A collection of 11 posts
What happens when you have a video go seriously viral? A media frenzy ensued and ultimately Kim’s video was seen by tens of millions of people around the world. A slew of news organisations sought Kim’s permission to…
How journalists behave when your video goes viral Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: Broadly, their behaviour fell in to one of three categories: a)…
YouTube celebrities – like comicbookgirl19 above – are the fastest growing media stars of our age, yet a group much of the mainstream media seems utterly unaware of. There’s an interesting piece arguing that female YouTube celebrities have greater influence amongst…
A day at work watching YouTube videos: A guy in a hamster suit falling over at a children’s birthday party also gets the nod. It reminds him of a video his company approved a few weeks ago—Bugs Bunny…
This is marvellous: It’s a piece of marketing for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus (a prequel, of sorts, to the Alien movies). I do hope that TED talks are this cool in 11 years……
