Influx

The new album by Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, contains a track "We Used to Wait" which laments the bygone era, that the writer never experienced, of writing and waiting for letters. It's a statement that communication and culture has accelerated to the point that it's hard, even for someone in their...

There's a great story in the LA Times about a company which bucked the trends. When everyone was moving to DVD, they brought VHS tapes and still found buyers."The last major Hollywood movie to be released on VHS was "A History of Violence" in 2006. By that point major retailers such as Best Buy...

Red Bull maybe one of the first brands to recognize the potential of become a media company. Instead of sponsoring events, it now creates and produces its own. This gives it a huge degree of control and the ability to associate itself with the extreme events that best suit the brand. Nike is...

Given the growth of online video, it's surprising that no one has really thought of the opportunity with product placement. However, it looks like BrandFame is one company looking to exploit the space by matching producers with brands.Posted by Ed Cotton

Frank Taylor of Google Earth blog captured some amazing footage of new Google camera technology that was shown at yesterday's Where 2.0 conference. Just think of the advertising possibilities!

Bill Tancer of Hitwise recently presented some interesting stats on participation levels on Web 2.0 sites, his research found that only .16% of all YouTube visits were to upload video and only 0.2% of Flickr visits were to upload photographs. As we are in the “Participation Age” there...

Will Ferrell's Landlord film has been an incredible success, generating over 15 milion views in a short period of time. Interestingly, the film isn't available on You Tube and can't be embeded in other sites. The only way to view it is on Ferrell's new site Funnyordie.com.Forbes Magazine has an...

Mojiti is a new site that provides all kinds of possibilities for consumers to play with existing content and maybe even for brands to annotate and add to their communication materials.It's user-created pop-up video and shows the oppoortunities that exist to add layers and depth by adding...

YouTube is a billion channel universe, but explore it by brand and you quickly notice that this ecosystem has different component parts. Influx went through a hypothetical exercise; we tried imagining a “channel” for Sony’s PS3. Exploring some of the 44k videos on the site and...