Of late I have not been spending much time maintaining my blog. Being short on time and choosing micro blogging over traditional blogging is the cause. It is clear that Micro blogging is an excellent form of communications for people on the go... and well this site like many others has become a victim of Twitter and of status updates on Facebook.
Earlier this month, in an interview with CNBC, Google CEO Eric Schmidt
said, "We believe the best [YouTube] products are coming out this year.
And they're new products…much more participative, much more
creative...much more interesting in and of themselves."
"As part of our continued efforts to experiment with new ways to provide value to YouTube advertisers, today we're announcing one such new product: buzz targeting."
"One of the greatest aspects of YouTube is how it has democratized the way in which videos are discovered and promoted," said Shiva Rajaraman, YouTube Product Manager. "On any given day, a video from a top-tier content creator or an ordinary YouTube user can become the next big thing."
YouTube's product and engineering team tapped into this core ethos by creating an algorithm that determines which YouTube partner videos are quickly becoming popular on the site and about to go viral. The algorithm looks at several factors, such as acceleration of views, favorites, and ratings activity, and then allows advertisers to target their ads specifically to these videos on YouTube.
"Every advertiser hopes that their campaign will to be the next big viral hit online, and they come to YouTube to reach the millions of video viewers who are on the site everyday," said Rajaraman. "Buzz targeting lets them do both at the same time. They associate their brand with the hottest content of the day, while reaching the most engaged users in our community."
Lionsgate was the first advertiser to partner with YouTube in the pilot of this product, by using buzz targeting to promote the release of the film "The Forbidden Kingdom."
"With so many videos going viral on YouTube at any given time, buzz targeting allowed us to reach a very large, diverse audience,” said Danielle DePalma, Director of Digital Media, Lionsgate. "By running ads against some of the most prominent content on the site, we were able to place our brand at the center of the experience that millions of people have on YouTube every day.”
Ads for "The Forbidden Kingdom" ran against more than 500 of the most popular partner videos in music and entertainment, including content from major music labels and videos from users in the YouTube Partner Program.
"Buzz Targeting was an amazing opportunity for us to capitalize on the most popular videos on the site," said DePalma.
The question is not why you did it but rather why so cheesy!
Check out the drummer in the background. Not sure how this could of happened but they must of recruited him from some heavy metal band...
Amazing what goes viral.
More and more we are seeing viral political videos on Youtube. The latest US presidential candidate to join the viral video frenzy brouhaha is Mike Huckabee (REP - ARKANSAS) with his latest video with Chuck Norris. In the clip Hucakbee says that his plan to secure the border is "Chuck Norris". He goes on to say "there is no chin behind Chuck Norris beard, only another fist". There is no doubt that this sort of content will appeal to the masses. Funny thing is that streaming through the comments on Youtube I spotted a few "Chuck Norris for president comments, and I would never vote for Huckabee". Oh well I guess you can't win them all!
