What is it about smartphones, YouTube, and social media in general that turns normal people into a useless crowd of video “auteurs” who’re more concerned with getting a video up instead of preventing others from needlessly hurting each other?
Granted, Internet videos of people fighting are as old as the invention of online video, but after seeing these pop up over and over again after any sporting event of note, it’s becoming clear that the downfall of society will not be a nuclear war or a zombie apocalypse.
It will be because people were too concerned with getting good video of the world crumbling around them instead of trying to do something about it.
Perhaps I’m overreacting, but after watching the upcoming video of Giants fans fighting at the Super Bowl parade — female fans, no less — the fact people are more concerned with letting the fight happen, all so they can film it is disheartening.
Or maybe I’m just getting old. Here’s the video in question:
Cat fight! Cat fight!
Let me guess. The first girl slept with the other girl’s boyfriend while Eli Manning was doing his MVP thing at the Super Bowl and got caught. Now, they’re playing the feud while a bunch of useless bystanders sit, watch, and video. Naturally, additional fights break out — again with females — as they, I don’t know, try to defend their “girl’s” honor?
Or maybe they just wanted to be on YouTube with they hair flying hither, dither and yon.
While the fighting itself is pretty standard for an Internet video, I’m still drawn to the crowd, one that’s more concerned with getting good video instead of putting a stop to the needless fracas. Is this what we’ve become? A society of attention whores who care more about being popular on the Internet than acting in a somewhat civilized manner?
While this particular topic was discussed by WebProNews during Super Bowl night, the late night talk show host has supplied us with a “greatest hits” of his prank, where he asked people to unplug their televisions during crucial parts of the Super Bowl.
The reaction to such a drastic move was about what you’d expect, but even though you know it’s coming, the round-up video still manages to be pretty damn funny, because, let’s face it, people don’t like their football-watching being interrupted. Especially during the Super Bowl. The reactions, as indicated, are normally in the vein of a “WTF?” reaction, but for some reason, they don’t get old.
Naturally, the video has enjoyed something of a viral reaction, having already accumulated over 900,000 views since it was posted on Monday (February 6). If you look at the YouTube comments, you’ll find the reaction to the video was largely positive.
There are a quite a few “That was a lot funnier than I expected it to be! Great job!” and “i don’t think i ever laughed so hard in my life!” comments, but, as with every YouTube comments section, there is a nice amount of trolling, as well:
Look at all those sheeple wake up America there are more important things going on right now !
It’s good to see that at least there is something Americans truly care about. Unfortunately, it is not banksters looting the economy and sending jobs overseas, only someone unplugging the TV during the Super Bowl. We are in a lot of trouble.
McDonald’s has raised the hackles of a lot of dog owners with a new ad in which they suggest that eating McDonald’s food is less risky than petting a pit bull. The ad lists a lot of things that are supposedly riskier than eating at McDonald’s, including “shaving your head just to see how it looks” and “giving your friends your Facebook password,” and “naming your son Sue.” In comparison to such things, eating at McDonald’s “is about a zero on the old risk-er scale.”
The ad, which is embedded below, has angered dog lovers. They contend that the ad propagates the consistently negative – and false – image the pit bull has in many people’s minds. Pit bulls, they point out, are excellent dogs when properly raised, and that the kind of upbringing that produces the stereotypical vicious pit bull would make any dog vicious, regardless of breed. Take a look at the ad, and see what you think:
Now, to be fair, the ad does specify a stray pit bull, which absolutely something should be approached with caution. Of course, any stray animal should be approached with caution, which brings us right back to the ad singling out pit bulls as especially vicious. Besides, given the nutritional value of McDonald’s food, there’s plenty of room for debate on whether you’re safer petting a stray dog or eating at McDonald’s.
What do you think? Is McDonald’s being unfair to pit bulls, or are the people who take offense at the ad being overly sensitive? Sound off in the comments.
Vacation. Depending on who you ask, it can either be one of the most stressful endeavors a person can undertake or it can be one of the most sublimely relaxing spoils a person can do for themselves. Either way, one detail is omnipresent: you gotta figure out where you’re going. As a gesture to help out with this decision, YouTube announced today that it has launched a new channel specifically designed to help you decide on where to go.
YouTube Vacationer, as they christened it, is an archive of video footage compiled from sources like National Geographic and LonelyPlanet. Have a look at their promotional video to get excited.
