YouTube Turns 5 Years Old

TechCrunch has a very good and interesting posting on YouTube at 5 years old.

Can you believe they are serving over 2 billion videos a day! As the article points out, that is twice as large an audience as prime time on the three major US TV networks.

Worth a look at Five Years In, YouTube

An Idea for Your YouTube Videos

Do you remember the Apple ads from 2002? I didn't - but I saw them when reading Fast Company.

I have embedded them below. Wouldn't this be a great appraoch to creating some YouTube ads for your business? Maybe a series with different customer types?

Ad #1

Add #2

Ad #3

Ad #4

How to Make Money with YouTube

This is a great story from Read, Write Web on how Sony, Amazon, iTunes and Google have taken a different approach to posting of copyrighted material in a mash up format.

A wedding video which in 2 weeks has over 13 million views using the song "Forever" as the soundtrack for the best wedding dance entrance I have ever seen.

Instead of having the video pulled read the link and see how they monetized it. Maybe this is part of what is to come.

Oh, here is the video...