Lady Gaga's official YouTube channel was suspended hours ago. Gaga has two accounts on YouTube. Except the official channel, she also has her VEVO channel, which has 1.6 billion views and is still available. The removed account, "ladygagaofficial", has 149,010,799 views.
People who visited the channel will get this message: " This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's Copyright Policy." YouTube declined to elaborate on the account suspension event.
According to a statement from Time Out Tokyo, Gaga's official YouTube account was suspended because "she posted footage from her recent appearance on the Fuji TV show SMAP x SMAP. The ten-minute performance featured a medley of songs from her new album, Born This Way, laced with Japan-themed ad libs". A Japanese firm titled "Media Interactive Inc." sent the copyright-infringement claim to YouTube and was responsible for the account suspension.
According to YouTube's policy, suspended account can be restored after the copyright-infringement content is removed. So I think Gaga's official YouTube account will be restored sson.
Lady Gaga is one of the most popular artists on YouTube. Gaga was the first person reaching 1 billion views milestone on YouTube's history. Having 1.6 billion views, her videos are the second most-viewed videos on YouTube. Artist who has the most-viewed videos on YouTube is Justin Bieber, having totally 1.7 billion views to date.
The 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes" has been a global commerical success. Its $524,028,679 global gross has made the film a big blockbuster. So there's no doubt for Guy Ritchie to film the sequel. Now the first movie trailer of the Sherlock Holmes film sequel is available for streaming on YouTube. The film, titled Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Sherlock Holmes 2 for short), arrives in U.S. theaters on December 16, 2011. The picture above is the Sherlock Holmes 2 poster, showing Robert Downey, Jr., who plays Sherlock Holmes in the new film, grabbing a pistol in his hand.
The YouTube video below is the first trailer of the sequel. You can download Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows trailer from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader for Mac if you're on Mac. Windows users can check this Free YouTube Downloader.
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) - and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective.
When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Sherlock Holmes deduces that the prince has been the victim of murder - a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by one Professor Moriarty.
Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen's club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood. It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller, who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince's murder makes her the killer's next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.
The investigation becomes even more dangerous as it leads Holmes, Watson and Sim across the continent, from England to France to Germany and finally to Switzerland. But the cunning Moriarty is always one step ahead as he spins a web of death and destruction - all part of a greater plan that, if he succeeds, will change the course of history.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows cast:
Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law as Dr. John Watson
Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty
Noomi Rapace as Sim
Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes
Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan Watson
Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler
Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade
Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson
More information about Sherlock Holmes 2:
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, Dan Lin
Based on Characters by Arthur Conan Doyle
Cinematography Philippe Rousselot
Music by Hans Zimmer
Studio Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures
Some photos from Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows:
Yes, it's Rebecca Black again! The 14-year-old YouTube star has been making news during the past months. No doubt she has become a celebrity with her Internet viral video "Friday". Accroding to USA Today, Black will release her follow-up track dubbed "My Moment" at 7:00 p.m. next Monday on July 18, 2011. Can Black again perform miracles? Let's wait and see.
"The Moment" will debut on Rebecca's website and her YouTube channel on July 18. Then it will be available for digital download on iTunes the next day.
"My Moment" was written by Brandon "Blue" Hamilton and Quinton Tolbert. Music video of the song will feature her moments in real life, including moments of her childhood, moments of her attending her junior high school and some music awards ceremonies.
In addition to "My Moment", Black has a bigger plan - she is going to release her own EP including five tracks in this August, according to a statement from E! Online. EP with five tracks? Wow! What else we would expect from a only 14-year-old girl?
Previously, Rebecca Black posted a video of her performing her song "Friday" to YouTube. She and the video have suddendly become Internet sensation. Lots of comments and video parodies to the song emerge across the Intenet. However, the "Friday" video was removed from YouTube due to Black's claim of a copyright dispute. The video has drawn 167 million views before its removal.
YouTube is going to update its video player with brand new playlist and is asking users to test this new feature. We might be rather familiar with video playlist player, as we've seen video players with playlists on a lot of video sharing websites. And finally, YouTube is also ready to put on this favorable feature.
