October 25, 2006

move over, youtube…

…now there’s Phil­Tube.
“The Office” meets “The You­Tube Gene­ra­tion”. Or something.
Expect to see more of this stuff in the future: cheap, easy to pro­duce, crea­tive, with no TV execs, huge bud­gets or mains­tream ad agen­cies to have to go through. Some will make shed­loads of money, some won’t; some will be artis­tic mas­ter­pie­ces, some will be utter dri­vel, but it’s all good. Roc­ket­boom and Ze Frank led the way, and here’s Phil­Tube trying to take it further as well…
I like it.

8 Responses to “move over, youtube…”

  1. John Dodds says:

    Hugh­Tube is far more enter­tai­ning and much. much weirder.

  2. Mike Abundo says:

    Law­suit in five, four, three…

  3. Nick says:

    yes, although I agree that all-sharing ins­ti­tu­tions like you­tube are good things in prin­ci­ple; the dan­ger is that a large majo­rity of con­tri­bu­tions seem to take on a paro­dial and often ‘iro­ni­cally amu­sing’ tone on ele­ments of the production/distribution/acting ele­ments of film pro­duc­tion. Is it not the exper­tise, finesse and hard work of cer­tain direc­tors and actors that drew us to such a medium as film in the first place?

  4. Chris says:

    On a simi­lar but oppo­site note, I’ve been run­ning daily live music web­cast on You­Tube, where I get local bands to come and play gigs in my flat, we’ve just had our hun­dredth web­cast here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPcGow3yLa0
    20,000 vie­wers ain’t many, but its got the bands music to peo­ple who wouldn’t other­wise have heard it

  5. Tim Clague says:

    Damn it. My life has been sati­red making it no lon­ger cool. Now I need a new life. Oh well. Here we go again…

  6. Lee says:

    But the most popu­lar videos are those that demons­trate a finesse and require hard work.

  7. auto manjac says:

    yeehh.…great idea,great bussiness…congratulations !

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