Video Archive

BBC Launches New Look News & Sport Sites

The BBC’s press release here says both news and sport will go live, fully revamped, this week.

Seems like they’ve just switched on the new news site which looks great!

“The new look will include higher profile promotion of the new embedded video service, extra emphasis around breaking news and live events, wider page designs and more ambitious use of pictures.”

Media Week TV – UK New Media Insight On Video!

Media Week here in the UK, have partnered with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions to bring interviews with media industry notables to the very small screen.

Media Week TV anchorman Steve Barrett is actually the publication’s editor. Using his clout to wrestle high-profile names in the media industry onto his couch for a chat, Steve’s managed to secure spots with Michael Heseltine, Michael Grade, and more recently Facebook commercial director, Blake Chandlee.

The latest luminaries, talking about how they’re handling the editorial and commercial tranistion to the online world, are Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of British Condé Nast, and Simon Waldman, group director of digital strategy and development at Guardian Media Group. Check out what they have to say here!

Omaha Beach D-Day Landings Done Digital

Victoria Derbyshire on 5 Live has just interviewed three blokes who replicated the D-Day landings at Omaha Beach using a camera and and some wicked digital smoke and mirrors – the video is quite fantastic, and shows up the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan which employed over 1000 extras and probably cost a whole bucket of cash!

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The Royal Channel – Queen Hits YouTube!

And we’re not talking Freddie, Brian, John & Roger here!

Following on from my post yesterday about hordes of us shopping online during the Queen’s speech, her highness has reacted by launching her own channel on YouTube.

The Royal Channel already has 8k subscribers, and shows herself is adapting to changing times by reaching out to the yoof of our nation, and giving all 3.7m of us who will be rudely bargain-hunting online while she’s on the box, a chance to catch her thoughts at our own convenience.

I hear she’s considering Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger chats next 🙂

New Spice Girls Video

I’ve just nearly vommed into my curry watching their new vid for Children In Need on BBC1.

Come on Beeb!

Is it really appropriate to have five 50 fifty-year-old, talentless oafettes, writhing around in various states of undress, and miming ever so badly, representing your magnificent efforts for a kids charity?

Methinks not! – Wonder how long before it’s up on YouTube?

Personally I think this version’s much better – Who is she?

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