YouTube Singer Maria Aragon Featured in HTC Sensation 4G US Commercial

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 Options for Google Chrome™ Disables In-Video Ads

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.

You can download "YouTube Options for Google Chrome™" extension from Chrome Web Store. The latest version is 1.8.23 and was released on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. This is the link -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bdokagampppgbnjfdlkfpphniapiiifn#

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/

Download The Muppets Official Trailer from YouTube

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


The second teaser trailer for "The Muppets":
The Muppets "Fuzzy Pack" Movie Trailer Official (HD)


The third teaser trailer was a parody of the newly released superhero film "Green Lantern", which is also hilarious:
The Muppets - Being Green Teaser Trailer


Premise of The Muppets

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
• Release date(s) November 23, 2011
• Country United States
• Language English

Views of YouTube Movie Trailers Mainly Come from Advertisement

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.

2. How to download YouTube movie trailer?
To do this, just check Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Rebecca Black's Friday Music Video Removed from YouTube

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.

According to Wikipedia:

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.

Download The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Trailer from YouTube

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.

Here is the synopsis of Breaking Dawn Part 1:

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.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 cast:

• Kristen Stewart --- Bella Swan
• Robert Pattinson --- Edward Cullen
• Taylor Lautner --- Jacob Black
• Billy Burke --- Charlie Swan
• Peter Facinelli --- Carlisle Cullen
• Elizabeth Reaser --- Esme Cullen
• Ashley Greene --- Alice Cullen
• Kellan Lutz --- Emmett Cullen
• Nikki Reed --- Rosalie Hale
• Jackson Rathbone --- Jasper Hale

Some posters:

YouTube Tests Reactions Buttons

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.


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