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CollegeHumor is a humor website. The site features short columns, multimedia content, and links to other websites.The site was created in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland as a means to stay in touch when they attended college. It has since grown considerably and is operated by Connected Ventures, a New York company comprising Abramson, Van Veen, Jakob Lodwick, and Zach Klein as partners, that also owns Defunker, BustedTees, and Vimeo. ...

Yahoo Web Series Roster Expands With Sports Prank Show, Blindsided

Right after Yahoo! announced Tom Hanks' web series, Electric City, another announcement came in that they would be teaming with CollegeHumor to produce a sports prank web series called Blindsided.  It premieres next week.  It will not have a host, so it will probably have ...

College Humor Looks to Cash In On Jake & Amir Web Series

One of the best aspects of web video is the whole "free" part of the equation.  Web series have been funded through all means such as advertising and second jobs, but often that isn't enough.  What if you have a show that is so popular, ...

Nintendo Fires up 3D Video Delivery Service, OK Go to Debut New 3D Music Video

Alright, this is another one of those emails that came into my Gamers Daily News email address which I found extremely interesting and thought would work well here. If you're not a follower of video games then you might not know that Nintendo offers a ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Parody Edition

Every week we assemble some of the best and most popular videos from the previous week. One of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of the online video marketing world is to check out the videos that go viral every week ...

Nielsen and comScore Continue to Disagree Dramatically in Online Video Numbers

Nielsen and comScore will never see eye-to-eye and that goes doubly for the numbers they report. While comScore said some 174 million Americans viewed online video last month, Nielsen states it's only 144.2 million, or billion if you were to take their chart at face ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Major worldwide catastrophes and global news events have a way of swooping in and completely dominating the viral video world, and the situation in Japan is living proof. Videos of the earthquake in action, videos of the tsunami's devastation, and videos of explosions at the ...

Apples to Oranges: Nielsen Online Video Numbers vs. comScore's Video Metrix

Nielsen is on the boat, or just dragging behind it like an anchor it seems, when it comes to tracking online video usage and growth. comScore has been providing us with monthly glimpses into the online video viewing scene for some time now. Nielsen is ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Considering that I just shared some of my best viral video discovery websites with you yesterday, it's entirely possible you've seen some of this week's featured videos already. Tons of quality viral hits this week covering a variety of genres and topics. We have some ...

How To Break All The Rules of Viral Video, and Still Go Viral

One of the best things about the world of viral video is how frequently it changes.  There's so much creativity that it sometimes feels like anything goes.  Of course, we all know that's not actually true... it can't be "anything goes," or else all videos ...

Blekko: Another Human-Edited Search Engine Hopes To Take On Google By Stopping Spam

ReelSEO is, first and foremost, about video.  Video marketing, video production, and of course, video SEO.  So search engine news is something we tend to pay attention to.  There's a new search engine in town, and it claims to have the one thing that Google's ...

StumbleVideo Adds Video Content With New Partners

StumbleUpon, one of the most popular ways to discover new Web sites and videos on the Internet, announced the addition of six new content providers to StumbleVideo, including: College Humor Funny or Die Vimeo Dailymotion veoh.com vbs.tv. These six new sites are added to StumbleUpon's ...

Joost Gets Funnier With CollegeHumor Online Videos

CollegeHumor (www.collegehumor.com), the definitive source for irreverent student humor and leading online source of original comedy videos, today announced that it will bring its high-quality CHTV original videos to Joost(TM) (www.joost.com), the world's first broadcast-quality Internet television service. CollegeHumor's CHTV original videos will be made ...