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VW The Force – Keeping The 60-Second Spot Alive On YouTube

Though we usually blog about Augmented Reality, once in awhile an ad comes along that justifies (or keeps alive)  the 60 second spot…at least on YouTube.  3 Million Views (and counting) in 1 day…

What’s New in Interactive Video – 08/03/10

• Hell Pizza Launches Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive Zombie Movie
• YouTube Star to Put His Life in Your Hands for a Year [VIDEO]
• Snuggie Hopes to Recruit YouTube Parodymakers to Make its Next Viral Ad
• Five Questions With…Howcast CEO Jason Liebman
• Video: A Gamer Takes a Look at Xbox Kinect
• The NewTeeVee Guide to Playing WebM Video
• Kinect Doesn’t Like It When Models Stand Too Close To Each Other
• How 12 CEOs & Founders are Leveraging Web Video
• 6 Online Tools for Expanding Your Video Strategy
• Will Logitech’s Google TV Device Be a Loss Leader?
• HOW TO: Enhance Your Online Presence with Video
• YouTube to increase upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes
• Internet TV More Popular Than 3-D TV
• TiVo & Apple: There’s an App for That
• Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min
• YouTube Extends CitizenTube Concept With Local News Channel Deal

YouTube Show & Tell – Great Examples Of Interactive Videos, Brand Channels and More…

I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile, but slipped my mind.  We’ve posted in the past on how to create effective YouTube Contests (and eventual contests winners) and how to make your video more interactive through Choose Your Own Adventure type functionality.  YouTube finally came out with a section on its site called YouTube Show & Tell where you can see for yourself some of the best in breed for different areas like Branded Channels, Home Pages and Interactive Video.  Missing are best practices and videos from effective branded YouTube contests but I imagine this might be in part to brands not wanting to release information on their campaigns.  Hopefully, it’s something that will be updated soon…otherwise you can always check out previous branded YouTube contests here.

*Note – I didn’t mention the ‘Viral Hits’ section b/c I basically don’t think it should be included here.  Viral Hits/Videos aren’t something you can create and are very hit or miss (99% more miss than hits.)  I think this continues to confuse unsuspecting brands who think someone can create a video that will definitely go viral…

What’s New In Social Media – 4/29/2010

• What you need to know about outsourcing social media
• Women flock to Social Games (Stats)
• 21 ways to increase your Facebook fan-base
• 10 tips for creating a branded YouTube channel
• Jimmy Choo is using Foursquare for a real world treasure hunt
• And now for something completely different: For one year, twelve cows on a dairy farm Tweet about their lactation cycle and robotic milking activities
• LinkedIn allows users to “follow” companies now
• 87% of Americans have heard of Twitter, only 7% use it
• In Instant Messaging infographic

What’s New in Interactive Video – 04/27/10

• How To Use Hot Chicks To Spread Your Brand Message On YouTube
• 10 Killer Tips for Creating a Branded YouTube Channel
• Apple TV Will Remain A Hobby Until Someone Shows Apple The Money (Or Apps)
• Steering a Car Using Only Your Eyes
• How To Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up
• Report: One Quarter of Online Videos Are Viewed in Primetime
• Web Video Budgets to Grow
• Study: Marketers Shifting Online Budgets to Content Sites
• Want to Monetize Online Video? Make an App for That
• YouTube Show & Tell – List Of Interactive Videos
• Netflix: More Streaming Means Less Churn
• Clients Like Video, Video Looks Like TV
• Sony Lands Live Streaming MLB Games on PlayStation 3
• Scene It? Movie Game Now On Facebook
• Survey: VOD, Streaming Media Consumption Increases
• Why Online Video Fails To Meet Its Lofty Expectations
• Video Conferencing Players See Volcanic Cloud’s Silver Lining
• 5 Ways Classrooms Can Use Video Conferencing
• Online Video Ads Beat Regular TV Ads
• Project Natal’s Ad Potential
• TO: Boost Your SEO with a YouTube Channel
• Millennials, Men Watch Most Online TV
• New at TubeMogul: Publish Anywhere for Free
• 3D Teleconferencing Feels Like the Future [VIDEO]
• Estimate: 800,000 U.S. Households Abandoned Their TVs For The Web
• Google Unveils a 3-D New York City in Google Earth
• Universal Subtitles Wants Closed Captions for the Entire Video Web
• 12 Chatroulette Clones You Should Try
• Interactive video: A powerful beast

What’s New in Interactive Video – 04/13/10

• Twitter API for Media like TV, What Can Come From This?
• Some Brands Bet On Chatroulette
• Scorecard: Were We Wrong or Almost Right on ITV?
• TV Viewing’s Shift to the Web [STATS]
• Very Cool Iron Man 2 Interactive Trailer
• Three Ways to Optimize Video Performance
• Shazam Targets TV with iPad App
• Wine Videos: Watch And Taste!
• 55% of TVs to Be Internet-Connected by 2013
• Online Video Viewers Hungry for New Tech
• Twitter Users Can’t Stop the Music Video
• Old Spice, Wieden ‘Flex’ Viral Muscles
• YouTube Returns Blogs Some Link Love
• The 7 Most Viral YouTube Video Topics Of All Time
• What Time Should You Start Your Live-Streamed Broadcast?
• SublimeVideo Adds Flash Mode to its Universal, HTML5 Player
• Elemental Live Shakes Up the Economics of Video Streaming
• 11.7M Hours of March Madness Streamed Online

