Our Video Ad on Million Dollar Web TV

What's in it for us, in addition to having our ad always on the front page for 10+ years?

How about:

* Displaying our video for free?
* Expusure to at least 100,000 targeted visitors a month?
* Ability to add new videos and rotate them?
* Sharing in profits in proportion to our investment?
* All this for spending only $1,800?

I made the video ad myself, combining the animated gif camera with the other graphics elements in a 320x240 web page. Voice-over came from a text-to-speech synthesizer, courtesy of BlueGrind. I recorded both running at the same time, using Ambrosia's SnapzPro X, then converted the clip from QuickTime to Flash with Cleaner 6.5. Hardest part was to visualize and design the ad!

Cybercast credit: Million Dollar Web TV

Welcome to Our Latest .TV Domains

We're on a roll, having just acquied 7 more premier .tv domains for our up-and-coming Intenet TV network coglomerate (Google-YouTube, Viacom, Fox Interactive, etc, etc, beware!):

after8.tv - 70ies.tv - 80ies.tv - 90ies.tv - BroadwayHit.tv - StarChef.tv - TeenLove.tv,

in addition to the ones we've already had:

Culinart.tv - LoveYou.tv - MillionDollarWeb.tv - OffBroadway.tv - SciFiWorld.tv - Studio13.tv, and TimeSquare.tv.

Any one of you interested in investing or co-developing these properties? Leave us a comment. If you are new to this business, here is what Matt Smith, founder of DomainersEdge with a very successful domain porfolio, says about investing in domain names:





Broadcast credit: Google Video (yesss siree, they are still around....)

EveryZing Doesn't Zing Everything

EveryZing has launched a search engine that it hopes will change the way people search for video and audio online. Formerly known as PodZinger, a podcast search engine, EveryZing is leveraging speech systems developed by technology company BBN that converts spoken words into searchable text with about 80 percent accuracy.



I did a video search on Million Dollar Web TV and the pilot episode of Love Show by June. Results were far off! While we have not done PR or marketing for either site, the pilot episode of "Love Show by June" has garnered over 6,300 views on YouTube and 15,490 views on its own site.

Like most others, they promise to monetize your content. The kicker is that they would connect your creations with advertisers automatically. Interesting concept if it works and, especially if it allows you to choose whom you go with. Coming the fall of 2007....

MillionDollarWebTV.com Is Going HDTV

June, one of my partners in charge of marketing, showed the rest of us ignoramuses the latest statistics about high definition tv (yes, HDTV) and computer monitor sales some three months (eons?) ago. She was intoning, with a missionary's zeal:

"Digital convergence is now combining the functions of HDTV and computer monitors into one device, in the 16:9 screen dimensional ratio. Sales of these HDTV monitors are climbing fast, making the single function computer monitor obsolete. Here, watch what Robin Heron and Patrick Norton of Digital Life TV, affectionately known in geekdom as DL.TV have to say about everything HDTV:





So. What are YOU going to do about it???" she demanded to know.

We squirmed. (Not really.) "Good question. What do YOU propose we do about it???????" Million Dollar Web TV will be operational for 10+ years. What are we to do about it? We could / should / might / may:

1. Change the home station page ad grid layout to 1250 x 800 pixels.
2. Redesign the other pages to conform to this ratio.

So we have. Our developers outdid themselves - all in midstream of building the site. They probably - surely? - call me a slave driver. If that's what it takes… I can handle that… especially from thousands of miles away….

Broadcast credit: Google Video