CollegeHumor

You Will Totally Work for This Start-Up

Peter Kafka in Media on May 17, 2011 at 11:35 am PT

“Similar to Foursquare, except it’s for medical professionals who have HPV.”

Viral Video: David@Denny's

Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 12:17 am PT

This is a very funny CollegeHumor video series, called “Always Open With Dave Koechner,” a great if unsung comic. It is set at a Denny’s restaurant. Really.

Voices

Building Loyalty on the Web

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 28, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Companies rushing to develop original video series for the Web are scrambling to solve one of the industry’s biggest problems: building an audience. The challenge, which has stumped creators since the dawn of Web video, is getting more urgent as many producers shift their attention from creating one-off viral hits to online video franchises.

Meta Men: Yahoo Advertises Advertising to Advertisers

Peter Kafka in Media on November 24, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

What if somebody made a version of “Mad Men,” but replaced the nostalgia and sex appeal with timeliness and accuracy? It would be sort of amusing, in small doses. Like this clip Yahoo made with other pitchmen in mind.

Weekend Update, 05.23.09

Oliver J. Chiang in News on May 23, 2009 at 5:17 pm PT

This Weekend Update is particularly exciting because of all the things happening here at All Things Digital. There is, of course, the upcoming D7 Conference, which promises to be more tech-extravaganza fun than a tweet from @sockington (if only half as cute), but this past week has also seen the launch of our very own iPhone app, meaning that ATD has gone mobile–smart news for your smartphone (we’re still working out potential taglines).