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Unrelated Videos: Why YouTube VEVO Channels Deliberately Flunk Marketing 101

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

If you listen to music on YouTube, no doubt you’ve heard of the “VEVO” channels used by the major record labels. However, if you listen to non-dance, non-soft-rock, or older music, you probably wonder why VEVO channels’ “Related Videos” are anything but related. You may put on some Alice in Chains or Nirvana, but be [...]

TUTORIAL: Recent YouTube Site Changes – Where Did The RSS Feeds Go?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

A recent redesign to YouTube has hidden the ability to subscribe to channel RSS feeds. While the Web runs on RSS and there is nothing Google can do about it, many companies are trying to get you to sign up for an account by finding clever ways to hide their feed links. And as a [...]

This one’s for Gen Y

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

Obsolete

The Internet can get pretty bizarre sometimes…

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Either someone, or some group of people, has some kind of problem with Gloria Estefan, her husband, P Diddy, and some music industry figure named Frank Amadeo. I see these repeated comments and remarks posted on YouTube videos, people’s blogs, and business review sites (relating to their holding company "Estefan Enterprises") about supposed money laundering. [...]