Video explosion

Michael Eisner just invested in Veoh Networks - one of the many Internet video channels populating the Web. If  you haven't noticed, there's been an explosion of video channels, to meet our most idiosyncratic interests, exploding on the Web.  Want to know about Zardoz, the 1974 science-fiction film? Go onto Revver.com, and you'll find 321 videos that were tagged with the label "Zardoz." Theoretically, those videos should have some relation to Zardoz. If those videos were streamed one after another, so an Internet viewer could watch the videos passively, those video streams would be akin to a channel purely devoted to Zardoz. For those with a broader with a broader scope of interest, say, soccer, there is a channel for that too. Nike on Monday unveiled a television channel for soccer-crazed kids. It's an online channel through which Nike will try to use entertaining content to subtly sell its brand and products. It's a form of "marketing entertainment," says Hilmi Ozguc, founder of Maven Networks, a four-year-old startup creating the Internet channel for Nike.

What are the implications of such diverse creative bottoms-up endeavors? Oh, where do I begin? There are a lot.  Go to MarketWatch to read my Net Sense column.

Comments

[Nikki]

RE: Video Explosion

One of the best of the web video sites I have ran into lately is called THE QUACKPIT (www.thequackpit.com).

The Quackpit features: free eCards, sexy girl pics, funny videos, college humor, flash games, office humor, hilarious videos, funny pictures, jokes, pod casts, horoscopes, and pranks!

Also, they have recently acquired FU-cards.com, which is the the largest anti-eGreetings service on the internet. The creator of FU-cards is a psychologist who developed these eCards from the clients he counseled during the years tha he practiced.

FU-cards is the the newest line of greeting cards and the freshest humor eCard line in the adult/social expressions industry, today introduced the “Ultimate Greeting Card” website, an alternative eGreetings service for persons who are unable or unwilling to find the courage to confront others openly.

The mission of the online service is aimed at helping the non-assertive individual develop closure by expressing unresolved feelings such as anger or stress in a non-aggressive manner. “A physical expression of a strong feeling can be a useful means of venting hostility”, said the owner of FU-cards (who is a professional in the field of Psychology), “emotional relief from anger comes only when the expression is accompanied by some resolution of the problem, which caused the anger”. And for those who are still in denial, they have the option to send their eCards anonymously.

“Whether our service is used for personal therapy, social expressions, insults, break-ups, practical jokes, and/or to humor oneself, it’s all good! It’s your right…be assertive!”

FU-cards is a cutting edge service far superior to any other anti-greeting company in the marketplace.

FU-cards offers real paper card greetings and an extensive eGreetings gallery that allows it’s members to select from thousands of eCards, and/or create their own eCard by instantaneously choosing different inside greeting messages and animations to add to their favorite eCards (from over 50 foreign languages).

You can find these eCards along with hilarious videos at THE QUACKPIT
www.thequackpit.com

[fabio pezzotti]

Hi Bambi,

Fantastic article, very interesting. I have been following your articles
since 98 or so, I am actually in the Internet business, out of Milan,
Italy.

Anyway, again you are the best reading for the things I am interested
in.

Take care,

fabio

[Brian C]

Hi Bambi,

A great and timely article. We have just launched our new net channel http://videos.motovideo.com and it was interesting to learn what others are doing in this market space.

Best Regards,

Brian Crisp

President
www.motovideo.com

[StoryOnVideo.com]

Hi there...the radiation of video explosion that i can see is site which has a numbers of video streaming, and allow user to upload video..this kind of site got amount of hit everyday and their PR also high..same also with video greeting card . Many ecard site also has develop ecard featuring video streaming...