Video Sharing

YouTube's Top 10 Lists - Most Popular Videos by Genre for 2012

YouTube Trends announced a whole bunch of other Top 10/Trending lists over the weekend, breaking down the videos into specific genres.  Some of them seem kind of a stretch or too vague, like "Top 10 Eye-Popping Videos" or "Top 10 Awe-Inspiring Videos," but hey, any ...

Collaborations Rule: Walk Off the Earth and KRNFX Cover Taylor Swift

Last year, Walk Off the Earth came out with a video on January 5 that would become a YouTube sensation, a cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know."  It had 5 members of the band all playing one guitar, and it would go ...

YouTube Videos That Missed The Top 10 Cut In 2012

When YouTube released their Top 10 Viewed Videos of 2012, that meant a lot of videos that reached a very high level of engagement were left out of the party.  Last year, I found a handful of videos that also deserved to be mentioned.  YouTube ...

Video: Old Computer Parts Have FUN with 'We Are Young' Remix

Finding something already popular and creating something all your own with it can be a great way to hit it big on YouTube.  In the past couple of years, we've seen some of the top YouTube videos like Karmin's version of Chris Brown's "Look At ...

All You Want For Christmas Are These Videos

Merry Christmas, everyone.  It's no surprise that there is no shortage of Christmas videos to be found this season.  Finding them isn't difficult; paring them down is very much so.  We have videos here that represent food, music, entertainment, and more, all the things that ...

VEVO Releases Top 10 Music Videos of 2012 - Call Me 2011 Maybe?

As I perused VEVO's Top 10 Most Watched Music Videos, I wondered if anything new, or any artists other than Pitbull, One Direction, and usual suspects Justin Bieber and Jennifer Lopez, made any new music this year.  But as we all know, music videos are ...

Videos That Make Rube Goldberg Proud from the Great Beyond

Rube Goldberg died on this day (December 7) in 1970, and his legacy is that of cartoons he drew in the early part of the 20th Century starring a character known as Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, depicting inventions that would go through a convoluted series ...

How Chill.com is Taking Video Sharing to the Next Level via Social Video Discovery & Curation

Earlier this year at Vidcon I had the pleasure of chilling with Marc Hustvedt, Head of Strategic Partnerships for Chill.com, a "social video discovery" platform.  The video curation site was launched because the team at Chill saw a video discovery paradigm that wasn't quite performing ...

Hobbit Flight Safety Video from Air New Zealand Makes Boring Instructions Fun

Whenever I'm on a plane, I generally watch the safety instructions even though I've seen them dozens of times.  It's easy to get lazy and think, "I already know this," and continue reading a magazine.  Knowing this, Air New Zealand and WETA, the special effects ...

Halloween Trick or Treat or How-To Videos You Can Use

You can always count on a ton of Halloween content to be swirling around this time of year, and the tent-pole opportunities during this holiday might be the best of all tent-pole opportunities in an given year.  The entertainment value provided by the spooky, the ...

Videos That Will Keep You Sane and Entertained During the Election

It's no surprise when you take a look at "what's trending" on YouTube, you see a host of election videos, usually something a candidate said that was either candidacy-killing or somehow awe inspiring.  Everybody has their agenda when it comes to posting these videos.  But ...

When Marching Bands Go Viral: Ohio State Turns Video Games Into Halftime Masterpiece

Having never been in a marching band, I don't really know how much work goes into being in one.  But I do know that when I see something like Ohio State's marching band turning video game characters and scenarios into seamless formations while they perform ...

Online Video Weekly News Round Up - The Official Official Edition

No typo, I'm simply celebrating the return of the official NFL officials, as dubious as their officiating may be. Clearly they have some rust to knock off their stripes, and maybe some new prescription glasses. Anyway, let's take a peek at what was going on ...

Cat Videos Will Be Scratching Into Their Own Festival In August

It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before cat videos got so popular and ubiquitous as to command its own festival, where cat aficionados could gather into one place and share their love of kitty mischief and cuteness.  Katie Czarniecki Hill is running ...

YouTube Talent Agency, The Collective, Buys Metacafe

The Collective, an agency that manages YouTube talent such as Freddie Wong and The Annoying Orange, has acquired video destination site Metacafe.  Metacafe began in 2003, before the days of YouTube, and was then promptly surpassed by that site.  Yahoo! was once a suitor for ...