Jeff Posnick from YouTube API Team announced the above news on YouTube API Blog on July 14, 2011. Posnick said that they've completely rewritten the embedded player to enable users to embed the player on their web pages with the playlist, which consists of a series of related videos. The rendering is shown in the picture below:
To enable the playlist, you need to add "&version=3" to the end of the URL in the embed code. Here is an example: http://www.youtube.com/p/E46798C874B35B7F?fs=1&version=3
You might have noticed the red switch button under the control bar. If you try to click on it, the thumbnail playlist will hide; click it again will trigger the player to show the thumbnail player again.
Note that it's under test. When the testing period ends on July 20, the playlist will be automatically added to the player. At that time, you don't need to add "&version=3" string to the embed code to activate the video playlist.
What's your opinion about the playlist player? You can write it down in the comment below.
Since July 1st, the beginning of the second half of 2011, Billboard.com has been asking people to vote their favorite artists and works for its 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. Now the poll is over. Finally, Britney Spears turns out to be getting the most votes in the poll. The "Femme Fatale" singer leads the poll on 5 categories, including the First-Half MVP, Favorite Hot 100 No. 1 Song, Favorite Billboard 200 No. 1 Album, Best Music Video and Best Tour. Lady Gaga is the runner-up of the above 5 awards. Besides, Gaga also won the Best Festival Performance and the Best Dressed.
The list below is the top threes in all categories of the Billboard.com 2011 Mid-Year Music Awards. It was declared by Billboard.com. Check out the list and you can talk about your opinion of the result in the comment.
FAVORITE HOT 100 NO. 1 SONG: 1. Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me" (35.6%) 2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (34.2%) 3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep" (18.0%)
FAVORITE BILLBOARD 200 NO. 1 ALBUM: 1. Britney Spears, "Femme Fatale" (36.8%) 2. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" (35.9%) 3. Adele, "21" (18.6%)
BEST MUSIC VIDEO: 1. Britney Spears, "I Wanna Go" (43.5%) 2. Lady Gaga, "Judas" (24.7%) 3. Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" (15.2%)
BEST COMEBACK: 1. Jennifer Lopez (68.7%) 2. Lupe Fiasco (13.9%) 3. Britney Spears (6.5%)
MOST MEMORABLE MELTDOWN: 1. Chris Brown at "Good Morning America" (32.3%) 2. Amy Winehouse's Serbia concert (22.9%) 3. Odd Future at Billboard's SXSW Showcase (3.4%)
BEST FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE: 1. Lady Gaga at Radio 1's Big Weekend (35.6%) 2. Beyonce at Glastonbury (34.8%) 3. Kanye West at Coachella (13.8%)
BEST TOUR: 1. Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Tour (48.5%) 2. Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour (30.1%) 3. U2's 360 Tour (7.1%)
BEST AWARDS SHOW PERFORMANCE: 1. Beyonce, 2011 Billboard Music Awards (35.3%) 2. Cee Lo Green, 2011 Grammy Awards (9.2%) 3. Jason Aldean & Ludacris, 2011 CMT Awards (3.6%)
BEST MUSIC REALITY SHOW: 1 . "American Idol" (50.7%) 2. "The Voice" (33.6%) 3. "America's Got Talent" (11.2%)
BEST DRESSED: 1. Lady Gaga (51.2%) 2. Nicki Minaj (24.2%) 3. Britney Spears (7.7%)
MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE OF 2011'S SECOND HALF: 1. Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter IV" (32.7%) 2. Lady Antebellum, "Own the Night" (29.5%) 3. Red Hot Chili Peppers, "I'm With You" (18.4%)
Director Michael Bay's Transformers 3 (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) just premiered last week on June 29 in United States. The film has earned $97.5 million during its first weekend, topping the weekend box office and setting a new Fourth of July box-office record.
However, some footage of Transformers 3 are found in Michael Bay's 2005 action film "The Island". YouTube user Cinefilo found this and made a short video comparing the similar scenes of the two films. The video was uploaded to YouTube on June 30 and has quickly become viral on the Internet. This is the video (download it with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader):
It's too obvious that Michael Bay has reused footage from The Island to Transformers 3. From the video, we can see that mainly two scenes of Dark of the Moon sample from The Island.
