Today’s blog post comes from the chilly slopes of Park City, Utah, where we’re getting ready to kick-off our sponsorship of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. So, why are we here?Independent filmmakers have been critical contributors to our p…
One of our most popular advertiser-supported programs is AdBlitz, which asks you to vote on the year’s best Super Bowl commercial. For 2010, we’ve beefed up the channel with extensive NFL playoff coverage, travel videos for those going to Miami for the…
Update (5pm PT): Wondering which YouTube videos inspire the creator of TBL? Watch Ashton’s celebrity playlist here. ++++++++++++++++Today we are teaming up with Katalyst, a studio for social media co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, and HP to bring pre…
This month, we’re proud to present eight of the best short films we’ve ever seen (ever!) in the Screening Room, our destination for top films from the film festival circuit. While we often program the Screening Room around specific themes (perhaps …
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who watch Spaghetti Westerns by themselves and those who watch them with their YouTube buddies.If the latter sounds like fun, join us for a live viewing party of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” at 6pm …
Update (9pm PT): Unfortunately, this viewing party had to be canceled. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.Update (6pm PT): We’re experiencing a technical glitch in the Screening Room, so we’ll be pushing the viewing party back 1 hou…
Update (11/1) Thanks to everyone who voted. Here are the final results of the “Who’s the greatest Dracula” poll:+++++++Everywhere you look, vampires seem to be all the rage. But before the broody youngsters of “Twilight” and the Southern nightwalkers …
Today marks the first day of the inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival, a partnership between the Qatar Museums Authority and the Tribeca Film Festival, to celebrate the best of Arabic and international cinema through an annual film festival and year-ro…
Movie buffs of YouTube unite.Tonight, we’ll be hosting a live viewing party of the critically-acclaimed feature film Taxi Driver in the YouTube Screening Room, courtesy of our friends at Crackle.Visit the Screening Room at 6pm PT to start watching.&nbs…
If you don’t know who Travis Bickle is, you probably should. Widely considered one of the greatest films of all time, Taxi Driver paints a dark, gritty, and at times violent portrait of a lonely man in the urban jungle. Now, courtesy of our frien…
Update (8/29): Thanks to everyone who voted. Here are the final results of the poll.+++Today, we’re wondering who would emerge victorious in a battle royale between two ninja warriors, both of whom are currently starring in movies on YouTube. One is th…
Today, we wrap up our week-long feature of the 1984 classic, Ghostbusters. Over half a million of you tuned in, but many more of you outside the U.S. wanted to. Some of you have also wondered why the movie would come off the site. We work with our part…
Is there anything better than kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few of your closest friends? How about kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few thousand of your YouTube buddies? This Wednesday night, A…
Update (8/15) Thanks to everyone who voted. Here are the final results of the poll. +++This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the film that put “crossing the streams,” Gozer the Gozerian, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man on the map. An instant quo…
Reservoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, and Half Nelson topped critics’ lists when they came out, but before they achieved this recognition, they were all workshopped at the Sundance Directors Lab. Since its inception, the world’s most famous film worksho…