Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Website highlights best of professional clips on the web.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8
(Reuters) —
Webcastr.com, a video website featuring professional video content from over 200 channel providers, today announced the winners of it’s Videos of the Year awards. Webcastr’s viewers, along with it’s editors voted amongst over 2,500 professionally produced videos on the website to pick the best video clips of the year for 2007.Thirty finalists were chosen by the staff of the webbery with the final clips being voted on during the last two weeks of December.The winners are:
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Heidi Loves Her Bazooms — (Victoria Secret promo spot featuring supermodel Heidi Klum)
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D*ck In A Box (The popular SNL skit featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samburg)
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Led Zeppelin Reunion Concert in the UK
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Acting for the Greenscreen (a comedy sketch from Body of Art)
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Bob Dylan Cadillac Commercial
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Britney Spears VMA Parody (featuring Chris Crocker from National Lampoon.com)
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Don’t Taze Me, Bro (from the John Kerry speech at Univ. of Florida)
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Snoop Dogg in the UK (where the US rapper was hassled by Heathrow authorities)
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The Chemical Bros. “Salmon Dance” (computer animated music video)
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Bush vs. Miss North Carolina (a comedy mashup)
Honorable Mention:
SUV Driving Through a Shopping Mall (video surveillance tape)
Unlike the majority of video sharing sites, Webcastr features clips that come from licensed sources of professional and semi-pro content. “With so much of the user generated content out there being of questionable quality, we are happy to present these awards in recognition of the efforts of pro content creators who increasingly understand the value of the short form online video medium,” said Webcastr CEO, Tim Devine.
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Webcastr.com now distributing content from over 200 name brand channel providers including CBS News, MTV News, Reuters, Vanity Fair, Daily Variety, FHM, Speed TV, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal TV, Celeb TV, AutoTrader TV, Sony/BMG Musicbox, and many more. Alexa rankings increased 1,500% among all websites worldwide.
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
(Forbes.com) — LOS ANGELES, Oct 11, 2007 - Webcastr.com, a new portal of Internet television programming set to launch next month, was inundated by viewers last Friday morning when it featured the new Britney Spears video, “Gimme More” prior to its official release this week. Word of the video leak quickly spread throughout the blogosphere, eventually landing on popular celebrity gossip sites like “Pop Culture Madness” and “Pink is the New Blog.” From there, interest in the video spread worldwide with people seeking a chance to view the new clip before its official release date, causing the site, which is still in beta testing, to crash before it even had a chance to officially launch. “We were totally caught off guard by the global magnitude of the response,” explains Webcastr founder Tim Devine.
“We had traffic from 93 countries in a little over six hours and had to immediately get more server capacity weeks before we anticipated needing it.”
While the service was being restored, Webcastr locked in additional coverage of the Spears’ video from TMZ.com to satisfy the thousands of fans that were still accessing the site throughout the weekend.
A second test came yesterday, when the site was mentioned in a front page story on the Huffington Post for airing a series of videos from the John Edwards’ campaign that had mysteriously disappeared from the web two years ago. This time the site was able to handle the surge in traffic generated via the popular blog.
Launching next month, Webcastr delivers the best of Internet Television covering the fields of news, sports, music, celebrity, politics and more with over 200 channel providers already on-board.
Founded by former Sony Music Executive, Tim Devine, the company serves as a counter to popular clip sharing sites such as YouTube and Revver. “We are an outlet for the explosive new area of Internet TV as well as presenting the best in clip coverage from professional and pro-am sources,” says Devine. “People are tired of sorting thru amateur clips just to find what they need. We seek to deliver the kind of quality content that viewers find most vital on a daily basis.”
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