Tag: YouTube
YouTube Video Of The Day – Sesame Street meets Casino
Before I say anything about this video, let me point out that it really isn’t safe for work (or NSFW if you prefer). Now your appetite has been whetted, I’ll tell you that the video you’re about to watch is a great little video mash-up of Casino and Bert and Ernie. You’ll never see Sesame Street characters swear like this (unless you prod and poke Oscar the Grouch enough)
Online TV set for steady growth in the UK, but behind music
You can treat many analyst predictions with a pinch of salt, but at least they’re trying to figure out how fast technologies will take off (and who stands to trouser the revenues). Screen Digest has just released a report predicting that by 2011, online TV will be generating £181 million of revenues here.
That includes catch-up and on-demand services from the big broadcasters, but also online telly firms like YouTube and Joost (pictured), and download services like Apple’s iTunes. It specifically says that the tradiitonal broadcasters will be threatened by the rise of these new online firms, too. If I was ITV, I’d be trying to buy Joost right now.
YouTube Video Of The Day – Alan Titchmarsh throws John McCririck off TV show
Did you hear about Alan ‘Crusher’ Titchmarsh throwing John McCririck off his TV show for generally being an odious git? Well, here it is, in video form, for your enjoyment!
YouTube Video of the Day – 100 yard football pass
If there was some kind of competition for throwing a ball very very far into the arms of your mate, then this guy would surely win it hands down?
BBC Worldwide puts nation's favourite EastEnders clips on YouTube channel
BBC Worldwide has announced new content on its YouTube channel, as 54 of viewers' favourite EastEnders clips make their way on to the video sharing site. Clips include the "Frank seducing Pat naked" scene, which was apparently voted the fifth…
Top 5 YouTube starlets: Mia Rose, Esmee Denters, Marie Digby and more…
There’s a definite gender difference when it comes to musical YouTube popularity. The men who become hits tend to be the silly ones, miming to the Backstreet Boys or obscure Moldovan pop songs.
Meanwhile, the women who make it big through YouTube tend to be just talented singers uploading home videos of themselves singing cover versions or their own material. Okay, so they’re invariably young and attractive too, although that wouldn’t count for much if they couldn’t sing.
FIQL TV: Turn your iTunes playlists into streaming YouTube video channels
As you’ll know if you’ve ever wasted half a day watching Shakira’s small and humble mountains greatest hits, YouTube is full of music videos. Some Web 2.0 firms have noticed this, and are launching services that make use of it.
The latest is FIQL TV, which lets you upload your playlists from iTunes, Windows Media Player and other music apps, and then turns them into streaming video channels by hunting for your songs on YouTube (if it can’t find anything for a song, it ignores it in the playlist). You can also create them on the site from scratch by typing in song titles and band names.
YouTube Video of the Day – John Kerry questioner gets tasered by US police
It happened a couple of days ago, but this video is already causing a big stir on YouTube. A student at a John Kerry forum asks a few testy questions and as a result, is arrested by US police and tasered. Remember when US colleges were the hotbed of political debate? Not anymore. For a news report on the incident click here and for another angle from someone in the attendance, click here.
YouTube Video of the Day – Britney Spears VMA spoof
Every so often, something takes YouTube complete storm. At the moment, Britney Spears’ performance at the MTV VMA awards is subject to the most ridicule. Here’s just one of many videos taking the mickey.
AOL unveils BlueString media-sharing site. Yes, it's in beta.
AOL has launched a new site called BlueString, which offers users 5GB of online storage to share music, photos and video clips for free. That’s around 1,600 songs, 10,000 photos and 600 videos, to be specific.
