(You can check out the answers to see how many you got right here.)

Don’t worry, here’s a little fluffy pick me up to brighten up your day… a video of cats floating in space!

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Featuring Ukrainian artist Kseniya Simonova, the new ad for The Sunday Times iPad edition uses the technique of moving simple grains of sand around to recount the passage of time in stories. Set to a beautiful classical music soundtrack, we watch as the Seasons change, a global recession hits, environmental disasters strike Japan and the narrative continues, demonstrating the ability of the new iPad edition of the Sunday Times to show you the news in a new light.

I love this kind of animation so I thought I would dig around to find a couple of other awesome little clips in a similar style to share with you – Enjoy!

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend: ‘Love between an owl and a goose demonstrates the magic and beauty of family as well as the inherent struggles that arise from cultural differences.’

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Lucia: The 1st short video of the series “Lucía, Luis y el lobo”. ‘Lucía remembers the summer in which she fell in love with Luis. The furniture whithin a bedroom is shaken and destroyed, meanwhile the charcoal Lucía appears and vanishes on the walls. LUCIA is a stop motion animation based on poetic-narrative text by Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña and Niles Atallah.’

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The ErlKing: “A visual representation of Goethe’s poem, The ErlKing using sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.”

Two Sisters: ‘Viola writes novels in a darkened room. Marie, her sister and only companion, takes care of her every need. Together, they are an island unto themselves, quiet and complete in their isolation. And then the abrupt arrival of a stranger throws their tenuous order into chaos.’

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Even the kitties are getting down with the fancy dress theme!

El Espectáculo de Sombras Chinescas Más Impresionante del Mundo

The world’s largest shadow puppet show – filmed at a live football match in Valencia.

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The video is part of a Europe-wide integrated campaign that we’re seeding for the agency JWT to advertise Trident Gum. How does a video of giant shadow puppet chickens playing football advertise chewing gum? I hear you ask… Well the clip is just one of a whole bizarre series from The Pointless Collective, designed to spread the word that ‘chewing Trident Senses Gum is pointless yet fun’.

The campaign features a collection of films, events, quirky artwork and funny stories that follow the adventures of three masked super heroes as they come up with elaborate ways to bring pointless fun to the world. Check out their website and Facebook page if you want to read more about their various crazy escapades.

Diversity | Street Dance For Change

Now, any Britain’s Got Talent fans out there will remember the 2009 wining dance group, Diversity. Well they’ve teamed up with insurance firm Aviva to make the Street Dance For Change video as part of the Street to School programme, committed to raising awareness of the 100,000 young people who run away every year in the UK.

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Through the initiative, Aviva are supporting street children projects in the UK and around the world, with the aim of helping half a million street children get back in to education or training by 2015. In the UK, their charity partner Railway Children is dedicated to supporting vulnerable children living alone on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation.

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a ‘Mover-groover’ why not have a go and upload your own 30 second dance video, not only will Aviva donate £2 to the charity every time the video is watched but you might also be in for a chance to win tickets to Diversity’s 2012 tour and meet Diversity themselves!!

Check out the official Facebook page for more information on how you can get involved and watch some of the best uploaded dance clips.

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A way to draw an end to any meeting that seems to be dragging on… Play me out!

This time we had some double feline battle action, with Meme-Master Meow up against Viral Kitty, in a fluffy cat-fight of YouTube awesomeness. Followed by Festival coordinator Rosie Fairchild taking us on a whistle-stop behind the scenes tour of the Bristol Cycle Festival.

With an amazing program of events ranging from guerrilla knitting, challenge rides and cycle speed dating to secret sing-a-long cinemas, the festival was brought to life with no budget by a whole host of dedicated volunteers, all passionate about the beautiful invention that is ‘the bike’.

And… we all got special stickers, did some roll play cycle games and wondered why Brit Eckland needed a bum-double in the famous wall banging scene of the Wicker Man!

Among the highlights from this week’s meme battle were Nonononononononon Cat, (I’m not quite sure what his problem is, but he definitely does NOT agree.)

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Vs Jedi Kittens Strike Back (both cute and geeky, got to be a winning combo.)

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Then over to the bizarre TV commercials – If you liked the Chuck Tester taxidermy ad that we featured in the viral chart rundown last week, then Cuban Gynecologist: Local Car Commercial, (another hilarious offering from comedy duo Rhett & Link), will be right up your street.

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Vs the heavily parodied Flea Market Montgomery with a cameo on The Cleveland Show.

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In the ‘best journeys’ category we had the awe inspiring What Does It Feel Like To Fly Over Planet Earth Vs Gamer Commute, one man’s epic drive to work, (if only real life was that exciting!)

