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Rumors are currently circulating in the blogosphere that YouTube is courting celebrities to create their own branded channels on YouTube. Following the success of Will Ferell’s Funny Or Die website, which he created to give celebrity-made and amateur videos an equal opportunity and place to get published on the web, more and more Hollywood celebs [...]

Did you know that it’s possible to get exposure on YouTube without even uploading videos? I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of stories on how YouTube has become a great avenue for small businesses and entrepreneurs to growing their business, but maybe you haven’t found the time to start making your own videos yet, or [...]

In news that both excites and annoys me, YouTube has announced that they’ll be teaming up with a couple of colleges in the states to offer a YouTube course this summer.  And get this – it’s free. Actually, it’s not only free, but they’ll even cover your airfare, food, and accomdations. Amazing right? Totally. What’s [...]

If you haven’t already heard, Spandy Andy and I have been sharing free videos in a new project called the Social Media Star Formula. It’s basically a training program that Spandy & I decided to set up because we get more and more people asking us questions on how we got so many views on [...]

Today YouTube announced “a significant increase in our commitment to our aspiring and successful creators on YouTube” by putting together a new team to “supercharge creator development and accelerate partner growth and success” called YouTube Next, and by revealing that they’ve acquired Next New Networks (who produce original web content). Good news for partners, although [...]

YouTube used to have a 5 star rating system until last year when they changed it over to a like/dislike rating system instead.  Easier for the average viewer I suppose since it’s a pretty basic choice – either you liked the video or you didn’t.  And when scrolling through YouTube videos using their app on [...]

I’ve been hearing more and more about the growth of mobile video and I’ve been noticing that a lot of my views  on YouTube are coming from mobile phones now. With a surge in mobile smart phone users the past year (currently 449 million users worldwide and projected to quadruple by 2014), and with mobile [...]

Got a bit caught up with internet marketing meet-ups and the promotion of our training program, the Social Media Star Formula, so it took me a little while to get to another parody video, but as soon as I heard that Lady Gaga’s new song “Born This Way” was coming out I knew I’d have [...]

So you have a business and want to promote it on YouTube – what do you do? YouTube has set a new stage for marketing, and it has proven through the past years how it has delivered remarkable results for businesses online. The world of online video is so much more diverse than your regular [...]

Since its inception, YouTube has been known as a kind of “Candid Camera” for the wild variety of staged and unstaged antics caught on its worldwide library of amateur videos. Many of these videos were posted as a prank and revealed by the perpetrators to their victims, much to the latter’s embarrassment/anger, while a number [...]