The most exciting, funny, emotional videos.
Education and Comedy
Treadmill while working
Shows
Trailer Tuesdays by Yeousch
Vultra weekly news - Girl host with big boobs
Enders, End Cards
Jessica Chobot excellent end cards on Nerdist News
Funny "Subscribe or die" ender with two more videos to watch by blacksmith guy who forges swords
Nice ender with 2 videos and big Subscribe
Amazing ender by MovieClips with 5 pages!
Freddiew ender with links to more videos, Twitter, Facebook and web
Freddiew ender #2
Tobuscus ender
Nice intro on a themed background
Outro with 3 videos on a themed background
Shoutouts to people involved in the video with links to their channels
TGN Games
Tools
Create your own animated movies using a free Valve tool!
Promo videos
VotreMedia
Shahrzad's favorites
IL VOLO - Il Mondo Wind Music Awards 2011
High-production value to learn from for TGN TV Network
Channel 4
SourceFed
Philip de Franco invested in a new concept: rotating hosts giving news in 20 minutes or less
eg
and
Daily Game News Shows
TGN Daily XP
IGN Daily Fix
Viral Videos
^-- 400k views from a guy who normally gets 2k a video
Secret: Created a video with the same tags and title (+ "Response") as the viral vieo and got 400,000 views in 5 days
Extract PNG from MOV
ffmpeg -i file.mov image%d.png
Popular videos
25 ways to tie a scarf
Amazing feats
High-lining (walking on a wire between mountains)
Comedy
Sketch "choose your own adventure"
http://www.youtube.com/user/mattkoval
To Learn From
What is a community?
Movie style intro
A variation
Futuristic intro and creative outro
Cinematic intro
Many copies of you
YouTube Masters
Ray William Johnson's best work
Botters?
Infomercial Advertisement
How DTMS works
How Video works
http://youtu.be/_xgPtqT0XBY
Join mylikes.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kmp75DuY0
Testimonials
Star Wars theme by two 3.5" floppy disk drives
Discovered on http://memebase.com/
360k crit in WoW
Swifty one-shot macro
Non-profits
^-- They get a Donate button right beneath the video!
Best Starts
Black, "open" the black, fuzzy to sharp
Best designed channels
Largest "regular guys" channels
Health & Wellness
Most impressive channels
Gaming
Best
Zabermoul spent 1 week of just editing to produce this
X-Men Second Class - X-Men First Class Parody
Favorite clip: http://youtu.be/i8y4zvqOa2g#t=1m57s to 2:31
Bloopers: http://youtu.be/i8y4zvqOa2g#t=2m40s
TTTT: Together to the Top - genius marketing
Idea: larger channels promote smaller channels to go together to the top
Reality: The larger channels get larger
Challenge: How to create a true "together to the top"? George's idea: TGN Idol -> TGN Games -> TGN Central
How to win at YouTube, in-depth guide
Athene makes awesome videos
Announcement video for his sub-me-to-get-a-personal-video
Library of Alexandria reference
Custom YouTube skin (how do they do this?)
Cisco
Spacelab
Kung Fu Panda 2
http://www.youtube.com/kungfupanda2 (after 10 seconds)
Awesome intro for the channel http://youtu.be/fmXAqBxOwNw
Expendables (Sylvester Stallone) (after 30 seconds)
YouTube NextUp
Best of Corey Vidal
Intro video with annotations
Using search engine techniques (like Google) applied to 3D graphics to get unlimited detail without polygons
Brilliant YouTube promotion idea (wish I had thought of it)
Crazy Marriage Proposal
Korea's Got Talent
Top 10 How to get Thumbs Up for your Comments
How to make a kick-ass web show
Learn Filmmaking
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Filmmaking
Subject
What are you most passionate about? Do a show about it!
Format
Decide on a format and be consistent!
