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The Death of Terrestrial TV: Part 1080

By John Furnari | Published: November 15, 2009
Clearly no, we haven’t written over a thousand posts on the pending doom of terrestrial television.  It does feel that way though. This week it’s another strong development from the fine folks at YouTube.  As of Thursday, 1080p Hi-Def video is now available on the world’s largest video portal and second most popular search engine. Here [...]
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90% Success :: 90% Fail

By Greg Cargill | Published: October 2, 2009
As you might already know, one of the most popular channels on YouTube is user iJustine.  I was just on YouTube browsing for channels to connect with for one of our clients and got sucked in by social media…  Justine posted a new video from the Law and Order SVU set and I gave it [...]
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Another Lesson In Social Media Marketing From Team Obama

By John Furnari | Published: September 23, 2009
Preface: Any reference to political figures on the bigMETHOD blog is in any way a vote of confidence nor critique of what is going on policy-wise in Washington, D.C. We’re talking strictly marketing. Many times already on this blog I’ve brought up how incredible the Obama team’s continued use of social media has been. As [...]
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Google Acquires On2 for $106.5 Million

By Greg Cargill | Published: August 5, 2009
When I logged into Facebook this morning the first thing that caught my attention was an article in my news feed from Mashable by Pete Cashmore (ah, the power of an internet that is connected!): BREAKING: Google Acquires Video Compression Company for $106.5 Million I am not going to get into a big recap of what they [...]
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Let’s make money, not war.

By Greg Cargill | Published: August 3, 2009
Part 1: Smart People Read this: “I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video case study” I assume by this point you have seen my high school classmate’s wedding video that spread from web success to news and talk show success recently. I blogged about how they missed the opportunity to monetize their video but it looks [...]
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