The Day Old Media Died

Thursday, June 11th, 2009 Posted in current events, video | Comments

If you've got a few minutes, check out the first couple of verses of this nearly syllable-for-syllable adaptation of Don McLean's epic "The Day the Music Died."  Some clever, euphonious devil has reworked it as a eulogy for the fat ...

Video Views Surpass Searches, Yet Market Under-Monetized

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 Posted in current events, video | Comments

Wow.  Well, we were given notice about a year ago that such a thing would come to pass, but it finally happened.  Online video views surpassed searches: November 2008 Video Views: 12.7 billion November 2008 Searches: 12.3 billion While the fact that video ...

Short-Form Ads

Monday, February 2nd, 2009 Posted in media coverage, video | Comments

We at ASM were tickled pink about the prospects for Miller High Life's 1 Second Super Bowl Ad.  In practice, however, we were a little disappointed.  Like the folks over at OnlineVideoWatch, a few of us missed the one 1-second ...

Huffington Post weighs in on Honey Bee mania – twice

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in current events, media coverage | Comments

The Huffington Post, which has overtaken the Drudge Report as the most-visited news website in the world, gave shout-outs to ASM's Honey Bee Mystery not once, but twice. The second article states "there is, bizarrely, a trend of disappearing bee videos," ...