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It's been a few months since we launched the first tools that allow everyone to submit data to IMVDb, and in those few months we've learned a lot. We've gotten great feedback and thought a lot about the direction we want to go and what our priorities should be. In… Read More

Holy crap it's the end of Friday already! I hope Applebees has enough mozzarella sticks ready for me because on Friday I don't hold back. That's why this week's edition of This Week in Music Videos isn't going to hold back one bit. We're going full tilt. And I really… Read More

The Grammys have a pretty large array of awards to give out (Best Surround Sound Album, anyone?) but they also have a music video category. The 55th Grammy nominees were released tonight, and here are your nominees for best short form music video: Grammy Nominations for Best Short Form Music… Read More

Well, it's the last day in November, you know what that means. Mustaches and/or Thanksgiving leftovers jokes galore, and lots of great music videos. It's time for another installment of our weekly wrap up here, so let's take an uncomfortably close look at the music videos of this week. Ben… Read More

This week, was, thankfully, a quiet week for world events/disasters, unless you enjoy the sexual exploits of American military leaders. However, this was a great week for music video releases. Let's do it! Emily Kai Bock and Evan Prosofsky Captured Miami's "je ne sais quoi" Director Emily Kai Bock and… Read More

Introducing IMVDb Notifications

Posted by Adam Fairholm on November 17, 2012 in Site News

Today we're releasing a beta version of a fun new IMVDb feature we're excited about: notifications. Here's what they look like: With lots of information flying around IMVDb, this is going to help a lot. Let's say you manage the profile for your production company, and someone submits a credit… Read More

An IMVDb Milestone

Posted by Adam Fairholm on November 13, 2012 in New Releases

Our 9,000th video, Rest Of My Life by Ludacris ft. Usher and David Guetta (directed by Christopher Sims). Today we reached 9,000 music videos that are listed on IMVDb (We like to celebrate every 1,000). Do we have a lot of work to do? We definitely do. However, this milestone… Read More

In the small amount of time "This Week In Music Videos" has been around, we've had weeks of large happenings in the non-music video world. This week, the USA elected Barack Obama to a second term, meaning that Paul Ryan Girl's efforts were sadly wasted. Oh well! Let's see what… Read More

If the phrase "make my Bub-Bubs bounce" has any meaning to you, you probably get excited when Tim Heidecker makes an appearance in anything. We here at IMVDb get extra excited when Tim Heidecker makes an appearance in a music video, which he did today. Tim not only appears in… Read More

You most likely know Idris Elba as Russell "Stringer" Bell on HBO's "The Wire". Starting today you can watch him put on a clinic in music video acting in the video for Mumford & Sons' new single "Lover of the Light" (due to be issued as a single on December… Read More

Welcome to our new weekly feature, This Week In Music Videos, where your super good friends at IMVDb take you through some of the highlights of a week in music videos every Friday afternoon. We're going to be best friends! This week is quite a week to start this since… Read More

Photo by ilovepaisley Halloween (or more accurately, normal people Cosplay day) is upon us! Just as there were a lot of ninja turtles walking in 1992, there are a lot of pop culture visuals in both adult and kid Halloween costumes this year. What's exciting for us, here at IMVDb,… Read More

When Grant Singer directed the video for Sky Ferreira's previous single, "Everything is Embarassing", he put a basic premise to work: Sky Ferreira can hold our attention throughout a music video just by looking us in the eye. In "Sad Dream", released today, Singer works off that same premise but… Read More

Both Fun and Anthony Mandler are kind of having banner years. For Fun, Some Nights was released in February and you know the rest. For Mandler, he's been releasing some of 2012's best work, including "National Anthem" for Lana del Rey and "As Long as You Love Me" by Justin Bieber.… Read More

Sure, the President of the United State of America, the most powerful man in the world, has done a Reddit AMA, but that's old news. Today, KPop star and American obsession Psy did a Reddit AMA, and we got very excited. We didn't get a ton of information, but we… Read More

There's a line in Taylor Swift's new song "Begin Again" that goes: On a Wednesday, in a cafe, I watched it begin again. And where's the cafe capital of the world? Paris, of course - and that's where we find Taylor Swift for her new music video for "Begin Again",… Read More

Paul Banks (formerly releasing under the moniker Julian Plenti) of Interpol, wants to be young again. In his new video for "Young Again", directed by Sophia Peer, he gets to be just that, getting to relive the magic of elementary school as an adult. Some things suck about being obstensibly young… Read More

When we interviewed director Matt Amato a few weeks ago on the IMVDb Music Video Land podcast, he had this to say about shooting out in the real world: If I'm just going out in the world and doing something myself, I want to keep things very open, because I… Read More

Kailey Swanson sings covers of popular songs on YouTube, and just released her first music video a few days ago for her first single, "Hooked". If you are wary of clicking "play" based on that information, I'm here to tell you that Swanson and director Jared Sagal have hit on… Read More

The campaign for the next president of the United States of America is in the home stretch, and campaigns are a great time for America's crazy people to show their love for a candidate. Sure, they could just talk into your laptop's camera and speak their mind, but the smart… Read More

That's a little bit of a dramatic title, but I think now that we've made a decision to put ourselves out there in the world as the music video database, we need to put out a reason for our existence beyond just the fact that we like music videos. The… Read More

FilmedInsert is Now IMVDb

Posted by Adam Fairholm on October 5, 2012 in Site News

We've been putting a lot of time and energy in our music video database project lately, but something was bothering us: our name. See, FilmedInsert was never supposed to be the name of a music video database. The original FilmedInsert.com was a blog where I had aspirations of writing about… Read More

Up until very recently, FilmedInsert has been a read-only site, meaning we put up the videos, and visitors come and view them. Today we're very happy to announce that the beta version of our video adder is now live! Just sign up and log in (with Facebook or by creating… Read More

The MTV Europe Music Award nominations are in, and they have the only thing we care about - a music video category! Here's who is up for "Best Video" (director names added by us, they were not in the list). Best Video M.I.A., "Bad Girls" dir: Roman Gavras Lady Gaga, "Marry… Read More

New Features at FilmedInsert

Posted by Adam Fairholm on September 18, 2012 in Site News

We're currently going full-tilt at FilmedInsert in the features adding department. Every day, aside from new music videos, new features get added that expand what FilmedInsert can do and what you can do with it. Here's a roundup of what we've recently released. Claim Your Database Entry Do you have… Read More