New Release: "Hard Wind" by The Wild Feathers
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 13, 2013 in New Releases
The Wild Feathers don't have an album out yet (that's coming in August) but they've already released three great music videos just this year with director/musician Gus Black. Their latest, "Hard Wind", premiered Tuesday on CMT Pure. A take on a tour video, the video features shots of travel, shows, and… Read More
Music Video Relapse: "Just 2 Guyz" by The Lonely Island
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 12, 2013 in Music Video Relapse
Yesterday The Lonely Island released The Wack Album, their third studio album. If you're a fan of Samberg, Schaffer, and Taccone, you know that they have several different song "themes" that they revisit regularly. For example, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg usually have a song on the album that is… Read More
Music Video Relapse: "Soundtrack 2 My Life" by Kid Cudi
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 11, 2013 in Music Video Relapse
This post is part of a series called "Music Video Relapse", where we revisit a released music video to see how it's doing. Weekdays at noon EST. Many an artist has tried their hand at the tour music video with mediocre results. We're talking about videos that are put together… Read More
New Release: "What About Love" by Austin Mahone
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 11, 2013 in New Releases
If you're not familiar with him, Austin Mahone is a 17-year-old singer/dancer whose fans are known as "Mahomies". When your fanbase has a nickname, you know you've got to deliver the goods in your music videos, and Austin Mahone and director Colin Tilley do just that in "What About Love",… Read More
New Release: "Cold Front" by Laura Welsh
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 11, 2013 in New Releases
Shadow and dance are two of the oldest forms of performance, and in the video for "Cold Front" by Laura Welsh, choreographers Daniel "Cloud" Campos and Tamara Levinson-Campos bring it back to those basics to create a beautiful black and white performance piece. The video features a woman (Levinson-Campos) struggling with… Read More
Music Video Relapse: "Beat Boy" by Die Antwoord
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 10, 2013 in Music Video Relapse
This post is part of a series called "Music Video Relapse", where we revisit a released music video to see how it's doing. Weekdays at noon EST. Before we go any further - do you have a PC computer? DJ Hi-Tek has a PC Computer. South African group Die Antwoord… Read More
Music Video Relapse: "You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 7, 2013 in Music Video Relapse
This post is part of a series called "Music Video Relapse", where we revisit a released music video to see how it's doing. Weekdays at noon EST. Late last month, Eric Wareheim released his video for "Bubble Butt" by Major Lazer. It was amazing, of course, but fans of Tim… Read More
Music Video Relapse: "Just the Two of Us" by Will Smith
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 6, 2013 in Music Video Relapse
Welcome to Music Video Relapse, a series where we revisit a classic music video at lunchtime every day. You're welcome. After Earth, a science fiction film starring Will Smith and his son, 14 year-old Jaden Smith, came out last Friday. People were not impressed (The Onion said it best). How… Read More
Introducing Music Video Playlists
Posted by Adam Fairholm on June 5, 2013 in Site News
The goal at IMVDb has not just been to build a database of music videos, but to use that database to create new ways to find and watch music videos. There was a time when discovering new music videos meant turning on the TV and watching whatever Carson Daly wanted… Read More
New Release: Tyga ft. Chris Brown 'For the Road'
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 25, 2013 in New Releases
Tyga and Chris Brown are finding themsleves in a comptemplative mood, so they've headed to their giant hideaway in the mountains where everything - incuding the dogs - is pure white. This is the scene in the music video for "For the Road" by Tyga ft. Chris Brown, which was… Read More
More Behind The Scenes on IMVDb
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 24, 2013 in Site News
Out of the many things that social media has changed, music video production is definitely on the list. While most films require some amount of on-set secrecy, most of the time you can find pictures and video from a music video set from crew and the artists themselves. Even if… Read More
Flux Screening Tonight at the Hammer Museum
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 23, 2013 in Event Coverage
