‘Shoppable’ videos are coming to YouTube

“Shoppable” videos have been on wish lists for some time, enabling consumers to shop whilst watching a video by clicking on, say, a lipstick, a pair of shoes, a jumper etc and finding out where that product is from, it’s availability and potentially making a purchase. When “shoppable” videos were first rolled out in 2012 [...]

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YouTube Playbook

It’s easy to set up a YouTube channel, it’s pretty easy to make a video… it’s a little harder to make it an awesome video. But now, thanks to YouTube, we have some help! Check out their new YouTube Playbook, a manual to help us get the most of the channel Have a read and [...]

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YouTube launches ‘Life in a Day’ interactive gallery

Back in July I bogged about an awesome new project called ‘Life in a Day‘ organised between YouTube, Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. The project asked users to video parts of their life on July 24th 2010 and submit their entries to YouTube where the best ones would then be edited together, with the final [...]

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A 360 view of devastation

Eleven days after the Haiti earthquake and the devastation is still catastrophic, with the breaking news that the search for quake survivors is over and alternative new stories taking precedence, new forms of media are prevailing as a main source of information to the outside world. Within hours of the initial quake reporters from around [...]

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Obama in your hands

With iphone apps continuously being developed, the new WhiteHouse app perhaps offers a little more than expected. The ‘White House’ app which allows users to read blogs, press releases, view photos, and videos, also offers a particularly awesome feature- the ability to stream live video feeds as and when they happen in real time. iPhone [...]

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