Entries from December 2007

December 31, 2007

Why HD Doesn’t Matter

Anyone talking about how you need to do your web content in HD, please shut the hell up.
What you need is for your content to look good on DVD. Period.
This article at NYTimes.com seems to prove that.
If people spending big cash on their HD tvs are content with the picture quality of DVD, then [...]

December 30, 2007

YouTube’s Most Memorable Vids

I think this trend will continue.
The most popular videos on YouTube this year were a bunch of major label music videos - not the user generated content the site would like to be known for.
Good music videos will bubble up and be played a lot on the various sharing services. Those vids will get [...]

December 29, 2007

Goals for 2008

Personal
Be a better friend, son, and brother.
Enjoy the moment.
Get outside more.
Eat less red meat, and more vegetables.
Get rid of unnecessary things.
Move into a new place.
Professional
Supercharge Ninja merchandise revenues.
Maximize revenues from Advertising and Licensing.
Launch a new and original internet series.
Sell a project to Hollywood.

December 27, 2007

Online Video Ads Are Better Than TV

A new study confirms what we at AskANinja have known for a while — online video ads are effective.
CONSUMERS ARE 47% MORE ENGAGED in ads that run with television programs that they view online than those watched on a TV set, according to new research findings. A cross-media study by Simmons, a unit of Experian [...]

December 19, 2007

Fame Is Still Fickle In New Media

Scoble is right, this list is a little flawed.
But while he sorta was kidding about the publicists, I think you’re going to see that more and more in this space.
While I don’t think our fabulous publicists (hi Yosi) got us on this list — we were on the fictional character list last year too — [...]

December 19, 2007

Beware The Giants

It seems fitting that on the day that big media is allowed to get bigger, that we receive yet another reminder that putting trust into large corporations is never the smart move for indie content creators.
Perez Hilton’s YouTube Channel was suspended and his secondary account that he created to let the YouTubers know what happened [...]