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"Haunting Melissa" is a horror series being made available through an iOS app. It's a unique strategy for distributing a video: get people to download a free app, watch the first episode for nothing, then charge if people want to see new chapters.
Today is June 4, which means that tomorrow, which is June 5, will be the day that all channels that haven't switched to the new One Channel design will be automatically switched over. So, you might as well learn some things about it if you're going to be forced to deal with it.
Amazon and Viacom have struck an exclusive deal, and Netflix no longer will have shows from Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, or MTV. That's all well and good for Viacom and Amazon, I guess. But for the rest of us, it just means having to buy more than one streaming service to "have it all."
Dollar Shave Club is back with a new video for a new product: One Wipe Charlies. Yep, we're talking about #2 here, in more ways than one. The same stream-of-consciousness style is back, and it looks like they have another winner here.
A Cheerios ad showing an interracial family forced Cheerios to turn off the comments, which is of course, stupid. The move illustrates that YouTube probably needs an automatic moderation system, because it's nearly impossible to keep the discussion entirely civil 24 hours a day on your own.
Vine is on Android, finally. It only took 5 months, but the app that iOS users downloaded 13 million times has finally arrived on Android. Users of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One will be able to use the zooming feature on this app, which makes this version unique from the iOS app.
Animoto is offering a new service called Pro Premium, which integrates their branding, video styles, music tracks, and more with the included Vimeo Pro membership. A service like this is cool to know about when you're a business looking to brand your videos, and not have to use that same old YouTube player.
Revision3 has acquired DeFranco Creative, which means they now have SourceFed and all other Philip DeFranco channels and ventures. The partnership between Rev3 and DeFranco has been a fruitful one, and Rev3 is also making DeFranco a Senior VP.
Gumroad, a platform for selling digital media, has added live streaming video to the mix. Content creators can now monetize their videos on the service, which will be taking a somewhat smaller fee than usual when it comes to this sort of thing.
YouTube has made it so that you can organize your subscriptions into basically what amounts to a playlist, or at least a set of categories so that you can clean up the left side of your subscription feed. It's called "Collections" and it's a pretty nifty feature.
YouTube introduces SloMo to their YouTube Editor! Now you can totally take that video that is ridiculously normal in its speed and make it slower! SloMo videos tend to be a pretty cool spectacle on YouTube, so it's no surprise that they're adding it to their in-house editor.
The new season of Arrested Development came with lots of high hopes and expectations. And like all things where fans demand to be entertained exactly as they were before, those hopes and dreams were given a reality check. However, this season of Arrested Development is just as good. It's just different.
Buzzfeed and CNN are partnering to create a new YouTube channel. We can probably expect some list-based videos courtesy of CNN soon. Anyway, Buzzfeed is looking to align themselves with the relevance of CNN, while CNN looks to be cool with the 18-34 set.
Skippable pre-roll ads can be controversial. Are they delivering advertisers what they want? Are people smacking these things down like the outdated overlays? We've seen a few content creators and advertisers find creative ways to work with skippable ads. The Belgium Suicide Prevention hotline is the latest.
Smosh hit 10 million subscribers. It was pretty inevitable. Will this channel ever hit the wall? Also, there are other channels growing at an amazing rate that could overtake Smosh in the future if they continue at their rates.
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