What would a rapper and a comedian do if you gave them $5,000 and told them to make a music video? If you think the answer would be to get pizza with Childish Gambino, dress up like a chicken, and buy some shiny suits, you would be exactly right because… Read More

First off, we should start by saying great job this week everybody. You all worked really hard on whatever you do, and should be proud of the effort you put in. Music videos also did a great job this week, providing us with celebrity directors, twist endings, guest appearances, and… Read More

Inspiration as a filmmaker can come from all different places. For DP David Kruta, he was able to succeed in his current career by drawing influence from his previous careers, including his time spent as a graphic designer and as a dish washer. Since his days washing dishes, David has… Read More

At the beginning of this month, we traveled out to LA to attend the Los Angeles Music Video Festival. Co-directed by Sami Kriegstein and Colleen Curlin, LAMVF is one of the few things that allow us to take a break from our jobs as websitemen and venture out into the… Read More

The Uncluded, the genre-crossing duo comprised of Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson, has been on a music video tear recently, already releasing four videos off of their debut album Hokey Fright, which was released last week. Likely our favorite video from the album so far, “Delicate Cycle” directed by Ben… Read More

Last week while in LA for the Los Angeles Music Video Festival, we had the opportunity to drop by the set of “Cindy & Me” by Caged Animals, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada and shot by Niko Weisnet. We were only there for part of the day, but we can… Read More

For their last music video, “Wasted My Time” by I/O, director duo BRTHR spent three days running around Long Island, packing in multiple locations with multiple setups all within a short period of time. For their latest video, “Bounce” by Iggy Azalea, they also packed in a lot of locations,… Read More

Some of the things you’ll find in this week’s most popular music videos are female rappers riding elephants, comedians kissing each other on the lips, and projectile stigmata blood spraying over topless brides. This week also featured over 8 million people watching the new Selena Gomez video, "Come & Get… Read More

The Art of Pop Video is an exhibit in Liverpool that tells the story of music videos by showcasing over 100 of them from the past 80 years. The exhibit is currently running at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) through May 26th. Like Spectacle: The Music Video, the exhibit… Read More

Remember that reality show The Simple Life where Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie would travel the country failing at low-wage jobs? Apparently the managers and owners of the places they worked at on that show actually made out easy, because based on what we’ve learned from the Rich Gang “Tapout”… Read More

Last week, director Abraham Vilchez-Moran released the flashy “Liberachi” by M. Watts featuring Pusha T. The video features lots of sexy ladies, a snake, and of course M. Watts and Pusha T looking cool. The set seemed like a lot of fun, and although we didn’t get a chance to be… Read More

Right behind Psy on the list of recent artists who have used music videos to propel their careers would have to be Macklemore X Ryan Lewis. Despite being named to XXL magazine’s 2012 Freshman Class, it wasn’t until the success of the video for “Thrift Shop,” and to a lesser… Read More

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 keeping them there is because they believe in the project… Read More

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 Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa comes in at number one.… Read More

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 ladies man in this video, as the screenshot from the… Read More

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 weeklong session in Los Angeles, OMG will offer workshops in… Read More

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 offers some other great features, like director panels and their… Read More

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” by Sean Kingston featuring Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa, directed by Colin Tilley.… Read More

It’s not every day that you find an artist and director team so committed to a project that they’d be willing to shoot for three days straight in freezing cold Long Island and sell their DSLRs to fund the project. But for the video “Wasted My Time,” I/O and the… Read More

It won’t always happen this way, but this week’s 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 isn’t about favorites, this post is about popularity (to see our… Read More

We’re all inspired by Destiny’s 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 for “Forever” and “Don’t Save Me.” In these videos, we… Read More

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 found the music video "Back To Me" by Joel Compass,… Read More

No one was more convinced that they wouldn’t 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 Chasers, so in his head that was enough to keep… Read More

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 we’re most excited about is our Top New Videos chart,… Read More

It’s rare for a director to have an underwater mermaid specialist in their back pocket, but that’s one of the luxuries that director Abraham Vilchez-Moran has in his relationship with underwater photographer Chris Crumley. Although this isn’t a feature that works in every music video, when the artist you’re working… Read More