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.
Michael Seibel - Building Product
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel lectures at Startup School on building a product people want: identifying the problem, the customer, an MVP and which customers to pursue first.
Mike Arrington at Startup School 08
Mike Arrington of TechCrunch speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get press coverage for a startup and how to respond to it.
Thank You For Your Feedback - Don't Say Velcro
Velcro's follow-up to its "Don't Say Velcro" ad responds to viewer feedback, with a humorous take on trademark usage and alternative names for hook and loop fasteners.
DollarShaveClub.com - Our Blades Are F***ing Great
Dollar Shave Club's low-budget launch ad, in which the founder jokes his way through the case for cheap mail-order razors.
Enterprise Sales | Startup School
Y Combinator partner Pete Koomen, who led Optimizely to $100M ARR, walks through the enterprise sales funnel.
Native Advertising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on native advertising, showing how ads are disguised as editorial content in news media, including BuzzFeed and major newspapers.
Gary Vaynerchuk: Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - Web 2.0 Expo NY
Gary Vaynerchuk's Web 2.0 Expo keynote on building a personal brand in social media.
Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
A three-minute excerpt of a Steve Jobs interview in which he describes how monopolies let sales and marketing people displace product people, rotting a company's product sensibility, with Xerox as the example.
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School
A Startup School talk by YC partner and former Airbnb growth head Gustaf Alstromer on how startups get their first customers.
Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
MegaLag investigates PayPal's Honey browser extension, showing how it swaps affiliate attribution and was promoted by large YouTube influencers.
Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos
A short 2009 video of Jeff Bezos talking about Amazon and Zappos.
Game Theory: How PewDiePie Conquered YouTube
The Game Theorists analyze how PewDiePie rose to become the most subscribed channel on YouTube.
How to Become TripAdvisor’s #1 Fake Restaurant
VICE's Oobah Butler spends eight months using fake reviews to push a nonexistent restaurant, The Shed at Dulwich, to number one on TripAdvisor in London.
My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
Veritasium's Derek Muller explains his hypothesis that YouTube's algorithm, not viewer preference, drives views, and that click-through rate has become the key metric.
So...TikTok Sucks
Hank Green, a TikTok creator with millions of followers, explains why he thinks TikTok underpays creators.
Where Does Growth Come From? | Clayton Christensen | Talks at Google
Clayton Christensen speaks at Google on where growth comes from, covering disruption, market-creating versus efficiency innovation, and jobs to be done.
Sponsored Content: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on sponsored content in local news.
Bill Hicks on Marketing
A short clip of Bill Hicks's stand-up bit telling marketers and advertisers to kill themselves, which is a harsh critique of advertising.
How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny
Tyler Bosmeny, CEO of Clever, gives a Y Combinator Startup School talk on how early-stage companies should approach sales and build an enterprise sales team.
Growing Reddit - Web Development
A short clip from Udacity's Web Development course in which Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman describes how Reddit grew early on.
Defamation of character and extortion; Yelp salesperson has friends leave bad reviews!
Louis Rossmann lays out evidence that a Yelp salesperson had friends leave negative reviews of his repair shop after he declined advertising.
Marketing to Doctors: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on how pharmaceutical companies spend billions marketing drugs to doctors.
How does Linus make money? - 2020 Update
Linus Tech Tips gives its 2020 breakdown of how the company earns money, including ads, sponsors, merch and affiliate links.
Alexander Nix: From Mad Men to Math Men | OMR Festival 2017 - Hamburg, Germany | #OMR17
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix keynotes the OMR 2017 marketing festival on big data and personality-based targeting in political campaigns.