Motrin has found itself in the middle of a new media disaster as a result of a heavy handed ad internet ad campaign campaign that makes fun of people that wear their babies in slings (above). The narration takes a poke at moms (and dads) that wear baby slings – suggesting that they are akin […]

If you’re interested in recording audio with your iPhone, you’ve got a lot of choices. The latest option, Motion Apps’ $1.99 mVoice (App Store link), lets you record voice notes, memos, reminders, lectures, to-do’s, interviews or anything else that you don’t want to forget. Features: Intuitive, easy to use and cool user interface Unlimited recording […]

President-elect Barack Obama kicks off his weekly new media address with this video. Obama plans to publish weekly addresses to YouTube as President, a milestone in the adoption of new media. It will be a little strange to see Obama competing for views against Fred, but it’s sure to drive new audiences to Internet video. […]

Mainstream Internet video startup Hulu has posted a collection of videos that explain the site’s video sharing features. While you can’t share your personal videos on Hulu, the site at least makes it easy to embed videos in blog posts, share on social medi sites and email. Now, if they’d just make embeddable videos permanently […]

Griffin has introduced iTalk Premium (App Store link), which is basically an ad-free version of its iTalk iPhone recording app.  Griffin iTalk lets you record on the iPhone or 2G iPod touch. Your recordings are saved for replay on your iPhone or iPod, and you can use iTalk Sync (a free download) to drag-and-drop them as […]

Information technology research firm Gartner reports that “protail” video – their term for the segment between professionally produced content and user-generated content – is becoming one of the fastest-growing segments of the online video marketplace, and is providing advertisers a safe, targeted inventory in which they can place ads.

While Gartner’s choice of terms may be a bit unfortunate, video created by hardcore amateurs is creating an important new audience for advertisers.

For the second year in a row, Blubrry’s Todd Cochrane plans to abuse his body in the name of podcasting by hosting a 24-Hour Podcast Marathon – a non stop, 24-hour live streaming event that will cover podcasting, technology, new media, podcast advertising and a host of other topics. This year’s 24hr Podcast event kicks […]

New Media Links For 11/12/2008: The U.S. military is taking on YouTube. It’s launched TroopTube – a site for troops, their families and supporters – a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites. It’s like YouTube, but without the audience. blinkx is claiming to have 32 million hours of […]

Tay Zonday speaks with YouTube’s head of marketing, the head of brand management at Virgin America and Internet celeb LisaNova about YouTube’s upcoming streaming event, YouTube Live. Tay also explains his new money-making opportunity. via Mahalodaily.com

The maker of the Flip Video today introduced its latest pocket video camera: the Flip MinoHD, described as the world’s smallest high definition camcorder. Pure Digital Technologies’ Flip MinoHD, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video. . With its introduction, MinoHD also becomes the first and only “designable” HD camcorder. […]