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Coming Soon: YouTube Clickable Product Placement?

So YouTube’s introducing small iTunes and Amazon affiliate links under videos from selected partners. If you’re familiar with YouTube’s annotations feature, you can see what’s up ahead: clickable product placement in videos. Click here to continue reading “Coming Soon: YouTube Clickable Product Placement?”…

October 8, 2008 · Post a Comment

Take On Me Literal Version!

One of the problems with offline media is its tendency to glorify irrelevance. One of the great things about online media is its ability to expose irrelevance. That’s what YouTuber Dustin McLean does, redubbing the music video for A-ha’s ’80’s hit Take On Me with lyrics that actually have something to do with the footage.

This has serious meme potential. Think of every music video you’ve ever seen with irrelevant footage. They’re just begging to get redubbed.

October 7, 2008 · 2 Comments