The channel is currently categorized into how you plan to vacate your normal life. Some choices proffered by YouTube are Spring Break destinations, Road Trips, Family Spots, or places that are just good to go and stuff your face (Food Spots, that is). Once you’ve decided on what type of vacation you have in mind, you can browse through a carousel of videos collected under that category to help you decide on where to go. Alternately, if you’re more of a map-minded traveler, you can choose to view the videos on an integrated Google Map that displays pinned locations of each of the videos
I foresee this site being less of a planner for a vacation you’ve already worked out and more of vacation eye candy that’s going to inspire you to spontaneously plan a long getaway weekend soon. Even then, if the worse thing this new channel does is make you wanna take a vacation, hopefully you’ve got the time and means to follow through with that urge. Get outta town, people.
Lots of products out there are promoted through the use of before and after pictures. Food supplements, diet programs, hair restoration, etc. There has long been a question of whether these photos were legit.
Is she pregnant in that Before picture?
He’s holding his gut in big-time in this one!
Is that even the same person in both pictures?
This YouTube video has gone viral, racking up over a million views in 24 hours. In it, this guy shows how he did his Before and After pictures within 5 hours of each other. His results are staggering, and there is very little Photoshop used.
Maybe this is the way other advertisers do it. Maybe not. But, he shows that it sure can be done.
Enough with the Cinnamon Challenge. I mean, it’s alright for getting girls to totally lose their composure at parties, but where’s the modern-day equivalent for men?
In days of yore, manhood was proven through feats of strength – carrying boulders, tearing phone books, tossing dwarves. Nowadays we’re left with amazing feats of stupidity performed before web cams.
But, if you’re gonna go the self-abuse through food route, don’t go with something sugar-and-spice. Be a man.
Now, why would a fool do something like this? The clue is in his sign-off at the end. Despite being in tremendous pain and discomfort, he still manages to stammer out his Twitter and YouTube handles, followed by the plea, “Subscribe to me, cuz I’m risking my life for laughs!”
It appears that M.I.A.’s middle finger wasn’t the most offensive thing to happen during Sunday night’s Super Bowl. During a Super Bowl where the ads failed to impress (for the most part), one regional commercial is sparking claims of blatant racism.
The political ad, put out by the campaign of Michigan’s Pete Hoekstra, aims to use the issue of government spending to swipe at his opponent – not an uncommon topic for a campaign ad in today’s political climate. But it’s the way in which he’s presenting the message that has spurred the controversy.
Pete Hoekstra, a Republican, is a former Michigan Congressman who is running for the GOP Senate nomination. His would-be opponent is Democrat Debbie Stabenow, a two-term incumbent. Hoekstra’s Super Bowl ad, which only ran in Michigan, features an Asian woman, strings of broken English, rice fields, and the message that Senator Stabenow’s practices are helping China grow, while hurting Americans.
Check it out below:
Hoekstra labels Senator Stabenow “DebbieSpendItNow,” and you can see from the commercial why some folks find it a bit over the line: “Thank you, Michigan Senator Debbie SpendItNow. Debbie spends so much American money. You borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie SpendItNow.”
The backlash has been pretty severe. The LA Times quotes the Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote group as saying:
[We’re} deeply disappointed. [It] plays on harmful stereotypes of Asians speaking broken English and has stereotypical Chinese music playing in the background. It is very disturbing that Mr. Hoekstra’s campaign chose to use harmful and negative stereotypes that intrinsically encourage anti-Asian sentiment.
Michigan politicians have called the ad “shameful” and said that his tactics are “ignorant and bigoted.”
And even some GOP colleagues are calling Hoekstra out for the ad. A Michigan GOP consultant said “Stabenow has got to go. But shame on Pete Hoekstra for that appalling new advertisement. Racism and xenophobia aren’t any way to get things done.”
But Hoekstra isn’t backing down, in the slightest.
We knew we were taking an aggressive approach on this. But this is a time where the people in Michigan and across the country are fed up with the spending, and we wanted to capture that frustration that they had with Washington, D.C.,” he said. “This ad … hits Debbie smack dab between the eyes on the issue where she is vulnerable with the voters of Michigan, and that is spending
Today is the birthday of someone who has given so much to the interwebs and asked so little in return. A man whose music has led to one of the most enduring memes in history. Today, we celebrate the 46th birthday of Rick Astley.
