Earlier this week, HTC announced its new “Change” ad campaign starring Robert Downey Jr., and the first of a series of ads was set to air on YouTube tomorrow, August 15. But the two-minute clip was leaked earlier today, and so it appears HTC has been forced to release the official version a day early.
You can watch it below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-Prx19ZM&feature=player_embedded
Over the last few years we’ve seen Apple’s competition start to really take it to Cupertino in TV ads. Sometimes it seems petty but according to Samsung’s marketing chief, Arno Lenior, the tsunami of ads mocking Apple fans were a huge boon for the company.
In an interview with AdNews, Samsung’s Lenior says that the ads were brilliant because they got Apple fanboys and Samsung fans to bash with one another over which beloved “brand” is better:
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have today unveiled MixBit, the new video sharing service that they’ve been teasing us with for several months. It hopes to rival Instagram and Vine with a focus on mixing and editing video. Users can record 16-second clips at a time, and then stitch up to 256 of them together to create an hourlong video.
Following the grand unveiling of the LG G2 on Wednesday, LG has uploaded a series of videos to its official YouTube channel to showcase the handset’s design and features. There are eight altogether; one features the G2’s clever rear key, while other show off software features like Plug & Pop, Audio Zooming, and the Camera app.
Instagram for Android has been updated to introduce the ability to upload videos that you have already recorded from your gallery. The release also brings video support to devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
