As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.
Epic uhntz-uhntz on demand via the Internet. This is the Ultra media empire's newest expansion plan. Adding to an already sprawling portfolio of EDM entertainment assets (obviously including the original Ultra Music Festival in Miami as well as a six-country, four-continent tour, officially dubbed ... More >>
We want our UMF TV. And this is it ... A new YouTube channel featuring original EDM-themed content from the people at Ultra Music Festival and Final Kid productions. The channel premieres worldwide on Wednesday, July 11, with UMF Revisited - Episode #1: Avicii which follows the Swedish superstar ... More >>
Jose Rosario-Gonzalez, a middle school history teacher in Volusia County, has resigned after a YouTube video entitled "gay sex threesome" accidentally popped up during class. Of course, YouTube doesn't allow hardcore pornography on its site, and the video actually never played in front of the studen ... More >>
Not always a virtual land of quirky viral videos, blooper reels, cute puppies, and adorable kittens, YouTube is often a forum for hate, a safe haven for bigotry. In the wake of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's unjustifiable death, YouTube has become an outlet for angry folks to spew hatred. Florida ... More >>
Ultra Music Festival sold out months ago. So unless you're wiling to drop $7,500 on a VIP package or purchase ridiculously marked-up General Admission scalper tickets, quit bitching and accept the fact that you're not going to catch Tiësto in his (second) hometown. Instead, settle for second b ... More >>
Somewhere in the world exists a person who has decided that it would be a good idea to upload 2,600 YouTube videos in which he mispronounces various names in a strange inflection. As part of this person's RunTheCube YouTube channel he has uploaded videos mispronouncing the name of every single pl ... More >>
FacebookThe Black Keys released El Camino today, their seventh studio album (or eighth if you include Blakroc) in ten years. And like every record before it, El Camino is a 60-minute, all-you-can-eat aural buffet of blues-driven garage rock. But we're not going to waste your time reviewing the ... More >>
Much like jokes, if you have to explain advertising to the audience then it's probably not that effective. After Groupon's Super Bowl ads sparked controversy and weathered widespread criticism the deal website's founder and CEO Andrew Mason released an official statement standing by the ads and the ... More >>
You may or may not care about the future of the struggling newspaper industry and how they (or, well, we) hope to put a greater emphasis on online multimedia features, but perhaps you would like to know that "The number one video on MiamiHerald.com last year got about 26,000 views and was a ... More >>
We here in Miami carry the responsibility of the sole defenders of LeBron James, but the guy has only been in town for six months. It wasn't that long ago when we sort of hated the guy, like everyone else, and maybe didn't pay attention to him that much. I mean, did we even watch his hosting stin ... More >>
Rarely does a social media addiction pay off in a big way. We tweet our favorite celebs and hope for a reply, "like" products and cross our fingers for some freebies, and mention every move we make via Foursquare, hoping that special someone will "follow" us there. But we hardly ever get free boo ... More >>
In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 17, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Lucas Leyva's video for Rachel Goodrich's "Lightbulb"At the beginning of the year, Sweat Records announced a contest for amateur filmmakers to create a video for local ... More >>
If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn't in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts from June 11 thr ... More >>
According to our tireless reviewer Esther Park, this year's Best of the Best concert was even more intense than the last. With so many big-name artists scheduled to perform every year, there are always unexpected changes, pleasant surprises, and, it seems, a crazy sprint through the final leg of the ... More >>
The wave of the TV watching future possibly came with the advent of TiVos and the ability to DVR your favorite shows, leaving you to come and go as you please. Or maybe it was through Hulu and YouTube, when television watching was transferred from the big screen to the computer screen. But now Go ... More >>
YouTube turned five yesterday. And while we can blame the site for spawning endless fodder for the workroom and further catapulting the careers of tween heartthrobs like Justin Bieber, we decided to go another route with our top five favorite YouTube videos. We're not putting up Miley, the Jo Bros o ... More >>
Photo by Ivylise SimonesLaura Di Lorenzo and Mimi Davila, AKA the Chonga Girls.Apparently, still making song parodies. You might remember the Chongalicious Girls from their 15 minutes of YouTube fame. In fact, we even did a cover story about them at the height of their popularity in 2007. After t ... More >>
While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater to kick off a ... More >>
