Doug Klinger and Jason Baum talk about the notable music videos from 2021.
Interviews with music video directors and industry professionals, new release highlights, and IMVDb site news.
There comes a time in every music video where the money runs out. Even on music videos with six figure budgets, eventually someone ends up working for free, or for much less money than they deserve and the only thing…
Right off the bat, we can pretty much award this week to Colin Tilley. Colin released two music videos that are among the top five most popular released this week, and his video for Beat It by Sean Kingston feat…
In the behind the scenes video, director Colin Tilley says that he wanted to showcase Jason Derulo's energy in his new video for "The Other Side". It worked, becuase Derulo is working hard as a performer, a dancer, and a…
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 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…
The one sure sign that winter is over is the release of the first major pool-side hip-hop music video. This year, the switch from cold to hot weather is marked by the release of the music video for Beat It…
Its not every day that you find an artist and director team so committed to a project that theyd be willing to shoot for three days straight in freezing cold Long Island and sell their DSLRs to fund the project.…
It wont always happen this way, but this weeks most popular video, the Andreas Nilsson directed Play Hard by David Guetta featuring Ne-Yo and Akon, was also one of our favorite videos of the week. But this blog post isnt…
Were all inspired by Destinys Child in one way or another, it just manifests differently from each of us. For director Austin Peters and the girls from Haim, it came through in location and dance move choices in their videos…
Since being first invented by visual graphics artist Kevin Burg and photographer Jamie Beck in 2009, cinemagraphs have been seen all over the internet on sites like Imgur, Tumblr, and ReactionGifs.com. They even have their own subreddit, which is where we…
No one was more convinced that they wouldnt win the music video competition at SXSW than Saman Kesh. Not only did he think there were better videos than his, he has won already, in 2010 for Luv Deluxe by Cinnamon…
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…
This week, we introduced IMVDb Charts, a new feature that tracks all the views and social media shares of every video in our database. There are lots of fun things that we can do with that data, and one that…
Its rare for a director to have an underwater mermaid specialist in their back pocket, but thats one of the luxuries that director Abraham Vilchez-Moran has in his relationship with underwater photographer Chris Crumley. Although this isnt a feature that…
Today we're excited to introduce a new feature that we've had in the works for a while - IMVDb Charts! Billboard is taking online views into account for their charts, and iTunes publishes their top-selling music videos, but we felt…
In addition to the music video competition, you will occasionally find music videos represented in other places at SXSW. For example, director/animator Chris Ullens had two of his music videos screen at SXSW this year, with his video for "Sex"…
After the release of the "Alive" video by Krewella, director Bryan Schlam decided to cut together a remix version of the video, for fun, which included some previously planned visual effects by BEMO. These effects, despite being cut from the…
Last month, we interviewed Danielle Robarge, director/producer of Sprockets Music Video Festival, which will be held on June 15 in Athens, GA. The early entry date for music video submissions has already passed, but youve still got a few more…
Music video ratios usually range from 16:9 to extremely wide. However, director Warren Fu took it all the way past 4:3 and used a square aspect ratio for the sexy and disorienting "Sooth My Soul" by Depeche Mode. We talked to Warren…
Last year, both Sigur Rós and director Andrew Thomas Huang released some amazing music videos. Sigur Rós released 16 videos as part of "The Vaktaru Mystery Film Experiment," and Andrew released the visually epic "Mutual Core" by Bj?rk, a labor-intensive…
"Do you think you could cry and grind at the same time?" There's no room for subtleties when casting for the lead role in a music video like "Cry Like A Ghost" by Passion Pit. So when Daniel Scheinert (of…
We're not positive, but were pretty sure the song Molly by Tyga feat. Wiz Khalifa and Mally Mall isnt about their missing female friend. We have a strict drug testing policy here at IMVDb, so none of us have ever tried any drugs (we've…
Last week, we interviewed Eli Stonberg of fourclops about their video for "Live Your Life (TWINSMATIC Remix)" by Yuna. Today, we've got some more fourclops news because Eli and Jeff Greco are back with a sweet interactive video for Girls Like Me by TV Girl that lets you (and your…
Over the past year, director and designer Kate Moross has collaborated with singer-songwriter Jessie Ware on all things visual - from logos, to print campaigns, to several of her music videos. Along with Jessie and the styling team at Silver Spoon Attire, Kate has directed nearly…
One of the best parts about watching music videos in an audience is getting to hear the different reactions out of people. And during the music video screening that we attended at SXSW, no video seemed to evoke as many…
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