April 1, 2008 is not the best day to hit the YouTube Featured Videos list. You may be familiar with Rickrolling, the practice of posting a deceptive link that leads to a video of Rick Astley’s 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. This April Fools’ Day, YouTube Rickrolls everyone as Featured Videos links all […]
See, this is why YouTube needs better analytics. The current system just leaves so much room for uncertainty. A system where success and failure are dictated by views should not leave room for uncertainty about views.
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By now, you probably know about Filipino oddball Renaldo Lapuz singing his original ditty We’re Brothers Forever for Simon Cowell at his American Idol audition. The brotherhood continues as Renaldo holds a remix contest.
Keep making these wonderful remixes and sending them to us! We will post all the finalists on the website and let the […]
Viacom is infamous for its indiscriminate YouTube takedowns, but this is just bullshit. YouTube comedian Cory “Mr. Safety” Williams wrote a song called Make Poop that just got taken down by Viacom. Yes, you read that right — Viacom claims a song about shit.
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In case you think online video stars can’t get chicks, watch Tay Zonday get crunk with the ladies in Cherry Chocolate Rain, a Chocolate Rain parody sponsored by Diet Cherry Chocolate Dr. Pepper. Dig the Drama Prairie Dog cameo.
This is the Web, and it’s gonna murder your TV. Right on, Tay.
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Apparently, an online video star’s offline audiences are filled with a mix of excitement and confusion. Gabriel Cheifetz follows Tay Zonday (of Chocolate Rain fame) to his first major live performance.
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Prince is such a fruity copyright-trolling wimp, even a baby could beat him. Eighteen-month-old Holden Lenz frolicked while part of the Purple Pussy’s hit Let’s Get Crazy played faintly in the background. Apparently, The Artist Formerly Known as Clueful does not want babies doing that on YouTube, so he had Universal Music send a DMCA […]
It’s a convergence of geek cool: World of Warcraft, Creative Commons, online collaboration, and developer angst. Adobe program manager Mike Spiff Booth has an awesome hobby: he makes WoW machinima for the songs of Creative Commons singer/songwriter Jonathan Coulton. Here’s his video for Coulton’s biggest hit to date, Code Monkey.
Yes, this is the theme song […]
You know online video is huge when online video stars get spotted in public by autograph-seekers. That’s what happened to Chocolate Rain singer Tay Zonday on his way to YouTube HQ. Like many YouTubers, he couldn’t resist sticking in a little Chris Crocker parody. Like many new celebrities, he wears a little too much makeup. […]
Prince, aka The Artist Formerly Known As Clueful, has joined the litigious bandwagon ignoring the DMCA and suing YouTube — “to reclaim his art on the Internet.” Riiiight. Apparently, someone forgot to tell TAFKAC that his record label already has a deal with YouTube. Says the little purple weirdo:
“YouTube … are clearly able (to) filter […]
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Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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