With each passing month, online videos are getting more creative, more fun to watch, and less expensive to produce which bodes well for our Spidvid community. Below are 5 remarkable viral videos from September. There are dozens of others likely just as deserving as these, so if you have a favorite please include the link in the comments below.

1. Rhian Touches Herself – What a brilliant move to campaign for men getting tested for testicular cancer. I’m sure that Rhian had many guys grabbing their balls, but for what reason?! Video production takeaway: Sex sells, and hot women get attention, use them when appropriate in your entertaining videos.

2. Puss In Boots – The Cat Haz Swagger – The Old Spice TV commercials were huge viral sensations. This video isn’t an ad for Old Spice, but rather, features a co-star from the Shrek series, Puss. Antonio Banderas would make a great cat, but in this video his character promotes the upcoming movie Puss In Boots. Video production takeaway: Cats are huge stars online, but getting them to do what you want isn’t always easy. So keep a quality camera close by at all times because you never know when that magical moment will happen. If that doesn’t work then animate a cute cat and give the kitty a sexy voice over.

3. World Greatest Drag Race – If you love sports cars and racing then this video is for you! Motor Trend reserved an airport strip and put 11 of today’s hottest cars (including a Ferrari, Porsche, Audi, Lotus, Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, Evora, Corvette, Mustang, and Laguna) in a row to see which one was fastest. Well shot from many different angles with lots of car candy, enjoy. Video production takeaway: Always think big, and tap into people’s passions.

4. McFly’s Closet – Nike recently launched a campaign called Back To the Future. 1,500 shoes are being auctioned off with the money going to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsons disease research. Check out these cool glowing kicks! Video production takeaway: Sell the future.

5. Carlsberg stunts with bikers in cinema – Beer maker, Carlsberg pulls off a genius stunt in Belgium with 148 bikers in a movie theater. Some innocent couples want to take their seat, but the room is filled with not so friendly looking gentlemen… how will they react? Video production takeaway: Reaction videos can be massive hits, just look at what Ashton Kutcher did with his TV show Punk’d.

Create better quality video entertainment by collaborating with our talented community, be sure to get a Spidvid profile and if you need any help at all just ask us!

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Announcing the 2nd annual Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival which we are proud to sponsor again this year!

What is this film festival all about? The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival is a young film festival that will highlight independent films from around the corn fields of the Midwest. The film festival is to honor the independent drive Film Makers of the Midwest have to create films without the support of the Hollywood machine. All the films shown will have no funding from Hollywood and will have a completely independent voice. The Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival will also be a chance for film makers of the Midwest to come together and network together, thus improving their ability to make impressionable films.

The 2012 event is on April 15th in Urbana, IL, submissions are free and will be accepted until February 20th, 2012. If you have a web series, a short film, or a feature length film, you can submit your content here. There are some great prizes to be won including a feature across our entire network for all winners! Here are the winners from last year, and below is our personal favorite entitled “Bedtime For Timmy” which is a very cute short animated film by Thomas Nicol.

Bedtime For Timmy from Thomas Nicol on UnleashVideo

We are proud to be a sponsor of this fun, new, and exciting film festival, not just because of the event itself but because of the wonderful people behind it too. Cheers to the filmmakers, viewers, organizers, and everyone else involved with Buttered Corn on the Cob Film Festival, 2012.

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With each passing month, online videos are getting more creative, more fun to watch, and less expensive to produce. Below are 5 remarkable viral videos from May 2011. There are dozens of others likely just as deserving as these, so if you have a favorite please include the link in the comments below.

1. Mom Cat Hugs Kitten During a Nightmare – Some of the top ever viral videos on YouTube are of kittens. Chances are you’ve seen a kitten get rather active in its sleep, now here’s how to comfort him or her during a scary nightmare. Over 20 million views so far! Video production takeaway: shoot video whenever you can, you never know when you’ll capture something remarkable that the world will awe over!

2. Hugh Hefner Hangs Out In a Secret Bar – What man on this earth wouldn’t like to be Hugh Hefner, if only for a day! He recently teamed up with the beer maker Bavaria to show his sexy normal life, and the life he goes to when he needs to get away from it all. Video production takeaway: beautiful women and beer usually do well in videos.

