One of the Youtube producers, Fede Alvarez, landed a deal worth $30 Million USD from Hollywood after he uploaded a $300 budget film on Youtube. The film is called “Ataque de Panico” or “The Panic Attack” and features gigantic robots entering and capturing the city of Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. The robots try to gain control of the capital through destruction as the citizens flee for their lives.
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Alvarez Lands A $30 Million Deal Through A $300 Youtube Video
December 21st, 2009 
Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in News, Videos, Youtube 
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1 Comment »Steve Ballmer Fires A Microsoft Employee!
December 21st, 2009 Sarosh Waiz Recently, there has been this video floating on Youtube and other video sites in which an ex-employee tells that he was fired by Steve Ballmer for not being enthusiastic enough about Bing. In the video below, the ex-Microsoft employee tells that he was fired because Ballmer wanted everyone to be enthusiastic when they even said “Bing”, and since this guy didn’t sound enthusiastic enough… he was fired on the spot!
Posted in Videos Tags: Bing, employee, everyone, ex, fired, Google, guy, job ex-employee, Language, Microsoft, microsoft employee, search, show, spot, Steve Ballmer, video, video sites, Warning, www youtube, Youtube No Comments »Pay-Per-View Channels To Be Launched By Justin.TV
December 20th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Justin.tv is one of the big live internet video sites, that claims to have roughly 35 million monthly views is all set to launch a pay-per-view service. The service will be launched next month with selected content creators and partners for the first quarter. The plans will then be executed for the complete site by the second quarter of 2010. This the first time that one of the big video sited is implementing a pay-per-view service.
Posted in News, Strategy Tags: advertising, authentication, beet, clever content, competitions, content, content creators, Evan Solomon, fee, first quarter, inappropriate content, instructional classes, intellectual property, Internet, interview, Justin, justin tv, live sports, marketing, monetize, month, music sports, pay per view, payment, quarter, revenue, second quarter, service, SITE, sopcast, system, time, video, video sites, view, viewing, way No Comments »WordPress 2.9 Out Now!
December 18th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Posted in Wordpress Tags: 140, 2.9, 500, amp, behalf, blog, bloggers, bugs, Built-in, Carmen, Carmen McRae, Carmen WordPress, Compatibility, contributors, download, Easier, Editor, enhancements, Feature, functionality, Global, great news, image, image editor, Jazz, jazz vocalist, loyalists, Matt Mullenwag, new features, News, Plugin, release, release addresses, theme, Trash, Undo, video, vocalist, Wordpress, wordpress blog, WP, WP 2.9 No Comments »Youtube’s Best Of 2009
December 17th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz 
Today we tell you about the 5 Youtube videos that topped the Youtube charts in terms of the number of views in 2009. We are not covering any music videos in this post right now, but for your information: Music videos continue to be the top most viewed videos. It’s still a mystery what leads to Youtube success, but these videos might help to give you an idea.
Posted in Viral, Youtube Tags: 31 million, air, analysis, audience, babies, britain s got talent, contender, Dance, David, Dentist, Entrance, Evian, Got, idea, information, information music, jk, ladder, ladder of success, list, Million, Moon, movie trailer, music, music videos, mystery, New, new moon, night, number, post, show, success, susan boyle, Susan Boyle - Britain, Talent, Today, video, way, Wedding, world, www youtube, Youtube, youtube video, youtube videos 3 Comments »TwitterHolics: Twouble With Twitters By SuperNews!
December 17th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz I was watching a few viral videos on Bit.ly today when I passed through this video: Twouble With Twitters by SuperNews! It is a funny video which compares the life of Twitterholics vs “Normal People,” where the normal guy never understands why is it so great to be on Twitter. Okay, I don’t want to spoil the fun by telling you more about this. Why don’t you check it out for yourself:
Viral Video Updates By Bit.ly
December 17th, 2009 Sarosh Waiz We have heard of videos going viral, but there has been no specific source to find out which videos. Watching and sharing videos is one of the most favored activities that people prefer to engage in online, especially after the advent of video sharing websites like Youtube, Metacafe and DailyMotion. But the question is, how do we get to know which videos are catching the fire to go viral? Well, Bit.ly is trying to answer this question as Ben Parr writes about it on Mashable.
Posted in Viral Tags: advent, Ben Parr, Bit, Bit.ly, bitly.tv, consumption, DailyMotion, default, Facebook, few suggestions, fire, freaks, love, ly, marketing, Mashable, Metacafe, online, parr, popularity, question, real time, Related, Research, service, shortener, source, statistics, tweets, Twitter, URL, url shortener, video, video producers, video sharing websites, Videos, viral marketing, viral video, website, world, Youtube No Comments »
