Yahoo! strengthens video service as it snaps up Jumpcut

Yahoo! has acquired online video-sharing and editing web site Jumpcut, in an attempt to enhance its Yahoo Video service and strengthen its community.

The deal gives Yahoo! users the ability to create "multimedia mashups" of video and other media. The company will also work with Yahoo!'s media and advertising partners to create high-quality movie and video content.

Jumpcut said: "Joining forces with Yahoo! Video will provide the resources to bring Jumpcut users and our partners more great social media experiences. As part of Yahoo! we'll be working on bringing video editing and remixing to everyone with an Internet connection."

The acquisition is the latest move by the internet media giant to capture a share in the booming market of user-generated content web sites.

A video about Jumpcut's plan to merge with Yahoo! can be viewed here.

More details at Brand Republic

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Fallon's giant ‘snowball’ of doom for Travelers

San Francisco’s a great spot for shooting certain types of ads—ones involving millions of little bouncing colored balls, for example.

It’s also good for showing a guy tripping and falling, rolling down a steep hill, accumulating all sorts of debris, and becoming part of a giant, indestructible snowball of crap that’s hurtling uncontrollably toward an inevitable violent end.

In other words, a TV commercial by Fallon for Travelers. Few insurance ads are as fun as this.

Source: adfreak.com

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Filminute: Submit your vote

Filminute, the international one-minute film festival, has opened up judging to the public.

The competition features 27 one-minute shorts from around the world. Voters can submit their choice online at www.filminute.com

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Truth in Advertising

The full version of the short film 'Truth in Advertising'



A great story about how a marketing campaign is made. Speakers say what they think and not what they should say...

Source: Ad Arena

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Raindance prepares to face the music

Music documentaries of various guises are set to dominate the 14th Raindance film festival in London, which opens tomorrow with a screening of the acclaimed Brothers of the Head.

Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, the film is a faux-documentary that follows the attempts of a 1970s promoter to conjure conjoined twins into a rock'n'roll sensation. Brothers of the Head won the Michael Powell award for best new British feature at last month's Edinburgh film festival.

More straightforward interpretations of the 'rockumentary' genre are provided by Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, Jonathan Demme's Neil Young concert film Heart of Gold and Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone.

The Raindance film festival has built a reputation as a training ground for new film-makers and a platform for independent productions. In previous years both Memento and The Blair Witch Project were first unveiled at the event.

The 14th Raindance film festival runs September 27-October 8. Further details at raindancefilmfestival.org.

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Also checkout: Tiscali Short Films

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3 begins live mobile TV trial in Ireland

The mobile media network, 3, is to trial the broadcast of live TV on mobile handsets using DVB-H technology in Ireland.

The one-year trial will offer access to several live TV channels and interactive TV and promises consumers pictures without delays, freezing or buffering.

3 began using the technology in Italy earlier this year with a service called WalkTV, which 140,000 customers signed up to in just six weeks.

The tests in Ireland build on 3's existing package of TV content including Barclays Premiership highlights, Father Ted and the network's own music channel.

Source: Media Week

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onedotzero competition & Young Guns deadline

No pain no gain. An expression that could have been made for young creatives worldwide. To ease that though the entry deadline for next year's Young Guns Awards has been extended until October 13.

Open to all creatives under the age of 30 and with the potential to win a top prize of $10,000 it's a deadline not to miss.

Click here to enter: YGA Awards

As part of its tenth anniversary celebration, touring arts festival onedotzero is putting on its very first festival in South America, to take part from September 29th to October 3rd in Buenos Aires. See www.onedotzero.com.ar.

The festival is also launching a competition in association with MTV called Bloom.

The competition is looking for student, graduate filmmakers and creatives to submit creative proposals for one-minute films on cultural and global identity.

The winning treatments will be commissioned by onedotzero, with the chance to be part of the next onedotzero festival and tour and be shown on MTV. For more information on the project, click here: www.mtvonedotzero.com

Source: Shots.net

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Bitfilm digital film festival

The Bitfilm digital film festival, starting out on September 7th, will be entirely online.

Check out more than 130 films: from feature-length 3D films from Hollywood to 30-second short clips for mobile phones competing in seven categories at: www.bitfilm.com/festival.

Internet users are asked to disseminate their favourites on the web. The film with the highest "viral potential" in each category will win a Bitfilm Award.

Source: Shots.net

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Telegraph and ITN team up for video content

The Telegraph Group is to produce and broadcast branded video content in partnership with news provider ITN.

The material will feature some of the Telegraph's best-known journalists and will be distributed on the group's website, telegraph.co.uk, and other electronic media, with ITN handling the programmes' production and distribution.

The announcement comes as the Telegraph Group launches a multimedia newspaper, Telegraph pm.

Source: Media Week

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Apple expected to announce film download service

Apple is expected to announce a new film download service this week, according to reports.

The company is tipped to be launching the service through iTunes, its market-leading digital music store, to tie in with new iPods with enhanced video capabilities, including a larger screen, that are also expected to be launched within the next few weeks.

The news comes just days after Amazon unveiled is Unbox service, from which users can download thousands of TV programmes as well as films from studios including 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers. Content can be played on both PCs and MP3 players.

Source: nma.co.uk

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