Raywilliamjohnson's new channel, Barack Obama's YouTube Interview, and the Sundance Lifeinaday premiere! Check it out now and be sure to comment/thumbs up!
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**Note: there WILL NOT be a new YTNN episode next week. We will return the week of February 7th, 2011**
On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to take part in “Life in a Day,” a historic cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. From Australia to Zambia, more than 80,000 videos, totaling 4,500 hours of footage, were submitted to the project. After months of hard work, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and a team of editors have created a 90-minute documentary film that gives a surprising, honest and entertaining self-portrait of our world.
While “Life in a Day” will be officially released later this year, tonight you have a very special opportunity to tune in to the world premiere direct from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The premiere will be followed by a live Q&A with Kevin Macdonald and key contributors to the film. You can submit questions for the Q&A here.
Tonight’s stream begins at 5pm PT/8pm ET on the Life in a Day channel. If you’re outside of the United States, you can catch a rebroadcast on Friday, January 28, at 7pm in your local time zone, captioned and subtitled in 25 additional languages, with an additional option for audio description (AD) in English.
Today (January 26th 2011) Ray William Johnson has officially launched his secret project, a new YouTube channel titled "Your Favorite Martian." The first video "My Balls" was posted on the site, a music video starring none other than RWJ and well.. uh... his balls!? The video is the first of a series of music videos set to premiere starring the mythical, cartoon animated band. Check out the video for yourself below and leave your feedback on the new channel! Do you love it.... do you hate it... was it worth the wait and all of the hype? Check out the next episode of the YouTube News Network this Friday where we will discuss the new venture further!
On the Thursday following the State of the Union address, President Obama will spend forty-five minutes answering questions from a group of citizens that may include a homeless man, an unemployed Marine, and a high-schooler.
Technology has repeatedly disrupted the way politicians interact with their constituents and it is happening yet again. Radio's moment came in the 1940s, television upended politics in the 1960s, and now the Web is forcing politicians to connect with Americans more quickly and personally than ever before.
YouTube will not only be among the sites live streaming President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, it will also, for the second year in a row, be hosting a question and answer session with the President, to be streamed live over the Internet, during which people will have the opportunity to pose their questions about healthcare, education police, and unemployment directly to the president.
The question submission process is open to anyone, and the final list of questions that Obama will answer will be determined based on the number of votes each one receives. Over 14,000 questions were submitted last year, the first year YouTube hosted the interview with the president, and over 5,000 have been uploaded so far this year (Learn more about submitting a question here). This year it will also be possible to submit questions via Twitter using the hashtag "#AskObama."
YouTube's Q&A allows Americans to be among the first to question Obama about his State of the Union address, while also providing the president with a platform to broadcast his message, in his own words, directly to voters.
"It's an unlikely audience that will have the chance to be brought into the White House on a video screen to talk to president," said Steve Grove, YouTube's head of news and politics. "People have the chance to access the White House in a very democratic way right after the year's most important speech."
The conversation with Obama is part of a series of interviews with world leaders that YouTube will be hosting, a program that marks the continued blurring of the lines between YouTube-as-platform and YouTube-as-content-creator. The video-sharing website was reportedly in talks to acquire Next New Networks, a producer of Web content that could potentially grow the original content produced by YouTube.
The Q&A with President Obama will take place on YouTube at 2:30PM ET on Thursday. Watch the State of the Union live on YouTube here, or stream it live via WhiteHouse.gov.
If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to check out the latest video from the YouTube News Network BELOW... The New YouTube Homepage! Leave your feedback on the new homepage and share the video with your friends!
Ted Williams, the homeless Ohio man with the golden voice, was arrested by Los Angeles police on Monday night. The YouTube sensation who has appeared on the TODAY Show, Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight and became an instant Internet celebrity was detained after a reported argument with his daughter at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa.
ABC reports that the situation was "minor" and the father and daughter were "angry" but there were no signs of visible abuse. Los Angeles police Officer Catherine Massey told ABC on Tuesday that Williams and his daughter were"brought in, calmed down, talked to and released."
Williams came into the spotlight after a video featuring his 'Golden Voice' was released by the Columbus Dispatch. Job offers from the NFL Network, Oprah and the Cleveland Cavaliers streamed in for the man who was homeless and begging for money. Williams also had a drug and alcohol addiction that he successfully fought over the past two years.
Ted Williams was reportedly in Los Angeles for a number of television appearances as well as a visit with the Los Angeles Laker's, including Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest. No charges have been file and reports indicate that Williams was not arrested in LA, just detained.
Just to remind you how this works: we identify a handful of channels who’ve rapidly increased their subscriber base in the last 30 days but haven’t yet hit the 100,000 mark. You watch their videos, and then vote for your favorite in the top right-hand corner of this blog. You have until noon PT on January 14, 2011, to make your choice. Once we have a winner, we’ll give them a big leg up with a feature on theYouTube homepageandvideos page, as well as love on FacebookandTwitter. Past winnersemilynoel83andjustjesse197more than doubled the number of subscribers gained during the month of their spotlight versus the previous month, and Emily is close to hitting the 100,000 subscriber milestone herself.
How did a man go from being a homeless drifter to a web celebrity in 24 hours? Find out the power of YouTube and the internet and how this man from Ohio's life was changed! He is just the latest of 'nobodys' who become web celebrities because of viral video hits. His hit has landed him a radio job and a new home... Check out this article CLICK