Scene 1: the truck (on the left) and the smashed car (on the right)
Scene 2: the rolling car and the smoke
Personally, I don't mind if Michael Bay samples a few scenes from his own film. Anyway, it's a good way to save time and money on filming a new scene. After all, Transformer: Dark of the Moon is a good film that has received generally negative reviews, which praising the film's excellent 3D visual effects.
Beyonce debuted her highly-anticipated fourth solo album "4" last week on June 28, 2011. According to Nielsen SoundScan, after a week of sales, Queen B's new album easily tops Billboard 200 and UK Album Chart with 310,000 copies sold.
Prior to the album's debut, female empowering single "Run The World (Girls)", which serves as the lead single of the album was officially released on April 21, 2011. After this, the album's second single "Best Thing I Never Had" was released on June 1, 2011. The video below is the music video of Beyonce's Run The World (Girls). (Download it with this Free YouTube Downloader. If you are on Mac, go to get this YouTube Downloader for Mac)
However, according to Billboard magazine:
"4's" sales launch is lowest of her four releases: 2008's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" entered with 482,000; 2006's "B'Day" bowed with 541,000 and 2003's "Dangerously In Love" started with 317,000.
What's more, both of "Run The World (Girls)" and "Best Thing I Never Had" failed to reach the top 10 of Billboard Hot 100, which was the first time for Beyonce's lead single from her album missed the top 10.
Previously, Beyonce received the Billboard Millennium Award on the Billboard Music Award. She performed "Run The Word (Girl)" during the presentation.
Nowadays some companies make use of YouTube API to let users to create animations by themselves on web pages, and upload the animaions to YouTube. This is a good idea. YouTube decided to launch a channel, where users can create videos with some third-party applications. The channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/create
For example, Xtranormal Movie Maker lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Stupeflix Video Maker enables you to tell a story with your digital content. GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. One True Media is a powerful video creator.
Here is a developer who made and uploaded its own application to the channel and successfully improved traffic:
Developers can upload your own application to the channel in case that the application meet the YouTube requirements which are listed here.
On YouTube, few movie trailer can reach a million views in its first two days. Straw Dogs trailer is one of them. The official trailer of Straw Dogs premiered on YouTube on June 26, 2011. So far it has drawn 1.7 million views on the video site. The film is a remake of the 1971 classic thriller film of the same name. It is set to hit theaters this autumn on September 16, 2011.
Directed, written and produced by Rod Lurie, the 2011 film Straw Dogs' screenplay is based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon Williams. James Marsden plays the film's hero and Kate Bosworth will be the heroine. Here is the film's official trailer. You can download Straw Dogs (2011 film) official trailer from YouTube with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. For Mac users, go to get this YouTube Downloader for Mac.
The trailer almost tells the the whole storyline of the upcoming film. A bit difference with the 1971 film, the 2011 film Straw Dogs transfers the location of the events from England to deep South of America. Here is the storyline of the film:
David and Amy Sumner (James Marsden and Kate Bosworth), a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård), leading to a violent confrontation.
Cast
James Marsden as David Sumner
James Woods as Tom Heddon
Dominic Purcell as Jeremy Niles
Kate Bosworth as Amy Sumner
Alexander Skarsgård as Charlie Vetton
Laz Alonso as Deputy John Burke
Willa Holland as Janice
Anson Mount as Coach Stan Milkens
Walton Goggins as Daniel
Rhys Coiro as Norman
More information about Straw Dogs (2011 film)
Directed by Rod Lurie
Produced by Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman
Screenplay by Rod Lurie
Story by David Zelag Goodman, Sam Peckinpah
Music by Larry Groupé
Cinematography Alik Sakharov
Editing by Sarah Boyd
Studio Battleplan Productions, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Recently, a video dubbed "facebook song.wmv" has gone viral on YouTube. The video is created by a 16-year-old girl from Australia whose name is Madelaine Zammit. In the video, Madelaine performs guitar solo for her song "Facebook Song" which was written totally by herself. Previously, We've heard several 'Facebook song'. However, this one is one of the best, or ever the best one. You can download Madelaine Zammit's Facebook Song from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader (Free). This is the tutorial about how to get the song from the video. This is the video.