3. Greatest Marriage Proposal EVER – A guy puts together an elaborate marriage proposal Hollywood style when he gets his girlfriend’s brother to take her to a theater, shows a short clip of her and him together on the big screen, then makes a grand entrance to propose in person. This video has been seen almost 16 million times now. Video production takeaway: viewers like seeing well orchestrated events that take other’s breaths away.

4. Jetman Flies Over Grand Canyon – On May 7th 2011 Yves Rossy, nicknamed the “Jetman” managed to fly over one of world’s most beautiful natural wonders, the Grand Canyon. And he did this using only a jet powered wing strapped to his back! Video production takeaway: stunts are a huge audience attractor, but keep it safe people!

5. Otter Mimics Boy – Many of us grew up with cats and dogs, and while playing with them was certainly fun, it is nothing like the experience this kid has with an otter at the San Diego zoo. Video production takeaway: animals and kids playing together are two key elements for viral success.

Top video created by our Spidvid community in the month of May - “The M Word” is a hilarious story about a college girl bringing home her boyfriend for the very first time to meet her parents. Talk about making a bad first impression! Video production takeaway: viewers love randomness, why do you think that the Family Guy TV show is so popular?!

Create better quality video entertainment by collaborating with our talented community, be sure to get a Spidvid profile and if you need any help at all just ask us!

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With each passing month, online videos are getting more creative, more fun to watch, and less expensive to produce. Below are 5 remarkable viral videos from April 2011. There are dozens of others likely just as deserving as these, so if you have a favorite please include the link in the comments below.

1. Poolball - The world`s largest pool table is on display where soccer (football) and billiards are played together. These two sports work so well together so perhaps poolball should become a sport of its own, check out the highlights of an intense game below.

2. Skittles Touch: Cat – A cool yet kind of creepy interactive video where you touch the screen and become part of the video personally. Be sure to get one of your 10 fingers ready before you click the play button below, and taste the rainbow.

3. David Beckham Makes 3 Amazing Kicks – While on the beach in California shooting a commercial for Diet Pepsi, David Beckham shows why he’s the world’s most famous soccer player. 3.2 million video views to date since April 7th!

4. Little Thor – A little toddler dresses up as Thor and decides to show off his super powers to his much horrified parents. Little Thor has been seen almost 1.7 million times since its release on April 19th.

5. Best Of a Normal Day – Some normal people doing some extraordinary tricks! This video has viral written all over it, and must have taken countless hours to create.

Top video created by our Spidvid community in the month of April – The Hangover Fairy is there whenever you have a bad hangover that just won`t go away. Rumor: An entire Hangover Fairy web series will be created this summer and fall, in collaboration between Spidvid, these filmmakers and our community, and the After Party energy drink company.

The Hangover Fairy – After Party from Blackened Irish Films on UnleashVideo

Create better quality video entertainment by collaborating with our talented community, be sure to get a Spidvid profile and if you need any help at all just ask!

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It’s no secret that YouTube is a beast in the online video world! There are now 2 billion plus views each day on the site, and over 150 million viewers per month watch something on YouTube. The problem is that there are 13 hours of videos being uploaded every minute on the world’s most popular video sharing site. That means for your entertaining videos to break through the noise and clutter you will need to produce some pretty remarkable content, and hustle hard to get eyeballs.

When a video creator does a Spidvid project, to upload their video through our platform to UnleashVideo there is a much greater chance that viewers will actually see what you produced since there is much less competition for eyeball attention. Plus we help promote and market every video that gets uploaded. Most videos uploaded via Spidvid get at least 2,000 views as a result.

So the next time you upload your short entertaining video to YouTube, you may also want to consider running your video project through Spidvid with your team members and see what happens. Views, love, and attention are guaranteed!

Bonus: Run at least one of your past video projects through Spidvid this month, and we will send you 10 Spidvid stickers! This offer is only good for the first 10 video creators so get a Spidvid profile and start, or contact us so we can explain how everything works!

Embedded below is our favorite video that’s been uploaded in the last week. It’s a stop motion short film that’s very cute, and extremely well done by Thomas Nicol and Becky Griesheimer. Enjoy it, and share it with your friends and family if it makes you smile

Bedtime For Timmy from Thomas Nicol on UnleashVideo

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