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The World Cup may well be over, but that doesn't mean Victoria and David Beckham's media presence has waned at all. You may not realise it, but they've been living a double life over in Japan, advertising dodgy products when they think noone's looking! Anything for a quick buck, something they certainly don't need these days. [
Posted by Katherine on August 11, 2006 in David Beckham, Posh 'N Becks, Victoria Beckham, YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
I'll spare you the blurb about YouTube being a revolution in online media, a truly democratised broadcasting platform, and the pinnacle of user-generated content. You know this, and if you didn't, 768 high-brow articles in the press have already told you so.
More importantly, it's become the prime outlet for camcorder and cameraphone users to make an arse out of themselves, and win praise/wonder/disgust (delete as appropriate) from millions of their peers. But what are the prime ingredients for YouTube success - what separates a viral hit from a barely-noticed miss? Poking around the top rated videos provides a few answers. [Stuart Dredge]
1. Lip-synching
YouTube has single-handedly killed
off karaoke (almost) in favour of lip-synching. If you can leap around
your bedroom miming along to a suitable hit, you're guaranteed a big
audience. Well, you are if you do it right - the standard needs to be
considerably higher even than you'd see from actual pop stars on TV.
Extra points are scored for wildly unsuitable clashes (young girls
doing gruffy-voiced grunge males, blokes doing Barbie Girl etc).
Examples: Here and here
2. Animals do the funniest things
If it's popular
on cobbled-together Saturday Night clip shows, why shouldn't it work on
YouTube as well? And thankfully you don't have to put up with a
presenter mugging between vids. Cats seem to do particularly well on
YouTube for some reason (that reason being they reliably fall off
things or go mad when you point a camera at them). Obviously, the most
common way is to nick footage from the TV, but that's just lazy.
Examples: Here and here
3. Have an original idea no-one else would bother to do
One video this week epitomises this - a girl who's taken a photo of her face once a day for THREE years, and then strung them all together into a video-montage.
With music. It's actually quite spooky when you watch it, the music's a
bit 'serial killer'. The advantage to this strategy is that if anyone
wants to copy you, it'll take three years before they get their version
up on YouTube.
4. Fight strangers in the street
Works best of all
if you're homeless, for reasons that sociologists will be puzzling over
for centuries to come. No-holds-barred fighting competitions are hugely
popular on YouTube, so if you don't mind a few cuts and bruises (or
shattered femurs, wrenched-off ears...), it could be the way to go. One
street fighter, Kimbo Slice, has actually turned his vids into a
lucrative merchandising business.
Examples: Here and here
5. Get your camphone out at gigs
Seeing a good
band? Don't dive into the moshpit or crowd surf from the upper balcony
to the stage. Instead, stand at the back ABSOLUTELY still and record a
song or two using your cameraphone. It doesn't sound much fun, but
plenty of people are doing it, then sticking the results on YouTube the
next day. Particularly popular when a band is playing new tunes, or
haven't played live for a while. Record labels don't like it, but
YouTubers most emphatically do.
Examples: Here and here
6. Be bloody good at videogames
Games never did
live up to their billing as the next big spectator sport, despite a
slew of mooted TV shows which'd let you watch Unreal Tournament geeks
going about their shooty business. Funny, that. But on YouTube, amazing
(or amazingly silly) gaming feats will gain you plenty of attention,
especially when they involve making Halo characters dance about to a
song about cats. Obviously.
Examples: Here and here
7. Corrupt innocent childrens' characters
An old
favourite here, harking back to making your Sooty and Sweep puppets
hurl four-letter abuse at your He-Men when you were younger. C'mon,
surely that wasn't just me? Oh. Anyway, spoofs and parodies of popular
kids TV shows are ever popular on YouTube, whether it's Pokemon miming
to Since You've Been Gone (neat cross-pollination with category 1
there),
Examples: Here and here
8. Drink. Lots.
Fratboy antics rack up views like
no-one's business, dude. So grab yourself a bottle of cheap beer
spirits / cleaning fluid, set your webcam going, and prepare for fame.
If you can manage to be sick at the end of it, so much the better. So
there's people downing pints, bottles and yards of ale, and in one
memorable case, a chap playing the Jeremy Kyle Show drinking game with
snakebite'n'black, and the guy learning to speak French while chugging
white wine. Now that's stupid brave.
Examples: Here and here
9. Rip obscure Japanese cartoons off the telly
Maybe
it's because this stuff is hard to get on DVD over here, but YouTube is
packed with episode-length cartoons called stuff like 'Great Teacher',
'Ayashi no Ceres' and 'Ouran High School Host Club' (I don't think
that's as seedy as it sounds. At least, I hope it's not). If you've got
a supply of this stuff and know your way around DVD-ripping software,
you'll never be short of a few thousand viewers.
Examples: Here and here
10. Make high-quality one-minute vids reviewing hot gadgets of the day
Oh, come on. You didn't think we were going to get through this post without a big fat plug for the video reviews on our sister Tech Reviews blog, did you? We've got no shame.
Posted by Katherine on August 10, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
"I'm ugly.... my jaw hurts....(groan) BUUURP!" This is Britney Spears' opening gambit on this more than mental clip of her... quite possibly strung out... quite possibly hamming it up. Watch her contemplate time travel, have a strange nervous tick and, more importantly, watch her keep shouting "HUUUH?"
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 10, 2006 in Britney Spears, Britney Spears & Kevin Federline, YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mel Gibson? He's gone mental hasn't he? Well, before the official fall from grace, he was interviewed by some pretend punker... and ate cake, sports a tinfoil hat and talks about raspberries looking like sores... What?
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 9, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Eddie Izzard doesn't half polarise opinion. Some see him as a weirdo, babbling on about this and that with no real purpose, others see him as a cutting edge comic and generally superb. Well, the old comedy routines have been scant for Eddie, as he chases acting roles in Hollywood. Here, we can see him on Richard & Judy, talking about his climbing of the acting ladder (from seven years old) and his appearance in 'My Super Ex Girlfriend'.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 8, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (1)
Armando Iannucci is one of the funniest men in comedy. He's one of the few satirists, along with Chris Morris, who is completely unforgiving in his humour. Thankfully he's hilarious to boot. So funny that I've punctured all my lungs laughing at his gags.If you like this, then click this YouTube link to see his spoof interview involving Dale Winton. He's also on our screens on BBC2 at 10pm on a Thursday with the fabulous Time Trumpet (click this link to watch episodes) which looks at the news of the future.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 7, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Who on earth could make a chat show host 'high five' at sex crimes? It could only be the fabulously odd Borat. What better way to celebrate his imminent film than to watch him stitch a daft American up!
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 4, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
