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VidCon Schedule Spectacular!

2010-03-03 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · reflection essay

Hank announces the preliminary VidCon schedule and, disagreeing with John about The Marriage Ref but not about Jeff Zucker, argues that YouTube's top channels make a new kind of authentic 'social video', which is why VidCon should exist.

What is said

00:00:00 — Bad news: Viacom pulls The Daily Show and The Colbert Report from Hulu; good news: the preliminary VidCon schedule is finished

  • ★★ Hank reports, as bad news, that Viacom has decided to stop showing The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on Hulu. — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank announces the preliminary VidCon schedule is finished, so people can now see what will be going on. — 00:00:00 · VidCon

00:00:27 — Hank's excitement about VidCon; replying to John, he found The Marriage Ref entertaining

  • ★★ Hank says that, organizing it himself, he struggles to get distance from VidCon, but at moments realizes it will really happen and is extremely excited. — 00:00:27 · VidCon
  • ★★ Disagreeing with John's last video, Hank says he watched The Marriage Ref and found it entertaining, not that bad, perhaps because of his man crush on Alec Baldwin. (hedged) — 00:00:27
  • ★ Hank doubts anyone takes The Marriage Ref seriously and says that, compared to The Bachelor, it is fantastic since the couples are already married. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:56

00:00:56 — Jeff Zucker is clueless about YouTube: top channels make a new kind of 'social video' built on authenticity and connection

  • ★★★ Hank says Jeff Zucker is probably right about TV, his job, but on YouTube is as unqualified and clueless as Tiger Woods hosting The Marriage Ref. — 00:00:56 · YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank argues YouTube is not a new way of experiencing old things, as Zucker thinks when he treats it as America's Funniest Home Videos without Bob Saget. — 00:01:26 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank says 19 of the top 20 most subscribed YouTube channels make kinds of content that have no name because they did not exist five years earlier. — 00:01:26 · YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank calls most of this new content 'social video': even Miley Cyrus vlogging is a personal interaction, not reality television but reality. — 00:01:46 > «what I've started to call social video»
  • ★★★ Hank says even Shane Dawson playing a character is just Shane, without editors, writers or marketing budget: a new type of video about authenticity and connection. — 00:01:46

00:02:31 — Why VidCon exists and what is on the schedule: talks, Rhett and Link, Mystery Guitar Man, meetups, YouTube staff; dates and link; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says this is why he wants VidCon: something important is happening on YouTube, and people who understand it should meet to talk, learn, plan what comes next and celebrate. — 00:02:31 · VidCon, YouTube
  • ★★ Hank says VidCon mixes serious talks, like Ze Frank's, with fun such as Rhett and Link writing a song on stage and Mystery Guitar Man making a stop-motion video with audience sounds. — 00:02:31 · Ze Frank, VidCon
  • ★★ Hank says VidCon will have dozens of meetups and classroom sessions, YouTube company staff taking suggestions, dance parties, concerts, karaoke and a sword swallower. — 00:03:09 · YouTube, VidCon
  • ★★ Hank says the 9th and 10th will be packed, the 11th is left open for attendees to design their own activities, and the schedules are up at VidCon 2010, linked below. — 00:03:39 · VidCon

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