PickVidsBest Product, marketing & sales Videos
The 81 Product, marketing & sales videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 14 introductory, 1 intermediate, 66 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include Y Combinator, Tom Scott, Veritasium.
Bill Hicks on "Marketing" (Explicit Language)
A two-minute clip of comedian Bill Hicks doing his routine on marketing and advertising, with explicit language.
George Carlin - advertising and bull shit
A clip of George Carlin riffing on advertising and the nonsense around it, taken from a longer piece tied to the Zeitgeist movie.
$h!tty Thumbnails on Linus Tech Tips - Honest Answers Ep. 5
Linus Tech Tips addresses criticism of its clickbait-style thumbnails in an Honest Answers episode, explaining that the YouTube algorithm pushes creators toward them.
The Real Product Market Fit by Michael Seibel
YC partner Michael Seibel discusses his essay on real product-market fit, why founders wrongly believe they have it, and how building a company is not a single-variable problem, drawing on Justin.tv and Socialcam.
Google is killing authentic websites & I made it worse 😔 Here's why I RUINED my company website
Louis Rossmann explains how Google delisted his repair business site for almost a year, and how having AI rewrite his authentic content into corporate-style text finally restored his rankings.
Steve Jobs: Sale/Marketing People vs. Product People
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining how sales and marketing people take over mature companies from product people, leading to product decline.
Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
The Futur's guide to pricing design and creative work, arguing against hourly rates and for value-based pricing.
The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook & Google - Who Wins/Loses (Scott Galloway, L2 Inc.) | DLD15
Scott Galloway's DLD15 talk assessing the competitive positions of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
AWS re:Invent 2020: Working backwards: Amazon’s approach to innovation
An AWS re:Invent session explaining Amazon's Working Backwards process, where teams start from customer needs and write a press release and FAQ (PR-FAQ) before building.
Google Chrome Speed Tests
Google's 2010 Chrome ad filmed web page rendering with a high-speed camera, comparing it with a potato gun, a pirate ship and lightning.
Parisian Love
Google's 2009 'Search Stories' ad, shown in the Super Bowl, tells the story of an American who falls in love in Paris entirely through search queries.
Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
The 2010 Old Spice commercial featuring Isaiah Mustafa, shot as a continuous sequence with scene changes and practical effects.
United Breaks Guitars
Dave Carroll's song and music video about United Airlines baggage handlers breaking his Taylor guitar and the airline's refusal to compensate him.
The late and great Bill Hicks on "Marketing"
A two-minute Bill Hicks comedy bit attacking advertising and marketing people.
The TRUTH About How LTT Makes Money
Linus Tech Tips breaks down the company's income streams, including sponsors, YouTube Premium, merch and other products.
THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training
Chapter 11 of the documentary The Corporation, on how marketing targets children, including the Nag Factor study that taught kids to nag their parents more effectively.
Abusing YouTube Copyright Claims (Tutorial)
The Original Ace shows how creators can use a third-party music distributor to file Content ID claims on their own videos, turning false-claim abuse into a share of ad revenue.
Facebook Here Together (UK)
A 2018 Facebook UK ad, part of the 'Here Together' campaign, promising to do more to keep users safe and protect their privacy after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Cloaking
Matt Cutts of Google explains what cloaking is: serving different content to search engine crawlers than to users.
Futurama - S01E06 - Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
A clip from Futurama's 'A Fistful of Dollars' where Fry and Leela discuss ads appearing in dreams.
This Unicorn Changed the Way I Poop - #SquattyPotty
A viral Squatty Potty ad in which a unicorn demonstrates the supposed benefits of squatting to poop.
Magic Whiteboard - Dragons Den Winners - The Original & Best
Neil and Laura Westwood pitch their Magic Whiteboard, reusable static-cling whiteboard sheets, to the investors on the BBC's Dragons' Den and win 100,000 pounds of investment.
Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce | Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell's TED talk on how Howard Moskowitz found that there is no single perfect spaghetti sauce.
How to Break YouTube (Copyright Claim your own video)
A guide to using YouTube's Content ID by claiming your own videos through a distributor, so the claims share revenue with the creator and monetize re-uploads.