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Viral Video: ‘Twouble with Twitter’ & Flutter the New Twitter

April 22, 2009 No Comments

Twitter Fail Whale - Twouble with Twitter

What is Twitter?

Twitter is known as a micro-blogging site. It is a place where a person can create a Twitter profile where one can post entries or “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Friends and Strangers alike can follow your tweets just like anyone would follow a blog. Twitter is one of the most well known social networks today.

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Below are two fun viral videos that pokes fun at Twitter and the type of info that it is used for. Twitter has often been ridiculed for being the medium in which people update each other about every mundane thing they do. “Watching TV with my Cat” “I forgot how much I like my pickles”

“Twouble with Twitter”

This is a hilarious video of two people at work discussing twitter. One person just started to use twitter and is raving about it’s uses while his co-worker adamantly claims that its absurd. More hilarious if you are familiar with Twitter. (Info: The White Twitter Fail Whale is what appears on the screen when Twitter has a problem such as too many users hitting their servers at once. The Fail Whale has it’s own subculture including t-shirts, clubs and sculptures). Warning, little blood at the end.

Creativity Series

Viral Video: Susan Boyle Britians Got Talent, Ironman vs Bruce Lee

April 17, 2009 3 Comments

Susan Boyle - Britians got Talent - I Dreamed a Dream

What are Viral Videos?

Viral Videos are online video’s that gets spread around very quickly. People like the video and send the links to their friends who send to their friends and so on. Typically when people say a video goes viral, it means millions of people view it within a span of several days. Companies all dream of having one of their videos go “Viral”.

Periodically as part of the creativity series, I’ll post some videos that have gone viral. Of course they need to be clean, creative and something worth sharing. Slide these in between more serious posts. There are too many to share so I’ll post 2 at at time. Enjoy!

Susan Boyle – Britains Got Talent 2009
Susan Boyle a 47 years old charity worker from West Lothian, Scotland. Currently unemployed she went on “Britain’s Got Talent”, an American Idol Equivalent to sing for the judges. With a small stature and elderly age, everyone laughs as she speaks about wanting to be a professional singer. She chose to sing “I dreamed a dream” from les misérables. See what happens.

Creativity Series, Video

Can you Undo your Past? Gracepoint Berkeley Church

April 8, 2009 No Comments

Gracepoint Fellowship Church – GLive Opening Video

Gracepoint Berkeley Church, a Christian Church located near UC Berkeley, recently had a large scale performance called Gracepoint Live or “GLive”. This production occurs every 2 or 3 years where 100s of college students who are part of one of their affiliated Christian campus groups perform several skits and musicals tackling life questions. About 1900 were in attendance this past weekend.

This year their theme was “UNDO: Can you delete the past?” discussing the regrets we have or will have about life. Below is their opening video.

Advertising, Articles, Creativity Series, Video

Obama Pro-life Abortion Video?

March 19, 2009 No Comments

The images of a baby fetus.
The heart beats, the baby moves.

“This child’s future is a broken home.”
“He will be abandoned by his father.”
“His single mother will struggle to raise him”

The baby continues to grow…

A pro-choice video, we assume..

Then in a twist of fate,

“This child, despite the hardships he will endure, will become the first African-American President.”

Images of Barack Obama triumphant on election night.

“Life. Imagine the potential.”

Art & Design, Articles, Creativity Series, Video

Pro-Life Abortion Speech by 12 Year Old

March 17, 2009 2 Comments

Children Influencing Culture through Media?

We always talk about media influencing children and culture, but how about children influence culture through media!?

A creative speech video that has been making the rounds a few months ago is the video of a young Canadian 12 year old Lia who chose the topic of abortion as her topic for a school speech contest. Her teacher wanted her to pick a different topic but she chose to continue. As you’ll see below she was an excellent speaker and crafted her arguments with thought and strategy.

“What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were going to live or die?”

“What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you could or couldn’t do, what you’d done in the past or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you, you could do nothing about it?”

“Fellow students and teachers, thousands of children are right now in that very situation. Someone is choosing without even knowing them whether they are going to live or die.”

“That someone is their mother. And that choice is abortion.”

Articles, Internet, Video

Youtube Statistics – The Ultimate Time Suck

February 18, 2009 23 Comments

YouTube Statistics – Where did my time go?

How many times have you gone to YouTube to watch some video you’ve heard about, then 7 videos later you wonder where the time has gone? or perhaps 15 videos later… 30 videos…

Well you are not alone. 77% of users coming to YouTube come intending to watch 1 video but end up watching several.

