Very interesting viral video that has been watched over half a million times in the last day. Tough to duplicate that one quickly, so not too many “me too” videos

The genius of this clip is that there is nothing added, it is all done through the editing. It’s a brilliant bit, absolutly brilliant.

Karl

The old adage of there is no bad publicity is shown in the alexa rankings for Rocketboom, and for Amanda’s blog Unboomed, both of them in the top three “movers and shakers”

On top of that Rocketboom had a brilliant episode today that was original, creative, and fun, by featuring some YouTube stars really showed itself to a steward of the vlogosphere.

hat tip

YouTube, the Mcdonalds of the video sharing world is apparently serving more that 100 Million videos a day, that is 60% of all videos watched online.

source: Reuters

As Peter Cashmore at Mashable has pointed out and important thing to keep an eye on here is myspace, for they have recently created their own video sharing service which it now promoting to the myspace community. This is important because myspace was a huge catalyst in YouTubes growth.

source: hitwise

That being said, the market itself is still in a rapid growth phase, and much of the world is still only just discovering youtube.

Enjoy,

Karl

Tip of the Hat: paidcontent.org

You can see an amazing parody that was done on the family guy here (the youtube version has been taken down for copyright violations).

3 million people can’t be wrong

Who is Brookers? Probably one of the more famous youtube vloggers who took the “teen dancing around the room lip syncing to songs” to a level that is verging on a new artform. Don’t be surprised if MTV picks her up.

What is machinima? It is the art of film making using video games as the story telling device.

From wikipedia: “Machinima is a portmanteau of machine cinema or machine animation, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre (film created by such production techniques).”