Category: YouTube Video of the Day
Shiny Video Review: Hyde Park Robot Wars!
Last week Gary and I toured London’s Soho sex shops, this week we regressed to our ten-year-old selves and battled in the famous Hyde Park. I present you with…
ROBOT WARS!
Featuring Pleo the dinosaur, available from IWOOT for £249, the Meccano Spykee Micro also from IWOOT for £19.99, and the iRobot Roomba which is available for around £135.
So, who won in this bloody battle? I’ll tell you what, it certainly wasn’t our pride, which was wounded and is lying in a pool of blood somewhere in a central London park….
YouTube Hits: The SEO Rapper's 'Design Coding'
This video has been floating around our office for a couple of days now, and I must say, give it a listen after the initial few horrible seconds, and you’ll understand why. The SEO Rapper, as he calls himself, has produced a helpful rap called ‘Design Coding’, giving you advice on how to design your website, with gems including ‘don’t use italics, use EM-PHEE-SIS!’…
YouTube Hits: Popjunkie TV
Admittedly we here at Shiny Media have a vested interest in Popjunkie TV, with the weekly music episodes filmed in our office, and the presenters Sean and Victoria being longtime friends of our company.
Nonetheless, they’re being billed as the ‘indie Johnny and Denise’, so it’s worth a look, to clue-up on the last week’s worth of musical goodies…
YouTube Hits: Big Dog Beta
Ever since I saw this video on Gizmodo last week, I’ve become strangely obsessed with watching it several times a day and just giggling maniacally to myself here in the office….
YouTube Hits: Microsoft Xbox 360's Parental Street Cred disaster
Those clever Microsofties, they’ve put together half a dozen videos educating parents on their children’s behaviour. Better than attending a weekly Nursing Mothers’ Association meeting, anyway.
Parental Street Cred is their attempt at convincing the parental unit into buying an Xbox 360 console for the family, but what do you think? At least they’re not passing it off as UGC, like the disastrous All I Want For Xmas Is A PSP episode…
YouTube Hits: The Cure's 'Friday I'm In Love' music videp
It’s not Friday, but it’s the Thursday-before-a-bank-holiday, so it may as well be Friday. At least, our whole Shiny Towers office thinks it is, anyway. So, enjoy the long Easter weekend, I’m off to see The Cure tonight at London’s Wembley Arena, but if you weren’t lucky enough to snag some tickets, just watch the video above over and over and over and over again…
YouTube Hits: Minesweeper – the movie!
You’ve whiled the hours away on Windows’ Minesweeper game (when Solitaire wears thin after playing all morning), so you know all the rules, right? Right?
Perhaps what we need is a tutorial. In the form…
YouTube Hits: Brokeback Star Trek
Yes, Brokeback Mountain parody videos are incredibly 2006. Yes, this video has been rolling around the internet circuits for almost a year. But yes, it’s still hilarious to this day….
Has YouTube been taken advantage of by Brazilian cheaters CSS?
Scandal alert! Scandal alert! It’s a code red situation here on the internet, with Brazilian art rock kids CSS finding themselves top of the pile over at YouTube. It’s managed to not only knock the Evolution of Dance video off the top of the leaderboard, but apparently get around 85 million views in just two weeks, according to fanzoid commenters.
Smell a conspiracy? Join the rest of the ‘net, with many claiming it’s the work of bots, or an Asian click farm. True, the song ‘Music Is My Hot Hot Sex’ has been used in an Apple TV advert, but even that would not amount to the 89 million+ views it’s had so far.
A tell-tale sign is that only 1 in 21,487 viewers have actually rated the video, whereas all the other popular vids on YouTube have an average of 1 in 590 viewers rating it. The CSS video also has just over 4,000 comments, with most exclaiming ‘this only had 4 million views 2 weeks ago wtf? someone must of refreshed it 80 million times or someone hacked’ instead of actual praise…
YouTube Hits: Intelligent Dance Music using sounds from Windows 98 and XP
It’s Windows Music Video time! You thought the ‘Windows 95 Sucks’ video from last Tuesday was clever? Wait until you see the video above, which has been created entirely using alert noises from Windows 98 and XP. My sources tell me Richard D. James from Aphex Twin is running scared…
