It’s almost the end of 2010, and the best way I can figure to recognize yet another inspiring year in web video is to individually honor the stand-alone projects, followed tomorrow by the serialized ones, which really stood out since January. For me, anyway. Read More »
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OK Go have amassed close to 110 million views on their YouTube channel – but the site’s partner program hasn’t made them rich just yet, I was told by Tim Nordwind and Damian Kulash in a video interview that also revealed surprising news about Michelle Obama. Read More »
YouTube’s having a party to celebrate the artistic and experimental content submitted to its YouTube Play program, and if you’re not in New York, you can still tune in thanks to a livestream, to be hosted at youtube.com/play, tonight beginning at 8 PM ET. Read More »
OK Go’s new video for its single White Knuckles features trained agility dogs, Ikea furniture and lots and lots of white. The video is still unlisted on YouTube, but it’s already racking up steam, thanks to a push by the website of the Ellen Degeneres Show. Read More »
OK Go wants its new video to go viral, and the band is promoting the clip with a competition on Facebook that it has dubbed the “my ‘friends’ are cooler than your ‘friends’ video contest.” The rules, in short: The person with the most comments wins. Read More »
Okay, we admit it: We’re a little sad today that GigaOM didn’t win a Webby, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from checking out the long list of web video sites and ventures that did. In fact, web video was one of the big winners … Read More »
To quote The Princess Bride: “Let me ‘splain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.” I’ve been having a great time and learning a lot at SXSW this year, but while I process some of the bigger ideas, here’s just a taste … Read More »
For want of an embed code, the band was lost…to their own independent label. Viral music video experts and indie rock band OK Go, after publicly squabbling with EMI over the lack of embedding on their YouTube music videos, have left the label … Read More »
Last night, the newest OK Go video to spread around the web had an unconventional premiere — rather than bowing big in front of a stadium of fans, or broadcastin on MTV2, the newest take on This Too Shall Pass was shown first at last … Read More »
In the drama over embedding music videos from YouTube, recently the band OK Go (who broke into the mainstream thanks in large part to their 2006 viral treadmill hit Here It Goes Again) played a starring role. After I called them “morons” … Read More »
Name-calling isn’t polite. That’s how my mother brought me up, anyways. So I kinda feel bad about starting off today’s review with the following: OK Go, you guys are morons. But, frankly, it needs to be said. Why? It’s simple. The indie rock band was but … Read More »
