YouTube’s Off the Air… What Do the Hancuffs Mean?!


Advertisers will likely start investing more of their media budgets online when they see the results of a new Nielsen study. Nielsen Media Research, the firm that calculates national television ratings, will investigate how many people actually watch TV commercials (source: Today’s Wall Street Journal). In November, Nielsen will begin for the first time to…
Hannukah may be over, but you can still groove to this hip hop a cappella parody, with lyrics about playing dradel by the candlelight, and the great menorah. It’s the Jewish version of Dynamite (by Taio Cruz). No it’s not the Dalton Academy Choir performing, but the Maccabeats, an a cappella group from Yashiva University.
It can be difficult to find decent, royalty-free music without paying a fortune. Here are some new options if you’ve had your fill of Kevin MacLeod: DanoSongs has a bunch of instrumental background songs, ranging from acoustic and orchestra to pop and country. Scroll down on his site to hear and download clips. Shockwave-Sound has…
Someone once said that a new blogger stays on his/her own blog, while a seasoned one comments and reads others. The same is true for video — appearing on other people’s videos is as important as making your own. Especially if that creator is more popular, more talented (which is mostly the case for me),…
Brightcove picked up nearly $60 million in investment money, including some from The New York Times Company. According to MediaPost’s “Online Media Daily,” the company intends to use the money to expand offerings to advertisers, grow internationally, and build out its consumer site, Brightcove.com. Brightcove, according to this insanely well written article, splits ad revenue 50/50…
Isn’t it true that the hard videos are never as popular as the easy ones. This video of Rusty and Triscuit (pets of babysitter of nalts) was viewed nearly 700,000 times on Yahoo Video. But my more recent video, “Confessions” was far more complicated, and has been seen 25K views. Well congratulations, sweet Rusty. You…
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ahhh its horrible no idea hope its fixed
The hands with the writing on the fingers was used in “The Blues Brothers”, “Fight Club” and “Cape Fear”. Perhaps the heiroglyphics means that the blues brother (the two YouTube founders) find themselves in a fight club (copyright infringement battle) that they cape fear (would rather avoid the cigar-smoking, laughing man in the movie theater).
That’s from the Russel Crowe movie “Master and Commander”. It says on the knuckles: HOLD FAST
It means to not break, etc.
Woah. Deep. Thanks, MrOrange.
The writing-on-hands was also featured in Master and Commander. I think that’s where the picture is from.