Dramatic “Royalty Free” Music Sites

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If you’ve worn out Kevin MacLeod’s Incompetech, but looking for free, royalty-free music here’s a new alternative… some dark, intense, orchestral and dramatic options. Check ’em out: http://www.jewelbeat.com/ Also a bunch more courtesy of YouTube’s BattlefieldDoktor via JourneysofLifeBooks: http://ccmixter.org (click here to search royalty-free for commercial use tunes) http://incompetech.com http://freepd.com http://www.jamendo.com http://soundsnap.com http://theslip.nin.com/ http://www.dance-industries.com http://www.tbtmusic.com…

Hulu’s “Confidential” Ad-Selector Specs Leaked; YouTube Adopts Mandatory Pre-Rolls.

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Just when you thought pre-rolls were dead, both Hulu and YouTube are embracing them in recent weeks. Hulu has officially rolled out an “Ad Selector,” where viewers can choose among several ads from a single sponsor. And YouTube, whose parent Google once chastised online-video pre-rolls for causing 75% abandonment rates, is now quietly experimenting with…

Park Your Own Subdomain Free at OfNalts.com (who needs TinyURL?)

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I don’t recall if I’ve ever announced that you can park your own free subdomain (username) at ofnalts.com, which you can “point” at any website or URL. It makes that complex YouTube video URL (or other long URLs) short, simple, memorable and pretty. I use it in lieu of TinyURL because I can link to…

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Former Top YouTuber Leads Vlogging Revolution

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For months, YouTube Cewebrity Paul Robinette (Renetto) has been posting video blogs (vlogs) about his discontent on YouTube. He has criticized the site for how it handles the small but vocal video community, and has stirred up drama with the grace of an Olympic gymnist. In the past few weeks, Robinette quietly launched Vloggerheads.com with…