As we reported here, John McCain surpassed Barack Obama in daily YouTube views for the first time since the primaries last week. After being forced to remove his popular “Love” video because of a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (which we noticed last Friday and Silicon Alley Insider covered here), McCain managed to make another video go viral, an attack ad making fun of Obama’s celebrity status (below). Apparently, McCain’s (sustainable?) strategy for making videos go viral is to make fun of Obama. A little lighthearted ad hominem never hurt anyone, right?
Targeting a male audience is about much more than just pretty girls or beer pong. Break Media, a network of sites founded in 1998, has it down to an art. Featuring short, humorous or action-packed clips, Break.com (their video flagship) reaches over 50 million men a month. All of this makes me happy to announce that syndication to and tracking on Break is now live on TubeMogul. To distribute to Break, check their box on an individual video’s launch page in the “Launch and Promote” section of your account.
We recently released a new, java-based resumable video uploader, which we are still testing. To try it out, click the “Try our resumable uploader” link in the upper-right corner of the “Upload a Video” page of your account. This new uploader’s functionality allows you not only to drag and drop files, but also to resume an upload where it left off should you lose your internet connection in the middle of an uploading a video (or, worse, at 99% done of a huge file). Down the road, this uploader will also allow us to handle larger file sizes as video goes HD and ever-larger. If you encounter any errors, please keep in mind its alpha status and let us know!
