PR Studies: Video killed the TV star

Monday, October 06, 2008

Video killed the TV star

Academics, it often seems, are focused on blogging; consultants on podcasting; students on social media sites such as Facebook. Yet the biggest Web 2.0 phenomenon of them all, YouTube, has risen almost without comment and debate in three short years.

So I'm glad to hear of a new Demos report, Video Republic, being launched today. It is previewed in this piece in Technology Guardian today.

UPDATE: Here is the publication in PDF format.

6 Oct 2008 16:01:28 | Social media

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