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Edge of Progress Tour Hits Austin

Written by admin. Posted on November 30, 2010. No comments.

Urgent’s team has been working with GOOD magazine + Ford to produce a series that follows a journalist across the country to interview some of today’s most influential innovators, stopping in NY, Austin, SF, LA, and Detroit. The latest installment in the Edge of Progress tour takes place in Austin, a city that is big [...]

OK Go To Write Their Name Over Los Angeles

Written by Peter. Posted on November 16, 2010. No comments.

Range Rover recently teamed up with viral kings OK Go to help promote the auto company’s new Pulse of the City app that tracks your journey via GPS. On Wednesday, the band is going to perform an 8-mile mobile concert in Los Angeles and the route will spell out the band’s name across the city. [...]

Friday Music Video Round Up (11/12/2010)

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2010. No comments.

Friday is supposed to be the fun day at work, so why not spend some of your day watching cool new music videos? Here are some recent favorites. Games – “Shadows In Bloom” Directed by Weirdcore. Stateless – “Ariel” Created by FIELD. Cee Lo Green – “Bright Lights Bigger City” The Octopus Project - “Hallucinists” [...]

Urgent Content + @Good Mag Meet With Innovators in NYC

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2010. No comments.

Urgent Content teamed up with Good Magazine and Ford to produce the Edge of Progress Innovator Sessions. Here’s the first video of the series profiling two innovators in New York City: food blogger/writer/rooftop gardener, Cathy Erway, and metal worker/artist, Josh Hadar. Check out the vid and see what they had to say…

@Good Magazine Spoofs Die Hard

Written by Peter. Posted on November 10, 2010. No comments.

Urgent’s friend Alex Gorosh sent us this funny trailer he wrote, directed and edited for Good Magazine. It’s a parody of the Die Hard action films to create awareness about the large number of water-related illnesses in developing countries. The video promotes a product called Life Straw (a portable water filtration device) to be used [...]

Movin’ Like Bernie (via @videogum)

Written by Peter. Posted on October 28, 2010. No comments.

I just watched what could potentially be the next ridiculous dance move to go viral. “The Berney” (hopefully spelled wrong intentionally) owes its inspiration to the Weekend At Bernie’s film series. I suppose they could also call it “The Zombie,” but that’s way less cool. I like that this new dance move hit the blogs [...]

Puff Puff Pass It On

Written by Peter. Posted on October 27, 2010. No comments.

Friend of Urgent Content, Max Joseph, sent us these hilarious Prop 19 videos he worked on for The B-Squad. With voting day around the corner, Californians are all anxious to see what happens with this historic proposition…so why not make light of it? The first video is my favorite, but all three are definitely worth [...]

YouTube Takes Over The Guggenheim

Written by Peter. Posted on October 22, 2010. No comments.

I missed out on the YouTube Play live webcast last night (Giants game), but I’ve been going over some of the clips today and it looks like the event was pretty amazing. We’ve already started acknowledging the talents of creators on YouTube, but getting the Guggenheim involved kicks it up a major notch. I’d happily [...]

Watching Kids Watching Viral Videos

Written by Peter. Posted on October 20, 2010. No comments.

YouTubers, The Fine Brothers, are attempting an interesting new video series called “Kids React,” where they film kids watching well-known viral videos and then record their feedback. It’s attempting the ultimate combination of cute kids and viral hits. For the first episode, the kids watched “Double Rainbow,” “Two Bunnies Two Cups,” “Snickers Halloween Commercial,” and [...]

FAIL: Band Blocks 101 Freeway For Publicity Stunt

Written by Peter. Posted on October 13, 2010. No comments.

Some people believe any publicity is good publicity, but something tells me that won’t work for the band Imperial Stars. These morons took their publicity stunt a little too far when they…well…BLOCKED THE 101 FREEWAY IN LOS ANGELES! Now, all three of the band members are in jail and they probably have more enemies today [...]

Valvoline Goes Viral

Written by Peter. Posted on October 7, 2010. No comments.

Urgent’s friend Simon over at Bloggasm saw our recent post on Weezer’s YouTube invasion and gave us the heads up today on another YouTube invasion – this time from Valvoline. The company teamed up with Key of Awesome and Upright Citizens Brigade for some branded videos centered around one thing – the word “probably.” Valvoline [...]

The Lack of Futureness

Written by Peter. Posted on October 6, 2010. No comments.

I didn’t predict a rant today, but here it goes. I’ve had a lot of thinking time this week. Today I read an interesting piece of writing today from Russell Davies about today’s “lack of futureness” and while it’s just a collection of thoughts raising the issue, it had me thinking how this applies to [...]

Google’s Epic New Promotional Video

Written by Peter. Posted on September 24, 2010. No comments.

The other day Google put out this bizarre video to hype their location-based mobile search engine, but at 10 minutes long, it’s hard to believe most people would sit through the whole thing. I…almost did. But it’s worth checking out for the hidden humor throughout the whole video. My favorites from when I skipped to [...]

Weezer’s YouTube Invasion Explained

Written by Peter. Posted on September 22, 2010. 1 Comment.

YouTube’s blog featured an article on Monday that goes behind the scenes, explaining Weezer’s recent viral success surrounding the release of their latest album Hurley. The post is from Ben Patterson, founder of digital marketing and distribution platform DashGo, Inc, who’s company developed the concept to feature Weezer on the channels of several popular YouTube stars. [...]

Samsung Users Dance Like Toddlers

Written by Peter. Posted on September 21, 2010. No comments.

The Viral Factory released their latest video for Samsung earlier this month and it’s already had over 3.6 million views so far. What happens in the video isn’t easily relatable to the new phone they’re advertising, but it’s definitely eye-catching and unexpected. That’s due to the brilliant combination of two already proven successful themes (cute [...]

Mashable Talks to Auto-Tune The News

Written by Peter. Posted on September 17, 2010. 1 Comment.

The Gregory Brothers of Auto-Tune the News are on fire right now after their recent collaboration with Weezer. Also worth pointing out is how much Weezer gets viral video – they seem to be everywhere! I find this video a lot more annoying then the infamous Bed Intruder song, but it’s still a viral success [...]

video of the day: when Herzog met Phoenix

Written by admin. Posted on September 15, 2010. No comments.

I once impulse bought a book called “Digimodernism” from Amazon. I read about 4 pages of it to date, but I get it. It’s a cute way of combining “post-post-modernism” with internet things. Grad school, schmad school. Anyways, this video is Digimodern. It’s also dope. Enjoy.

YouTube ‘Life in a Day’ Interactive Gallery

Written by Peter. Posted on September 7, 2010. No comments.

On July 24th around 80,000 people participated in YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project. The idea was to get people to capture their day on video and upload the footage to a special YouTube channel to be worked into a feature film. At the helm is producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald who are [...]

Choose Your Own Adventure Rap Video Almost Makes Canadian Rapper Seem Cool (Almost)

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 25, 2010. No comments.

I’ll admit, having lived in Canada for 4 years during my formative college days, I’ve always had an affinity for Canadian hip-hop. It’s like a local/regional scene that spans the whole country and, with the exception of Drake (and k-os/k’naan for the NPR set), get’s literally no love outside it’s borders. So, I’m always rooting [...]

The Arcade Fire and Terry Gilliam Blow Minds on YouTube

Written by Peter. Posted on August 6, 2010. No comments.

Last night I tuned in for the end of The Arcade Fire’s live streaming Madison Square Garden show. I fell in love with their new album The Suburbs pretty quickly and couldn’t wait to watch some of the new songs. Even better the Fire asked Terry Gilliam to direct the webcast – who put a [...]