Will YouTube Change How E3 Coverage Is Viewed This Year?
With E3, the game industry’s biggest trade show, weeks away, developers are racing to get their proverbial ducks in a row (real ducks in the case of Nintendo’s Duck Hunt reboot). With this mad scramble to the E3 finish line, some studios have started locking down the most important tool in their make-gamers-flip-out-arsenal — YouTube. [...]
Webby Awards: The List of Winners [VIDEO]
Grumpy Cat beat out “Gangnam Style,” the Harlem Shake and goats that yell like humans to take the Meme of the Year award at the 17th Annual Webby Awards in New York City Tuesday night. The awards ceremony celebrated the best of the web, social media and online video and featured awardees giving five word-long [...]
Live Now: Microsoft Reveals Next Generation Xbox
For the past week, Microsoft has been teasing a live event with the tagline “Xbox: A New Generation Revealed.” It’s one of the biggest tech and gaming events of 2013, and it’s streaming live right now. It’s safe to say that Microsoft will be revealing the next generation of Xbox consoles, which we can all [...]
NMR’s Look At What’s Showing on YouTube Comedy Week
The first annual YouTube Comedy Week is the video-streaming site’s effort to showcase the best comedic videos that they have to offer. They include parody music videos like “Start a Mumford Band,” the latest episodes of web series commissioned specifically for Comedy Week and live stream events like YouTube Stand-Up Night and CollegeHumor’s All-Nighter. NMR [...]
YouTubers React on Twitter to the ‘The Big Live Comedy Show’
The first annual YouTube Comedy Week festival kicked off Sunday with “The Big Live Comedy Show,” a star-studded extravaganza featuring Sarah Silverman, The Lonely Island, Seth Rogen, Tim & Eric and Reggie Watts, among other acts. YouTube hyped up the event for the past month, even bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote the program. Even though [...]
Kain Carter Exemplifies What a YouTuber Should Be At Big Frame Q&A Session
Last night, at the the freshly minted Big Frame offices, YouTuber Kain Carter (HotDamnIRock) held a live streaming Q&A session for more than 30 of his fans. Surrounded by a mix of young and old, vloggers and non-vloggers, Carter took any and all questions regardless of their raunchiness, which there was much of. Crammed together [...]
TNT, TBS to Launch Live Streaming Service This Summer
TNT and TBS will be available to stream this summer on their websites and their apps for mobile devices, Time Warner announced Wednesday. The cable channels feature programs such as “Men at Work,” “Cougar Town” and “Dallas.” However, streaming is only limited to cable and satellite subscribers and they have to verify that they subscribe [...]
Fashion Brand Becomes First to Post Lookbook on Tumblr, Uses Bloggers as Models
This week, Club Monaco, the Ralph Lauren-owned fashion brand, released its fall lookbook onto Tumblr, and, instead of using models from the traditional fashion world, chose prominent fashion bloggers to model the looks. The book features popular bloggers such as Julie Sarinana from Sincerely Jules, Betty Autier from Le Blog De Betty and George Lewis [...]
NMR Responds: ‘The Jenna Marbles Paradox’ is F*cking Lousy
This piece is intended as a retort to Betabeat.com’s article: “The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?” by Ryan Holiday. No animals were harmed in the making of this response. “Ryan Holiday — [Jeff raises his arms to indicate the vast coliseum that one needs to suspend disbelief in order to imagine [...]
UPDATE: Google Orders Microsoft To Pull Their YouTube Windows Phone App
[Update 5/16/2013 9:53 a.m. PT] Microsoft responded to Google’s claims by issuing a statement to ZDNet reiterating its claims that Google has refused to work with them on an official YouTube app. They added: “Since we updated the YouTube app to ensure our mutual customers a similar YouTube experience, ratings and feedback have been overwhelmingly positive. [...]