The lyrics of the song describes the things that most people do on Facebook. Besides that, Madelaine adds her own feeling about her experience on Facebook into the song.
The video was uploaded onto YouTube on June 1, 2011. After famous blogs such as Mashable, The Daily What, made a cover of the it last weekend, traffic to the video began to rise sharply. Just as shown in the below picture of the statistics of the video: Madelaine's manager and close friend Sam Helyard, who is also 16 years old, told us that Madelaine was "hysterical with excitement" about her song getting viral on the Internet.
According to Sam, below are some more information about Madelaine Zammit:
Madelaine "always had a passion for singing".
When she's bored she just writes music. She has five other songs.
She hadn't done any "proper (music) gigs yet" but hoped to do one soon.
10-year-old YouTube sensation Maria Aragon has proven she's more than a nine day's wonder. Aragon covered Lady Gaga's hit "Born This Way" at her piano earlier this year. Her elder sister uploaded the video of Aragon's performance to YouTube on Feb 16, 2011. The video has quickly become an Internet sensation and driven 28 million views in six weeks. Recently, Aragon features as a star in HTC's latest US commercial for HTC Sensation 4G for T-Mobile, which again brings her a good reputation.
The HTC Sensation 4G smartphone commercial titled "You are the next...", features real life famous people and organizations including Joshua Roman (the street artist), Surfrider Foundation (a non-profit environmental organization that aims to protect and preserve the oceans), Bamboo Bike Studio (developed the bamboo bicycle) and Maria Aragon (Born This Way cover and Internet sensation). Here is the commercial. (Download the video to your computer)
The visual commercial references some social networking languages from Twitter and FourSqure , such as "You are the next Trending Topic" and "You are the next mayor of this bar".
Aragon is at the last part of the video. She is seen being filmed by the HTC Sensation 4G smartphone as she was playing piano solo as the background music and singing lines "When I get older, I will be stronger" from K'naan's Wavin' Flag, which was Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup.
As stated above, Maria Aragon is a 10-year-old normal girl who learns in the Isaac Brock School fifth grader. She became a darling of the people after her cover of Lady Gaga's Born This Way was posted to YouTube. After that, she appears on several US TV shows and sang a duet with Lady Gaga in Gaga's concert in Canada. Here is Aragon's cover of Born This Way, which has driven 36 million views to date.
YouTube is the largest video-sharing website on this planet. Chrome is one of the most popular web browser on PC. People like to watch videos on YouTube in spare time. Developers make lots of Chrome extensions for YouTube. What I want to say is a newly released Chrome extension for YouTube called "YouTube Options for Google Chrome™", which disables those annoying features on YouTube, which is very useful and awesome.
"YouTube Options for Google Chrome™" is rather powerful that it offers options for YouTube users to block in-video ads, hide comments, disable annotations, change background color of video page, set all YouTube connections to HTTPS and your preferred viewing resolution. This extension even allows users to download YouTube videos with an added link below a YouTube video.
Besides YouTube, this extension also supports some other video sites, such as Vimeo, DailyMotion, Funny or Die, etc. However, most features of this extension are developed specifically for YouTube.
Note that the above version of this extension can't download YouTube videos. The full version that supports YouTube video downloading is available at the developer's site – https://spoi.com/software/yto/
To download YouTube videos, you can also check Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is an all-in-one YouTube downloader software that supports video downloading and format conversion - http://www.leawo.com/youtube-download/
Retro is trending up in Pop culture at the moment. Those familiar muppet characters, including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and Animal - they are back! Well-known puppet stars are going onto the silver screen this Thanksgiving! Directed by James Bobin and theatrically released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film "The Muppets" is going to hit theaters on on Wednesday November 23, 2011.
The official trailer of "The Muppets" was released on YouTube on Jun 18, 2011. The trailer is doing well and has yielded 238,260 views so far. The trailer is embedded below; and you can download The Muppets official trailer from YouTube with Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.
Walt Disney Picture has invented some new and interesting ways to promote the upcoming film "The Muppets". Firstly, the film studio released a fake romantic comedy teaser trailer for the film entitled "Green with Envy" starring Adams and Segel.
