Category: YouTube
Tips on Downloading Your Favorite YouTube Videos For Free
It’s easy to get lost in the world of YouTube. One video turns into two and before you realize, several hours have passed. Of late, downloading YouTube videos has become easy due to the different apps available on the internet. Various apps possess different features to suit diverse needs of the users. Below is a list…
Are social media companies doing enough? 1 in 8 kids under 10s spend 4 hours a day on there
The latest research in support of Safer Internet Day which took place earlier this month, reveals that while 16 year olds spend the most time on social media each day, kids as young as 8 are sharing images and chatting online. That's despite 13 being the age limit to own a social media account. According…
ShinyShiny shoots London in VR with Kodak PixPro 4K VR360
Really pleased to announce our latest partnership. Those nice people at Kodak have given us their brand new portable VR camera to shoot a series of eight short films in and around London before Xmas (gosh we're going to be busy). Called the Kodak PixPro 4K VR360, it's a compact little camera with twin domes (one…
Happy Birthday Dr Johnson! Google Doodle celebrates father of modern dictionary
Happy Birthday Samuel Johnson. The man who brought us the Dictionary of the English Language would have been 308 today! Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1709, Johnson is perhaps best known as a Londoner, most famous for his quote - When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in…
What we watched on social media in 2016 #YouTubeRewind
Adele's Carpool Karaoke was the most watched YouTube video in the UK in 2016 It used to be endless end of year round-up shows on TV (I guess this year it will just be celeb obituary after celeb obituary). But now we're inundated with social media round-ups of the year too. Facebook…
Top 5 #MannequinChallenges. Including Hillary Clinton, Little Rock Trojans swim team and, of course, a boxer dog
Just how did the swimmers hold the same position on the bottom of the pool while being filmed. Amazing Mannequin Challenge from the Little Rock Trojans swim team There's always a new internet phenomenon just around the corner, it seems. Hot on the heels of the Water Bottle Flip challenge of…
YouTube influencers star in 360 degree shot at National Portrait Gallery
In what’s been billed as a kind of clash between eighteenth century cultural trailblazers and today’s vlogging influencers, seventeen of YouTube’s biggest stars gathered for a unique 360 degree shot at the National Portrait Gallery.
How YouTube isn’t just influencing TV programmes, it’s the adverts too!
Kevin Allocca, YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends at Google, talked about how YouTube is influencing all areas of culture, including the latest John Lewis ad There's no doubt that how we watch 'content' is changing rapidly. Not so long ago, the only option was to sit in front of your…
