A video titled OMG! Car Hit and Flipped By Wrecking-Ball in NYC! is gaining attention on YouTube today. The video is as the title states, a car is hit and flipped over by a wrecking-ball. At first glance, it appears that nearby pedestrians caught a shocking incident on tape. However, a second look shows signs of a viral advertisement. The last audible section of the video, you can hear someone screaming ‘cut’ before a fade to black. Do you think this is real, a viral ad, or a making of a film?

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I remember growing up with The Muppets with everything from the Muppet Babies to the Muppet Treasure Island. It was one of those things we all loved and knew. My personal favorite was Fozzie Bear, and I always questioned the relationship between a pig and a frog. The Muppets is just one of those icons that makes you instantly smile, and that’s exactly what I did when I came across Muppets Studio.

When I first heard about the YouTube Channel solely dedicated to The Muppets I knew right away it was going to be a hit or miss. In the back of my head I was screaming, “Hell yes!”, but I didn’t want to give my hopes up. The first video I saw was Bohemian Rhapsody and within seconds I knew this is what I grew up with. Not only is the original song amazing, but what they did do it blew my mind away along with nearly 8 million other viewers.

There it was; Gonzo with the chickens, Rowlf the Dog, Animal, Pepe the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Beaker, Big Mean Carl, Crazy Harry, Fozzie Bear, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhen, and the list just goes on and on. Somehow in just five minutes I was revisited by a huge part of my childhood, but in such a unique and refreshing approach. Two hours of my day was invested into watching the rest of these videos. Those were the best two hours of my life.

Bohemian Rhapsody has many of the fans' favorites.

Seeing Waldorf and Statler make video replies had me appreciating the sarcastic wit that I have. Watching The Swedish Chef launch a bazooka into a couple of talking pumpkins made my insane personality feel at home. Signing a musical parody staring Gonzo and his chickens made everyone wake up in the house. With each video I soon realized that these were the traits of so many YouTubers. Which is why seeing The Muppets on YouTube felt so natural to me.

I now better understand why I’m a YouTuber myself. It’s because I grew up with the insane, unpredictable, rich comedy of The Muppets. There’s no doubt in my mind that they had this effect on many of today’s biggest YouTubers. This is why the Muppets Studio earned both my subscription and my respect.

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YouTube wants to generate attention to a large collection of professionally produced full-length programs that can be viewed legally. Thanks to advertising this is made possible for free. Since the company signed the landmark deal with Channel 4, a number of TV shows available on YouTube has dramatically grew.

With the slogan YouTube’s got TV, a campaign will feature advertisements on the sides of buses and inside subways. There will also be full-page print ads in publications, including one in today’s Guardian. Online ads will support the campaign.

Also, during some point next month, YouTube will be taking over a shop near Carnaby Street in London’s West End. There, people will be able to choose programs from YouTube’s TV collection to watch on large screen. The ads for the campaign were designed by freelances Naresh Ramchandani and Steven Qua, and developed by YouTube with David Wilding, head of planning at Omnicom Media Group’s PHD agency.

“We know that YouTube users enjoy the huge range of content on the site, but there’s a growing demand in particular for full-length programming – so this campaign aims to tell our users that the full-length TV content has now arrived,” said Anna Bateson, the YouTube director of marketing. “The Shows section of the site is a major new opportunity for our partners and advertisers to reach new audiences.”

Some of the adverts that will be use to promote YouTube's TV.

In this week’s PauseStopRewind podcast, I sit down with Champ Chong and myRAWnerve to talk about YouTube collab channels, double standards for YouTubers, Lady Gaga 3-ways, and much more. You’ll also get some insight on how to fight and possibly remove a strike from your YouTube account.

The following YouTubers/YouTube channels (in random order) were mentioned in this week’s podcast: The Station, CincoDeVlogo, DFizzy, Andy Warski, AyyLucky, Shane Dawson, PhillyD, WowItsTotallyAwesome, Sammah, MrChiCity3, DanBrownUniverse, RandomShadowMan, and David Cigam.

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When I heard that a couple of Massachusetts men were arrested for their YouTube rap video I knew right away I was going to have a field day. After I saw the video I was convinced that the two were arrested for being the worst rappers on YouTube. The video is nothing but a bunch of white guys who all look the same, jumping up and down, swinging their arms, and saying “fucking” every other line.

To make matters worse, the production just sucked. Then again, why would I be surprised? They thought it would be cool to throw in the COPS logo, rip off and use a few news footages, and throw in some violet pictures to look like badasses. The whole time they proclaimed the cops can’t touch them. Gotta love the irony of their arrest.

Then I learned why they were actually arrested. Turns out these morons mentioned and threaten their probation officer and a state trooper by name. Really?! How stupid can you possibly be?! They’re charged with two counts each of threating to commit a crime, threating to use a firearm, and witness intimidation. Of course they pleaded not guilty, because there’s “no evidence”…except for on YouTube!

One of the men’s mother stated they weren’t a threat. Yeah, we actually felt threaten by them. Goes to show you what happens when morons figure out technology. They get arrested and we all get a good laugh. At least we have FattySpins to rid our memories of this God awful bullshit of a rap.

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YouTube and Evian have entered the world record books. With what exactly? Believe it or not the bottled water company’s Skating Babies adverts is the most viewed online ad ever. The one minute ad has a fairly simple premise of a few babies dancing and skating to the Sugarhill Gang track Rapper’s Delight, along with the tagline, Evian, live young.