The muppets appears suddenly in Adams and Segel’s love story. This is the teaser trailer: Green with Envy
On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, US, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the $10-million needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit the Frog reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. With secret, signature, celebrity cameos "The Muppets" hits the big screen November 23, 2011.
More information about "The Muppets"
Directed by James Bobin
Produced by Martin Baker, David Furnish, Jason Segel, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, John Scotti
Written by Jason Segel, Nicholas Stoller
Based on The Muppets by Jim Henson
Starring The Muppets, Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones
Music by Bret McKenzie
Cinematography Don Burgess
Studio Walt Disney Pictures, The Muppets Studio, Mandeville Films, Jim Henson Pictures
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Movie trailers have become one of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. Trailer of a blockbuster can get millions of views. But the fact is that most of the these views come from paid advertising. To promote a movie, movie trailer is one of the way. There are also other ways for the promotion, such as pre-roll ads in a video or paid links. For example, trailer of Conan The Barbarian has garnered 5.5 million views. If you click the "Show video statistics" icon next to the views number, you'll find that 4.98 out of those views come from ads. As the picture shown below:
Similarly, view count of X-Men trailer reaches 2.4 million, but nearly 2 million views are from ad. Another example is Rise of the Planet of The Apes' trailer. Its view count is 7 million, but approximately 5.8 million views can be sourced from ad views.
Not all advertisement can generate traffic, but many of them are efficient: ads on the home page, promoted videos such as teasers, skippable TrueView ads, etc. Compared with the traditional pre-roll video ads, TrueView ads can drive more traffic to the target video page.
Tip:
1.what is TrueView ad?
TrueView video advertisement allows users to skip the Ads they aren't interested in over YouTube videos. If you want to learn more about TrueView ad, you can go to this post.
It's Thursday today and tomorrow will be Friday. But this Friday we might not able to see Rebecca Black's viral music video "Friday", as the YouTube sensation was removed from the site a few hours ago. From now on, we might not be able to hear Black singing "fun, fun, fun, fun" bringing us the happy Friday on the site. What a shame!
Previously, Rebecca Black's Friday official music video was here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0. But now you open the page and get the message on the YouTube video player "'Rebecca Black – Fri…' This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black. Sorry about that."
Rebecca Black's "Friday" music video has drawn over 167 million views before its removal from YouTube. (how to download) The 14-year-old singer just signed a copyright claim and then the video was gone. This video's removal is due to the dispute between Black's family and Ark Music Factory that who own the copyright to the video. Earlier this week, ARK Music Factory, who produced the video and ran the YouTube account that hosted the video, set the video up as a $2.99 YouTube rental. Black's family got angry about this and submitted a takedown notice of the video to YouTube. After that, the video disappeared from YouTube.
The ownership of "Friday" is unclear. In a March 29, 2011 letter from Kelly's (Black's mother) lawyer to Ark Music, she alleged that Ark Music failed to fulfill the terms of their November 2010 agreement by not giving her the song and video's master recordings; falsely claimed Black as exclusively signed to the label; and exploited the song without permission by, for example, selling a "Friday" ringtone. While Wilson stated that Kelly "will get the masters and the song. They can have it all" and agreed that Black was not exclusive to Ark, his attorney claimed that Ark owns the copyright for the song and the November agreement is invalid.
Official trailer of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 has finally arrived! The much-anticipated movie trailer premiered at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night (June 5). As the most successful romantic-fantasy film these years, The Twilight Saga series has been a worldwide phenomenon. Before the trailer's debut, there've been a lot of pictures and fan-made videos relevant to the film flooding all over the Internet. The film will hit theaters on November 18, 2011.
The trailer copyrighted by Summit Entertainment, LLC is available on YouTube. Just in one day, the trailer has drawn 1.2 million views. You can download The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 trailer from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader.
Well, it's very clearly that the Breaking Dawn trailer has unveiled the most important things that will happen in the upcoming film: Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's wedding invitation to the vampire leaders - Volturi, to their parents and to werewolf Jacob. Different feelings about the wedding as shown on their faces: Bella's mother Renée and the Volturi: happy; Bella's father Charlie: melancholy; Jacob: bursts into fury, throws the invitation card to the muddy groud and runs wildly in the rain, which is the saddest thing I saw in the trailer.