Rick Astley, as you probably know, had a hit song in 1987 called “Never Gonna Give You Up.” This song, which was quite popular in its day, gained new life sometime around 2007 thanks you YouTube, 4chan, and a classic bait-and-switch prank.
The trick was pretty simple. Shorten a link to the Astley video to where it was unrecognizable, and pass it off as a link to whatever relevant topic is being discussed. For instance, one could post on Facebook “Check out this awesome salsa recipe http://tinyurl.com/28rdnbz.” And there you go. You’ve just Rickrolled your friends. Rickrolling became huge on the internet and eventually spread into mainstream pop culture. Last year, the White House even Rickrolled their Twitter followers. As of right now, the video sits at over 46 million views on YouTube.
Both YouTube’s Facebook and Google+ accounts have gotten in on the fun, Rickrolling an untold amount of people today.
Here’s the famous video for your viewing pleasure. And yes, I do mean pleasure because as one YouTuber put it, “after being rickrolled countless times. This song has sort of grown on me.”
I suggest that we all Rickroll our friends today. Just for old time’s sake. It might be an overused, nearly dead meme but damnit, who didn’t love this one? Good job, internets.
A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, via social media, sharing sites, or good ‘ole email. Everyday we highlight some of the best that are currently viral and some that are trending that way.
Today’s videos feature a jackass on top of a rhino, a tear inducing Lord of the Rings medley, a dick sausage related blooper, and a despicably hilarious political ad.
It makes so much sense once you see the Skyrim prediction. How could of the Patriots have hoped to stop a gang of Giants?
Proof that Johnny Cash’s music transcends genre, age, race, and everything else. Everyone loves Johnny Cash, even 9 month olds.
I asked above if it was too soon for a Osama bin Laden zombie movie. If it’s going to be this horrifically awesome, I think the answer is – no it’s not too soon. WARNING: muscular men with their shirts off ahead.
You’ve never seen Bad Toys II?! Just a heads up, the entire movie is in french…but it really doesn’t matter.
As amazing as the Lord of the Rings movies themselves. Hopefully we’ll get a trilogy.
Ugh, one of those videos I hate to post, but it is pretty funny. Would have been better if the rhino could have gotten out of the cage and attacked the cameraman.
Such a great idea for a YouTube video, and cyclists will feel giddy with love as they watch it.
Please, please, please keep all the ads rolling in you politicians; keep brightening my day. This ad is from Pete Hoekstra who is apparently telling potential voters that all of our spending has led to America owing this chinese lady riding her bike through a rural area a lot of money.
I’ve known about this video for awhile, but was apprehensive to post it. It’s the most dislikes I’ve ever seen for a video on YouTube though, so I thought it was deserving.
Proof that penis humor never gets old, no matter the age or gender.
We’ve covered the USAToday Super Bowl admeter at WebProNews, and now that the Super Bowl is over and all the commercials have been shown, you get to see it in action.
While the admeter for Super Bowl 46 shows Doritos and Bud Light performed well, the one-time king of salacious Super Bowl commercials may have seen their time come to an end. That’s right, both of GoDaddy’s commercials for this year’s big game rank near (or at) the bottom according to viewers.
Apparently, the days of Candice Michelle wooing people with her “wardrobe malfuction” are over. As you can see:
Either GoDaddy needs to start fresh with new faces and a new approach, or they haven’t gotten over the anti-SOPA backlash from January. Considering the fact that the commercials just weren’t that entertaining or titillating, I doubt SOPA had anything to do with the reception. Here are the commercials in question, just in case they escaped your view last night. First, the body painting:
Their second goes by “The Cloud,” and, well, “underwhelming” is a good word:
There’s an extended version of the second commercial, just in case you want to see if it continues to underwhelm. It’s a sad day when the “sex sells” motto is completely and utterly disproved.
Does GoDaddy’s failure with their latest round of Super Bowl commercials mean this is the end of trying to create sexual tension between viewers and Danica Patrick is at an end or is there still room for titillation, as long as the quality of the commercial lives up to the hype? Or is this a simple case of GoDaddy backlash?
Nonprofit organizations take note: YouTube and See3 Communications are now accepting submissions for the 2012 DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards, an annual event to showcase and reward some of the best video work from nonprofits.
