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Video Marketing Done Right - Google+ Teases Google Map Video Game

Google is hoping that games can do for Google Plus what they did for Facebook--get people hopelessly addicted until they're spending every waking moment playing social network games and annoying friends with automated status updates based on meaningless gameplay objectives. Um... sorry... guess I have some personal issues on that particular subject. Now where was ...

Major League Baseball To Make Fan Cave A Web Series In 2012

Last year, MLB.com offered a chance for one lucky person to watch all 2,429 regular season games and attend All-Star and postseason games through a contest called MLB Dream Job.  The winner was then sent to New York City and a former Greenwich Village Tower Records location to watch games, mingle with baseball's All-Stars and ...

Where Gaming & Online Video Collide: Tour Of Machinima

Of all the YouTube Partners that are succeeding, perhaps none is thriving and growing quite like Machinima. Machinima is the home to a host of recurring and regular programming, most of which is centered around the world of video games--machinima is a modern word used to describe film works that are created from using graphics ...

Freddie Wong TV Commercial - EA Hires YouTube Star To Create Battlefield 3 Ad

We've come a long way, guys. Video games are no longer just for kids, but are now billion-dollar tentpole events. And creating videos is no longer just for people who can afford the expensive equipment. Freddie Wong is sort of the poster child for self-taught video creators online. His videos routinely go viral, and after ...

Sponsored Videos Gaining Ground In Video Advertising For Online Gaming

Some interesting information that was sent to me recently pertains to how favorable online game players are toward sponsored videos so that they can continue to play a game for free. Then again, the study was done by SponsorPay and they are a provider of that sort of video advertising service so, you'll need a ...

Roku Box Update Brings MKV, More Games & An Official iOS Remote App?

There's a big update on the way to the Roku 2 and Roku LT boxes that will add in a good amount of new features including MKV playback and, can it be true? Support for a future iOS Remote App looks to be included.

Google.pl Doodle An Interactive Video Tribute To Author Stanislaw Lem

Most of our readers probably don't have much day-to-day reason to visit Google.pl--the Polish version of Google. And unless you speak Polish, are from Poland, or do business there... why would you need to visit? I'll tell you why: because Google has created a special commemorative home page doodle honoring Polish author Stanislaw Lem that ...

Panasonic Viera Headed For OTT Converged Screen Combat With Viera Connect Market

Panasonic seems completely serious when it comes to combining online video with normal TV. They have no less than a dozen pre-installed apps planned for their upcoming Viera connected TVs and the expected total available apps now sits at around 120. The big names like Netflix and Hulu are already on board as embedded apps, pre-installed. ...

Gaming Consoles The Main Source For Online TV Viewing

Man, gaming consoles have way more capabilities than when I was playing my Sega Genesis nonstop back in the day.  Machines like the Xbox 360, Wii, and Playstation 3 have become increasingly powerful and able to do more than just play games, and online video is a big part of it.  You can watch Netflix ...

Logitech Gives Up On Google TV, But Who Hasn't?

Nope, not gonna do it no mo! That's what Logitech Chairman and CEO Guerrino De Luca said recently. Shines a new light on the Google purchase of Motorola Mobility doesn't it? The Logitech CEO said that it was a big mistake and that the software was not complete which shot the box in the foot. ...

CBS Live Stream of LSU-Alabama Game Breaks College Football Record

As expected, CBS saw the college football record broken for an online/mobile audience during Saturday's LSU-Alabama showdown.  Over 200,000 watched the game via the website and CBS Sports Mobile, which considering that the network was seeing numbers "hovering just under six figures" means they more than doubled their greatest online audience.  The number is significant ...

Grand Theft Auto V Trailer Online - Viral Status Guaranteed

Video game trailers are among some of the most popular branded viral videos around--just ask Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 3, as both games have earned massive buzz and tens of millions of video views in just the past few months. But there's a new king in the most-wanted-video-game department, as today ...

Watch The LSU-Alabama Game Online & Help CBS Break A Live Streaming Record

CBS has been pretty awesome in the streaming video racket for awhile now.  They offer streams of The Masters and the NCAA Tournament, all in the face of the risk that somehow, they'd lose TV ad dollars from the potential lost audience watching the events online.  However, CBS seems to take the opinion, a right ...

Machinima's Tommy Wi-Show An Exercise In Bad For The Sake of Bad

Last month we talked about Machinima's foray into the genre known as Tommy Wiseau, with the cleverly titled The Tommy Wi-Show.  Wiseau, the modern-day celebrity manufactured by irony, his movie The Room navigating the midnight-screening territory of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has a perfectly-tailored channel on YouTube to continue this tour of oddball lack ...

Machinima To Bring Fanboys What They Want: Lots of Tommy Wiseau

Tommy Wiseau has become this generation's type of celebrity: a man who has a cult following for all the wrong reasons, but embraces the attention.  His film The Room makes regular rounds at (often sold out) midnight showings around the country, a movie so uniquely bad that it actually connects in a social way.  Watching ...