Despite Jacob's rage, the wedding goes ahead as planned. What Twi-Hards most talked about perhaps are the broken headboard and the new couple's honeymoon, with a scenario of their martial bliss below a waterfall, which are "Steamy" as commented by the viewers.
Fight? Yes, we can also see fight scenes in the promo trailer. Fights between Bella and Edward, fights between Jacob and Edward..
Another surprise is that Bella will be pregnant! She touches her stomach and whispers "That's impossible". According to the sources, Bella will give birth to her baby girl in the upcoming Breaking Dawn Part 1 film.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is set to release on November 16, 2012.
In the highly anticipated next chapter of the blockbuster The Twilight Saga, the new found married bliss of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. After their wedding, Bella and Edward travel to Rio de Janeiro for their honeymoon, where they finally give in to their passions. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal.
But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.
The suspenseful and deeply romantic Breaking Dawn continues the epic tale of supernatural fantasy and passionate love that has made The Twilight Saga a worldwide phenomenon.
Sources said that YouTube is tesing a new feature for the comment section. This feature enables users to express their opinion about a video without typing any words. The new comment system contains six buttons, including LOL, OMG, EPIC, CUTE, WTF and FAIL. Users just need to press one of the six buttons to make their reactions to the video they just played.
Previously, YouTube has already put links in the comment section to some network spoken words, such as "LOL", "CUTE", etc, so that users can search video comments with the similar words.
Blogspot has a similar feature that was pre-existing. The difference is that blog authors can edit the reactions tags.
YouTube is making progress everyday. The video site constantly launches new features to video viewers and publishers to make it a better place for video sharing. Last week, YouTube launches the BoxOffice channel for Indian people to watch free blockbusters.
India movie fans' rejoice! On YouTube, a new movie channel exclusively for Indians called "BoxOffice" just premiered today. If you live in India, now you can watch the latest Indian blockbusters online in the "BoxOffice" channel totally for free! The BoxOffice is here - http://www.youtube.com/BoxOffice
To watch movie online smoothly, you can check this Leawo Video Accelerator, which can significantly accelerate the loading speed for online Flash videos.
Previously, there've already been a dedicated Indian movies channel available on YouTube. But the movies in that channel are rather old, which has been far from enough to satisfy Indian people's demand. Different from the old movie channel, the "BoxOffice" channel newly launched today serves Indian people with the latesthigh-definition movies for free. The first movie on the channel is the latest hit "Band Baaja Baaraat".
The "BoxOffice" will stream one premium movie a month and features other popular movies from the YouTube catalogue of movies which includes over 1500 titles including regional language films. The new channel is available for only Indian users, so other countries' IP will be blocked from viewing the movie content.
The "BoxOffice" movie channel is ad-sponsored. Vendors who sponsor the channel have the channce to showcase their YouTube channel videos, promos and campaigns.
Gautam Anand, Director Content Partnerships for YouTube Japan-APAC is optimistic with the initiative and said:
We wish to create a destination for users which is easily discoverable and also help our content partners get more viewers for their premium content. With over 48 hours of content being uploaded on YouTube every minute, this is our attempt to curate premium and exclusive content which our users enjoy. This initiative also opens up a new window of opportunities for marketers to utilize the platform and engage the YouTube community.
Good news! YouTube launches an amazing feature for video creators today.
Stace Peterson, Software Engineer of YouTube made an announcement earlier today in a post of YouTube Official Blog unveiling that the video site launches a new license for user-created videos called "Creative Commons", which gives YouTube users the right to share and remix videos marked with the new license.
What does it mean? Generally, we can directly use part of or the whole videos marked with Creative Common license in our own videos. The Creative Common-license videos can be found in YouTube Editor CC tab section. The link is http://youtube.com/editor.
I found a YouTube video introducing the new Creative Common license. Here it is and you can download it with Leawo YouTube Downloader.
It's really a good news for mashup video creators such as DJ Earworm, the man who made the "Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits" video. As it offers users a convenient way to make their own pop videos from others' and don't have to worry about the copyright issues.