The awards will honor nonprofits in four categories: Best Small Organization, Best Medium Organization, Best Large Organization, and Best Storytelling Video. The winner of each category will be awarded several prizes, such as monetary compensation as well as a featured spot on YouTube’s homepage on April 5th. See YouTube’s video about this year’s contest for more information:
This is the 6th year for the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards and the third year that YouTube has partnered with See3 Communcations in order to present the event. The window to submit is only this month – as in, February 2012 – and all videos must be submitted by the 29th of this month (good thing it’s a leap year so you have an extra day to get those videos in). In order to submit, though, you are required to be a member of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. The winning videos for each category will be selected via public vote between March 14 and March 28 and the winners will be announced April 5.
If you’re new to the world of nonprofit video or you’re a nonprofit looking for a little inspiration, check out last year’s award winners:
After teasing the crowd with 30 seconds of glorious movie footage, The Avengers teaser trailer that was shown during the Super Bowl, left those wanting more Avengers footage panting. However, if you were paying attention, there was a “Extended Look at Facebook.com/Avengers.” disclaimer following the teaser, and thanks to Marvel, the extended version of the teaser is now available; however, it still leaves this writer wanting more.
Of course, I’m just being greedy. With that in mind, the extra 30 seconds of the “extended look” makes all the difference in the world. First, here’s the Super Bowl preview:
Truth be told, seeing The Hulk at the end was enough for me, but, the additional 30 or so seconds only adds to the anticipation:
And with that, May 4 can’t get here soon enough. Twitter agrees:
@Metal_Hammer Metal HammerSo we’ve all seen the badass new Avengers trailer and now we’re wondering which is the most metal of the gang. We’re gonna go with Thor.3 hours ago via web · Reply · Retweet · Favorite · powered by @socialditto
Considering what 2012 as in store in the way of summer movies — The Avengers, Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Returns — which one is going to win the summer box office? As it stands, my money is still on the third Batman movie, although, The Avengers is going to pose a stern challenge.
Because of the emo/Twilight reboot approach the new Spider-Man movie is going for — all so Sony doesn’t lose the rights to the movie property — I don’t see it contended with the other two, but then again, considering the success of the Twilight series, people seem to like “woe is me” teenagers, especially when they are super-powered.
Super Bowl ads are not only entertainment during the big game, they serve the higher (or lower) purpose of trying to sell you something. We may forget that these ads are doing that when we’re busy laughing at the newest Doritos’ advertisement or Volkswagen’s Star Wars tributes.
We put out a list of our top five best Super Bowl ads and the comments make it abundantly clear – the average consumer has vastly different notions of what makes these ads good. Taking a look at the Super Bowl admeter on USA Today provides a good measure of what consumers thought were the best ads. This is important to advertisers as the average consumer is there number one target. This should helps them refine their ads for the next year’s game.
What makes a good super bowl ad? What do you look for when you’re rating your personal favorites?Let us know in the comments.
Looking at the admeter, the top five ads all have a common theme – humor. People love to laugh. Ace Metrix seems to agree rating the top 10 most effective ads with the most effective being the ones based around humor.
The two ads that scored the highest tying for first place with a 671 Ace score was the M&M’s “Just My Shell” ad and Doritos “Sling Baby” ad. Filling the rest of the top five are humor-based ads that appeal to consumer’s base instinct to laugh.
The CEO of Ace Metrix, Peter Daboll, confirms this by saying to Forbes that humor was the most effective advertising strategy at this year’s Super Bowl which is confirmed by so many ads trying to be funny.
Daboll says that animals go hand in hand with humor as Coca Cola’s polar bear ads both ranked in the top 10. Doritos and Skechers both used dogs in their Super Bowl ads that catapulted both companies into the top 10 ads as well.
Not all ads are created equal though, and not all ads are intended effect to make people laugh. Serious ads that get the attention of viewers on something that they can relate to, such as the current financial landscape, can get people interested in products. Chrysler’s “It’s Halftime America” ad scored well at sixth place with an Ace score of 633. GE’s “Building Something Big in Louisville” got tenth place with an Ace score of 600.
Daboll calls it the “Made in America” ad that connects especially well with men. These kind of ads really “connect with the American people” in a way that the humor-filled ads cant. He goes on to say that these ads can “deliver a serious, emotive message and connect with viewers during the Super Bowl.”
