With the proliferation of devices like the video iPod, the vlog boom is on. As of March there were more than 6,500 vlogs, says directory Mefeedia.com, compared with fewer than 300 a year earlier. Apple’s (Research) iTunes store has offered vlogs for download as video podcasts since October, giving sites like Rocketboom a potential audience of 40 million iPod users.
Prime Time for Vlogs? (Business 2.0)
For this Generation@ video star, success is no longer about securing your own television show; it’s about making your own vlog a hit. Willing presenters are lining up. “We’re going to create a network of video bloggers on a range of topics,” Congdon says. She receives three to four e-mails per day, asking for jobs. “We want people in every big city, and even a few not-so-big ones. We’re not restricted like mainstream media. We do a different thing every day. Sometimes it’s news, sometimes it’s citizen journalism, sometimes it’s cultural commentary, sometimes it’s sketch comedy.”
Rise of the web video star (Sunday Times)
Video blogger Chuck Olsen has a storytelling sensibility that keeps fans coming back to his website for a daily dose. Chuck Olsen’s video blog points cameras at the far corners of Minnesota life.
In the past few months, Chuck Olsen’s website has shared stories about ice zombies, hairless cats, old buildings, female boxers, a man who competes with kids in beauty pageants, a collector of Kirby Puckett memorabilia and a cat that goes to college.
Minnesota’s stories served up (Minneapolis Star Tribune)