Last Thursday, Barack Obama’s views from his official videos on YouTube totaled 778,373, more than seven times John McCain’s total (102,064). Although some of this is doubtlessly due to VP rumors, much of the spike was caused by Obama’s foray into attack ads with “Seven,” which had 464,883 views yesterday, knocking Obama out of a recent lull in which McCain was consistently beating him in daily views for the first time since 2/11/08, and 11/29/07 before that.
Brian Conley, creator of the video-blog “Alive In Baghdad,” was detained by Chinese authorities in Beijing while demonstrating with Students For a Free Tibet (below is one of their typical protests–unfortunately, footage of the actual detention is unavailable). We are proud that Brian’s vlog is distributed through us and our thoughts and prayers go out to him.
Gary Vaynerchuck of Wine Library TV delivered a rousing keynote address at New Media Expo (below). Among other comments he made at the expo, he flattered us with this one: “You’re an idiot if you’re not using TubeMogul.”