So far there are totally about 10,000 Creative Commons-licensed videos in the library, which are established by YouTube, C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and others. Just feel free to remix them to your own video projects.
According to Stace Peterson's post, there are something more about the Creative Commons license videos:
1. Videos incorporated with Creative Commons license content will automatically show the source videos' titles underneath the video player.
2. You are permitted to create Creative Commons-licensed videos so that other YouTubers can remix or reuse your works in their projects. To do so, just choose the 'Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)' option on the upload page or on the Video Description page.
That's all for the Creative Commons license. Have a nice weekend:)
YouTube has been working on 3D video streaming for a long time. I remember that last July, YouTube declared that it would fully support 3D video streaming in the next 12 months. Now the prediction becomes true. Today, Nvidia and Mozilla officially announced that they begin to support 3D HTML5 YouTube video streaming on desktop machines equipped with Nvidia 3D Vision hardware. Currently, web browsers don't support this new feature except Mozilla Firefox4; and there have been thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube. From now on, you can enjoy videos in theater-quality and full-resolution 3D on YouTube on your laptops or PCs.
Several things are needed before you experience the stereoscopic 3D on YouTube, they are:
1. NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped desktop machines
2. latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above)
3. Mozilla Firefox web browser (version 4 or above)
4. 3D glasses
5. Check the HTML5 option on the player of a YouTube 3D video.
Now check the 3D YouTube video below and tell us how do you like the new 3D experience. And don't forget you can download YouTube videos with this Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.
NVIDIA 3D Vision Video Now Available Worldwide on YouTube
Users Can Easily Share and Enjoy High-Quality, Stereoscopic 3D Videos on YouTube With Their NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/26/2011 -- NVIDIA today announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ PCs and notebooks when using the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
"We're excited to introduce HTML5 and WebM support to the thousands of 3D videos available on YouTube," said Jonathan Huang, 3D Product Manager at YouTube. "By embracing these open standards, NVIDIA 3D Vision users now have a great way of experiencing YouTube's library of 3D content."
"Firefox with 3D Vision creates a stunning and smooth 3D video experience using HTML5 video based on open standards," said Jay Sullivan, VP of Products at Mozilla. "3D Vision from NVIDIA is a great example of the rich, innovative experiences that are being built on top of the speed and graphics power that Firefox delivers to the Web."
"Sales of our ASUS G series notebooks with 3D Vision have been strong," said Ben Thacker, vice president of Systems Business Group-Distribution, ASUS North America. "Now that users can view YouTube videos in high-quality 3D, we expect interest in the ASUS 3D Vision models to grow significantly."
With a number of new, consumer 3D video cameras launched this year, YouTube's support of NVIDIA 3D Vision technology extends its existing commitment to 3D, enabling even more consumers and 3D enthusiasts to share their 3D videos online. With attractively priced models now available from JVC, Sony and other leading vendors, users now have another easy way to capture and post high-quality 3D videos on YouTube, 3DVisionLive.com, or even their own websites by embedding the YouTube 3D video player.
To further showcase the new YouTube stereoscopic 3D video streaming capabilities and some of the latest professional and user-generated 3D YouTube videos, NVIDIA is now hosting the top YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos on its 3D web community site at www.3DVisionLive.com/YT3D.
"YouTube 3D on an NVIDIA 3D Vision PC is an amazing experience," said Phil Eisler, general manager of 3D Vision at NVIDIA. "Now 3D Vision PC users can enjoy over 525 games, YouTube videos and photos in theater-quality, full-resolution 3D."
To view YouTube stereoscopic 3D videos an NVIDIA 3D Vision-equipped PC or notebook and the latest NVIDIA GeForce® drivers (version 275 or above) are required, as well as Firefox (version 4 or above), which includes support for HTML5 video streaming. Users will also need to select the HTML5 viewing option when viewing a YouTube 3D video: http://www.youtube.com/select_3d_mode.
In addition, with NVIDIA 3DTV Play™ software, users can connect their PCs to their 3D HDTVs to enjoy 3D YouTube videos on the "big screen" in the comfort of their living rooms.
