A Decade of Video a Day Uploaded to YouTube

Today YouTube announced that one hour of video is uploaded to the site every second. A decade of footage a day!

Struggling to wrap your brain around that? Well YouTube have launched this really nice site, onehourpersecond.com, which is full of interesting stats and figures which serve to put the volume of video and length of time spent on the site in context.

For example, who knew that ‘In 4 minutes 48 seconds of uploads to YouTube, the ostrich continues running at full speed, traveling 12,384 miles’?

Definitely worth checking out over your morning coffee.

Of course, YouTube being YouTube, they’ve posted a video along the same lines.

Get People Pregnant with Ideas

I came across this great video which pokes fun at all the self-professed social media gurus out there who have more buzzwords than insight.

Want to get a feel for someone who has ‘read the whole internet about 5 times’? Watch “What Is A Bajillion Hits? (A Viral Vidifesto)”

OK Go’s New Video Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

OK Go are a band becoming increasingly more famous for their videos than for their music. Their last video for their track ‘White Knuckles‘ has racked up almost 7.5 million views on YouTube and was a choreographed spectacle featuring 38 buckets and 12 highly trained dogs. This time round they’ve tried to capture our attention with….toast. Yep. Toast.

Artist Geoff McFetridge created an animation for the band which was etched frame by frame onto slices of toast. The guys got the latest camera from Samsung (the NX100) as a freebie to capture photos of their toast mountain -- clever move by Samsung. The shots were then woven together to create a stop motion animation for their new single ‘Last Leaf‘.

Samsung are hoping to leverage the band’s success with this video to promote the NX100. They’ve created a campaign site which allows you to etch your own photos onto toast and upload the resulting toasted masterpiece to Facebook. You can ‘Toast It‘ here.

Sesame Street Take on the Old Spice Guy

This was by far the best thing I saw all weekend….Grover from Sesame Street imitating the Old Spice guy. Could this be better than the Old Spice ads?

More on the Old Spice viral campaign here.

Are You Tough Like Chuck Norris?

The National Rifle Association (NRA) in the States have launched a new advert encouraging people to register to vote in order to protect their right to ‘bear arms’.

The ad is set in a gun lovers group meeting which is chaired by Randy, a tubby, trailor-trash Chuck Norris-wannabe and features some choice individuals including a gun-toting granny who will have to have her gun taken from her ‘cold dead hands’. The real Chuck Norris also makes an appearance and is the honorary Chairman of the ‘Trigger Your Vote‘ campaign.

This video actually looks like a piss-take of an NRA video as all the pro-gun people depicted are hillbillies or dullards…hardly something to inspire a pro-gun lobbying initiative. I’d be asking for my membership money back if I was in the NRA!