He also points to the success of longer than usual ads that he calls “storytelling” ads. The Chrysler and Volkswagen ads both nailed this effectively by lasting more than the usual 30 seconds without losing interest of viewers.
Looking at the reaction to the ads across social media platforms reveals totally different results. While the H&M David Beckham underwear ad performed poorly with an Ace score of 450, the ad was the number one on social media platforms garnering a whopping 108,914 comments across all major social media platforms according to Bluefin Labs. Bluefin gathered their data in a 45-minute window after each ad aired to provide a fair estimate of how they do since the ads will most likely get more exposure over the coming days.
Compared to the Ace Metrix score, the Bluefin scores may be less effective as they just measure the comments. Comments can be negative and negativity usually outperforms anything else when it comes to online comments. Still, bad press is better than no press so H&M can take that as a sign that at least people were talking about their ad even if they didn’t like it. Unruly research shows brand recommendation as being an effective tool and social media provided that during the Super Bowl.
There is a third metric to consider when rating these ads’ effectiveness. After last year’s Volkswagen ad that premiered before the game garnered more than 90 million views over the past year, other advertisers wanted to cash in on that exposure. Honda’s Ferris Bueller ad has gotten over 18 million views on YouTube since its release with Volkswagen’s new Star Wars ad getting over 17 million views. Both ads used a teaser that led up to the actual ad that boosted their effectiveness.
AutoTrader and Edmunds.com both showed an even newer form of ad effectiveness as well through search and Web traffic. They rated auto ads by how much search and Web traffic they received during the game confirming that ads don’t necessarily have to be crowd pleasers to be big winners. While AutoTrader’s graph shows that search for vehicle models boomed during their respective advertisements; Edmunds.com’s research shows Web traffic to a specific model increased dramatically once its ad aired.
AutoTrader and Edmunds clash with the Ace Metrix numbers as well. Ace is showing that Fiat, while getting the most Web traffic according to Edmunds.com, was seventh in overall auto ad effectiveness.
Once again, as evidenced by our own picks, Super Bowl ads are different for everybody. It’s becoming harder and harder for businesses to pinpoint exactly what ads were effective or not. There are so many metrics and scores that advertisers can go off of that it makes it hard to tell where a company went wrong. While the Ace score can be a good indicator, other ad watch groups show that social media can go in the completely opposite direction.
It doesn’t seem like there’s any one way to really tell whether or not an ad was effective at this year’s Super Bowl. The best bet is to use the USA Today admeter as it’s directly from consumers voting on the ads they liked and combine that with the results from ad firms like Ace Metrix and Bluefin.
With so many different metrics to choose from, should advertisers look to all of them or stick to traditional metrics like Ace?Let us know in the comments.
As a final piece of wisdom, almost all studies confirmed that sexy just doesn’t really work unless you’re David Beckham. Sorry, GoDaddy, maybe you should try something else next year.
Take a look at our picks below and compare them to the researched best picks. There is a massive difference in opinion here, but it serves to show that Super Bowl ads are completely subjective and tastes change. While humor remains a strong contender, what people find funny is going to change year after year. There may even be a year where viewers want more “storytelling” ads with a serious topic.
Our picks confirm what this research has shown us – one man’s, or ad firm’s, picks do not exclusively determine what the best ads are anymore.
Here’s our picks for the top five best Super Bowl ads in no particular order:
Pepsi’s ad seemed to please scoring a 628 Ace score. The ad nails all the important parts of a good ad – great celebrity casting, a fun premise and good music. Check it out to see if you agree.
Volkswagen made a lot of nerds happy last year with their Darth Vader kid ad. While this year’s ad may or may not match up to that, the ending featuring classic Star Wars characters comparing the ad to last year’s ad makes up for it. It received a 590 Ace score.
Audi made us laugh this year with their Vampire Camp ad that’s sure to strike fear into the hearts of night creatures everywhere. It received a 536 Ace score.
The ad for the The Voice makes a great first impression by being action packed and featuring one of the best Betty White cameos ever.
Rounding out the best, we have Doritos. Ever since they started to let their fans make the ads, they have consistently turned out fantastic Super Bowl ads. This year is no different. It received a 645 Ace score.
