While it is simple to join YouTube, there are quite a few important steps one must take before launching. First of all, there is a lot of customization that one can do to make sure a client’s YouTube channel blends well with the client brand identity, mirroring the parent brand.

In addition, structuring the channel, making sure the channel name is appropriate, and also make sure that if there needs to be content that plays for more than 5-minutes there are ways of extending that to hours. There are ways to make revenue as well, through Google AdSense.

Since members of the Abraham Harrison LLC staff has been using YouTube since it was launched in 2005, we understand that unlike television channels, YouTube is not simply a broadcast medium but it a community platform.  Like Twitter and other online communities like MySpace and Facebook, YouTube allows a very deep level of participation, which is what many companies, looking for the next viral hit or just a YouTube land-grab tend to forget.

It is important to not simply create the YouTube channel and make it pretty, it is important to also upload all of the videos required as well, knowing what the most appropriate file type, file size, and file quality it appropriate for each particular application or requirement.  It is also important to consider how the client is willing to share the content and with whom.

Via Abraham Harrison

As of the 8th April Morgan Spurlock’s documentary is showing in full on YouTube. It’s part of a new initiative to put more TV shows and films on the site. Super Size has had about 360,000 views in 10 days.

You can explore the different films here. Trust me – Super Size is one of the best on there. The range is smaller than a the video collection in a village post office. So far. But, like the village post office, they’ve got some totally unexpected things there, like Aguirre Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo & St Elmo’s Fire. Although that last one’s blocked in the UK.

There are also TV shows, but these all seem to be blocked for the UK. We’re not missing much though – Alf, Married With Children, Barney Miller, Jackie Chan cartoons, Sherlock Hound… Nothing to get excited about.

The potential is there though. The quality looks ok, and YouTube certainly has the reach to make this a popular destination for entertainment.

(Via Stephen Falk via Mitch Magee)

UPDATE: I shared this post with them and they wished me well on my trip to Aspen! They live out in the corn fields and, aside from someone’s basement at someone’s house, they practice here at Starbucks!  I am having quite a lot of fun here in Topeka, Kansas!  I love the way these kids roll!

I just caught this commercial on TV and laughed by ass off when a ram, our of nowhere, butted some gum-chewing guy on a cell phone in the belly.

I am now beginning to rock my Nokia N95 8GB with some pretty cool stuff, all recommended from my friends online and also in person at BlogPotomac, in the case of QIK.

QIK – An amazing little app that is free and I have downloaded and installed that allows me to stream live video from my phone directly to my QIK profile.  What is even cooler is that QIK is tied into cross-posting to other spaces, such as directly to my YouTube profile as well, so all I have to do is do the recording and it goes to both places.  When I am recording, it is actually streamed live directly to either my profile page or to an embed, see below:

I am going to get that sorted today, hopefully. However, if you do have EDGE, you can still use it, but it won’t be live so much as just recorded and then uploaded over time to your profiles.I give QIK.com full marks — it is the sort of thing that allows me to gloat when I am around those insufferable iPhone users.