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Sports is the third album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). It reached number one on the Billboard 200 on June 30, 1984 and catapulted the band to international fame. The album has been certified 10x Platinum by the RIAA. Sports was ranked number 2 on the Billboard year-end album chart for 1984. The album spawned four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and a fifth went top 20. Sports did very well internationally where most of its singles c...

Content Worth Sharing: Ken Block and DC Shoes Rip Through San Francisco in New Gymkhana Five Ad

Another fine example of branded content over the past few years is Ken Block's "Gymkhana" ads with DC Shoes. DC Shoes has taken the approach by Red Bull and GoPro and has decided that they would make amazing content that yes, would feature their products, ...

Pac-12, Ooyala Team for Digital Sports Entertainment Network

Pac-12 Enterprises, the new content and media company of the Pac-12 Conference, and Ooyala, a venture-backed company that provides online video technology products and services, are working together to develop and deploy the Pac-12 Digital Network, the first sports entertainment network built from the ground ...

STR Skill School Is YouTube's April On The Rise Winner, Here's Why

The YouTube Blog announced that STR Skill School, a channel dedicated to showing soccer tips and tricks, is April's winner for their On The Rise program. The channel beat out Anaheim Ballet, Nurbexo's beauty channel, and the Ultraslo channel where we see cool stuff in ...

Baseball Videos, Chicago-Style Hot Dogs, and Apple Pie

Chicago is the third largest media market in the U.S. “Chi-town” has also been the setting for many popular television shows, including: According to Jim, The Bob Newhart Show, Chicago Hope, ER, and Married with Children. In addition, many motion pictures have been filmed in ...

Bleacher Report Announces Original YouTube Channel, 4 New Shows

Popular sports blogs are getting in on the YouTube original channel action, too. Sites like Bleacher Report and SB Nation, crowdsourced sports sites that allow average joes to write columns about their favorite sports teams/subjects, have been tapped by YouTube for original channels in the ...

Why Haven't All Major Sports Jumped On The YouTube Bandwagon?

One of the more frustrating aspects of our On Demand culture is that some of the best moments in sports history aren't available to watch on YouTube. I understand that there's a buck to be made in making those highlights available on a DVD or ...

The Super Bowl Online Stream Amassed A Record Amount Of Viewers

This year, NBC made history by allowing the Super Bowl, one of the biggest events on TV in most years, available online. There has always been a fear that allowing the game online would water down the TV audience, something we've seen time and again ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Super Bowl Edition

When history looks back on this week in the viral video world, the only thing they'll remember is the Super Bowl and all the various online video buzz the commercials generated. The truth is, there were a lot of great videos this week, and only ...

The YouTube Ad Blitz - Super Bowl Commercials Are Coming

It's that time of year again, when two teams square off for the ultimate crown in professional football. At the same time, advertisers will be squaring off for their own annual Super Bowl competition. Like last year, YouTube is partnering with the network broadcasting the ...

YouTube Announces Four Original Extreme Sports Video Channels

The original channels are coming in fast now. Four new ones, all dedicated to the world of skating, surfing, skiing, biking, and all of the other ice, wind, gravity, and water sports you can think of have been announced by YouTube and they have an ...

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 ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Guitar Gimmick Edition

It was a pretty big week for online video fans, as CES 2012 kicked off and a wave of new video gadget announcements began. We also heard some big predictions from key companies at CES, like YouTube, who said that soon 90% of all web ...

TumTiki Celebrates New Showtime Series With Sweepstakes

TumTiki is an online video library with 700,000 free videos. They have a lot of television episodes, as well as a great number of locally-focused video content like sports and news. They also have some titles for rent, which they do through Amazon's system. And ...

MTV & YouTube Stars, Nitro Circus, Star In 3D Feature Film

The legitimization of YouTube continues. We've already seen YouTube stars getting TV deals like Rhett & Link or Epic Meal Time. We've seen YouTube stars grab some awesome endorsement deals and promotional arrangements as well (like Hyndai's Christmas commercials featuring YouTube celebrities). And now the feature ...