Hard to criticize this lovely video featuring surprised passengers in Heathrow Airport being surprised by a cappella songs in every genre. Part of T-Mobile’s Life’s For Sharing campaign.
I just wish they’d partnered with or acknowledged Charlie Todd (author of Causing a Scene) because he kinda invented (or at least popularized) this type of video.
This week YouTube’s founder, Steve Chen, said he hoped to have the free music video download service running on his website within 18 months. Source: SMH.COM.AU, “YouTube Kills the Video Star.”
LittleLoco identifies some “YouTube” cheaters. Gaming the system by downloading software that replays their own video over and over. Creating multiple identities and rating yourself. And somehow getting 100 subscribers a day even with no new videos. Things that make you go “hmmmmm….” (LittleLoco’s video courtesy of Matt from EndlessEurope.com).
Most marketers and public relations agencies have “clipping services,” via which they receive copies of newspaper articles covering topics of interest. Say you’re marketing M&Ms. You probably want to know when the chocolate candy appears in the news. It occured to me that YouTube’s functionality can provide this service to you for free. Google Alerts…
It’s the most popular scandal on the most popular video site. Some popular YouTube celebrities started posting on LiveVideo (an enhanced but less popular version of YouTube). LiveVideo is being referred to as a combination of YouTube and MySpace. One of YouTube’s most highly subscribed individuals, Renetto (Paul Robinett), posted a McCarthy-like video that lists…
I’m planning on doing a thorough review of the major online video sites, but here’s my first attempt at creating the perfect online video site: It would have the traffic and community of YouTube. It would have Revver’s advertising-sharing model It would have Metacafe’s ability to sift the best content It would have that cute…
You just have to love the music industry's reaction to online videos. According to a recent article by the Wall Street Journal, The Recording Industry Association of America recently pushed for an aggressive stance against amateur videos using commercial songs. The article reports that some legal experts say the video sites are generatlly protected as…
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causing a scene jumps the shark.
predictions on the next shark jumper?
audotunes?
I have no to stats to back this up, however, once something jumps the shark the door is open again for something new to come through, any ideas?
Thanks for the shout out Nalts. The worse thing about this particular “T-Mobile does something in the style of Improv Everywhere” video, is that they directly stole the name (and general concept) of one of mine videos–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjej2V_yh5k
That was me above– I mis-auto-completed the name form!
Don’t you love how everyone in London is smiling and laughing — but you go to JFK and people would pummel you!?!?