A few of you might have tried to pull up my videos on your phone and depending on the video, you might have been greeted with:
I get people who will then message me asking if I could make my videos available on mobile. To clear the air, ALL of my videos are set to be viewable on mobile... HOWEVER the issue is when youtube detects the song used in the trailer. You will sometimes see something like this:
So in this case for this video, it's actually the company that owns this song who has made the video not available on mobile.
THE SOLUTION
I want everyone to be able to watch my trailers before games so here is what I have done. Go ahead and load up isittimetobeatbama.com on your phone. I used some very simple CSS media queries (same method Joe uses on this site to support mobile viewing) to have the site act as a media player with links to play some of my and mstawther's top videos:
Using the CSS media queries, the youtube player doesn't pass along the user agent information that causes the mobile restriction. You can even full screen the video on your phone once it starts playing. Ta Da!
Not only do I want this site to be a solution for mobile viewing, I want it to be a go-to place to pull up hype trailers while tailgating, at bars, sitting in the corner at a family reunion planning your escape strategy...anywhere. After the Bama game I will purchase an easy to remember, shorter URL and I will have isittimetobeatbama redirect to it. I will keep it updated throughout the season as I make new stuff. If you have any other must-watch videos you would like me to include, let me know (yes, even if I didn't make it...I am not making ANY money on this and have nothing to gain by only promoting my stuff) and I'll add it.
Comments
Saw the title of this post and thought you had done a trailer for tailgating season and I got REALLY excited.
you know that feeling you get when you hear College Gameday on the TV in the background, while you're getting your tailgate stuff ready. Pulling out your cornhole sets, loading up the cooler, firing up the smoker, thinking about the games that day...I need to try and capture that into a video. The tailgater's/gameday anthem, haha.
That, good sir, is a travesty. I know you do this for fun and out of the passion you have as a Hokie fan, but the quality and ingenuity that both you and MStrather put out deserves some compensation.
Signed,
A staunch capitalist.
I really appreciate that. I really was never in it to make money though. I will, however, end up putting some sort of a paypal donation link to help pay for the domains and web server.