Schedule
Create a release schedule and stick to it
Show Name
generatorland.com
Script Tools
plotbot.com
zhura.com
Lighting
lowel.com
Camera Equipment
Sony A1U pro.sony.com
Canon HF10 canon.com (1/3 price of A1U)
Audio Equipment
sennheiser.com mics
$14 Steady Cam
steadycam.org
Free Special Effects
indymogul.com
Free Video Editor
lives.sourceforge.net
Free Post-Production Effects
blender.org
Free Sound Effects
freesound.org
Free Music
ccmixter.org
Upload Everywhere
tubemogul.com
Your Own Webshow Website
showinabox.tv
Best of Worst
Defintion of "Flooding your Channel"
http://www.youtube.com/CODblackopsXBOX
417.000 uploads
(constant uploading of videos less than a minute)
Funny (Ed Park)
Menu Videos
TotalBiscuit Gamescom 2011 coverage
World of Warcraft menu by Big C
World of Warcraft menu by George
World of Warcraft menu (original)
Rift Cleric menu
Rift Warrior menu
SWTOR interactive menu
SWTOR planets
Tera menu
Minecraft menu
Announcement Videos
WoW video forum
Network Directors skins
Yeousch
Machinima Respawn
Machinima Realm
Gaming Videos
Athene and Swifty at Level 10
Swifty banned
Athene video response
Thank you back to Athene
What Athene started by promising to make a personal video if they sub his channel
Heartfelt video
Game News
Sexy!
Terraria
Popular episode!
Channel button
Like Comment Subscribe
Flip the switch
Best Music
Eminem - Not Afraid
Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor, ft. Pitbull
Music
http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic
Just a Dream
Simple
Favorite moment: http://youtu.be/gtCnOkFzqwo#t=55s
(Now private)
Why is this popular?
Flash
Sex education
Channels
Clean header!
Successful YouTubers
Soundtracks!
Jon Tron does some pretty quirky videos. He has only done 15 vids and he's got us beat in terms of subscribers and views.
His channel gains cross promotion from
They both run the website www.normalboots.com and use YouTube to draw traffic to it. From there, they monetize with blip.tv videos
Those JonTron videos are amazing and definitely on the same level as redlettermedia, in other words among the best on the internet.
Dance
Entertaining shows!
I clicked it because of his hot woman thumbnail
His channel is called sxephil (sexy phil) so it isn't 100% inappropriate
Interactive movie!
Choose your own adventure (at end, click who's solution you want to see)
Option 1 and 2: Shoot the bear (custom YouTube channel!)
Achievements
World First level 85
Act
'William Tell Overture' Momhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ZpuA8_YYk
The Mom Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfyyGQxZrAY
Ads
How did they bleed the ad to the left of the video?
Animals
Man vs Lion
Play with a lion's psyche
Animated logo icon
YouTube used to allow animated gifs for the logo icon!
Announcement
100,000 subscribers (TotalBiscuit)
Babies
I just uploaded my 18 month-old daughter in video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cz7QW4DCw
Very cute young director! :) Maybe we can make Aviendha a YouTube celebrity this month! Last month it was Emerson
^-- 13 million views! (that's what it means to "go viral")
Picture-in-Picture
Towelliee shows his hand and mouse in live PvP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3SUgWq71U8
Talking head
Rui Modesto with TGN.TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iw60gTDovM
Andrea Renee with Mahalo Video Games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03tDLwzwHtQ
Annotations
IGN burned-in spotlight Skip annotations
Dubsteb
Table of contents video for WoW
for Rift
Bar along the top
WoW map
WoW calendar
Play guitar by clicking annotations!
Links can leave YouTube (if you are a partner) like IGN
Prev / Next links (and subscribe button right in seek bar to get maximum accidental clicks)
Top like tabs, and bottom left/right
Click to Subscribe in bottom-right
Yogscast copied me exactly!
All four corners
Behind the scenes
Hong Kong women models for games
Business
Content to recruit want-to-be film makers with the promise of moneyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeiWSS2Z484
Guild Recruiting
Celebrity
6 million views in first 3 days
Smart guy, added a shameless promotion using his t-shirt affiliate code
See the first link in his description
tshirthell.com/store/clicks.php?partner=Zetanian
Also added a subtitle at the end of this 25 second clip drawing attention to the link
Looking at his channel, this is his only video that got an obscene amount of views
Something to learn from
Shows
Toby Turner Cute Win Fail
TV Reviews
Commercial
Chuck Norris World of Warcraft commercial
Old Spice
Towelliee's parody on Old Spice
Crazy
Base jumping
Daily show
Azeroth Daily (by TotalBiscuit)
IGN Daily fix
Dislikes
100k likes, 1 million dislikes!
