Posts Tagged ‘youtube’

The Power Of Youtube And Viral Video

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

In the last post, we talked about how the power of Youtube changed some lifes.
And yesterday there was news that another life was changed by Youtube: Greyson Chance.
Who is he? Well it’s a 12 year old kid who played and sang a Lady Gaga song at his school. This was shot on video. The video [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | May 18, 2010

Youtube Turns Five With A Look Back

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

This month Youtube is turning five years old, and with it they launched a special site in which users can upload videos with “their Youtube story”, how Youtube changed their lives.
Youtube sure changed a lot of lives, and one of the greatest and more recent examples, is Fede Alvarez.
If you recall, a few months back Fede [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | May 17, 2010

The first ever Youtube video

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

On a Saturday night at 8:27PM, on April 23rd, 2005, a video was uploaded to Youtube by one Jawed Karim (who worked with the other two Youtube co-founders) showing him at the San Diego Zoo. It was the first Youtube video ever.

Almost 5 years past, the site has become a giant and changed the way [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Feb 17, 2010

Inspirational viral: One Year in 120 seconds

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under inspirational

From Norway comes this latest video going viral yesterday.
It’s from one Erik Solheim, a project manager in the development department of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, and he likes to experiment with media.
So last year he made a time lapse video (more on that later) that was a big hit both on Youtube and Vimeo. And [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Jan 8, 2010

Epic Phantom Menace (Star Wars) review goes viral

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Your life is about to change. This is astounding film making. Watch ?ALL of it.
This was what Damon Lindelof, one of the creators and showrunners of Lost said (in a tweet) about this video I’m about to post here.
And it truly is great. This is an epic 70 minute review by Youtube user RedLetterMedia, and [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Dec 19, 2009

Top 5 viral videos today

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Sometimes, videos go viral, then they stop being shared for a while, and then for some reason, they’re on top of the list again.
And right  now, the top 5 most shared, viral videos on the web, are already on Viral Curve.
So if you missed any of them, here they are, along with the list (in [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Oct 30, 2009

The whole concert is going viral: U2 on Youtube

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

Remember last week a promotional video for U2’s concert streaming live from LA to Youtube going viral?
Well after the concert, the whole video performance has gone viral! It has over 425.000 views.
And I thought nothing could beat that Google Wave presentation in terms of the longest video ever to go viral! Well this one actually [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Oct 27, 2009

Viral event: U2 on Youtube

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

In the beggining of this week there was the announcement that Youtube will stream U2’s concert live from The Rose Bowl in LA. Soon enough, the video promotion became a viral video.
This event is going to be viral because:
- U2 has an enormous legion of loyal fans (in the order of millions), being considered one of [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Oct 21, 2009

Le Cube – the making of Apple’s NY store viral

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns

This is one of those beautiful, great videos that are not your typical viral videos. It’s a small documentary on the making of Apple’s New York flagship store – Le Cube.
It was uploaded to Youtube yesterday and it already has close to 60 thousand views. Of course, Apple stuff has a tendency to go viral, as [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Oct 15, 2009

100 Greatest Viral Videos in 4 minutes

Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary

We usually post some viral videos here, right? How about 100 viral videos in 4 minutes?
That’s the premise of this video, that mashes together some of youtubes most known and seen viral videos.
The video is a very smart promotion strategy of a band called Hadouken, who having their video with their music seen by 2.5 [...]

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Read more | Comments (View Comments) | Oct 7, 2009

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