Nintendo has announced that it will now profit from videos uploaded to YouTube that feature its games. The Japanese gaming giant said that the new ...
It's no surprise that cats are taking over the internet. Naturally owners snap and upload photos of their cats and it's the basis of many popular sites, like Andmycat. These sites are great fun but it's interesting to stop for a minute and take a cat's eye view.
Police have defended using a convoy of patrol cars to escort a mobility scooter being ridden by a police community support officer (PCSO). The bugg...
An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after a passenger refused to stop singing I Will Always Love You at the top of her...
A student who has a rare degenerative muscle disorder, which has left him reliant on a wheelchair, wowed his fellow graduates after getting up and wal...
David Bowie's controversial new music video is back online after YouTube reverted its ban. The promo for The Next Day single - which features the s...
Story-telling lets us break down one of the other big misconceptions about aid, that it's colonial, a white man's hero mission. In every Save the Children programme that I've visited at least 90% of the staff are from that country and are passionate about what needs to happen to improve life for their fellow citizens.
Last week I travelled to Tanzania with Save the Children to launch their #ifyoutube social media campaign, which is part of the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign, a coalition of over 160 charities working to make 2013 the beginning of the end for global hunger.
UPDATE: The videos which had previously appeared on Vimeo and YouTube have since been removed. A Cambridge University lecturer has defended himself...
We all love to moan about the NHS but one nursing student "frightened" by the "unrelenting bad press" took a stand at the body's annual congress to de...
I don't for one minute underestimate how lucky we are to have two fantastic daughters who have worked hard to secure places at university and who are well and happy. I write this simply to help all mothers, and fathers, who found, like me, the thought that the change in circumstances would be so overwhelmingly unbearable it would be difficult to look forward.
"Graduation is the most boring thing ever". Finally, someone actually has the balls to admit it. Sitting in a dark hall for hours on end while a cr...
After Manchester University were crowned University Challenge champions for the fourth time, bringing them onto a par with Magdalen College, Oxford, w...
For American students, prom is a pretty big deal. And we mean a really big deal. So that's why one adorable Pokemon fanatic decided to take things to ...
A clip of a dog apparently “crying” at the grave of his owner’s grandmother has gone viral. Wolf-cross Wiley appears to sob and shudder over...
This couple have decided where they want to have dinner, and they're not going to budge. Even a growing line of furious motorists and a double deck...
A video titled "I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate" has gone viral, reducing some viewers to tears and causing others to speak about their h...
It may not have been the grandest of starts but this 20-second clip of a young man at San Francisco Zoo marks the beginnings of internet behemoth, You...
There are many ways to resign: with dignity, anger, absence, humour... alcohol (all five if you want to go out in style). But with a cake?
This week marks 57 years since the birth of commercial video recorders - and while most of the world has largely abandoned the technology, not everyon...
The Jewish Monkeys are an emasculating burlesque trio led by Joseph Reich, an Israeli-Deutsch philanthropist who slept with my mum in 1984 roughly eight and a half months before my birth.
As a lifelong lover of traditional storytelling, its easy to get sniffy about digital wanting to rewrite the rulebook, but the fact of the matter is that a richer, more immersive way to enjoy stories is, without a doubt, waiting for us somewhere down this long and winding road.
With the recent video's by Mama Hope and Africa for Norway it seems like there is a new genre of ironic videos being produced for International Development.
Social media suffers from a similar perception. Run a blog, create a Facebook page, do something on Pintrest, have a LinkedIn company page, submit a comment in a forum - it's all free stuff. No online advertising budget required. Write something, click a button.
Mama Hope only have a small fan base on social media, Twitter (1,556 followers) and Facebook (3,969 likes). It will be hard to seed this film via their social media channels alone. So what made the last video so successful?
