The popular iPhone game keeps giving birth to parody videos including this “In Real Life” clip.
Google has been making a lot of noise lately about how Youtube can make as much money for artists and labels as they can by selling their music. The idea is simple enough and has been working for big artists like Lady Gaga who make a small amount of revenue for each ad-supported video play. But when that number stacks up to over a billion views, that’s a lot of moolah. Labels which are using the ad-supported model, have seen a 200-300% increase in revenue in the last year, which Google are putting down to more viewers watching on mobile phones, more profitable ad formats along with online curators that use blogs and social networks to share their tastes.
“If you were to look at the numbers for Lady Gaga, the number of views she gets on YouTube versus downloads that she gets on iTunes, obviously, a single download on iTunes will pay her more than a single view on YouTube,” said Phil Farhi, a product manager from Google’s YouTube monetization team. “But when you look at the traffic — the number of people that are coming back and watching her videos over and over again, watching her videos before they download the song, or discovering them on YouTube — you can see how that scale can compete with a paid service.” Continue Reading..»
Denmark’s Nanna Fabricius turned to music, specifically electro upbeat pop after a spine fracture ended her ballerina career. Signed to Epic Records, her album comes out this year and will feature production from Pharrell Williams. Think Lykke Li meets Eliza Doolittle with added Denmark cool.
http://www.ohlandmusic.com
Seattle’s finest folk band released the title track of their forthcoming album Helplessness Blues for free download last week. The song doesn’t deviate much from the band’s sound but hey, who wants them to make German-inspired techno?
http://bit.ly/fleetblues
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A new Dublin website is aiming to collect stories of the people of Dublin through video interviews and Google Maps.
http://www.storymap.ie
Hundreds of letters which tell fascinating stories penned from all walks of life including well-known personalities like Buddy Holly, Gertrude Stein, Marilyn Monroe and John. F Kennedy.
http://www.lettersofnote.com
A self-explanatory Tumblr blog consisting mostly of odd and funny imagery.
http://generalhilarity.tumblr.com
It’s hard to believe that there exists a tribe on the Amazon border of Brazil and Peru who have yet to make contact with the modern world but aerial footage of such a tribe was shown in a recent BBC series. Fascinating and then some. More photos.
The “brandbowl” during the biggest sporting occasion in North America is just as exciting to many as the game so of course, you can watch all of the videos in one place. Here’s our pick of the best commericals aired…
The clear winner of the pre-Superbowl orgy of adverts involves a kid in Darth Vader costume hilariously attempting to move objects using the force until his father tricks him into believing he can actually do it.
A big budget car ad…
A host of TV characters celebrate NFL…
An ode to the Motor City… Also, not the only advert Eminem appeared in.
This is just odd…
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