Flux is putting on quarterly screenings at the Hammer Museum at UCLA and one of those screenings is tonight. The main program is the LA premiere of David Shanes short Playdate and Kirsten Lepores animated film Move Mountain. For music video fans, the screening also promises "new music videos for David Bowie,… Read More
More Control Over Your Videos
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 15, 2013 in Site News
The way it has previously worked at IMVDb is users submit content, we moderate it, and then it goes up on the site. However, IMVDb users aren't all just anonymous people. Since launched our page management feature in late 2012, we've had more than 800 pages claimed on IMVDb. So… Read More
Introducing IMVDb Mobile
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 13, 2013 in Site News
If you're visiting IMVDb, there's a good chance that you're visting it on a phone. A lot of our traffic comes via mobile, and although you could technically access the site through your phone, it wasn't always easy. That's why we're very excited to announce that starting today, when you… Read More
Promote Companies on IMVDb
Posted by Adam Fairholm on May 4, 2013 in Site News
Today we're very excited to announce a new feature we've been working on for quite some time: the ability for companies on IMVDb to promote themselves throughout the site. It's easy, and you can get set up today. The concept behind it is simple: if you represent or run a… Read More
On Muse's Twitter Music Video Q&A
Posted by Adam Fairholm on April 22, 2013 in News
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 hilarious (helped by the fact that the video is ridiculous),… Read More
Introducing IMVDb Charts
Posted by Adam Fairholm on April 18, 2013 in Site News
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 like there wasn't a place for top charts dedicated to… Read More
IMVDb at SXSW
Posted by Adam Fairholm on March 8, 2013 in Site News
No doubt you have seen something mentioning South by Southwest appear in you Twitter or Facebook feed lately. It starts today in Austin, Texas, and IMVDb is headed down there to check out what is happening in the world of music videos at SXSW. There will be a music video… Read More
Introducing the IMVDb Moderator Program
Posted by Adam Fairholm on March 5, 2013 in Site News
Up until now, it has literally just been two people (Doug and myself) entering and moderating data on IMVDb. That was fine when we were getting 3-4 video submissions a day, but in the past few months we've been faced with a really great problem to have: way too much… Read More
Introducing IMVDb Issues
Posted by Adam Fairholm on March 5, 2013 in Site News
An important part of running a database is taking care of incorrect data that makes its way into our system. Up until now, we've been relying on people emailing us to let us know what is wrong, but today we're happy to announce a new system for reporting issues on… Read More
Introducing Our Video Social Tracker
Posted by Adam Fairholm on January 22, 2013 in Site News
As we continue to collect information about music videos and expand our database, we're starting to do some more things with the data we have. To start it off in 2013, today we're launching a beta of our new Social Tracker. You can find it on evey video page, just… Read More
YouTube Reportedly Close to VEVO Investment
Posted by Adam Fairholm on January 17, 2013 in News
Peter Kafka at AllThingsD.com is reporting that YouTube and Vimeo are close to a deal that would have YouTube buying a minority stake in VEVO. Remember in early December when YouTube and VEVO's content deal was set to expire and we needed a solution within 120 days? Well, here it… Read More
Vicariously Live the Glamorous Life of a Music Video Director with this Daniel Kwan 2012 Video
Posted by Adam Fairholm on January 8, 2013 in News
Ever wonder what it's like to live the glamorous life of a music video director? Daniel Kwan of the directing duo DANIELS has posted a video composed of bits and pieces of iPhone video from 2012 that gives us a look. And wow it is glamorous. Tiny dogs walking over… Read More
2012 IMVDb Milestones
Posted by Adam Fairholm on January 1, 2013 in Site News
Many, many things happened in the world of IMVDb over 2012. Just to give you a general idea, IMVDb wasn't even our name for most of 2012. So, here's a recap of what happened in 2012, and a little bit about where we're going in 2013. FilmedInsert Became IMVDb As… Read More
The IMVDb Top 10 Music Videos of 2012
Posted by Adam Fairholm on December 28, 2012 in Lists
Any way you look at it, 2012 was a big year for music videos. We had great videos coming out on just about a daily basis, from independent productions to videos premiering on cable TV. We had a video reach 1 billion views on YouTube, and it didn't even need… Read More