This week an adorable video of a baby eating a watermelon from inside the melon went viral and it inspired us to put together a list of the top 10 sweetest watermelon videos on YouTube. August is almost here, and what’s more refreshing than a watermelon in this sweltering summer heat? So grab a big slice and get ready to see some of the greatest YouTube watermelon videos of all time!
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From the looks of YouTube, jumping out of airplanes is totally in right now. Today’s most watched video list is spattered with skydiving videos. It seems that a group of power YouTubers, including vloggers PrankvsPrank, DeStorm, meekakitty and TheHill88 decided to jump out of a plane together. They did it, posted their experiences on YouTube, and are now going viral and inspiring others to jump too. You might not jump off a bridge because everyone else was doing it, but would you jump out of a plane because you saw it on YouTube?
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These days, with the advent of the internet and web video, we can see pretty much everything that is going on in the world and one of the most exciting things we can see is videos of amazing people setting Guinness World Records. A new video of a guy setting the record for the tightest parallel parking job has been popular on YouTube today and it inspired us to put together a list of the 10 most unbelievable Guinness World Record videos.
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These days, people are uploading videos to YouTube about everything, from personal video blogs to home videos, music clips, comedy sketches, how to segments and more. However, not every video is appropriate for sharing with the world on YouTube. Not everything is for the public eye, and you don’t want one of your videos to go randomly viral and ruin your life! We’ve put together a list of 5 types of videos you should never upload to YouTube, so check it out and think twice before you upload.
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Five years ago today, on April 23, 2005, the first video was uploaded to YouTube and a new era began. Many of you are probably thinking, “What? YouTube has only been around for 5 years?” These days the social video site has become such a huge part of our lives that we feel like it’s been around forever. Let’s take a look back at some of original uploads and see how we have changed in the last five years, since YouTube came into our lives. Surprisingly, we seem to be pretty much in the same boat as when we started out.
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Christiaan Van Vuuren, AKA the Fully Sick Rapper, is making a name for himself on YouTube from the last place you would expect – a hospital quarantine room. Christiaan, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis in December of 2009, has spent over 100 days in quarantine in a hospital in Sydney, Australia. To pass the time and entertain his friends, he started making rap videos about his experience in quarantine. His videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views in only a few months.
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Today there has been a ton of buzz about Twitter’s new “Promoted Tweets” program but now it appears the service has officially gone live. While we haven’t seen any sponsored tweets from brands, a quick search in Twitter for the phrase “Twitter” yields a promotional tweet from the company. Rather than going into details about the service, I’ve embedded a video below, illustrating how the service functions.
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Last week we covered the success of the new standing cat video on YouTube. Yesterday, YouTube user freddiew took the standing cat to the next level by hooking him up with a sweet pair of boots, a Zorro hat, a sword and a Mariachi cat on guitar to back him up. ‘Standing Cat IN BOOTS!’ is now taking the Internet by storm, with over 88,500 views since it was uploaded yesterday.
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Sudanese-Australian rap artist Bangs has shocked fans far and wide with the announcement that he has scored a record deal. Bangs just signed a deal for his YouTube hit single “Take You To The Movies” with HSM Distribution, proving once again that YouTube can make anything possible!
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Google Buzz has been having a few issues with privacy and data security recently. To combat the possibilities of problems with teenagers, they’ve released a video entitled Buzz Teen Safety Tips. The video highlights many of the security elements of Buzz and how to control them.
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