Expert exciting
Motivation
Music is what keeps me alive. No matter what they say. This is where I belong.
Music live
Kim Yeohee - Beautiful day (Japanese)
Misleading Title
JUSTIN BIEBER KISSES SELENA GOMEZ!
Music video
Bohemian Rhapsody-like music video for WoW Cataclysm trailer
Skyrim trailer comedy music video (almost more views than official Skyrim trailer!)
Official Skyrim trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M
Britney Spears Everytime uncut
Justin Beber-like music video for StarCraft 2
Lady Gaga by young girl singing and playing piano
Making Love
How to make love better
Behind the scenes
"All I want is something black, something red and something dragon"
Comedy
Call of Duty dabce
Banelings!
You Need a "Boyfriend"
"Potion of Deepholm" (similar humor style, but not viral)
Chuck the bears into the fire, not the trampoline! (hidden Hyjal achievement WoW quest by TotalBiscuit)
WoW Freakout - Password Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkbB-X9654s
You got her number, now what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukrz-r7fPms
Ray William Johnson
Makes fun of the most popular videos (like we add commentary over our gameplay videos, he does over others' video clips)
New episode every Mon and Thu
Animal voices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHjK33RchEE
How to kiss creatively
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17r18JMClyM
Commercials
TGN commercial
Digital landing
Tom's treats
Commentary
Troll starting area
Contests
Singing competition for her song "Angel"
Nice prizes!
Directors
Aimbot by Freddiew
Blender Foundation
Beginner
RayWJ (0.5 seconds)
The Gates Notes (10 seconds)
Revision3 (4 seconds) with co-branded sponsorship (4 more seconds)
Bioware, EA (4 seconds)
Machinima (4 seconds)
IGN (4 seconds) + Daily Fix (4 more seconds)
Razer (4 seconds)
Intro overlays video (not a separate clip) by Mahalo Video Games
Viso Games (4 seconds)
TGN + Viso (4 second) and movie-like custom intro (4 more seconds)
TGN + Viso (4 seconds) with green-screen overlay
Movie-like intro (20 seconds)
Fan-created (10 seconds) wispy
Nice, clean, movie-like
Short, sweet, professional intro!
Beginner after 11 seconds
Yogscast superman for minecraft
NextGenTactics intro
OMFG Cata intro with producer's name
Start every video with 10 seconds of the most exciting parts of your video, saying only "This is (game title) and this (short video description) starts in 10 seconds"
Short and sweet
Educational
How to draw babies, teens and adults
Promoting your product by education (affiliate marketing)
How to share in Google Docs
Embedded on
Feedback
Fun
WoW montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17r18JMClyM
Funny
Star Wars parody
Strange women breast enlargement commercial for a slim soft drink
Game review
League of Legends vs. Heroes of Newerth
Games
Copy-pasted terrain in FFXIV
IGN Best of E3 2009
Nice temporary footers
"Best shooting game: Modern Warfare 2"
Short clips from every game
The transitions are quick and painless, but they do feel cheap
This feels like the Grammy's! Like "best movie of 2010"
Much worse than IGN Best of E3 2009, but 2.5 million views compared to IGN 100,000
Darkness Eternal(WoW+Lineage2 Music not pvp video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0-RYKyTdY
StrategyLeagueTopTen Presents - Zilean the Chronokeeper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVY2y0ZUmFo
Gamecasting
TGS Network spotlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfQfXiZqSyo
Good TGS intro, good "why visit his channel"
Really promotes TGS as a high-quality good-guy network that gave him a chance (and Machinima said No to him!)
