Poptub: Google tries best-of-YouTube TV show
Poptub features, among other things, interviews. Here host Maria Sansone interviews Matt Iseman of Sports Soup.
(Credit: CNET News)In its latest move to bring some commercial order to the YouTube chaos, Google has begun showing a brief video show called Poptub with perky hosts, amusing videos, promotional interviews, and a prominent Pepsi sponsorship.
The show, called Poptub, is produced by Embassy Row, which is run by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire creator Michael Davies, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The shows will be distributed not just through YouTube but also through the Google Content Network, which can distribute video to Google advertising partners.
Poptub has promised advertisers 3 million views of Poptub by the end of the year, according to the report. More than 100 installments have been prepared, and several are released each day.
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Good show! I hope this also include some of the lesser known talents - a lot of people
who work very hard... like Celebbb & CDMagz & qswfeh2121 & myself (poetsloft7) !
PLease don't forget the little guys & girls - thanks,
God bless,
Brian
Man In The Mirror
- by celebbb December 27, 2008 4:14 PM PST
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(3 Comments)We can see where your comming from...there are so so many people on sites like youtube.com that are screaming to be heard. It is unfortunate that the pot of gold on such web sites is defined by "subscriber numbers, comments and views".
As Celebbb says, numbers are fictionial...the heart and sole live forever.
The little guy is unfortunately categorized by his subscriber numbers. We have found the greater talent is among the smaller guy. The ones that push into so called fame... are equiped with expensive recording equipment and a network of YOUTUBE FRIENDS.
Its all about " who you know'.
Celebbb will promote anyone on the tube..."we have seen true talent ignored .
sincere
god bless
meriah.jason.the pilot cdrew [ i c o E