by Ardrich
September 2, 2011 in News Roundup
Swedish furniture giant IKEA has launched a new social media campaign to create the first ever personalised 3D showroom on YouTube.
Based on users’ own information on Facebook, IKEA’s tool creates a bespoke 3D model that can then be explored and tailored by users to create their perfect bedroom.
by Ardrich
April 27, 2011 in Features
Armed with a live YouTube broadcast, apps and hashtags, Kate and William are set to make internet history.
The couple has insisted on making their big day ‘the most interactive public event’ that will be accessible to everyone.
As big users of social media, the Royal Family is making sure there’s no escaping the modern Web 2.0 wedding.
by Ardrich
April 14, 2011 in News Roundup
New research has shown a huge number of consumers are going to Youtube for their music online, shunning paid-for downloads in the process.
Almost six in ten consumers had watched music videos on their computers in the last three months while less than 2 in 10 had bought a digital download in the same time.
by Ardrich
April 14, 2011 in News Roundup
A feature-length film, produced by Sir Ridley Scott and made up of snapshots of thousands of people’s lives uploaded to YouTube, will hit British cinema screens in June.
Life in a Day, directed by Kevin Macdonald, pieces together 80,000 clips from 192 countries, with more than 4,500 hours of footage submitted.
by Ardrich
January 13, 2011 in News Roundup
We know. The internet’s full of comparisons illustrating the bitter rivalry between Apple and PC camps. But this one caught our eye and we wanted to share it.
A YouTube video uploaded by “chipwaver” features a boot fight between a 1984 Macintosh computer and a 2007 32bit PC laptop.
by Ardrich
December 24, 2010 in News Roundup
YouTube has announced that its users have uploaded more than 13 million hours of video content to its servers in the last 12 months, resulting in more than 700 billion YouTube video views.
If you do the math, it means that YouTube’s users have uploaded 850,000 minutes of video and watched 1.9 billion videos per day in the past year. In March, the Google-owned video site announced that its users were uploading more than 24 hours of video per minute. In May, YouTube revealed that it had surpassed 2 billion video views per day.
by Ardrich
November 9, 2010 in News Roundup
German mobile phone company T-Mobile have had a YouTube hit with an advert for the second time in quick succession.
Featuring passengers at Heathrow Airport being greeted by singers, ‘Welcome back’ has received more than 2 million hits since it was posted on 29 October.
by Ardrich
October 14, 2010 in News Roundup
A Gateshead-based production company has released a music video depicting the (in)famous ‘night out in the Toon’.
A short taster video of the forthcoming single ‘Morning’ by Polarsets features documentary style material on North East party people including rough drunken fights.
by Ardrich
September 20, 2010 in News Roundup
French Connection has become the first brand to create a YouTube shop in the UK by utilising the site’s Annotations feature.
The French Connection YouTique video-shop allows users to click on items on the video and buy them on the fashion retailer’s site.
The videos, which are being presented by fashion journalist Louise Roe, will feature fashion tips and style advice based on themes.
by Ardrich
September 16, 2010 in News Roundup
Stanford University student Feross Aboukhadijeh made a bet with his roommate that he could build a real-time YouTube search in less than an hour.
It eventually took him three hours to finish, so the bet was lost, but the impressive stunt caught the eye of YouTube chief executive Chad Hurley on Twitter.
