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Punktilio Playlist #3

April 15th, 2011
categories: company news,music,social media,youtube

Tags: BIC,David Beckham,Flex 3,human curling,Lucozade,parody,Pepsi,Rebecca Black,Royal Wedding,T-Mobile,Taylor,Tinie Tempah,TMobile,Travis,viral,viral video

This weeks video playlist is playful, dubious and slightly annoying at times… Enjoy!

Video #1
Unbelievable David Beckham eerrrmm…Yes it is!

We’ve seen this “viral video” over and over since the dawn of time it seems. Using different sports personalities each time to perform impossible stunts that would have had us all fooled ten years ago… yawn.

Video #2
Rebecca Black – Friday (OFFICIAL PARODY VIDEO) – Sunday – Sadie B

Yes another Rebecca Black ‘Friday’ parody. This is Sunday by Sadie B and yes its about going to church. The overly goody-good, nicey-nice, happy clappy video makes you want to be violently sick more so then the original Rebecca Black video. Plus the auto-tune on her voice is very odd too.

Video #3
Lucozade – Travis. Tinie. Taylor – The Wild Ones. ‘Simply Unstoppable – YES Remix’

Brilliant! Adverts are usually things you skip or turn to mute when they come on, ie Go Compare and any advert on Spotify. Not this one! I’ve got this one on repeat.

Video #4
The T-Mobile Royal Wedding

Again we’ve seen this a hundred times before but it’s still a bit of fun.

Video #5
WTF! Insane Human Curling by BIC Flex 3

Watch this to the very end and click on one of two annotations that link out of YouTube which is always nice. One is to the BIC facebook page ‘like’ and the other is to a game within YouTube. Play this in the office when you should be working… But it’s sort of like Track and Field in that you have to bash the space bar rapidly, so make sure you’re gentle on those keys.

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Punktilio Playlist #2

April 8th, 2011
categories: discussions,music,social media,sport,tv,youtube

Adidas – All In

Epic advert starring far too many famous people to mention, soundtracked by the much awaited new tune by Gallic electro rockers Justice.

The Governator

Yes, you’ve probably seen this already but Arnie now has his own cartoon. I’ll say again, Arnie, the Governor of California, has his own cartoon.

Charlie Sheen (The Unedited Version)

The latest video installment of distilled madness from Charlie Meme.

Quaked – Skating in Christchurch after the earthquake

To most people Christchurch looks cracked and broken but to these skaters the destroyed landscape becomes a series of beautiful jumps and ramps.  You may have already seen this over on our Tumblr but it was just too rad not to include here.

Morgan Spurlock: The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold

The Supersize Me documentary maker humourously discusses brand marketing on his quest to make a completely brand sponsored film about sponsorship.

Introducing Suwappu!

Cute Augmented reality toy concept from Dentsu. The physical toys are canvasses to the digital world painted on top when viewed through an iPhone. I want these just so I can have Kanye West as a Tuna.

Kinected Conference

MIT students re-think and improve video conferencing with the help of a hacked Kinect, is this the future?

Metronomy – She Wants

Finally, a current favourite from Leif, our Video Content Manager, an impressively realised concept. It even has a QR Code which rewards you with a free download of the track. How nice is that of them?



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Punktilio Playlist #1

April 1st, 2011
categories: company news,discussions,social media,Team,youtube

Tags: Charlie Brooker,conversation,dog boarding,dogboarding,Friday,Marcel The Shell With Shoes On,Odd Future,OFWGKTA,playlist,Rebecca Black,twin baby boy,Tyler the Creator,viral,Yonkers

It’s Friday afternoon so what better time to start sharing a weekly video playlist.

From Dogboarding, through to a cute video of twin baby boys having a conversation that’s spawned a lot of responses. From babies to profanity with the latest video of newly signed to XL Tyler The Creator – Yonkers. Then Charlie Brooker stands up for Rebecca Black. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Charlie Brooker being wrong. And finally a YouTube classic that’s made a few of us here fall in love with a shell.





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Playstation Phone Pre-Release Video for Phones 4U

February 17th, 2011
categories: phones 4u,Product Reviews,youtube

Tags: Android,apps,Bruce Lee,Experia,OS,Phone,Play,Playstation,Sony

Known to some as the Playstation Phone or PSP Phone, the new Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is being touted as the ultimate smartphone for gamers. With it’s slide out game pad and super powerful Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Operating System, it looks like the hype may well be justified.

Using all of our Kung Fu fighting skills, Phones 4u managed to get our hands on an Xperia PLAY and are now proud to bring you one of the first ever game reviews exclusively for the new handset. And what better way to try out the new game pad than with a hard core button bashing session on a beat em up game! Bruce Lee: Dragon Warrior is one of the launch games which comes pre-installed on the Xperia PLAY and the martial arts master himself takes a starring role.

We show the device up close and personal in glorious HD so if this is the mobile handset you have been waiting years for, make sure you Jeet Kune Do-n’t miss out on watching this review!


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YouTube Annotations – How to be a next level expert

November 24th, 2010
categories: youtube

Tags: annotations,best,expert,how to,practices,uses,you tube,youtube

We set ourselves, or should we say set Leif, our Video Content Manager a little challenge; could we create a website as a video directly in YouTube?

Everyone seems to take for granted that YouTube is a video sharing site, and fail to look deeper. There is more to this platform than meets the eye. Here’s Leif to explain a little more:

“The idea was smilingly simple to start with; use annotated links to different parts of the video that are then paused for the full 5 minutes with the relative information at those points. The next link will then send you to a different point of the video.

