbed the CBS Eyelab, a half-dozen "twenty-something digital video editors" were commissioned with the sole purpose of creating snacky little clips, such as parodies and bloopers of network shows,   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 1st 2007

Forbes Editor Outed as 'Fake Steve Jobs' Mastermind

Fake Steve Jobs, written by an anonymous blogger posing as a caricature of the real Steve Jobs, was revealed as the brainchild of an editor of Forbes Magazine, according to The Times. Senior Editor Danial Lyons of Forbes was discovered by Brad Stone of The New York Times, who used old-fashioned sleuthing to get t  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 6th 2007

Talk of Cheaper iPhone Sets Apple Stock on Cloud 9

Shortly after speculation from a JP Morgan analyst that Apple would go Nano with the iPhone, shares of Apple leaped 1.5 percent to $134.50 from its 52-week high of $133.34 from Friday, according to The Globe and Mail. Apple's stock h  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 12th 2007

NBC: P2P Piracy Hurts the Corn Farmers

NBC made a borderline absurd case against P2P piracy at a recent FCC hearing, stating that if file-sharing piracy were to end, corn farmers would have greater profits and "buy more farm equipment," reports Zero Paid. The idea is that in a world without online piracy, people would go to the theaters to watch more movies. They would consequently buy more popcorn, putting mon  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 28th 2007

NBC Digital to Produce Webisodes for Netflix

NBC will produce a series of three-minute webisodes for Netflix, according to a press release. Titled "I Love This Movie!," the broadband show will highlight a different classic film in each webisode and will be broadcasted on the Netflix member website. The show is an original idea and production of N  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 14th 2007

LOLcat Fever Sweeps the Internet

A new form of entertainment and communication currently sweeping the Internet is simple, funny and mind-numbing. It's called "lolcats," or images of cats with poor, grammatically-unsound exclamations attached to them, reports Globe and Mail. For example, one cat exclaims, "IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ." Arguably the most famous involves a cat asking,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 31st 2007

DaDaism Lives Online with Cheddarvision

In lieu of watching a typically apathetic Gen-Y'er bare all on reality television, witness the perhaps meaningful development of a large cheese wheel in Westcombe, England. Critics may balk but the site, Cheddarvision.TV, has already served over 950,000 viewers. The Westcombe cheese sits aging in a work farm owned by Tom Calver, who asked Dom Lane of the West County Farm  [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 19th 2007

Confusion over Colbert Parody on YouTube, Viacom Sued

Conflicting reports have emerged over whether Viacom ordered the removal from YouTube of a parody of The Colbert Report, writes CNET. Initial reports claimed Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, issued a take-down notice targeting a parody of The Colbert Report titled "Stop the Falsiness." When those reports surfaced, the Electronic Frontier Foundat  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 23rd 2007

Congdon in Infomercials while Vlogging for ABC News

Amanda Congdon still considers herself just a blogger even though she's video-blogging for a major news organization, ABCNews.com. However, Congdon is also performing in infomercials for DuPont, according to CNET blogger Daniel Terdiman. Staff journalists at most news organizations would likely be fired if such a thing were discovered, yet Congdon wrote a   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 21st 2007

Yahoo, MTV Announce UGM Site, Best Movie Spoof for MTV Movie Awards

MTV and Yahoo have announced a partnership to launch a co-branded website featuring user-generated media tied to this summer's 2007 MTV Movie Awards, according to MediaWeek. Through the soon-to-launch Movie Awards contest, users will be encouraged to submit short clips parodying the popular movies that are to be honored during the awards presentation. The best s  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 16th 2007

Confessions of a 'Facebook Stalker'

Used by millions of college students, social networking site Facebook allows people to access personal info, such as pictures and relationship status of friends and casual acquaintances. With so much personal information online, it can be hard to separate what one has learned via face-to-face interaction from "facebook stalking," adding a new complication to physical meetings. "I meet new people, and that's the worst, because I'  [...]
Posted: Friday, March 9th 2007

Anarchist Hippies Claim Attack on John Edwards Second Life HQ

The virtual terrorists who stormed the John Edwards Second Life campaign headquarters identified themselves as a longstanding Second Life "invasion group" called "Patriotic Nigras: e-terrorists at large," reports 10 Zen Monkeys. The group posted the claim on John Edwards' campaign blog, saying they vandalized the campaign HQ "for the lulz." The person who posted the claim,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 7th 2007

Honda Licenses JibJab Video for Presidents' Day Ad Campaign

For the first time, JibJab is licensing one of its popular online skits for use in a Presidents' Day ad campaign, partnering with the New York and Long-Island Honda Dealers Association for a two-week broadcast and online promotion, MediaPost reports.  The spots feature visuals from the "Presidents' Rap" video (AKA "Founding Fathers") - but wi  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 12th 2007

Wii Used for Weight Loss, Physical Therapy

With gaming console Nintendo Wii's initial release came reports of people hurting muscles and experiencing soreness due to the physical exertion caused by playing virtual games such as bowling, tennis and baseball. Apparently, that was just one side of the coin. At first, Nintendo dodged the reports of injuries, saying the Wii was not meant to be an exercise tool. However, that h  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 5th 2007