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The Marketer’s Cheat Sheet to Viral Video (as taught by a YouTube superstar)

Kevin Nalts has earned more than 25 million views on YouTube. How can you get visibility like that? Nalts has some tips for you in his excellent blog post, The Marketer’s Cheat Sheet to Viral Video.
Here is Kevin Nalts’ eight-step summary of how to do viral video (slightly condensed):
Step 1: Determine if your [...]

Flash or iPhone/AJAX - who’ll own the mobile web?

Several readers left thoughtful comments about my recent post, Flash for the iPhone? It’s Apple vs. Microsoft all over again…
Ird writes: Steve Jobs has no intentions of supporting Flash; especially on the iphone. Apple’s pushing the H.264 open standard and will stick to its guns because Apple want to use it this standard for AppleTV, [...]

Google launches a new distribution partner for Video AdWords: Google

Google is launching a new initiative (very very quietly): they’re adding video ads to Google’s own search result pages.
This doesn’t come as a surprise; if anything, it’s way overdue. Google introduced Video AdWords back in mid-2006 but confined them to its “content network”. This week’s news indicates that Google is now going to [...]

US Retail E-Commerce Sales to grow to $245 billion by 2011

Here’s some more interesting data from eMarketer: online retail sales are expected to grow to $245 billion by 2011, from about $131 billion in 2007. That’s a 17% annual growth rate from 2007 to 2011.

Did Yahoo Stores lose $20 million in one day?

2007 is a turning point for “Cyber Monday” — the year this invented concept turned from obscure marketing gimmick to industry rallying cry. The best part is that customers seem to be playing along.
Every rose has its thorn, though… and this year, perhaps the most dramatic prick happened to Yahoo Stores. Yahoo Stores [...]