The Death of a Great Video Campaign – Apple Siri

Apple’s marketing for Siri started with a technical demo: The demo video was part of a set of product videos featured prominently on apple.com as part of the introduction for the iPhone 4s, and it did its job – it told you what Siri did, gave a few use...

3 Lessons From the ‘Steve Jobs as FDR’ Video

In 1984, Steve Jobs played American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in an internal corporate video spoofing the traditional ‘rally the troops’ message. What lessons can we, as marketers using corporate video, take from this newly unearthed gem? TREAT...

LongTail’s State of HTML5 Video

LongTail Video, makers of JW Player (which is an excellent choice if you must host your own video) have released their ‘State of HTML5 Video’, detailing the overall and feature-specific compatibility of HTML5 video in today’s most popular web...

Netflix Hits ‘Undo’ on Qwikster Nonsense

Wanna know how to make a third of your market cap disappear?  Follow up an egregious price increase by splitting a beloved, integrated service into two lesser, incomplete, separate services.  Then give one of those businesses an almost impossible to spell name and...