YouTube is providing filmmakers and cinema fans from all around the globe with an awesome opportunity to watch shorts, screened at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, online. Those, who will not be able to attend this year’s event, which is taking place in NYC April 20-May1 and marks its 10th anniversary, can visit a the Screening Room channel on YouTube and so in some way feel the spirit of the festival, which was co-founded by Robert De Niro back in 2002.
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Summer in the northern hemisphere is coming, and YouTube in collaboration with the Australian residents, whose summer season is now finished, created a bespoke gallery which celebrates the most fun-packed season of the year. The video sharing website teamed up with Screen Australia, legendary filmmaker Dr George Miller and the Sydney Film Festival to develop the YouTube Map My Summer national online initiative.
YouTube that has recently celebrated its 6th anniversary and can undoubtedly be called one of the most dynamically growing websites on the net, announced yesterday the launch of live streaming.
Following its long-time commitment towards charity, YouTube in collaboration with Cannes Lions and Ralph present the joint project entitled ‘Good Work’ enabling the space for all those passionate about charity and serving for a good cause to have their say and grab attention of the sharks of advertising industry.
So, YouTube provides an opportunity and hosting for the inspirational videos designed to promote non-profit organizations. To learn more on the initiative, please visit youtube.com/goodwork.
The story of close relationship between brands and cinematography started nearly at the same time as the cinema itself was born—in the beginning of the movie era, the big companies promoted their products though short clips which were screened before movies. Now it’s not that easy to tell for sure for which product the pioneer ad was created, but according to a range of sources (IMDB is one of them), the first filmed advertising for a today’s global brand was shot for Dewar’s Scotch Whisky (1897). Today, connections between filmmaking industry and brands go beyond this simple presence and include a lot of examples such as much discussed product placement, festival sponsorship and opening cinema clubs, cinema-related advertising campaigns, collaboration with filmmakers on commercials, and creating movies under brands’ supervision.
The-long awaited finale of 2011 Youtube Symphony Orchestra took place yesterday, Sunday, March 20. As announced, the offline concert of the orchestra symbolizing the unity of people from all over the world through music, was held in Sydney Opera House and live-streamed on youtube.com/symphony.
On the occasion of its 6th anniversary, YouTube announce the greatest hiring in its history. The web-project plans to expand its personnel by 30%. To see the full list of vacancies and get to know what it’s like to work for one of the most fast-growing websites, please click here.
On January 27, Google presented ‘Life in a Day’ documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. This crowd-sourced featured film by Kevin Macdonald was created from over 450,000 hours of footage, sent by 80,000 users from 192 countries. People from all around the globe were invited by YouTube to record their daily routines on July 24, 2010, to create “an emotional journey.”