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VideoBrand is a digital marketing blog and YouTube channel that helps entrepreneurs learn how to use video to grow their brands. We focus on helping creators, marketers, business owners, and entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes make better videos.

Our content includes tutorials on making videos, using YouTube as a marketing channel, and the latest news in the world of video media and marketing.

The Future: “Welcome To The New World of Distribution”

Sep 17, 2008 |

indieWIRE: FIRST PERSON | Peter Broderick: "Welcome To The New World of Distribution," Part 1. This is a great article anyone looking to make a film should read. This is what I'm trying to do with You 2.0 (life hacking movie) and I think a lot of indie films don't get...

Hollywood Parties and Last Stop 174

Sep 7, 2008 |

Last Stop 174 aims to tell the human side of the bus hijacking in 2000 in Rio de Janeiro. The film felt very real and was like a portrait of a world. It reminded me of City of God, something that was brought up a lot (the main actor was even in City of God). It was...

LeBron Who? More Than a Game

Sep 7, 2008 |

My lack of pop culture (mainly sports) knowledge strikes again. I saw More Than a Game, a doc where filmmaker Kristopher Belman followed a high school basketball team in his hometown that happened to have a young, up-and-coming player named LeBron James, enabling...

A Good Film Festival is When You Don’t See Movies

Sep 6, 2008 |

Here's a quick, on the move post. Didn't see any movies yesterday, but it was still a great day. We met the donor that sponsored our trip at her gorgeous house and garden right in the middle of Toronto. After chilling in the industry internet lounge and grabbing some...

TIFF and JCVD

Sep 5, 2008 |

Despite having my name called over the speakers on the airplane before take off and my passport taken by security, we managed to make it to Toronto (the passport was returned and I never found out what that was about). We even made it in time to pick up our industry...

Blogging for Toronto

Sep 2, 2008 |

Bad news: I went down from #3 to #too-far-for-me-to-count on the Toronto International Film Festival blog list. Maybe I should start with the good news. Coffee and Celluloid is listed as one of the blogs for TIFF. I'm not sure if that's any sort of achievement to...

Thoughts on Directing After Directing

Sep 1, 2008 |

Pensive Directing I've only briefly mentioned the production of my thesis (the fictional one), and after having about a month to think it over, and finally seeing the dailies four weeks after filming (monthlies?), I have an idea of where I stand with the outcome....

State of the Fest – Do festivals matter?

Aug 29, 2008 | ,

State of the Fest | Part one: Do festivals matter? - The Circuit In the pantheon of viable choices for getting your film seen, film festivals continue to thrive (seems there’s a new one born every minute, right?), and that’s because, putting aside economic factors...