Gawker Launches Video Ephemera Site

Gawker today launched Gawker.TV (aka http://tv.gawker.com/), a “video-centric” site that aims to present a steady stream of random, timely, offensive and/or awesome virals and would-be virals. An introductory note promises:

Amazingly cheesy 80’s and 90’s music videos, the best comedy sketches in existence, a daily wrap-up of what we’ll be watching every night, cute animal videos to make you smile, the best in fail videos, weekly how-to’s on a variety of subjects, wrap-ups of the week in video, the web shows that you should be watching, and always leaving you with a daily moment of WTF.

Gawker founder Nick Denton told The Business Insider that the site spins off Gawker’s popular coverage of “TV highlights, mashups, viral web video” and gives Gawker video producer Richard Blakeley a bigger role.

Gawker.TV
So far the Gawker.TV editors haven’t found any videos that really wow us — how to peel a banana, that one about the puppy that still can’t get up. It does seem promising that they’ll be doing their own editing, for instance this roundup of shameless TV product placement. But seriously guys, make your own videos embeddable, it’s only fair.

Gawker actually used to have a really similar video clip aggregator blog called Screenhead, which it put up for sale in 2006 due to underperformance. We don’t know who bought it but now the site seems to be all about movie reviews. A more current competitor is the often hilarious Videogum, an offshoot of Stereogum that’s always been an odd duck within owner Buzznet‘s celeb-driven blog network.

But there’s no lack of kooky web video streaming across the web every day, and we’re grateful to people who find good stuff, so we’ve subscribed.

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