ethics
What happens when you have a video go seriously viral [http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37222375]? > A media frenzy ensued and ultimately Kim’s video was seen by tens of millions of people around the world. A slew of news organisations sought Kim’s permission to use the footage,
aggregation
How journalists behave when your video goes viral [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/c9b6250d-6557-4968-b0ce-e6eef3e04dfb] Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: > Broadly, their behaviour fell in to one of three categories: a)
creativity
YouTube celebrities – like comicbookgirl19 [http://www.comicbookgirl19.com] above – are the fastest growing media stars of our age, yet a group much of the mainstream media seems utterly unaware of. There’s an interesting piece arguing that female YouTube celebrities have greater influence [http://adage.com/article/digital/female-youtube-stars-carry-clout-mainstream-celebs/301119/
business models
A day at work watching YouTube videos [http://www.wired.com/2015/08/jukin-media/]: > A guy in a hamster suit falling over at a children’s birthday party also gets the nod. It reminds him of a video his company approved a few weeks ago—Bugs Bunny and Daffy
marketing
This is marvellous: It’s a piece of marketing for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus (a prequel, of sorts, to the Alien movies). I do hope that TED talks are this cool in 11 years…
Video
Bear this in mind next time someone tries to sell you viral video production services: [via Lee Smallwood [https://plus.google.com/100034828195835575273/posts/KUFkkoArQu6]]
community
Oh, oh so that’s what the whole Friday / Rebecca Black twitter [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/socialtimes/~3/NcwehRdJgww/] business is about. There are times when Twitter completely embodies the phrase “making a mountain out of a molehill”.
marketing
Love this: OK Go ditches record label [http://www.fastcompany.com/1578965/ok-go-ditches-record-label-after-very-public-tussles-over-youtube-embedding-rights] because they won’t allow embedding of music videos. If you publisher won’t promote you properly, why should you stay?
**[](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/IMG_1272.jpg)** **Eigenfactor** – not just how many, but who they are.**Betweenness** – I have a friend who seems to know
BBC
Behind closed doors at Radio 4’s flagship news show…
marketing
Lovely idea, lovely execution, and a great example of viral marketing: [Via [Open](http://open.typepad.com/open/2008/03/awareness-test.html)]