Jimmy Kimmel is becoming something of a master troll these days. Every now and then, he asks viewers to do something to piss off loved ones, capture it on film, and post it to YouTube. He then selects the best clips and shows them on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
In October 2011, he asked parents to trick their children into believing that they had eaten all of their Halloween candy. The responses from the children were hilarious, and ranged from anger to utter despair. During Christmas, he asked parents to give their kids a crappy present – and the results were similar.
Now he wants you to mess with one of the most scared institutions in America – the Super Bowl.
Kimmel is asking that you wait for a big moment in the game on Sunday, maybe a crucial 3rd and 1 or a game-winning field goal attempt – and just before it happens, unplug the TV. Of course he wants you to film everyone’s reaction and upload it to YouTube with the title “Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Unplugged The TV During The Game.”
He will pick the best reactions and present them on his show next week.
Be prepared: this prank is sure to bring about harsh reactions. Vases may be broken, noses could get punched. You might even get a hot wing to the face. But the reactions are sure to be pretty awesome.
Earlier, I mentioned Kimmel’s Halloween and Christmas pranks. Check them out below and please note that your friends might have the same reactions as these children when you black out the game on Sunday.
It goes without saying that Pizza Hut will sell a lot of pizza over Super Bowl weekend. To illustrate this, however, the popular pizza chain has put out the following infographic making some interesting comparisons. They posted it to their Facebook page.
Pizza Hut says: “If 2 million pizza were hours of YouTube content, there would be 228 years of viewing pleasure. If pizzas were search queries, Google would serve up the entire day’s worth of pizza in just 2.8 seconds. If we gave 1 pizza to every new Twitter user, we would run out in just 4 days. Facebook status updates every 2.8 seconds = 2 million.”
Ryan Higa has several videos on YouTube that have gone viral. Some have millions of views each. Higa has over 5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. It is the second most-subscribed YouTube channel of all time.
Snappy editing and hip meme-centered language contribute to this chart-climber. Higa and sometime-partner Sean Fujiyoshi have dozens of videos that have been viewed a total of over a billion times.
Here’s a little Super Bowl, aging pop star, naked girl on camera drama for your Friday afternoon. Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis is threatening the Queen of Pop with a lawsuit if she goes through with her Super Bowl plans.
TMZ obtained the cease and desist letter sent by Francis’ attorney threatening legal action if Madonna sings her new song “Girls Gone Wild” at the Super Bowl halftime show. It should be pretty clear what he’s basing this threat of legal action on, but here’s what’s detailed in the letter:
Mr. Francis and Girls Gone Wild have worked tirelessly for an excess of two decades to build his brand and to protect his trademark Girls Gone Wild.
Obviously, your misappropriation of my clients’ trademark will not to be tolerated.
Girls Gone Wild’s trade identity and trademark are extremely valuable assets which my clients protect vigorously.
My research indicates, and numerous news articles have mentioned, that Madonna plans to perform publicly the song entitled Girls Gone Wild at this Sunday’s Super Bowl on February 5, 2012. It is clear Madonna is making unauthorized commercial use of Girls Gone Wild’s trademark.
Your attempt to “free ride” on the valuable consumer goodwill and brand recognition of my clients’ trademark constitutes, inter alia, unfair competition, and false designation of origin, trademark infringement, and trademark dilution.
The letter goes on to demand Madonna and her “co-conspriators” perform a few actions if they wish to avoid “costly and extensive litigation.” First, they must agree not to perform the song at the Super Bowl. Next, he wants Madonna to negotiate an immediate licensing agreement. Lastly, he wants her to go back and count all the times she’s already used the phrase to promote her song and pay up.
Madonna released her new video for “Give Me All Your Luvin” earlier today on YouTube. Any ZZ Top fans will recognize that she’s skirting close to the line on that one too.
Ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show appearance, Madonna has premiered her new music video on YouTube, which has obviously replaced MTV as the place where music fans turn to watch videos.
The video is for the song Give Me All Your Luvin’ (Feat. M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj).
Not be confused with ZZ Top’s Gimme All Your Lovin’:
Rumor has it that the halftime show appearance will include appearances from Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo and LMFAO.
Madonna, being the former queen of MTV music videos is embracing YouTube and Google all the way. She is also on Google+, where she will be providing news and behind-the-scenes photos leading up to the Super Bowl, according to Google.