Annotations are quite often misused and plonked over video with no real thought of how to incorporate it into the video so its flush and part of it. This would obviously take a bit of forward thinking on how you would shoot or design the video. These aesthetics are important.

The back end functionality in YouTube is a little dodgy when it comes to editing annotations it’s not massively accurate. The timeline is hard to navigate and when you use multiple layers of annotations it can get confusing.

I felt I’d made a bit of a mind bending job for myself after adding 36 annotations and 16 pauses to a one minute fifty second long video. But the end result works well.”

“What we have works and looks like a simple website with animations, sounds, links, video. It’s a working website based in a platform not necessarily designed for that particular purpose.”

Have a play, what do you think?


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Alexandra Burke – All Night Long Video Competition

August 11th, 2010
categories: competitions,music,syco,youtube

Tags: Alexandra Burke,All Night Long,Competition,youtube

We recently ran a competition for fans of Alexandra Burke to submit videos of themselves dancing, singing, drawing faces on their chins to Alex’s latest song ‘All Night Long’. The idea behind the competition came about as a response to the many videos that her fans had sent in for previous songs, and also as a way to say thank you for their dedication. We thought the best way to do this would be to create the ultimate fan video:

We were inundated with entries, in fact it turned out to be a very successful competition on the whole. But there could only be one winner, and YouTube user nakachwa who won £500, a Sony Bloggie camera and a Sony Vaio laptop with this fantastically creative entry:


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Phones 4u YouTube Page Goes Live

August 2nd, 2010
categories: clients,design,social media,youtube

Tags: p4u,Phones 4U,widget,youtube

EscapeJust as it says in the title; Phones 4u’s new YouTube page has just gone live (Phew, glad I was writing that and not trying to say it!). Packed with exclusive un-boxings, phone tips from store staff, and a whole lot more. Including or should I say featuring, Phones 4u’s very own daily show BOSH! packed full of film reviews, interviews, dares and challenges, and a pretty NSFW sweary guy sitting on a cloud!

The channel features a custom flash carousel to showcase Phones 4u’s branded video content.  We based the design of the interface on a smartphone with which you can use to navigate videos. The channel also features a multi-platform sharing functionality plus a twitter feed for good measure.

Graeme Ford, Head of Social Media for Phones4U said ‘We’re keen to connect with our customers by giving them genuine user value propositions in the places they choose to spend their time. The new channel is not just about selling phones; it’s about us as a company earning awareness and consideration for the brand, and ultimately a sense of trust.’

‘We’re very serious about social media. Our YouTube channel not only fits into a much bigger picture, but gives us a relevant home for our content, which can be seeded and shared further.’


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Shh! New QR code Labrinth Transmission.

July 27th, 2010
categories: design,film,music,qr codes,social media,syco,youtube

Tags: Labrinth,manga,qr codes

Here’s a special edition Labrinth transmission all about how to use the QR codes.
The latest in the weekly series it takes it’s inspiration from 80′s Manga style cartoons. Our editor Leif Johnson found a box of his VHS’s (remember those?) that he taped off late night Channel 4 when he was but a child and just ran with the idea:

What do you think? The authentic-looking characters, backgrounds, and typefaces were all drawn by a huge up and coming talent and our in-house designer Ben Marsh, who has already gained quite a bit of internet notoriety for his Gameboy condoms.

We’re incredibly proud of this series, each one aesthetically different from the last. Here’s a little retrospective of the QR code based videos in case you missed any, just follow this link and tell us what you think. (Glad that rhymed!)


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Susan’s Search Goes Live

July 13th, 2010
categories: competitions,design,music,qr codes,social media,syco,youtube

Tags: susan boyle,susan's search

We’ve just launched Susan’s Search; a YouTube competition that gives Susan’s fans the chance to sing on her next album. We’ll let Susan explain below:

She’s very excitied about the competition and is really looking forward to collaborating with the winner. “When I did Britain’s Got Talent, I was given a chance by Simon Cowell to show what I could do. This got me thinking about people who maybe missed the opportunity, so I came up with the idea for Susan’s Search. It’s about giving other people an opportunity, it’s about letting them live the dream that they’ve always wanted to do.”

Since the story originally broke on Billboard followed then by all sorts of massive music sites the response has been insanely huge. We’re currently being sent, on average, one video every seven minutes. Susan is now sat on Simon’s side of the desk ready to judge the contestants.


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Hiding Labrinth

June 30th, 2010
categories: design,facebook,music,myspace,qr codes,social media,syco,twitter,youtube

Tags: Labrinth,Pet Shop Boys,qr codes,Smart Phones,syco

Labrinth
Labrinth is busy bustin’ sick beats hidden in a studio somewhere, meanwhile we’ve been doing some hiding of our own.

If you’ve signed up to Labrinth’s various social media sites, you may have noticed the sneaky inclusion of QR Codes which lead to some exclusive content produced by Labrinth and ourselves.

QR Codes have been used by pop stars like The Pet Shop Boys before, however we feel the infrastructure had been lacking until recently (namely the mass adoption of Smart Phones we’ve seen in the last two years or so) and therefore there has been limited success with campaigns utilising them. We see the timing as being right now and the use of QR Codes as a perfect fit for Labrinth; not only does it aesthetically suit his name but both are still relatively new, so only people in the know… well, know. Overall it’s an accessible and forward thinking way for Labrinth to find his place in the physical web.


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