Online video giant YouTube is just getting bigger and bigger. More and more companies want to improve their awareness through YouTube. Also, YouTube has been working on its advertising efficiency. It's said that YouTube is tesing a new advertisement scheme called 'First Watch'. So far there have been only two reports about the new advertising program. So I'm going to pick the keypoints from these two reports.
The first report is posted by New York Times. Below are the keypoints of this report:
1. Recently, more and more Internet users' attitude towards 'pre-roll' ad over a video have softened.
2. The new ad program 'First Watch' is to expand the opportunities for advertisers. This kind of ad appears only once when a user views a video on YouTube the first time each day.
3. 'First Watch' is currently rather successful. As Baljeet Singh, senior product manager for video monetization at YouTube said:"The commercials on the youtube.com home page have been "highly successful[..]"
4. The First Watch program is only available to YouTube partners.
5. Here are some advertisers who have been involved in 'First Watch': Tommy Hilfiger, Hotels.com, the Lifetime cable channel, the Macy's unit of Macy's Inc. and Virgin Mobile.
6. The new ad delivery scheme is generating click through rates at about 1 percent, which is higher than normal advertising.
7. The advertisers declined to discuss what YouTube was charging them for the First Watch preroll. But it's "but less expensive" than YouTube YouTube charges normally.
The second report is from the TheNextWeb.com. Generally, it has some similar views with the first report. So I will not go into the detail of it.
You might think the title of this post is so strange. I just don't know how to express myself about knowing this news in a sentence.
The news is that Google Chrome has shot a short video advertisement with Lady Gaga featuring her fans; and the background music of the video is Gaga's new single 'The Edge of Glory'! Little monsters, now paws up and watch this amazing video. To download it, you can use Leawo YouTube Downloader.
Google Chrome is my favorite web browser. Lady Gaga is one of my favorite pop singers. Google Chrome makes me browse web pages more faster than using other web browsers. Lady Gaga bring me good music and teach me to be proud of myself. I mean both Chrome and Gaga make me a better life to live. I appreciate them much.
Just as ChipChick said:"The commercial is quite brilliant and pretty much a win-win for both Gaga and Google, since it helps Gaga promote her upcoming Edge of Glory single as well as Google Chrome to all of Gaga's fans."
It took Gaga and Google 10 days to shoot the video ad (from May 8th to May 18th). Let's As Gaga's The Edge of Glory begins, the video shows that Gaga contacts her fans with Google's owned developed web browse – Chrome and tells the little monsters:"listen up, little monsters!". Then Gaga is seen running on a bridge. In fact, the bridge is Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. The video continues with Gaga's fans' own-made covers of The Edge of Glory. The videos switches scenes between Gaga dancing on the bridge and contacting with her fans in front of a computer, telling them 'you are all beautiful' and 'You're all superstars. You inspire me!'. It's a touching video though it's an advertisement.
And don't forget that Gaga's Born This Way album is going to hit the web tomorrow!
Today we talk about an African movie - Viva Riva!.
African movies rarely have the ability to step into the International film big stage, except a few South African movies. Viva Riva! is an African movie and has successfully brought international attention, but it's a Congolese movie, surprise? The film was co-produced by Congo, South Africa and France and was the biggest winner at the 7th African Movie Academy Awards in 2011 winning awards including Best Production Design, Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
YouTube hosts the official trailer of 'Viva Riva!' so you can go to YouTube and watch the trailer to have a general idea of the film. You can download Viva Riva! movie trailer from YouTube with Leawo YouTube Downloader, which is totally free.
Let me explain the film's name first. Riva is a Congolese male name; Viva is a new English word which means Hoory or Long Live. Riva is the main male character and has done some striking things in the film. It's a crime thriller film and was directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga.
Storyline of Viva Riva!
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga's Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.
Cast
Patsha Bay - Riva
Manie Malone - Nora
Hoji Fortuna - Cesar
Marlene Longage - the Commandant
Alex Herabo
Diplôme Amekindra
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Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Produced by Michaël Goldberg, Steven Markovitz, Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Boris Van Gils
Written by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Editing by Yves Langlois, Pascal Latil
Release date(s) September 10, 2010 (Canada), February 18, 2011 (UK)