The advert was only posted on YouTube, but it managed to gained a total 45,166,106 online views worldwide (this figure includes all uploaded video views). The Guinness Book of World Records awarded the advert after date from Nielsen and YouTube showed proof of this. This goes to show what happens when you make a dancing video with cute babies and the charm of Sugarhill Gang. It further shows that the internet is quickly becoming the best way to advertise.

Machinima.com, the online video entertainment network for both gamers and online filmmakers, will take the next big steo by introducing a new breed of video gaming awards. The private event will be held at the Redbull House in Santa Monica on December 11th. Machinima’s Inside Gaming Awards adds an online user component to the awards. This will launch on the company’s immensely popular YouTube channel.

The new awards process will invite their more then 60 million monthly visitors to help select the winners. The first pre-award show will arrive on YouTube this weekend on November 27th. They will introduce nomination for 18 categories that include: Game of the Year; Best Game Cinematography; Best Trailer; Best Multiplayer; Best Art Direction; Best Control; Best Re-playability; Best Indie Game; Best DLC (Downloadable Content); Best Downloadable Game; Most Original Game; Best Game Innovation; Best Original Score; Most Compelling Character; Best Weapon; Best Narrative; Best Sound Design and Best Animation.

The nominees will qualify for two separate awards; the official industry Inside Gaming Award and Gamer’s Choice Award. The Gamer’s Choice Award will be chosen by Machinima’s community’s votes which will be collected between November 27th to the December 7th. The winners will be announced on December 15th during their second awards special.

You just gotta love it when cops do something stupid. You gotta love it even more when someone captures it on video and uploads it onto YouTube. Here’s a quick run down of the video below. A drunk man walks onto train yelling, and a BART police officer quickly grabbed him and carried him off.

This is when the cop took a few too many steps and slammed the guy’s head into a glass window. The window broke and cut the man’s face. He suffered a concussion and had to get several stitches. Sounds like fair enough punishment, right? Of course someone caught it on their cell phone and uploaded in onto YouTube… YES!

Before the video became widely known the police department held a press conference saying not to jump to conclusions. I’m guessing they want us to believe they tripped over an invisible brick. To top it all off this is the same police department that got in trouble for shooting an unarmed man to death… at the same train station… which was also uploaded onto YouTube. Maybe third time will be a charm? Na.

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In YouTube Exposed, MrChiCity3 pointed out that YouTube hasn’t expanded their partnership program like they should. I noticed this over the past few months while running PauseStopRewind. There’s never a day that I come across a YouTuber with the subscribers, the content, and the personality to be a partner. However, YouTube chooses to fiddle their thumbs and wonder around like turkeys with no sense of direction.

Not even a year ago, YouTubers could apply to the partnership program, and within three days receive a reply. Today you’re lucky to get that same reply within two weeks. Then there are those who do get a reply, finally, only to learn they got rejected. Why? Well according to YouTube, Slyth66 lacks original content. Even though he busts his ass to write parodies, recreate instrumentals, acts, and films his videos all by himself.

Then there’s RandomShadowMan who has been rejected for past copyright infringement. However, there’s no strikes indicating this on his account. When you start to look at each YouTuber who has been rejected, and you find yourself confused as to why they have been rejected, it all adds up to one thing… BULLSHIT!

Now as if that wasn’t bad enough, when YouTube finally does accept someone they drag their ass on making it finale. This is exactly what happened with Jule (MistakeProductions), a young, talented YouTuber. Gstrompolos told him he was accepted into the program. Then a few days went by, then a week, two weeks, a month, over a month and program didn’t kick in for Jule.

It took over a month after his tweet on Oct. 1st to start up MistakeProductions' partnership.

When I asked him how he felt he said, “manipulated, used, screwed over”. It wasn’t until he made a tweet that I was interviewing him about his situation that Gstromopolos got the program to kick in for him. Yes, we’re happy that it finally happened, but this shouldn’t have been a problem in the first place. This leads me to wonder who else is going through this.

Youtube’s partnership program has honestly gone to crap. It has become too slow, too disorganize, and too much of a mystery. They’re ignoring talent that could bring them in revenue and they’re breaking dreams for success. Until YouTube fix all the problems that it has created there’s no chance that they’ll become profitable. Which would lead to their downfall.

Today, Google announced that videos on YouTube would sport machine-generated automatic captions. This move will make hundreds of thousands of more videos accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired. For the past three years, Google has offered user-generated captioned videos. What makes “auto-caps” so different is that Google will now use speech-recognition algorithms.

This technology is used in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for all videos. The goal of this is to quickly get more videos captioned. Not only will these captions help the deaf and hearing -impaired, but they will also improve searches. This will allow viewers to pinpoint exact sections of videos and to increase video views. This will bring YouTube another step close to being profitable.

At the moment, auto-caps will only be visible on a limited number of partner channels. These includes U.C. Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Yale, UCLA, Duke, UCTV, Columbia, PBS, National Geographic, Demand Media, UNSW, and most of the Google and YouTube ran channels. Google has recognized the technology is not perfected, and is welcoming feedback from both the views and video owners before the expand the program. We all know that someone will say “ask” and the program will caption it as “ass”.

Google also announced automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, which eases the process of creating captions manually. All video creators have to do is build and upload a text file will all the words in the video. Then the automatic speech recognition technology determines when the words are spoken and creates the captions. There’s hope that this wills saves costs of creating captions as well as increase the amount of video views.