Youtube video slips in a commercial during a teen blog and makes big money

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group noticed a new form of product placement that will make its way into more forms of content seen on the internet and mobile phones.

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The famous YouTube video blog of Lonelygirl15 has added another fictional character to its charade of what looks like user created content but was exposed as the work of a professional and not a 16-year old in her bedroom.

The show’s creators feel they have integrated the commercialism to achieve even more reality for the show. “While the storyline comes first and the fact that the new character works at Neutrogena heightens the reality,” said LG15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, while counting bags of money from its hundreds of thousands of daily viewers.

Marketing the video blog to brands, included the following in the sales pitch: “This long-term relationship with Neutrogena is unprecedented, as the brand comes to life organically with the characters and storyline”.

Product placements in video games, search engines and mobile phone content was the last biggest sources of income for the advertising industry that have been doing lucrative product placements in television and film for years. This type of corporate character placement branding is new.

LG15’s video blogs are being viewed hundreds of thousands of times and other Web dramas such as Prom Queen are enjoying success.

The Neutrogena character will be an experiment worth watching as show creators and the whole industry, look for ways to monetize.

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Free Music Video's On Apple Iphone Through Advertising Support

Students will not be sent to jail for illegal file sharing!

The reason is, because the music industry got smart and had advertising pay for them.



Free Apple Iphone TV - Ben Charmy over at CNet is reporting "free" advertising supported music videos delivered to Apple Iphones, with your favorite TV shows coming next.

This is just as Michael Goldstein suggested in one of his previous posts:

"Michael Goldstein’s Stun Mobile Media and USA group tackle the second stream idea with a suggestion and implementation of creating content enriched with advertising. It’s like giving your kids vitamin enriched food and drinks. It tastes the same, and they don’t see or hear the difference, and its better for you. The cost of data can be decreased to allow for greater penetration much like India and some other countries who have superior data speeds with the lowest prices."

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Your Children’s School is allowig outsiders to arrest them on campus for file sharing crimes

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the new alarming article by Melissa Santos about a school’s identifying its students under threat of subpoena. For the school to avoid a lawsuit of their own, they are turning in and pointing out students.

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The University of Washington announced a new policy about illegal music file-sharing on campus:

• The school will not shield students from lawsuits from the recording industry.
• The school will track students down and serve them with legal notices.
• The student legal notice informs about settlement options prior to a lawsuit.
• The school will not pass the students’ names to the association.



A University of Washington spokeswomen said about the legal notices:
• The school will forward notices of pending lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America to students who engage in illegal downloading on the university’s computer network.
• The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association by paying it between $3,000 to $5,000
• If the offending student does not pay the settlement, they will be taken to court without possibility of a settlement.
Eric Godfrey, a student spokesman for the students at the University of Washington Seattle campus, informed students of the University of Washington policy Monday through a disturbing campus wide e-mail. The email said: “some students have letters on the way.”

Where do students typically use their computers?
Students can use the University of Washington Internet network not only in dorms and in campus computer labs, but also in fraternities, sororities and other housing off-campus.



Other University’s are wondering if their students need to worry. Spokesman Mike Wark said of his University, that it has not been a discussion of the school’s administrators on their policies concerning illegal file-sharing.



While no known students of the University of Washington have been prosecuted for illegal file-sharing to date, the music companies are getting their message across to try and stop illegal file-sharing.




With the current speed of downloading and file sharing moving at speeds that don’t deter file sharing, and taking no longer than an IPOD song to be downloaded, it is no wonder that the music industry is taking notice and trying to crack down on file-sharing services. Their current campaign is to target individual downloaders at some token schools and Universities without going all out to war.


The recording companies started sending pre-lawsuit letters to certain universities earlier this year as a strategy to combat file-sharing on campuses. By making their message known through the press and the courts, they might not have to crack down at all schools.

Michael Goldstein, who regularly writes about the casual illegal downloading by today’s teens to portable computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, suggested that the teens will grow up and continue to see nothing wrong with illegal file-sharing as adults. Mr. Michael Goldstein’s Stun Mobile Media and USA group tackle this idea with a suggestion and implementation of creating content enriched with advertising. It’s like giving your kids vitamin enriched food and drinks. It tastes the same, and they don’t see or hear the difference, and its better for you. Mr. Goldstein finds it hard to police all teens and adults who continue illegal file-sharing, rather he suggests looking at the problem with a new solution.
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A Mother fights the studio bulldogs to save son from his file sharing crime

Michael Goldstein of Stun Mobile Media and the USA Group have been following the court cases of file sharing of illegal content over the internet, and came across the case of a single mother Tanya Anderson.

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Tanya Anderson, the single mother from Oregon previously sued by the RIAA — which dropped the case just before losing a summary judgement — is now
suing the RIAA and their hired snoop Safenet (aka MediaSentry) for malicious prosecution. Read More

The legal savvy single mother Tanya Anderson proved a worthy opponent with some legal successes so far, is asserting claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. (RICO)



A reader at Groklaw has already learned that Tanya Anderson is seeking to have the RIAA forfeit the copyrights in question as part of the settlement (search the page for '18.6-7').

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