It’s a Friday, so what better time for a viral music video, and this time it’s a mashed up news clip given the “Auto-Tune the News” treatment, by the Gregory Brothers.
It’s Friday, so what better time to take time off work and watch a parody movie trailer lampooning Twitter?
It may be a case of “free bumpers for all!” but Apple’s ‘Antennagate’ fall out continues, with this latest video taking a well aimed pop at the handset’s failings in the reception department.
It’s with a heavy heart that we heard the news that the sensationally successful Old Spice viral videos are coming to an end.
With record numbers of consumers accessing YouTube via mobile devices – traffic was up 160% in 2009 over the previous year – an updated version of YouTube Mobile is currently being rolled out.
YouTube has launched an interesting new project called “Life in a Day,” which intends to document one day as seen through the eyes of movie makers, camcorder warriors and mobile phone footage freaks all around the world.
The hilarious iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO parody video – and its partner follow-up video – have proved a huge hit on the web, with over 1.3 million people enjoying the (definitely) not-safe-for-work humour.
Set to inspire wannabe Hitchcock film-makers is YouTube’s natty new cloud-based video editing tools which have just been added to the video sharing site.
Inbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a very detailed infographic tracing YouTube’s explosive history.
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The celebrations keep on happening at YouTube, with the company announcing that it has exceeded the astonishing figure of 2 billion video views per day, just a month after the champagne corks were popping for its 5th birthday.
It’s the briefest of videos- a mere, tantalising 14 seconds long – a half-decent eyeful of the eagerly awaited Blackberry Bold slider phone has been shunted on to YouTube.
Running the snazzy new Blackberry 6 operating system, the video shows off their new slim slider phone, sporting a brightly backlit QWERTY keyboard.
Five years ago to the day, YouTube founder Jawed Karim posted an indescribably dull video of himself at a zoo on banging on about ‘cool elephants’.
The 19-second clip was the first ever video uploaded to YouTube, and in just five years it’s become the third most popular website in the world (behind Google and Facebook), with over a billion videos streamed every day by users around the world.
It’s a Friday (woot!), so what better time for a great work distraction like a witty video showing New York being invaded by 8 bit gaming characters?
We like this one, mixing up some daft April Fool’s japery with a bit of product advertising.
In the videos, Qualcomm claim that their Mirasol screen device – ‘stolen from their labs’ – has a display so vibrant that it attracts “savage” butterflies, with an onscreen expert warning: “It’s commonly known that the butterfly is the only known living creature with no heart.”
With Google’s long history as April Fool pranksters, they were unlikely to get very far with this one, but they gamely soldiered on, posting this excellent video.
“Introducing Google Translate for Animals, a new application that can help you communicate with your pet.”
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