What’s New in Interactive Video – 03/30/10

• Chatroulette Quadruples To 4 Million Visitors In February
• Netflix On The Wii: The First Reviews Are In
• Marketers Merge Online Video, TV Ad Strategies
• Is Hollywood Overestimating the Appeal of 3-D?
• YouTube Steps Up Facebook Integration, Shows Shared Videos
• Hulu Versus TV Everywhere: What Happens After The Comcast-NBC Merger Is Complete?
• Why Chatroulette Is More Than Just Penises
• YouTube’s Blair Fowler Pwns The Internet
• Getting Smart With Video Distribution Part II: Intelligent Channel Enablement
• 5 Ways Non-Profits Can Increase Engagement With YouTube
• More Google TV Details Emerge
• Bitbop Hands-On: Is This The Hulu Of Mobile?
• What Social Needs Does Chatroulette Fill?
• Coming Soon: Live-streamed Car Accidents
• YouTube EDU Finishes Its Freshman Year With 300 University Partners In Tow
• Real-Time Mobile Social Network & SMS Response Can Make Or Break TV Show Ratings
• Web-TV Convergence Is Already Here, Just Not The Way We Expected
• Earth Hour: Lights Off YouTube Viral
• Web Video Audience OK With More Ads, Report
• Will Augmented Reality Be The Bridge To Web 3.0?
• Optimising Your YouTube Channel for SEO
• Nyoombl Uses The TV For Video Conferencing
• Can Augmented Reality Be A Commercial Success For E-commerce?

What’s New in Interactive Video – 03/23/10

• Men Lead TV-Web Multitasking
• Panasonic Is Winning The First Round Of The 3DTV Wars
• YouTube Axes Its RealTime Toolbar Experiment
• Thousands Watch as Molly the Owl’s Babies Hatch on Ustream [VIDEO]
• MyChanceRomance Marries Chatroulette and Online Dating
• The Problem With Hulu, the iPad and Cheap TV
• Kylo Blocked By Hulu Already
• Meet YouTube’s 224 Million Girl
• DEMO: GlideTV launches What’s On Channel For Web Videos On TV
• Online TV-Watching Becomes Interactive Experience
• It’s Time to Get Video on Wikipedia
• NBP: FCC Proposes “Video.Gov” Public Archive
• Live Streaming Sites Beat YouTube in Video Hours Uploaded
• RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set
• GM’s Awesome Augmented Reality Windshield [VIDEO]
• Why So Few TV Ads Are Viral Hits
• How SXSW Bands are Using Online Music Videos
• Studios and Cable Unite in Support of Video on Demand
• YouTube Launches Partner Program for Musicians
• Indie Band Holy F**k Debuts New Album on ChatRoulette, of All Places
• Study: Engagement Key for Rich Media Video Ads
• Inside a Virtual Reality Hamster Ball [VIDEO]
• Project Natal: The … Arcade Game?
• BBC iPlayer About to Go Social
• YouTube Users Upload 24 Hours of Video Every Minute

What’s New in Interactive Video – 3/9/10

• Oscars Online: Twitter Traffic, Livestreaming Help Power Hollywood’s Big Night
• Online Video’s Rapid Growth Hits a Speed Bump [STATS]
• Two Interesting Viewpoints On Chatroulette Founder’s Upcoming Decision – Russian Investment or American Investment?
• Advertising Finally Comes to Chatroulette
• Q&A: OK Go’s Lead Singer Tells Us Secrets of the Band’s Geeky Videos – You can’t make ‘viral’ videos, but these guys come as close as it gets to tapping into content that will become viral…
• Video Chat Is Where It’s at — but How Do Brands Fit in?
• Two Reasons to Love and Two Reasons to Hate The Office Webisodes
• Citi: YouTube to Top $1B in Revenues in 2011
• How Apple Plans to Make You Watch Ads With Cheap TV Shows
• Well That Didn’t Take Long – Band’s Live Performance On Chatroulette
• A New Meme is Brewing: YouTube Caption Fail
• Last Call: Interactive Cinema Experience
• GestureTek To Let You Interact With Images Projected From Your Phone
• March Madness on Demand: What the Online Olympics Should Have Been
• Livestream Goes Mainstream With AP Deal To Stream Video From The Oscars Red Carpet
• YouTube Rolls Out Auto-Captioning for All Videos
• Chatroulette Clones: A New Market for Random Connections
• Bank Run: Interactive Movie + iPhone App – Would be interesting to see how many people bought the $2 iphone app to continue the story…
• Is TV Everywhere the Solution to the Set-top Box War?
• Livestream Calls Out Ustream and Justin.tv for Profiting Off of Piracy
• Hulu, Colbert, And The Recentralization Of Video On The Web
• Vimeo Adds Video Analytics Suite
• Netpulse Adds On-Demand Videos to Your Workout
• Apple’s Trying To Store Your Video in the Cloud
• FCUK + Chatroulette = PR Stunt
• Videos Make The Web More Persuasive
• VUDU Rolls In Facebook and Twitter Integration
• Sports Illustrated Adds Online Video, Including Anchored Newscasts
• 3D TV forecast: Sales will rise tenfold in next five years
• Movieclips Goes Global, Opens Up API
• 4.35 Million Watch Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Video Streams
• YouTube 101: Educational Series for New Users Launches
• Samsung Adds Skype Video Conferencing to LED TVs
• Go For A Virtual Run In Yosemite, Hear Your Own Footsteps
• Showtime Sports Interactive debuts EBIF tags on HDTV
• 25% of All TVs Sold in January Are Connected to the Internet

These 2 Videos Are Why I Love Online Video Innovation…

Doritos Salsa Vimeo Takeover – video embedded below, but you need to view the experience here to get the full effect…

Ok Go’s This Too Shall Pass song set to a Rube Goldberg Machine that’s reminiscent of the Honda Cog video – but on steroids…NewTeeVee has more info here