Video Mashups

Jaws, Lost, The 10 Commandments and even Wallce and Gromit top the list of most popular recent video mash-ups currently doing the rounds. Gone are the days when simply Photoshopping Hoff's head into movie posters was as deemed worthy enough to send on. With sites such as YouTube offering seemingly endless free video hosting, tagging, rating and networking tools it's no wonder that iconic TV shows and classic movies are fare game to be mashed! Let's not forget Brokeback to the Future and Shining which started this trend. Business Week have an interesting article about how advertisers are now having to pay big dollars to produce and seed their "viral" videos. If a client spend $250,000 on a "viral" video you'd expect it to go gangbusters!