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Finally, the Horsemanning song. Ever since the Planking phenomenon took off, the internet has been looking for ‘the new planking’. We’ve had Owling, Stocking, Cone-ing, Plumbking even Scarlett Johansson-ing! Well this little tune takes us through the art of Horsemanning.

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So, who won the war? Drum roll please …

Da da da daaaaaaaah…. Congratulations to Viral Kitty!!! Yes it finally happened, Chris’s winning streak has been broken. Is Meme-Master-Meow loosing his touch? Let’s see if he can steal back his crown in the next battle.

Which brings us to our first exciting announcement… We’re planning a #KittenCamp Christmas spectacular on 14th December. Not only will we have a whole host of extra special guests, activities and prizes but we are moving to a new venue. Since we appear to have outgrown our lovely little space at Goldbrick House we are heading to pastures new and our Christmas party will be at the Big Chill Bar. Places will go fast so reserve your ticket now to avoid a sad face later!

Second exciting announcement…. There is now an official #KittenCamp Tumblr! We will be posting all kinds of fun clips and bits & bobs on there so keep an eye out, and don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Meow for now!

YouTube is by far the most well established video-hosting platform on the market and with Google now including YouTube videos on their main search results pages, it’s essential to get the SEO right if you want your video to be noticed.

Over 13 million hours of video were uploaded to the site last year alone and competition for views is higher than ever, so we’ve put together a few handy tips on how to optimise your video to give it the best chance of being found…

1 – Titles & Descriptions:

Yes it sounds obvious but worth a mention, try and use as many relevant keywords as possible in your title as it’s the first thing people will read when skimming through search results.

It’s important to spend time writing the video description because it will show up both in YouTube and Google search listings. You should try and repeat relevant keywords again here, (being careful to avoid keyword stuffing). Remember that only the first few words will be shown in search results but keywords from the additional text will be detected and help make your video more easily searchable.

2 – Keywords:

Think carefully about the keywords that are most appropriate and do some research to find out what search terms are popular. YouTube have a handy Keyword Tool that allows you to view search volumes for individual words, analyse the demographics of people searching for them and generate suggestions. Avoid the temptation to include words simply because they are popular if they don’t have a direct relation to your video, it may result in an initial traffic boost but you will end up with high bounce rates which will tell YouTube to make your content less visible.

3 – Video Thumbnail:

Choosing a good thumbnail image for your video can dramatically increase the chances of it standing out. We’ve all heard of the expression ‘judging a book by its cover’ and rightly or wrongly that’s exactly what people do on YouTube. When presented with a list of thumbnail video images, viewers tend to skim down the first page and pick those with the most striking pictures.

After uploading your video you will have 3 thumbnails to choose from. These images are not randomly selected but calculated on fixed positions within your clip so it’s possible to manipulate the video to control your options.

You can calculate the exact position of your thumbnails by following the equation below…

X = Video length (in seconds)

Y = X divided by 4

Y is the 1st thumbnail.

2 x Y is the 2nd thumbnail

3 x Y is the 3rd thumbnail.

If you find that a bit too much to think about in advance you can always tweak your video directly in YouTube and see how your edits effect the thumbnail images selected.

4 – Links:

Google will use the number of links to your video to determine its position in the search rankings, so you should create links everywhere you can. Use your website, write comments with links on relevant blogs, you can even build up links within YouTube itself by creating video responses to other relevant clips, (again be careful not to over do this or it might be identified as spam). Don’t forget to leverage social media sites and post regular updated links on Twitter, Facebook and other services and make sure you enable embedding so other people can post your video on their sites.

A really good way to boost the number of links to your video is to use a seeding service like the Viral Ad Network which will distribute your video and links across hundreds of blogs encouraging the viral sharing effect to really get your clip noticed!

5 – Be aware of user signals:

YouTube want to keep viewers engaged with its content, so in order to make the most relevant videos more easily searchable it uses an algorithm that tracks user interaction.

It’s worth keeping in mind some of the following signals that it takes into account…

Joining us as our guest speaker will be Rosie Fairchild, festival coordinator for the awesome Bristol Cycle Festival, a 9 day program of events ranging from mountain biking to guerrilla knitting, challenge rides and cycle speed dating to secret sing-a-long cinemas.

Expect the usual viral shenanigans, beer, meme battles, and Rosie chatting us through the highs and lows of DIY & group run social media promotion @bris_cycle_fest.

For further information and to grab your free tickets visit the Eventbrite page.

And… in case you some how missed the news flash, #kittenCamp is officially famous, actual been on the telly fame! Check out the BBC news story on our last London event.

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