VIDEO SETS VIRAL RECORD

Kony 2012, a half-hour video about the fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has set a record as the fastest-growing viral sensation in web history, viewed 80 million times between Monday and Friday, according to Visible Measures Corp. The previous record was set by the Susan Boyle video “I Dreamed a Dream” from Britain’s Got […]

GOOGLE EXEC URGES U.K. CONTENT MAKERS TO EXPLOIT INTERNET

The head of Google’s operations in the U.K. and Ireland has urged the British entertainment industry to take advantage of the international fascination with Internet technology. Writing in the Guardian newspaper, Matt Brittin commented that, thanks to the Internet, British talent can be “discovered” virtually instantaneously thanks to people all over the world sending messages […]

LOWLY NBC HAS NO. 1 HIT ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY

Thanks to NBC’s annual summer hit, America’s Got Talent, the network’s ratings soared on Tuesday and Wednesday night, with a two-hour edition on Tuesday averaging 12.29 million viewers and beating the competition in every half-hour, among both the key adult-18-49 demographic and total viewers. Moreover, it appeared that the show had found the counterpart to […]