YouTube has become a time sucker and a place people have gone to alleviate their boredom. But first a quick summary of some Internet & YouTube statistics.

Internet Usage

Adults spend 15+ hours on Internet a Week
Expected 217 MM US internet Users by 2012 (71% Penetration)
55% broadband access, will grow to 90% by 2012
Online video viewing increased 35% year over year

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Creativity: Powerful, Slow Motion Social Service TV Commercial Videos

January 19, 2009 No Comments

The following videos are service ads shown on TV or other mediums in order to send a social message. Each of these TV spot videos are done in slow motion to enhance the message. The first video has to do with fire arms. The second video has to do with slowing down driver speeds in residential areas and the last is promoting the use of seat belts. Each of these videos use some powerful imagery to shake people into thinking about these issues.

Bullet Slow Motion Video

Disclaimer: I am going to spoil a bit of the punchline but I need to get this disclaimer out. Those who are faint in heart, there is a portion here where the ad leads you into thinking something is going to happen, but it doesn’t. Just know this is a CLEAN video.

(Lesson of the Day: “Faint in Heart” is correct. “Feint in Heart” is not. Feint means to trick or deceive. So the ad “feinted” or did a feint… but it’s not for the “Faint in Heart”.)

Articles, News

Downloading TV and Watching Video Online Biggest Gainers in 2008

January 18, 2009 No Comments

Downloading TV and Watching Video Online Biggest Gainers in 2008

According to new research from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, (MRI), the biggest year over year growth gainers among adult Internet users in 2008 in terms of media interaction were downloading TV shows, watching online videos and making online phone calls.

MRI surveyed the American consumer and found that 3.2% of adults had downloaded a TV program in the last 30 days for a 141% increase since the year before. Despite the fact that access to TV programs have become increasingly easier, this is still considered a tremendous jump year to year. The number of adults who watched online video also continued to trend up increasing by 35%. 4% of adults said they had made an online phone call which represents a 32% increase.

Art & Design, Creativity Series

Creativity: Electrabel – Happy New Year – Candle Light

January 7, 2009 4 Comments

Can you believe the picture above is made with small tiny tea candles? Amazing.

A company called Electrabel, a Belgium based energy company created this TV spot to wish a Happy New Year to their customers. The light show effects are done using small tea candles transforming an underground car park the attic area of one of the production company’s (CZAR) office locations, into a night sky full of cityscapes, fireworks, stars and other beautiful images.

This video was done in Famous, Brussels by creative director Christophe Ghewy, art director Nicholas France, agency producer Lander Engels, copywriter Oliver Roland and shot by Director Raf Wathion with producer Fred Vranchken and executive producer Ruben Goots.

The video utilizes 288,000 Candles and 1,600 Photos.
See the Videos below!

Internet, Video

YouTube vs Hulu vs Facebook Statistics

January 5, 2009 No Comments

Data on online video usage by ComScore continues to show YouTube dominating the video category with over 125 million monthly viewers resulting in about 1 billion views per day.

However, two well known players, Hulu and Facebook has grown significantly month to month. Overall online video was up 7% from Sept to October with nearly 28 billion videos viewed. YouTube is responsible for about a third of those views. Hulu had jumped from 583 million views in September to 855 million views in October for a 32% growth. Hulu is a joint venture by News Corp, NBC, and Disney to provide advertisement supported TV shows and movies. Facebook also showed strong gains with 25% more unique visitors bringing their visitor count to 41 million a month.

How many YouTube videos do you “think” you watch per month?

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Advertising, Creativity Series, Internet

Creativity: Apple & Nintendo Creative Game Ads

December 16, 2008 No Comments

Apple’s newest ad for their ipod games was a little different, in a good way. Their agency, TBWA/Media Arts Lab, created an ad on Yahoo where the actions of the Iphone impacts all the different elements on the Yahoo page.

Advertising, Art & Design, Creativity Series, Video

Creativity: Great TV Commercial Series and Athletes – MasterCard & NBA

December 14, 2008 No Comments

What happens when you take the a great TV Commercial idea and add athletes? A wonderful TV Commercial with, you guessed it, athletes. Companies take great care to only use the most clean cut of athletes to promote their brand.

Mastercard “Priceless” Commercial: Peyton Manning
Below is one such example of using Peyton Manning, the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, in one of the most creative campaigns in TV history – the priceless Mastercard series. Following that is two very well made TV series by the NBA.