Keen to help you find more entertaining distractions, Google has launched YouTube Slam, serving up the hottest, oddest and (ahem) ‘funnest’ video clips.
YouTube has released its list of the most watched videos online for 2011, with a not-particularly-amusing “talking” dog topping the list of UK viewers.
Billed as “Britain in a Day. Four nations. 24 hours. 61 million perspectives,” YouTube’s latest project aims to capture 24 hours of us Brits doing our thing.
Billed as a “historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010,” Life In A Day is a 90 minute movie created from user-submitted videos.
YouTube’s movie rental service has just gone live in the UK, allowing popcorn munching Brits to sprawl over their sofas and suck up over a thousand movies for a small fee.
These ‘Hitler Downfall’ videos tend to get taken down pretty sharpish, but this one is well worth seeing while it’s here.
It seems like they’ve been around forever, but YouTube’s roots only go back as far as January 2005 when the idea was born in a garage.
It’s about about as bizarre as you’re going to get, but a cluster (or should that be a ‘failure’?) of internet meme ‘stars’ have got together to create a trailer for what what they hope will turn into a hit viral movie.
See what happens to a girl who is preoccupied with composing a text message as she walks through a US shopping mall.
Update: she’s going to sue the mall!
Launched by a video with the quirk-o-meter cranked up high, YouTube have announced their new ‘Trends’ page that displays the most popular videos and topics being shared on the site and embedded on other sites.
According to figures released by the video sharing kings YouTube, no less than 700 billion YouTube videos were viewed in 2010, with more than 13 million hours of footage uploaded.
To satisfy our idle curiosity, Google has served up smorgasbord of statistics about YouTube’s phenomenal growth.
Since buying the company in November 2006, the amount of videos uploaded has risen exponentially, with 35 hours of video now being uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day.
We’d DEFINITELY like to smoke some of what the folks at Google were on the day they made this video.
The Guggenheim has announced its shortlist of videos for the YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video competition, which will now be put in front of their chin-stroking jury.
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.
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