Waterskiing Monkeys

Our new "v-rank" rating for content has picked out a great new video that I thought I had to share with all of our readers, in case you don't keep an eye out on the main viral content network rankings (shame on you, go over there and add it to your favorates!):

VCN, meet Jo, Jo meet VCN

Hey all, Joanna is in the Bristol Office for the next few weeks and is charged with feeding the penguins as much as possible. She has already done good work on the environmental stuff when she was with us a few weeks back and is taking a look around for some other bits. Today she went through some past B3TA newsletters to see if there were any gems among their weird websites. In addition to this, she's working hard on the Ad database, looking in particular at adding bloggers. It's a slow process but she's found some good people that we can use in the future.

Next week she should have a proper dabble in seeding a campaign too. The week after that, she'll have my job...

Have a good weekend, y'all.

Kirk.

V-rank lives, a selection of the highest ranked videos so far

As promised, here is a selection of some of the highest ranked content according to our new method for ranking the viral quality of content. These have been chosen from a small test set, but they are certainly all worth watching! If you like what you see, stay glued to the viral content network.

The frustrated video dater:




Where's Waldo?:
A strange mix between Blair Witch and what us Brits will remember as "Where's Wally" - can you spot him?





And finally, just to show that it is impossible to predict what people will love, here's Falcor:

Progress so far

I realised that I am still to post on the blog, so I thought I would pop a quick blog post up to mention some of the exciting recent developments we are having with the work on the viral content network:

1. Our new backend database has a few thousand entries in it, which means lots of interesting statistics are coming out of it, and there is lots of data for us to test our system.
2. Within the next few days we will be testing our new method of measuring the viral quality of content, which I am currently dubbing the content's "v-rank". Stay tuned for a look at what our new method says are the best viral videos and games in our system.
3. The feedback from Kho's phone spree has started to find it's way into the system

Than's enough for this time, stay tuned for a first look at how our statistical wizardy works on selecting really great content, or even better, subscribe to our RSS feed.

Cold-Calling-Tastic

To get the ball rolling I have finally worked up the courage to do some cold calling done for VCN! Woo!

I have spent the afternoon contacting a few publishers to see if they would be interested in what VCN has to offer. Judging from their websites it looks promising. The people on the other end are friendly although they don't really know what VCN is as its so new. Hopefully the publisher pack that Chris provided should help. (I've hit some dead ends as well).

However more work needs to be done! We really do need more publisher websites to contact and if you can think of any good sites/blogs that would love VCN and the free content contact me immediately!

- Kho.

VCN Lives!

The crack VCN team met up today in Bristol to kick things off properly. This blog is part of our new post-stealth mode team blitz thingy.
Here's a photo of the team in full note making mode . . .