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Friday, January 23, 2009
They both had free content available online that made them money, cash money, money!
YOUNG MOOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Mashable wrote an interesting piece the other day about Monty Python's YouTube Channel. If you haven't seen it, go! Everything is available for free. There's a selection of their top clips as well as a darling pitch for viewers to go and buy their dvds.
Surprise, surprise...
It's working.
Sales of Monty Python DVDs have climbed to No. 2 on Amazon's Movies and TV Bestsellers list. How can this be when the content is free?
Thank YouTube's "Click to Buy". If you haven't already seen it, watch the video I posted and wait for the little bubble to pop up inviting you to buy some movies. This is an option that was previously only available to YouTube partners to include on their English video, however, as of January 21, 2009, YouTube has expanded the functionality to support links to the iTunes store for German, Spain, and Netherlands users.
The good thing is, we are starting to see proof that free content can result in sales of product. While free redistribution of copyrighted materials is a hot topic for the entertainment industry, they will have to choose. I agree with Stan at Mashable, who put it nicely, "you can’t control, monitor and bully users on the ISP level, and reap benefits from free redistribution of content at the same time. Sooner or later, the entertainment industry will have to choose."
Truth is, the entertainment industry is trying to have it both ways! No surprise there! Youtube partners will now be able to leverage the Content ID system. This will allow partners to identify user content that matches their own and to automatically insert the "Click to Buy" overlays.
Apparently, YouTube just has not done enough to monetize their site - so let's make it increasingly annoying for users.
Because everyone fucking loves pop ups.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Matt sent me this link of cool mug designs for 2009 and I thought I would share it!!
This isn't a very descriptive picture... it just looks like an ex boyfriend of mine getting thwapped in the face with a mug.
It's providing hours upon hours of comedy for me. "GIVE ME BACK MY SHIT, AHOLE!"
hahahahahaha
Click on the pics to take a look at the list... here's a few of my favs, here:
In the mail, I got a new product to rock out with...
L'Oréal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara
So far so good... my favorite part about it is that the mascara can be removed by using water. It just flakes off!
Want a special offer and try it too? Here's a coupon with information on getting $5 off the mascara, which puts in the Great Lash $5-$7 dollar range.
It does make my lashes look bigger, thicker and fuller... But, I haven't put it through the big tests just yet.
I just hate when it clumps... primer mascaras have a tendency to lack that smooth finished look that doesn't scream, "HEYA! I'M WEARING MASCARA, YA'LL!"
Simply wiping the wand down and using a light touch when applying seems to be enough to get smoking hot eyes. To be safe, I follow up with my own clean lash brush to get rid of any extra pesky clumps after the primer and the final step.
I get a nice natural curve with thick extended lashes that normally only come when I use individual falsies.
More to come in the mascara saga! But, feel free to pick some up and let me know how it goes.
xoxo
kc
Paris Hilton is malevolent pop culture seductress. She weens our attention to focus on the declining health of her rotating cast of BFFs liver health.
Well, there are few celebrities that Paris can rely on for social alcoholism these days. Amy Winehouse is a little too far gone, and everyone else is in rehab or recovering. So what's a girl to do?
Let's make a celeb and corrupt her the good ol' fashioned way!
Paris is a star fucker, but is she a star maker?
Obviously, I'm not available to party with Miss Hilton, besides, my poverty doesn't permit me to jetset to exotic locations beyond the Bloor Street Valu-Mart. I must be content to sit and read up on her life via the internet.
Kind of like her new BFF winner, Brittany Flickinger. She was dumped, dissed and dismissed in Sundance by Paris who apparently was rocking out with a Danity Kane singer.
Paris is gearing up for a new season of My New BFF, while Brittany is posting on her myspace blog about her "favorite girl" and bonding with the myspace creators.
uh... hot?
You know what was hot about Sundance? Brittany apparently running out of a bathroom shouting to Paris, "Wait for me! Don't leave me in the bathroom"
Listen, Brittany... Let your new BFF KC give you some advice - Paris is going to do her thing and you my dear are acting like a well trained pet. But, we all get tired of things that cling, so why don't you party it up, have a great time. Go back to fronting your band and being awkward around men, that's the girl Paris fell for...
And, BTW - if someone buys you a fanny pack - it's usually a gag gift.