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We all know who Freddie Mercury is and we all know that he’s long been dead but apparently his voice has found its way to someone in Canada who is the lead singer of a Christian rock band. The person in question is called Marc Martel. He’s from Saskatchewan in Canada and the band he sings for are called Downhere.

He recorded his cover of Queen’s ‘Somebody to Love’ for The Queen Extravaganza which is something that searches for musicians and vocalists to tour with a Queen Tribute band. This guy, Marc Martel is looking like a good bet to be selected to sing with the tribute, but to be honest, he’s that good he should be chosen to sing with the band should they ever reform.

He’s recorded his audition and put it up on YouTube and within 4 days it had over 1.5 million views. This just goes to show how good a voice this guy has got, the video has almost turned into a kind of promotional video for The Queen Extravaganza.  There’s no doubt going to be lots of videos that people have recorded of themselves for this event but they can’t all be good. Maybe they should look at getting hold of a video production company and have a montage of all the funny, good and also bad videos that they have been sent.

There are many people out there who record themselves doing stupid things, or maybe they are wanting to have a rant at or about someone or something or there are some that are just plain cool. Either way there’s an array of videos out there that have done really well for themselves and have shot the person who uploaded them, or starred in them, to fame.

You could be one of these people if you decide to make your own home video. Someone who did this is a young boy in America known on his YouTube account as CopperCab. For those of you who don’t know and haven’t seen his hilarious video, he is the guy who uploaded the “GINGERS DO HAVE SOULS” video.

In this video he has a rant about how people at his school ridicule him for being ginger and saying that he has no soul, to which he obviously disagrees. It was uploaded in 2010 and in nearly a year it has amassed over 21million views.

There are some things that you put on the internet and they just blow up, go massive. Just like this has, not only has it got millions of views in the space of 12 months but it has also had a remake from the creators of South Park. They made Cartman ginger and he says the same as the young lad in the video. You couldn’t ask for better publicity than South Park including part of your video in one of their episodes.

You could become this person, if you upload the right kind of video, you may not need to treat it as a promotional video. It may just kick on and become really popular. However if you haven’t got a home video that you think will cut it then you should look at getting in touch with a video production company and see what they can do for you and your video!

There are some Viral Videos out there that are slightly different in comparison to your “average” viral video. Or it may not even be intended as a viral video but it may have been picked up by some medias and they may like the video and then promote it themselves. Or they may even find it relevant to what they do and then promote the video to help them promote their product.

A viral video that has surfaced and is almost certainly not what you would expect to see in the work place. A boss lets his employees shoot at him with an AK-47 while he is sat behind a bullet proof glass window. A bit on the strange side, but I suppose if you work/own a bullet proof glass company then you need to test your products out properly, and what better way than to get your staff to shoot at you?

There are many different kinds of virals that are out there and are being used to promote different people’s products or companies. For example there’s a video of a number of youngsters on a massive water slide that was built on private property in Paradise, Utah and they go flying down the slide on their rubber rings and go flying up 120ft in the air to land in the lake, however if you were thinking of trying this at home just bear in mind that three of the people were knocked unconscious upon impact with the water. The water was initially intended to try and promote Vooray clothing; however they didn’t really do a good job of promoting the clothing line as they were all wearing next to nothing.

If you quite like the sound of having a viral video to promote your company’s products or services then you should definitely have a look around and see what the different companies out there can offer you various different video production services, or maybe you’re not looking for that, maybe you need someone to help you present a video that you have already had made, in which case you would need a web presenter.

Either way there are many different things out there that you could look at buying that would benefit your business.

There are many of us out there who are a little clumsy and have probably dropped a phone or two in our time. Well, now you need not worry about whether you have broken your phone or not, well at least you don’t if you’ve got one of the latest devices from mobile phone manufacturers, Sonimtech.

Sonimtech have designed, and made the very first mobile phone handset that you can quite comfortably drop from 25 metres high, or the equivalent to 10 storeys, and it will still be fully functioning when it hits the bottom! Now that’s some phone!

This handset is probably the right handset for those of you who are quite clumsy or who find themselves working on a building site on a daily basis, and there’s also a video that was taken whilst they dropped the phone, just in case any of you out there were a little bit sceptical.

Videos like this can at times be excellent for promoting a business or a company and in this case, this video could be used as a promotional video for this particular company, especially as they are a smallish company and they have to compete against the big boys in the mobile phone market such as Apple, Blackberry and HTC.

So if you need a film production company then you should start looking around now!

With Gamescom being held this week as you may imagine there was a lot of fuss about some games, but not all games. There were a lot of games that were being looked at, at this year’s Gamescom and one of the big hitters this year is the latest instalment of EA’s FIFA game.

With the release date just over a month away some people are starting to go a bit FIFA crazy. There were some big announcements this year at Gamescom about some of the new features that we can expect to be on this year’s instalment of the game.

There has been a lot of hype surrounding FIFA 12 at this year’s Gamescoms and to be fair to EA Sports’ FIFA branch they have covered it fantastically well online. They have had updates straight from their Twitter feed to all of the followers that they have, who are eagerly awaiting any news that they can get.

