Watch Now, Watch Often.... Pure Beauty

Dancing with the Universe is one of those videos that you need to watch every morning. You will surely be seeing it everywhere if you haven't already. It was posted June 20, 2008 and it already has been viewed a million times. What's so beautiful about it? What makes it so effective? It's a simple idea, yet it works in every culture, on every point of the earth. So please, take a second out of your busy life and watch this video, and then watch it again when you are stressed out. Where the Hell is Matt?

Great Commercial & Great Golf, Sketchy Video

Every once in a while the commercial gods come up with a spot that makes you proud to be an Amercian. Look for a lot more of this during the Olympics. Anyway, I ran across this old favorite in my archives... it's called the "Quiet Commerical" created the much embattled beer maker, Anheuser-Busch. It's pure beauty.

If you watched the U.S. Open yesterday playoff this past Monday between Rocco Mediate and Tiger Woods, you were gifted with an amazing match. The big question is what did you actually see on the web? For most of my watching time the video and sound were dramatically out of sync by as much as 30 seconds or more! Clearly MSNBC could not handle the viewing burden, although the PGA site fared a lot better keeping the video and sound in sync in real time. It will be interesting to see the traffic numbers for the site... not everyone could take the day off yesterday.

For golf lovers make sure to check out some technique PGA video tips on the site.... good stuff. I hope to put them to work this weekend!

Where are they watching video online?

So who scored more than 50% of online video viewing sessions in April of '08? It should come as no surprise that they are flocking to Google's YouTube, but 50.4% of the market? That's a BIG number. Perhaps not as much as the +70% of ads in the online universe that are served up by Google. Anyway, as Google gains in month to month figures over March of '08 (up from 48.1% in March of '08), who are the also-rans in this universe, and what kind of viewing numbers are they pulling down? In the #2 spot in online video viewing sessions is Yahoo with 8.2% of the market (April of '08), down from 8.5% in March. Then comes Fox Interactive Media at 6.6%, Microsoft at 4.1% and TimeWarner at 3.6%.

What amazes me is that only one of the networks even ranks in the top 5! ABC was #7, CBS Interactive #11 and Hulu (NBC and FOX) at #14. No doubt about the fact that the online video universe is not run by the traditional TV media world.