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Annoying Orange Will Get 2nd Season on Cartoon Network May 16

Despite a nearly universal professional loathing of Annoying Orange, the show has proved to be a huge hit on Cartoon Network and is getting a second season starting on May 16. Why is that, you ask? Well, there's the matter of boys aged 6-14. That's why.

An Interview With Jim Meskimen, YouTube Success Story & Man Of Many Voices

Jim Meskimen is an actor who has worked steadily since Ron Howard's 1994 film The Paper.  He has a varied career, one filled with voice work for animated films and TV shows along with video games.  His IMDB page is absolutely stacked with character acting ...

Comic-Con is the Hot New Place to Launch a Superhero Web Video Series

One of the ways a web series tries to attract attention is by premiering around a certain event, where a core audience is starving and excited for new content. Two web series are about to take advantage of San Diego's annual Comic-Con (July 21-24, with ...

YouTube Is Finally Getting Better At Explaining Fair Use

Fair use is so complex and nuanced, that even most professional video creators would be hard pressed to explain it succinctly and clearly. Copyright law is just... complicated, like most laws. To their credit, YouTube has tried to offer resources on multiple occasions to help ...

Best Viral Video Marketing Ads: Sony's Cybershot & MTV's Stop Motion Balloons

I try to find at least one great branded viral video each week to highlight, separate from the Friday round ups, so we can have frequent examples of how some companies are doing video advertising right. This week, there were two ads that really grabbed ...

Best Viral Video Ad: LG's "Tasteless" Optimus Pad Commercial

We talked yesterday about the new LG Optimus 3D--it's a mobile device built with the partnership of YouTube that allows users to record, view, or upload 3D video. There is another Optimus device, though, in the land of LG--a tablet device called the Optimus Pad. ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

The week after the Super Bowl, you might expect this column to be filled with some of the best commercials from the big game. But you would be wrong. I wrote about the ads themselves on Monday, and most of us have already watched and ...

Free Video Cartoon Animation Tool, Xtranormal, No Longer Free

Xtranormal has been getting a lot of good press lately, and was even featured in a recent YouTube blog post about free and easy ways to create your own holiday video greetings.  But if that blog post were written today, it would come with a ...

Another Lawsuit Arrives To Challenge The Anonymity of YouTube Users

Suing YouTube commenters is all the rage.  Hot on the heels of the news that a Manhattan judge has ruled that Google must turn over the names of anonymous YouTube commenters to former model Carla Franklin, we have another case involving legal action against users ...

Viral Video Lessons Round Up: Spoilers, Ham, and Passionate Speeches

Every Friday I like to use this column to share some of the best recent viral video hits.  With each example, we take a shot at breaking it down to try and figure out what made it so popular.  While viral success is an enigma—and ...

Viral Video Marketing With Dilbert

You know your computer technology-focused industry is uber-popular when it makes the frames of Dilbert. And so, we now have proof that viral is the way to go. Right Dogbert? In the strip published yesterday, Dilbert is asked to approve a viral video marketing project.