Just Say No to Non-Embeddable Video
By Barry Ritholtz - April 24th, 2011, 4:00PM
Attention Media flacks:
If you are going to send me a PR Spam about this great new video thats posted, but your company makes it unembeddable, you are wasting everyone’s time.
I certainly do not speak for every blogger, but I would hazard to say many if not most feel the same way. (The hint was the lack of links to your non-embedded videos)
If I cannot embed it on the site, I am not going to mention it.
That is all . . .
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April 24th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
BR, is there something wrong with your Video page? It hasn’t loaded for me for about 3 days. All I get is the title of the most recent post.
April 24th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Yeah, its not loading properly
I have the developers looking at it
April 25th, 2011 at 8:37 am
Yeah…now if we could just figure out away to get around my company blocking most of the videos using Websense……that would make my week!
Apparently places like The Big Picture are not as trustworthy as such places as CNBC…….one of the biggest jokes I have ever heard.
April 25th, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Rich Chicks Give Their 77 Cents on Upscale TV
“…What I’m wondering, though, is why nobody has come up with a television network that caters to the wealthy women out there…”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-24/rich-chicks-give-their-77-cents-on-upscale-tv-commentary-by-susan-antilla.html
Sue, because you don’t get rich watching television. you don’t stay rich watching television. basically, television (to paraphrase Milton Friedman) always and everywhere …sucks.
Embed targeted videos and let people choose. To paraphrase the the “anti-Right-to-Life Movement” it’s a choice.
If you want mass coverage (and fawn your owner’s ego or your product is shit like Budweiser) buy an add on the Super Bowl, otherwise, target me. To paraphrase the gun lobby’s ubiquitous bumper sticker “Advertising doesn’t get people to by stuff, targeting advertising gets people to buy stuff.”
Embed. Embed. Embed.