The first big announcement was that the demo for the new game will be released on Xbox, PS3 and PC on the 13^th September. The demo will again have a select number of teams on it, and unlike last year’s demo version it will not have both Real Madrid and Barcelona on it. Just the Catalan giants, Barcelona. The rest of the teams are as follows: Two from the Premier League in the shape of Arsenal and Man City. One French side in the shape of Marseille. One German team in the shape of Borussia Dortmund and lat but not least, one Italian team in the shape of the current Italian champions, AC Milan.

There have been many a promotional video released in the build up to the official release date of the new FIFA game and there have also been one or two trailers released so that the fans have something to wet their appetite and build up people’s hopes and expectations in the wake of the release of the new game. One thing is for certain though it’s certainly going to be a hit!

We all love, and adore animals and times they do some rather stupid things that make us think “if only I had got that on video”… Well some people out there do catch their pets doing some stupid things and one of the more recent videos on YouTube that is currently trending is a video of someone’s pet cat trapping another moggie in a cardboard box and sitting on top of it and refusing to budge!

Well we say refusing to budge but he soon gets bored and after seeing the trapped cat pushing on the lid of the box. He eventually gets out and then shakes his head and wanders off himself, probably wondering what had just happened and thinking to himself “I won’t be going near one of them for a while!” and who could blame him really?

A viral video  could be a good way of promoting a product or a service that you or your business provide and if perhaps you’re struggling for business, if you come up with a good idea for a video to advertise your particular product or service then you could be quids in! There are many different kinds of promotional video about that could help you in this instance, like a software video!

Either way there are many different things out there that can help you and your business!

Perhaps you are a part of a struggling business and you want to make an impression on everyone else that you work with, including your boss. Or perhaps you are the boss of the company?

Either way, there’s something that you could do that will help both your reputation in the business, and help the business to grow and develop. For starters if it is struggling in the online world then you may want to have a look around as to whom, and what businesses may help you out and may be able to help you grow your online reputation.

There are a few different things you can do and if you pay a visit to a company called Video Tile they certainly have the tools of the trade when it comes to helping you out. They offer a wide range of services and depending on what you’re looking for they will almost certainly be able to offer it to you as a service.

If you have developed a video to advertise what your company does then you may need a web presenter, someone who will be filmed and then the video can be put on the homepage of your website so that when someone clicks onto it they don’t need to find an “About” page.

Also, you could maybe look at getting a promotional video or maybe even a software video produced that will almost certainly help your business grow online.

A young couple in China, according to local newspaper reports have sold all three of their young children so that they can play online games at an internet cafe.

Many of western couples would never dream of selling their children, let alone to play online games at an internet cafe. There are many couples that don’t really take an interest in playing online games and there are certainly not many couples who would want to sell their kids.

Could you imagine, they were a young family too and they sold their kids to get money. Then they just blew that money on playing online games at an internet cafe. They met in 2007, ironically at an internet cafe and they got on so well after realising that they both had a love for online video games.

They had their first child a year later, and at the time both of them were under-21 and they left him home alone just days after his birth to go and play yet more online games. In 2009, the young couple welcomed their second child and at the time they got the idea that they could sell their baby girl for money, yet more money that would fund their online gaming obsession. They got just short of $500 for their baby girl and as you may imagine absolutely all of that went on online video games.

After the couple got their first taste of selling their kids they then decided to sell their first child, who was quite a bit older than their baby girl and that got them a lot more money; it got them about $4,600. They had their third child and they also sold him for the same amount of money. Almost $10,000 was wasted on playing online games at an internet cafe.

There are many different online video games that you can play out there and some of the better ones have their own websites with their own web presenters. A good web presenter can help a business promote something and you may begin to see a huge increase in sales, that is of course if you’re a business that is selling something.

In the last few months there seems to have been a bit of a new found love for the Old Spice Guy who became loved with his adverts for the men’s grooming product adverts on both YouTube and on the TV.

People would put things up on Twitter and on Facebook about the adverts when they came on TV and rightly so, they were very good, very funny adverts. However these adverts are to be no more. Sometime this week there were videos that had been released on YouTube advertising the Old Spice product, however everyone’s favourite Old Spice guy seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet and has been replaced by some strange, Italian guy called Fabio.

He’s been in things like Keith Lemon’s World Tour and he has also had cameo roles in films such as Zoolander and Dude, Where’s My Car. So I think it’s safe to say that he certainly is no better than the previous Old Spice guy, Isaiah Mustafa

At the minute however there’s not been any official word from Old Spice as to whether they have replaced Isaiah with Fabio or if Fabio is, as it seems just advertising a new product that they are now selling. Either way we don’t want to see THE Old Spice guy get the boot from the ads as almost all of his videos on YouTube have got at least 1,000,000 views which speaks volumes about how much people love his work.

Perhaps you run or own a business and you are struggling a bit in the online side of things? Or maybe like Old Spice you wanted to branch out a bit and have your product reach more people worldwide, well you can do this for your business and maybe you might start to see an increase in sales. There are many a promotional video that you could have made to help promote your business in the online world.

If you’re after someone professional to make one for you then you can look to a very well recognised and well known production company who can help you make the best video that you could ever dream of to help promote your business!