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Monday, February 26, 2007

Best Part of Oscars 2007 - The Comedians' Song


I liked this years Oscars... but lots of the "critics" didn't. Oh well. My favorite part was when Will Ferrell, Jack Black, and John C. Reilly sang a song about "a comedian at the Oscars is the saddest, bitterest allllllllll-coooooooo-hoooooooo-lic clown."

You USED TO be able to watch the video courtesy of CollegeHumor.com, but the Oscar people got pissy and pulled all their content from non-Oscar websites. And I can't find the same video anywhere on Oscar.com -- so now I am pissy. Thanks Oscar, for making me not like your brand.

Read this interesting post from Mark Cuban's Blog Maverick:

Comscore released data saying that 139k people visited Oscar.com on Oscar Sunday. Seperately, Mashable reported that the Oscars asked Youtube to remove videos from the show that had been uploaded. In the same report, Mashable had a screen capture that showed that an Oscar Comedy Musical video had been viewed more than 200k times. Lets say that those 200k views translate into about 100k actual people viewing the video.

The question is: Do the Oscars benefit or are they harmed by their video being seen on Youtube.com rather than Oscars.com?
As a consumer, I don't give a hoot where it is hosted - I just want to see the content. I don't care if it says Oscar.com, YouTube.com or whatever. But the fact that I now can't find it makes me frustrated with Oscar.

Posted: 2/26/2007 04:25:00 PM

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