One of the biggest buzz-inducing topics at Vloggercon this weekend was the concept of product placement in online video content and how this ability to incorporate an advertiser’s message directly into the story might offer vlogs the greatest chance of winning traditional TV advertisers. There are a few shows, like FrenchMaidTV or 88Slide that I
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At Vloggercon, the vibe is all about doing new undiscovered things with content. Creating your own content is the holy grail, and anyone here without a camera of some sort either dreams about having one, or is a journalist. And journalists are not faring so well. The times between sessions are the most engaging, with
Continue reading »This weekend I am here in San Francisco for Vloggercon 2006, a small video blogging conference I have been working with over the past few weeks as a sponsor (through both Ogilvy and Intel) as well as an enthusiastic supporter of getting more people into vlogging. Aside from being the first time that I have
Continue reading »As most people who pay attention to global media know, this week is the 25th "anniversary" of the Aids epidemic worldwide. Based on recent reports, the disease unfortunately seems destined to remain a killer in populations around the world. Since long before I joined Ogilvy, the firm has been working with numerous clients in this
Continue reading »When Yahoo acquired Flickr and del.icio.us – the question on most marketers minds was how they would integrate these into profitable networks for advertising without alienating already loyal users who were used to an ad-free experience. The answer for the first few months after acquisition appeared to be to do nothing other than add the
Continue reading »When I was in business school, "widgets" were the term that we used to refer to units of a fictional product in case studies. Today, widgets are those smart little applications meant to be used as small utilities in a blog, operating system or web browser. A few months ago, SixApart launched Typepad Widgets to
Continue reading »One of the more anticipated documentaries coming up for widespread release across the country is the new film "An Inconvenient Truth" – focused on telling the real story of global warming and leveraging the growing popularity of Al Gore’s "resurrection" (as Wired magazine termed it) from the "former next president of the United States" –
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