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How To Upload 3D Videos Taken On A Nintendo 3DS To YouTube
By Phil Villarreal on December 30, 2011 11:15 AM
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Earlier this year, Nintendo released a 3DS firmware update that allowed the device to record 3D videos. Uploading the videos to YouTube without editing them will end in disappointment, because they won't look right. More »
Reader Saves $400 Using YouTube To Fix Her Washer
By Ben Popken on October 4, 2011 3:00 PM
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The fable goes that the nice white-haired appliance guys are a dying breed and they're way better than their outsourced, van-driving, retail store counterparts. But sometimes the local guy is just as bad as the guy in the store wearing the official colored shirt. When her Kenmore model 417 front-loading washer went bust-o, Jane discovered she was able to save $400 in repair costs by learning how to fix it herself from Youtube videos. More »
Would You Pay $3 To Watch Rebecca Black's 'Friday' On YouTube?
By Laura Northrup on June 17, 2011 9:00 AM
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Well, it's Friday, so it's time for my usual ritual: rocking out to Rebecca Black's "Friday" video and hoping that no one catches me in the act. Except....wait a minute! Where did the video go? YouTube copyright claim?! It turns out that the video has been pulled from YouTube by Miss Black and her family since the vanity record label that produced the song and video has been trying to cash in on the inexplicable song's inexplicable success. The last straw came when the label tried to charge users a $2.99 YouTube rental fee to view the clip. Which leads to the important consumer question: is there any music video that you would pay three bucks to watch? More »
Why Is Coors Light Advertising During This Children's Song?
By Ben Popken on May 9, 2011 4:00 PM
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Reader Jonnie was looking for YouTube videos to help his son remember his multiplication tables. He found one for 8's, but was taken aback by what he had to watch first before he could watch it. It was an ad for Coors Light beer. That is some pretty dumb media buying right there. More »
Logos Redesigned For What The Company Actually Does
By Ben Popken on May 4, 2011 11:00 AM
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For fun and whimsy, graphic designer Viktor Hertz took a crack at reworking some famous company logos so they more accurately depict what the company is all about. C'mon, let's get real people. YouTube is not about putting "you" on the "tube" — it's the world's largest repository of cat videos! The rest of the satire, more of which can be found here, speaks for itself. More »
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Debunking The Creation Myths Behind 5 Huge Companies
By Mary Beth Quirk on March 30, 2011 1:30 PM
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It might be shocking to you to find out that some companies have lied about their own creation, but hey, who doesn't like a good story? From eBay to YouTube, tall tales have been spun to consumers for various reasons. Let's take a walk down liars' memory lane, shall we? More »
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YouTube Wants Live NBA, NHL Games
By Phil Villarreal on February 23, 2011 11:30 AM
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YouTube foresees a future for itself in which it will host more than just cat videos and angry Hitler parodies. The Google-owned video repository is in talks with the NBA and NHL, as well as European soccer leagues, to broadcast live games. More »
Duncan Hines Pulls "Hip Hop Cupcakes" Video Over Blackface Allegations
By Chris Morran on December 10, 2010 1:19 PM
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Duncan Hines has managed to stick its foot deep into the hornet's nest with a YouTube video for its Amazing Glazes product that features "hip hop" cupcakes that some say resemble minstrels in blackface. More »
Domino's Booger Woman Gets Sentenced
By Ben Popken on November 22, 2010 2:00 PM
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On Friday the woman who narrated the Domino's booger video that made national headlines plead guilty and received sentencing. More »
Erase Yourself From The Internet
By Ben Popken on August 31, 2010 12:00 PM
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Need to escape from a stalker or clean up your online identity before a potential or current employer finds out that you have a personality? Here's instructions on how to delete yourself from the internet, everything from erasing your profile from Facebook to "unGoogling" yourself. More »
VIDEO: Forever 21 Security Puts Choke Hold On Deaf Customer
August 12, 2010 4:21 PM
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Clothing store Forever 21 is under fire today over a YouTube video showing a security guard for the store's Hollywood Blvd. outlet wrestling a deaf customer to the ground and putting him into a choke hold on the sidewalk. More »
Is That Video Of Your Dancing Baby Violating Sony's Copyright?
By Chris Morran on August 4, 2010 1:15 PM
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From its earliest days, YouTube was constructed on a foundation of three things — hilarious kittens, stupid teenagers and dancing babies. But now that YouTube plays host to the likes of Oprah, heaven forbid any of your videos have Sony music playing in the background, lest the copyright police come after you. More »
Old Spice's Brilliant Marketing Your Product Could Market Like
By Laura Northrup on July 14, 2010 9:00 AM
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We at Consumerist mostly focus on when companies screw up, with some exceptions. We must give credit for brilliant marketing strategies when it is due, though, and yesterday's personalized YouTube video blitz by Old Spice's towel-wrapped spokesman, Isaiah "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" Mustafa, qualifies as brilliant. More »
YouTube Beats Viacom In $1B Copyright Lawsuit
By Meg Marco on June 24, 2010 9:00 AM
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Sorry Viacom! A judge has handed YouTube a victory in the $1 billion copyright lawsuit that the entertainment company brought against Google/YouTube. Viacom's position was that YouTube had the responsibility to immediately remove all copyrighted materials. YouTube said it only had to comply with takedown requests. More »
What To Do When A Company Pulls Your Fair Use Video From YouTube
By Chris Walters on April 26, 2010 8:38 AM
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Last week Constantin Films got YouTube to pull almost all the Angry Hitler parody clips by using the website's Content ID tracking system. The process is automatic, and YouTube immediately takes down a video once it's been tagged. However, that also means you can use this system in reverse to get your clips back up, at least for as long as you're in dispute with the copyright holder. Whether you do this or not will depend on how willing you are to risk a potential lawsuit later on. More »
Google Making YouTube Video Download Tools Extinct
By Phil Villarreal on March 26, 2010 8:41 AM
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The IT Chronicle reports that Google-owned YouTube is shutting down tools that help users download and save its videos to their computers, starting with a popular TechCrunch program. More »
YouTube: Viacom Uploaded Some Of The Videos They're Suing Us Over
By Chris Morran on March 19, 2010 6:09 AM
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It's a showdown of new media and sorta-old media as YouTube defends itself against Viacom in the TV leviathan's billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against the site that showed the world that cats can indeed play the piano. More »
Cablevision Produces New Bitchy Video Loop Aimed At ABC
By Laura Northrup on March 4, 2010 3:32 PM
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New York City area cable provider and ISP Cablevision is in a contract renewal fight with yet another content provider. This time, it's ABC's flagship broadcast station WABC that wants more money, and Cablevision has raised the stakes in the passive-aggressive public service announcement wars. They've redirected customers' cable boxes to a special channel where a looped announcement plays, and have started a YouTube channel to get the word out to any non-customers who might happen to care. More »
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YouTube To Rent Movies
By Chris Walters on January 21, 2010 11:05 AM
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Tomorrow, YouTube will start renting online movies at $4 for 48 hours. At launch, the selection will consist of five titles from the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, says the Associated Press, but Google hopes to get studios on board in the coming months. Studios will be able to set their own prices and rental periods, however, should they participate. More »
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YouTube Considers Charging Monthly Fee
By Phil Villarreal on December 17, 2009 8:45 AM
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Dexter, pictured, had better get his credit card ready, because if Google-owned YouTube enacts its diabolical master plan, he'll have to start paying monthly to get his entertainment fix. The Business Insider reports YouTube is formulating a pricing strategy to comfort greed-mongering studios: More »
