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A deep dive into the Guardian's music video article
Last month, The Guardian published an article, written by Michael Cragg, asking if TikTok killed the music video. While we’re glad the normies in the mainstream media are covering videos in this way, we struggle with the framing since obviously…
Jim Carrey, Kate McKinnon, and Iggy Azalea Do Their Best Maddie Ziegler on SNL
When the video for "Chandelier" by Sia came out, as incredible as it was, it didn't really seem like a candidate to go to the top of the US Pop culture charts. But last night on Saturday Night Live it…
Doomsday Entertainment Takes The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge To A New Level
Odds are, are some point in the last week you Googled the words what is the ice bucket challenge? This search was likely inspired by the sudden increase of videos on your Facebook or Vine feed of your friends dumping…
Michael Jackson's "A Place With No Name" Premieres on Twitter
Last year we had a Jay Z/Justin Timberlake video premiering on Facebook, and now Michael Jackson's estate is taking it to another level tonight with the premiere of the video for "A Place With No Name" on TV, Twitter, and…
Did The FAA Just Make Drone Shots Illegal?
You guys know those sweet aerial drone shots that have been popping up lately in music videos? The type of shots that you used to have to rent a helicopter to get have recently been achieved by attaching a camera…
Music Video Panel At The Los Angeles Film School
On July 10th at 7pm, ChazBo Music and The Los Angeles Film School will be hosting a panel called "Indie Music Matters: Making Moves With Music Videos." The panel features author Bobby Owsinski, talent manager Daniel Rosen, director Ethan Ladar, Fullscreen network manager…
OMG! Cameras Everywhere 2014 Summer Plans
OMG! Cameras Everywhere 2014 is coming! That means if youre a director, a parent, or a person with money, its time to start volunteering or donating. Like last year, there will be three weeklong OMG camp sessions this summer: one…
Making Sense of What YouTube's Music Service Means For Music Videos
Update 1: This article has been updated with new information from a CBS article that confirms that YouTube will remove videos from the free version of YouTube for non-compliant labels.Update 2: We added some information from TechCrunch that notes that…
Does Amazon Have A Patent On Cyc Music Videos?
Last week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Amazon a patent on a fairly common studio arrangement of shooting a subject on a white backdrop. Complete with images and a whole bunch of words (of which we read…
Vimeo DMCA Music Video Takedowns Hitting Their Three Strikes Rule
Originally when we wrote about Vimeo's takedowns of music videos due to DCMA notices, we noted that on Vimeo's DMCA page, it mentions a three strikes rule that seemed very likely to come into play. Basically, if you have 3…
Some Music Videos On Vimeo Are Reinstated
Over the weekend, it appears that many music videos that were initially taken down by Vimeo due to DMCA takedown notices have been reinstated. For instance, BREWER's upload for their Passion Pit "Carried Away" video is now back up. Also,…
Can Music Videos Live On Vimeo?
Update 3/17: Several music video directors are reporting that their music videos are back up. Friday night on Twitter we began noticing a number of high-profile directors reporting that they had been notified that some of their music videos had…
"Holy Grail" by Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake is the First Major Music Video to Premiere on Facebook
Facebook isn't really known as a video site, but today Jay Z and Justin Timberlake made music video history by premiering the video for "Holy Grail" on Jay Z's Facebook page. It was directed by Anthony Mandler and it's a beautifully…
OMG Everywhere LA 2013 Screening
OMG! Cameras Everywhere has had a pretty crazy summer. For the first time, rather than holding a single weeklong summer camp in California, they held three weeklong summer camps, with one in Los Angeles, one in New York, and one…
2013 MTV Video Music Award Nominees
MTV announced the nominees for the 2013 Video Music Awards today, and while were not sure if Eric Andre is going to be the host, we are sure that below you will find a list of all of the nominated…
OMG! Everywhere NYC Scavenger Hunt Videos
In addition to making full-length music videos, last months OMG! Cameras Everywhere NYC camp produced several other video projects, and today they released some of those videos. Below youll find two scavenger hunt videos made by the campers, and below…
"Black Skinhead" by Kanye West Isn't Out Yet
The leaked version of Kanye Wests Black Skinhead music video, which was spread around the internet pretty freely yesterday, is apparently not the official version. The BLKKK SKKKN HD video that leaked yesterday was not the official version, Kanye tweeted.…
OMG Everywhere NYC 2013 Screening
Tomorrow, June 23, OMG Cameras Everywhere will be hosting a screening at Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY. They will be showing all of the music videos and shorts that the 12 Bronx-based campers of OMG NYC made…
Last Chance to See Spectacle: The Music Video in New York City
Its the final weekend of Spectacle: The Music Videos run in New York City, but if you havent made it out yet, there is still plenty of time and cool stuff for you to check out before it closes on…
Kanye West 'New Slaves' Projected in New York City
Last night, Kanye West released the song New Slaves by projecting the music video onto the side of 66 buildings across the world. One of the projection locations, on the side of the Museum of Design & Arts near Columbus…
OMG! Cameras Everywhere 2013 Summer Plans
There are only a few weeks left of school, you guys. You know what that means? It means OMG! Cameras Everywhere is on its way - and this time around, OMG is going international! This year, in addition to a…
The 2013 Los Angeles Music Video Festival Schedule
The third annual Los Angeles Music Video Festival starts tonight at the Downtown Independent in LA, with doors opening at 8pm every night through Saturday. In addition to showing lots of amazing music videos up on a big screen, LAMVF…
On Muse's Twitter Music Video Q&A
Muse released this interesting video for "Panic Station" earlier today, and as they announced the video, also announced that they were going to do a Twitter Q&A so their fans and the general public can ask questions. The result was…
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