YouTube Producers Toolbox Tech Talk at Google

Yesterday I went to the Producer Toolbox for YouTube 'morning of insight and inspiration for Interactive & Film producers'. It was hosted by Alison Lomax with talks by Charlotte Mart and a bloke I can't remember his name, as soon as I can find it out I will add it here, sorry I am more than rubbish with names and I forgot to write his down!

It was really interesting (maybe more so to me, a newbie to this stuff), they touched on some of the things which had already had a presentation on internally here at Albion, a couple of the social media planners gave us a talk on what was changing in YouTube (and other social site changes), so it was great to have a refresher of these and this YouTube event was much more in-depth than our in-house one. I really thought there would be more interactivity as the invite promised 'mix of presentations, interactive sessions and demo stations...' however I will say after the presentations I do feel I could create my own brand YouTube channel now, and I know what is available in the 3 channel options. I made loads of note and they gave us this great reference tool book:

USA Facebook/Passport figures

Interesting post on The Wall about hte number of Americans on Facebook compared with those with passports. Like the Jennifer Whitehead, I had heard the passport figure was around 5%. the figures are interesting.

Facebook apps work half as well as regular banners

Interesting article on this on Mashable.

Interesting statistics and graphs within the article, but they are all US based.

Personally I never click on them, but then do we notice banner ads? I am more inclined to interact with a cool takeover - that is if I am not in a hurry and find the takeover is annoying me. Fickle consumer.

Twitter London Lanscape Map

Just a bit of something I find more interesting that useful to us. I saw this when Stephen Fry posted a link to this on his Twitter today, amazing what people do with their time. This work was crafted by CASA's Fabian Neuhaus for his Urban Tick blog

Social Media 'Event'

There is an interesting Social Media 'event' taking place next week. there is a introduction post here on the feedingthepuppy blog. Have a look, get involved if you want to. Why should it just be planners and creatives who have all the ideas?!