Back in November we highlighted hardworking local DJ duo thenextgeneration, who you can see spinning regularly at several spots around the Beach, like Sushi Samba, Beer & Burger Joint and Hakkasan at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Mikkel Dankner a.k.a. Soulscience is one half of the duo and an acco ... More >>
While some people just don't get that the wave of fan videos is unstoppable -- hello Fontainebleau on New Year's Eve, and the entire Universal Music Group -- other bands have welcomed that kind of participation and sharing from the beginning. People have been trading concert tapes since the technolo ... More >>
Ever since MTV Cribs moved to CMT, the world has been deprived of seeing the interiors of rapper's Miami pads. Who could forget Missy Elliot's Ferrari bed, or Bow Wow's rented car controversy? Thank goodness for YouTube.While, Lil Wayne did show off his New Orleans crib for the show, we never got a ... More >>
Image via Wikimedia CommonsAh, New Year's Eve in South Beach -- pocketbook gouging at its finest! Club buzz says Lady Gaga is the hottest sold-out party in the nation this New Year's Eve. LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel is charging $800 general admission -- drinks, food, and party favors not inclu ... More >>
Alright, I promise this will be the last Miami Music Festival post for a while. But in case you wanted to see what you missed -- because you missed it, didn't you? -- check out these YouTube clips of a few choice performances. First, I'll post a few from Saturday because that's the day I actually at ... More >>
Last week was, of course, utter art, music, and media ridiculousness -- so of course, it's captured all over the social web. Missed out on a show? Don't feel bad, practically all of the week's musical events are on YouTube! Reading reviews of both OK Go's electrified performance at Design Miami /, a ... More >>
Just weeks after much too much of Florida's political establishment and media took a dumb Crist/Rubio remix of an old YouTube meme way too seriously, there's another stupid YouTube video that certain journalists, it seems, are forcibly trying to turn into a controversy. It's a ridiculous anti-R ... More >>
To realize just how truly awesome this last Depeche Mode show was at BankAtlantic Center -- and, well, to realize just how obsessive the band's fans are -- just punch in "Depeche Mode BankAtlantic Center" into YouTube. Despite the band's rejection of most official media outlets' photo requests, a ... More >>
Here's a brand new music video from a group called 7 Estrellas. The song is called "Miami Life." The YouTube description says: "beat por: "Gualo" (Edge Music). Video producido por: Milagros Rosales, Bertha Alie, Jose Mateo. Direccion: Milagros Rosales. Edicion: Alejandro Gonzalez." The video ... More >>
Worldstar Hip-Hop is one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the Internet. Last week, the site featured a New Times episode of Prunk TV on its front page. As of now it has accrued 70,000 hits and change. Thing is, somebody downloaded it off the New Times YouTube channel, added the Worldstar wat ... More >>
via elireskow's Flickr photostreamOne of the biggest shows over the past weekend was the Lynyrd Skynyrd gig this past Saturday at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. Sadly, it seems not many people have shared photos from it on Flickr. But I did find this artsy-type shot from the crowd on el ... More >>
Black Owl Music is an independent blues label based in Miami that started in 2003. It seems to have been founded by or is at least very closely related to local bluesman Poppa E, whose show schedule reads like that of a player 40 years his junior, and whose band has a residency at Casa Panza (four-t ... More >>
Here is one of our local state House members, Republican J.C. Planas, belting out "Walking in Memphis" at Disney's new American Idol attraction, as first seen on Naked Politics about a week ago. So far it only has 898 views. Which by YouTube standards is paltry, but by politician standards is d ... More >>
The last thing in the world I want is for a serious point I was trying to make about domestic abuse devolve into some pissing match with two radio jocks. The underlying subject matter is too serious. Enrique Santos left a long comment on the original post, and you should read it to get his side of t ... More >>
It's not that people don't want to watch Mario Diaz-Balart videos on YouTube. This video of him experiencing some sort of Sarah Palin-induced seizuregasm at a John McCain rally has more than 35,000 views (although over half of those were from me). It's just that people don't want to watch Mario Diaz ... More >>
Like so many good boys and girl, Riptide dreams of sugar-plum fairies and Ol' Saint Nick delivering a shiny new iPhone. 'Tis the season for the 3G mobile Internet and being able to watch dumb YouTube videos of dogs dancing to Beyonce anywhere we want. But woah to one Miami man who had his iPho ... More >>
Martin Short brings Jiminy Glick, Ed Grimley, and other oddballs to Miami for a night.
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