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I’ll leave you with some classic Madonna videos from the music video age:
About a week ago, I wrote an article about Julia Nunes, who was able to snag a spot on Conan. This lead to me researching her YouTube page, and seeing that it had received over 50 million page views and 210,000+ subscribers. Now, she has a new album coming out in February, titled “Settle Down”.
Here’s one of the songs on the album – “Stay Awake”
Nunes was kind enough to take a bit of time from her busy schedule and answer some questions about her Conan experience, her new album, and explained the history of her ukele enthusiasts.
First, let me start off by saying congrats for getting a spot on Conan. What was that experience like, and how was it to meet the famous host who’s had the likes of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Mr. T on his program?
Thank you! It was awesome and scary and excellent. Conan is super nice and we got to watch the rehearsal where he sets up all the bits and he’s just always as funny as he seems on air.
How did it get setup, did you call Conan’s people or did his people call yours?
There are a lot of calls involved, back and forth to make sure that all the ducks are in a row.
You’ve had the YouTube channel since 2006. Did your aspirations of being a musician lead to you creating the channel or did you just make it at first and then use it as a way to share your music with the world?
I started making videos my freshman year of college because I’d just been ripped away from all of my high school friends and we’d always played music together. I sent them whatever I was working on via YouTube hoping that it’d be a little more private than Facebook. I had no idea what I was getting myself in to.
How long did it take before you started to know you were becoming a hit on YouTube?
I had a pretty strong following of about 1,000 ukulele enthusiasts. They had all found me because back then you could search “ukulele” and only yield a few things. One day I decided to make one of my multi layered videos for the song “Into The Sunshine.” The next day I was on the front page of youtube and jumped form 1,000 subscribers to 10,000. It’s kind of been a steady rise form there.
You’ve been releasing albums since 2007, can you compare the experience of that to simply sitting down in front a camera and performing? Are there particular aspects of album making that you enjoy?
I like being able to have drums in the studio. I can’t play drums, nor do I have room for them in my apartment. So while making the album I really got to hear what they sound like with full instrumentation which is awesome. For my videos, I’m usually making due with pots and pans.
With ‘Settle Down’ which releases this month; what was working on this album like compared to your previous works?
Every project is different, especially because you’re usually working with a new group of people, in a brand new environment. This time around we were in a very small studio in the middle of summer so I guess the biggest difference this time was that I was very very sweaty.
What are your aspirations moving forward for both your music and YouTube channel?
I’d like to continue making video’s in the style that I always made them as well as expand my repertoire to make more cinematic videos, more like the video for “Stay Awake” (see above)
I read the story about the name of your channel “jaaaaaaa”, how you did this randomly just holding down j and a, the first and last letters of your name. Any plans for a self titled channel album?
(laughter) Not in the near future, no. Which is funny because in german “ja” means “yes”
If Julia has taught us anything, it’s that playing the ukelele can only lead to good things. Just be sure you can play it well enough.
Steve Hornsby of Bournemouth stepped outside after a hailstorm and found blue balls in his yard. They 1-inch pieces of jelly-ish substance were a mystery to the former aircraft engineer. He hypothesized that they might be some sort of atmospheric pollution that solidified and came down with the precipitation.
Many of the jellied pieces had come apart on impact, but those that landed in taller grass were in batter shape. Theories abounded on the Internet about what it might be, including the usual extraterrestrial-themed guesses.
The substances do not melt in water, do not smell, and are not sticky.
A burrito joint in Boston was broken into a few nights ago. The thieves who broke into Boloco tried to disable the security video camera with a sledge hammer, pried the door open and made off with a safe. But, they were caught on tape, though partly disguised. So, how to proceed?
Management at Boloco posted the video on Facebook and YouTube in hopes that someone would recognize the thieves. The video has gotten national attention. According to their Facebook page:
“$1000 cash reward for information that leads to apprehension of these 3 individuals who broke in and robbed our Boloco Berklee location last night less than 30 minutes after our team locked the doors…
We debated about whether to share this or not – traditionally this isn’t something that is “shared”… but it’s 2012… and we think everyone needs to see what is happening out there, and work together to reduce and one day eliminate evil people like these three.”
So far, they have gotten lots of good tips and more neighborhood watch photos of the thieves. They feel close to an arrest.
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