Created T&T (tips & tricks, using dynamite logo) with freeze-frames showing what he did right, what he did wrong
eg
Ep 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9biS2hBUa4
Ep 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9biS2hBUa4
Greedy Genius
Brandon Chang interview
How-to
Google Wave
Hair styling
eHow
Seems to be a hub for howto videos
ExpertVillage
138,000 videos!
Like how to string a guitar (High E)
How to cook
How to apply dramatic makeup
Introductions
IGN App Show
Jessica first introduces the episode, then describes the series, then says her name
Minecraft
The Last Minecraft
Music in Minecraft!
Story with heroes and villains in a Minecraft world!
16-but ALU CPU (that works!)
USS Enterprise 1701-A (inside too!)
Another USS Enterprise (outside only)
New York City
How to trap people in a house!
Player traps forum thread
Another amazing thread
Movies
4.5 million views in 2 weeks, 60,000 comments and 128,000 likes! It is a good mini-movie, done by only 4 guys. Awesome production!
New Splinter Cell series
Multi-language
Many languages!
Parody
WoW Cataclysm trailer
Funny ending speech, too
Philosophy
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.
Picture in Picture
WoW with Razer mouse
And pops up funny images on cue
Curtis pops up Eliza Dushku
High production value
Lost: Dharma initiative orientation video
Popular videos
10 million views!
Popular why?
Product reviews
iPhone 4 vs Nexus S comparison review
Soldier Knows Best!
Neo Cube!
How to improve your PvP in WoW with the Razer Naga
Also
Promotions
Google TV
Chrome notebook
"25 computer were harmed in the marking of this video. But no data was lost!"
Shoutouts
Teamcraft Pikachu got #3 in Machinima contest
SelfS3rve is mentioned in Machinima
He then got YouTube partner through Machinima
How he is promoted in Machinima description
Series
Mahalo Video Games
Clever
Equality for Women and Men by nigahiga
Short Movies
Final Destination
Sexy
Hot!
Sexy and clever
Learn Japanese by a big-breast girl
Singing
6-year-old pitch-perfect
Smart
World of World of Warcrafthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ
Control a player who is playing World of Warcraft
Subscribe
Hit that button in fancy text!
█▬█ █ ▀█▀ THAT BUTTON═►
Subscribe: Don't miss a thing!
"Subscribe" as your logo
Entire video is a big subscribe button
Surprising
Homeless guy with an amazing on-air voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPFvLUWkzs
Later hired by the Cleveland Cavaliers (basketball team) as an announcer
Dramatic reading!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTQlEmf2cnI
^-- A dramatic reading!
Taking a break from WoW Cataclysm and StarCraft videos, TotalBiscuit does something completely different: a dramatic Pokeman reading!
Talent
Taiwanese Boy (Lin Yu Chun) sings Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4afcyExEMZk
Top 10
Trailers
Tera trailer 2
Text tells the story
Tera storybook
X-Men prequel
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, part
Dante's Inferno - 5th circle: Anger
The Event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-qb1geP2hU
Aion 2.0
Aion 2.0 vision
Due Date
Video guides
New Gmail
How to use the YouTube Subscribe button
WoW video guide with no in-game footage (helpful for YouTube partner, no Blizzard-copyright game footage)
Viral
WoW freakout!
Epic Nunchuk fail
^-- by Graham Stark from http://www.youtube.com/loadingreadyrun
$1000 per video from Escapist contract video producers
VLog
It all started with a t-shirt
Birdies!
Breaking Bad (one of her favorite TV series)
Wet n' Wild Nadine
Swimming with Dolphins
Under New Zealand waterfall
Watermark
Machinima
Why?
3 seconds of blackness and it has 100,000+ views!
World first
Be the best at World of Warcraft
Year-end video
Everyone can do this!
Wet n' Wild Nadinehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmRlg9dTK
^-- Swimming with Dolphins and under a New Zealand waterfall
Breaking Bad (one of her favorite TV series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erXHcuYw7n4
^-- Do you have a favorite TV series?
Birdies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9xpMenhnws
^-- Just filming while out on trips!
How to cook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS4c6ZRuT38
How to apply dramatic makeup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJRJWZ4fMkk