Comments on: Disappearing Edwards Videos – One Case for Brightcove

By: Reelpolitik.org » Blog Archive » Video Cover-Up: Have Al Gore’s 2008 campaign videos been scrubbed?

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:50:18 +0000

[...] I wrote once before on a disappearing video from Senator John Edwards – in which he calls his Elizabeth, and asks if he can go to the NBA Finals while in town for a campaign stop. I thought it was great, and had the exclusive feel that campaigns need to explore further. [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:32:32 +0000

I like Blip a lot, too.

As for ease of embedding, Brightcove has a pair of buttons (not unlike YouTube) which can copy to your clipboard either the link or the embed code for whatever you are watching.

No campaign should leave out YouTube. Like so many others say, you have to go where the people are. It’s like canvassing. You don’t walk sparsely populated areas…you walk dense ones. YouTube is the Manhattan of online video density.

I was actually quite befuddled by the Clinton “Sopranos” video this morning, because it took so damn long to see it on YouTube, where it could have been flourishing all day.

The biggest problem I see in the off the shelf distribution channels is the inability to put your own post-roll click-through links. Having that capability could better use the video as the hook, and offer a course of action to pursue at the end.

Because – as great as the Sopranos video is – these pieces are not about cinema…they’re about organizing action to win an election.

By: shelbinator

shelbinator — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:25:08 +0000

I’ve been a big advocate of Blip.tv over YouTube in my circles because of the improved quality, choice of formats, podcast enclosure support, and Creative Commons licensing. However, my YT-prone cohorts come back at me with the extreme ease of copying the embed code from a YT video you find in someone else’s blog (either copy it directly from the new & improved YT player or click the player to get to the root YT page), whereas there’s almost no way for a viewer of a Blip video on a blog to find the originating page from which to copy their own embed. As far as virality goes (crucial to a campaign), YT wins there; Blip needs to catch up (they say they’re improving their player to be more like YT’s). How is Brightcove on that?

Another service that could be handy for campaigns is something like Crowdabout.us, which allows for time-associated tags/comments to be attached to a video, giving us bookmarks to click to a particular issue that matters to us rather than wading through 20 minutes of stump speech. Any other bookmarking services for videos?

By: Edwards’ missing 1:03 at PrezVid

Edwards’ missing 1:03 at PrezVid — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:01:23 +0000

[...] ReelPolitic notices that the Edwards campaign has taken down the video I wrote about the other day showing the candidate asking his wife permission to go to a basketball game under the proudly snarky headline, ‘Will he ask for permission to invade Iran?‘ Click on the video now and it’s “private.” Ah, but there is no private in a presidential campaign. ReelPolitic asks: “Did Jarvisâ€™ snark drive this video into privacy?” Well, if so, that’d be silly. The Edwards video was the first spark I saw of a candidate being just a little loose on the little camera. If someone in the campaign tries to sanitize, script, and spin that, they’re missing the point of the medium. Put the video back up. What’s the harm in looking human? [...]