Ze Frank has wrapped up The Show, his weekday video blog conversation with viewers. He posted the final episode (below) on Saturday. Frank’s Show has been amazing for many reasons, but what’s impressed us the most is Frank’s honed sense of how to use video podcasting and the Internet to build a community. Fans of [...]

Kent Nichols, Douglas Sarine, and the Ninja have announced that they’ve signed a major ad deal. “We have signed with Federated Media to handle all of our advertising,” they note. “We’re really excited to be working with John Battelle and the crew over there. They’ve got a great track record and really seem to be [...]

A Brazilian court has ordered YouTube to be shut down until it removes a celebrity sex video featuring Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of soccer great Ronaldo. Cicarelli sued YouTube after a video of her apparently having sex in shallow water on a beach with her boyfriend Tato Malzoni was posted to the site. [...]

Juniper Research is predicting that the increasing influence of mobile video enabled on 3G networks will drive the uptake of many mobile sports, leisure and information services over the next five years. The global market for sports, leisure and information content (infotainment) is set to grow from its 2006 value of just under $4.2 billion to [...]

The newsroom comedy video podcast Goodnight Burbank has a special Christmas episode this week. Find out what happens behind the scenes after Gordon Winston-Smythe and Kelly Jones (that’s “honess”) sign off.

Ad Age reports that Dove Evolution, a 75-second viral film created by Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto, for the Unilever brand, has reaped more than 1.7 million views on YouTube and has gotten significant play on TV talk shows “Ellen” and “The View” as well as on “Entertainment Tonight.” Its also brought the biggest-ever traffic spike [...]

The United Nations has hooked up with fake jailbait vlogger lonelygirl15 (actress Jessica Lee Rose) and the producers of the discredited YouTube flog for an ad campaign promoting a UN antipoverty event planned for Sunday. Rose, the actress who plays “Bree” in the Lonelygirl15 videos posted on video-sharing Web site YouTube, will reprise the role [...]

Rumors of a Google acquisition of YouTube, which started at the TechCrunch technology blog, have run wild over the last few days. The Wall Street Journal followed the TechCrunch post by reporting that Google is in talks to buy the popular video-sharing site, citing the TechCrunch blog and a person familiar with the matter. Since [...]

Microsoft recently announced that it’s Zune portable media player would retail for $249.95 and come preloaded with a variety of free video content. The player will ship with these music videos pre-loaded: 30 Seconds to Mars, ‚ÄúThe Kill‚Äù (Virgin Records) BT, ‚Äú1.618‚Äù (DTS Entertainment) Chad VanGaalen, ‚ÄúRed Hot Drops‚Äù (Sub Pop Records) Coldcut featuring Roots [...]

YouTube today announced its first major music promotion, the YouTube Underground contest, and a major sponsorship deal with Cingular Wireless. YouTube is calling all unsigned musicians to enter. Bands can submit original videos that best represent their talents from October 2 through October 18 and the YouTube community will vote on their favorite YouTube Underground [...]