This week's top five music linksThe Guardian (blog)Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers post songs, videos, pictures and other music-related odds and ends they come across during their web trawling. Here's our top five Tumblr posts from the past week. Josh Homme of Queens of the ...
25 May 2012 | 1:39 am
Buckle up ... and listenSacramento BeeBy Eddie Jorgensen In a matter of weeks, a YouTube video can take on a life of its own. Consider the viral brouhaha over the handheld video series "The Van Sessions" by San Francisco's Nicki Bluhm & the Gramblers. The videos, in which the band performs ...and more »
25 May 2012 | 12:24 am
BetabeatNews of 'Rickroll' meme death greatly exaggeratedmsnbc.comThe YouTube page features more than a few comments by momentarily outraged YouTube users. (The funniest from MrTimthos: "I was scared. I thought he had finally given me up.") But as of this posting, the Astley video, bearing the title "RickRoll'D," is ...Don't Worry, Internet: That Rickrolling Video is Back UpBetabeatThe RickRoll Is Officially Dead, DMCA'dMacgasmall 21 news articles »
24 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
Gadgets and Technology NewsMacXDVD Announce the Launch of Free YouTube Downloader SoftwareGadgets and Technology NewsAmong a huge list of YouTube video downloading tools on the market, MacX TouTube Downloader exploited by MacXDVD company is to be the most popular and preferred one. The main advantage of this program is its ability to download movies, music videos, ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 10:16 am
YouTube's Spaces Channel: A Hipper HGTV?Pittsburgh Post GazetteBy STEVEN KURUTZ / The New York Times In addition to silly clips of family pets, cult-film trailers and practically every music video ever made, YouTube users can now watch a home design show called "Your Place Is a Deal Breaker." In the first episode, ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 10:03 am
Co-star in a new music video with LGBT recording artist Matt ZarleyChicagoPride.comZarley has received critical acclaim as an LGBT artist for more than a decade and his videos have created quite the stir on various digital outlets. His latest, the controversial "Trust Me," has already received approximately 150000 views on YouTube in ...and more »
24 May 2012 | 9:19 am
TechnoratiYouTube Celebrates Its 7th AnniversaryTechnoratiThe company is based in California, and uses Adobe Flash video and HTML 5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including short videos, video blogging, TV clips, movie clips, and of course, music videos.YouTube: 3 days' worth of video uploaded every minuteGMA NewsRecord 9.5 Billion Video Ads Were Viewed in April 2012Search Engine WatchVideos on the webThe Economist (blog)Peace FM Online -ReelSEO Online Video News -Seeking Alphaall 51 news articles »
24 May 2012 | 12:08 am
Hicks: Rock band + bloopers = smart marketingSan Jose Mercury NewsSo Barrett attached his band's music to existing brief blooper videos and came up with a clever marketing strategy for the digital age. "The idea was 'Don't try to sell (music); make something cool,'" Barrett says. "And it just exploded.and more »
23 May 2012 | 4:17 pm
Vevo sounds out fresh investorsFinancial TimesThe current owners' fundraising efforts could be delayed, however, by uncertainty about the partnership Vevo struck with YouTube when it launched in December 2009, replacing grainy user-uploaded copies of the music companies' videos with professional, ...Business Matters: Is Vevo Considering An IPO?Billboard.bizVevo looks to IPOAdvanced Televisionall 4 news articles »
22 May 2012 | 4:43 pm
YouTube Appeals German Content Filtering VerdictPCWorldThe court ruled that YouTube is liable when users upload videos containing copyright-protected music to the site without permission -- but only after they have been informed by the copyright holder. The court said that when YouTube receives a complaint ...YouTube and GEMA appeal content filtering court verdictmusicweek.comall 12 news articles »
22 May 2012 | 8:01 am