Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

The Election According to YouTube

The Medium - Clicking and Choosing - The Election According to YouTube - NYT 111608 By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN:
During the presidential election, YouTube turned from a hectic mosaic of weird video clips to a first-stop source for political everything. Every gotcha moment, spoof, pundit’s musing, TV clip, campaign speech, formal ad and handmade polemic cropped up [...]

YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos

Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch: YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos 102508:
It’s not a big new feature but it’s certainly one that will come in handy: YouTube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that [...]

YouTube, PBS Ask Americans to “Video Your Vote”

YouTube, PBS Ask Americans to “Video Your Vote” 101508 .
Citizens to Document Their Voting Experiences From Polling Places
SAN BRUNO, CA and ARLINGTON, VA–(Marketwire - October 15, 2008) - YouTube, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, has partnered with PBS to empower American voters to upload [...]

Homemade Political Ads: “Unfit To Lead”

YouTube - McCain - Unfit To Lead final version
Plisko1, who crafted this homemade ad, says:
The John McCain campaign and the neocon smear machine are up and running saying all kinds of nasty things. In order to be “fair and balanced” I put together a negative add against McCain to help with the conversation.
This presentation combines [...]