From the LA TIMES article: Bebo Inc., the No. 3 social network website, is trying to catch up to market leaders, MySpace and Facebook Inc. by allowing major media companies to add music and videos to its site for free and keeping any ad revenue they generate.

Bebo is the number one social network website in the U.K. that looks to be on the come up in the US. Earlier this year the site generated buzz by creating their own version of Lonelygirl15 called Kate Modern, which the LA Times article states has been viewed around 25 million times.

Keep an eye on Bebo or just sign up to see what all the growth is about. I am curious to know how the sites functionality stakes up against MySpace and Facebook.

I was catching up on some Gossip Girl I had missed and heard a song at the end of the sixth episode that fit this particular scene really well. I found out from a site that the song was called Happy Ending by Mika. Google that and found this incredible video below. The song is really good too. This guy is definitely taking a chapter out of the Freddy Mercury book and I dig it.

Apparently the public digs this song/video too as the clip was posted on YouTube on the 17th of September this year and has already been viewed over 1M times. That is called exponential growth. Gotta love/acknowledge too how cool it is in the digital age that I can watch this show online, google search to find the song and find the video online in a matter of minutes. This damn “demand generation” has me silly. Also if you are interested in learning the music that has been featured on Gossip Girl then click here.

I watched the first two webisodes/episodes and while I love-love-love this concept and the set up there is something missing here in the execution. Perhaps something along the lines of an older dude trying to tell my story. These guys are seasoned professionals who do what they do really well yet the voice is just off for me.

Gossip Girl gets my respect because I feel like they keep it real with the pace of the story (reflects fast pace life of today), in your face drama (wow factor) and in general is just more entertaining (ties all together really smoothly).

This Dylan Krieger? Not so entertaining. Don’t take my opinion though, watch it here for yourself.
Read the press release here.

YouTube and Oprah’s Harpo productions striked a partnership deal. I give mad props to Harpo for taking advantage of the online platform by offering the viewers “insider” content. This can create an even deeper relationship between Oprah and the avid fans of her show. People should keep a close eye on this. YouTube has got to be excited as well as they need more credible/professional content to give the site legitimacy so that more brands will feel comfortable with advertising on their site. CLICK HERE TO READ

Forrester announced their prediction for online video advertising revenue at $7.1B in 2012. eMarketer is saying it will be $4.1B in 2011. What can we make of this? That this business is GROWING! To give you perspective of the online video ad revenue growth, the projections for this year is just north of $400M. CLICK HERE TO READ

The video blogging has been out of control lately. Yes, I know. Yet, with all that good video content out there, I just can’t help myself! This will be fifty minutes well spent as Jay discusses the American Gangster album, his evolution and how his next mountain is helping the music biz find its way back home.