Playboy announced today the launch of an online search on YouTube for the best video submissions from potential Playboy models: To commemorate Playboy’s 55th birthday, Playmate editor Holly Madison is making it easy for you to try out for 55th Anniversary Playmate. Just send her your Playmate audition video through YouTube. Through our YouTube page, […]

It’s tax day in the US, and it looks like that’s not the only bad news. Here are a few news items related to new media that aren’t exactly making my day: Twitter is adding advertising. Would you like spam with that tweet? Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” motto is sort of optional; they run new […]

The Salt Lake Tribune has an interesting article that takes a look at the guys behind the wildly successful video podcast, WillItBlend? George Wright and Tom Dickson have managed to do two things on the Web that advertising execs worldwide have yet to achieve: launch a successful viral video campaign – and make money from […]

YouTube and C-SPAN have partnered to launch a program to allow voters the opportunity to voice their views on the issues most important to them in the 2008 election. YouTube Voter Video on C-SPAN is encourages voters to respond to the question “What issue in this election is most important to you, and why?” From […]

The Rolling Stones have launched a new channel on YouTube, Living Legends. Visitors can upload video questions for the band, and the best questions will be answered by the Stones. It’s an interesting use of the site, but I’d like to see them experimenting with letting fans make creative use of Stones music or music […]

YouTube Doubler lets you watch two YouTube videos at the same time, so you can watch David Hasselhoff vs Elmo, Blue Man Group vs The Who or River Dance vs Robot Dance

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) has launched one of the stranger user-generated video contests ever, iTuber Take II. They are inviting potato lovers from across the country to create videos featuring potatoes. In celebration of the International Year of the Potato, the Idaho Potato Commission has launched a special category just for Idaho high school […]

Remember all the goofy things you did as a kid, and how you’re glad sometimes that people don’t know about them? Things are different now. With YouTube, today’s kids are completely pwned. WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a great post that looks at a terrifying and hysterical sub-genre of YouTube videos: AP English classes’ […]

Queen Rania, the queen consort of King Abdullah II of Jordan, has announced that she’ll be vlogging at YouTube in order to encourage a global dialog to dismantle stereotypes of the Muslims and Arab world. I was skeptical about the idea, until I watched her video introduction, above. It’s quite remarkable. She may be a […]

YouTube has introduced a new analytics tool to provide YouTube publishers on how their videos are being viewed. Today we’re releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos […]