Driving the astronauts to the rocket in Teslas. Nice shameless cross promotion, Elon.

To his "don't go by the same coffee shop" point, it must have been really hard to avoid "the force awakens" with the huge marketing machine of Disney churning out toys and cross-promotions everywhere.

@chicchorea, @youtubeyj is lying through his fucking teeth.

He's responsible for Senior Audience Development for the company who focuses on "SEO optimization" (which mean search engine optimization optimization) and tactical cross-promotion for their customers.

This garbage is the worst kind of self-link/spam for Rudimental, by someone who knows exactly how they're attempting to stealthily violate our posting guidelines and is trying hard to bend us over a barrel and violate our collective rectum.

It amazes me that these "reputable" companies still only try to improve their customers' online presence through fucking disgusting, deceitful spam like this bullshit.

*banwithavengeance

Quite true, but someone woke up inspired to come up with the concept... a cool ad for some decidedly iffy products.

Hmm... a little research later and I might have to take some of that back:

http://www.blog.generalmills.com/2014/11/worlds-most-incredible-cereal-pouring-machine/

The Dad and daughter are Mark and Jane Frauenfelder, and Mark is the founding editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine. He says, of the ad, that:

My daughter Jane and I had fun in this video for General Mills and Megabloks about the joy of using cardboard and spare parts to create a Rube Goldberg contraption, as part of their Rev Up the Breakfast Table campaign.

There are also rumors that Disney and Sony worked out a deal for Spider Man to appear in some of the other movies, while Sony retains Spider Man for solo films... Given Spider Man's roll in Civil War, I'd guess that's the movie he's most likely to appear in. I wonder if that deal means that some of the MCU characters can cross over to the Spider Man movies to help boost those. If that's all it took to make the deal, if I were either studio, I'd do it. Cross promotion like that... hecks yeah. Too bad Fox is still apparently being stubborn. Still, exciting times.

Also, a teaser trailer for a movie that is still 4 and 5 years out. That's got to be near a record.

My problem with the new comment system is the fact that spam is usually the top comments now. The top comments were relevant about 70% of the time before (with the occasional "Reddit sent me here" type BS), now it is ASCII art. They had a thumbs up, thumbs down thing for their comment system before to rate comments as relevant or not, you had to scroll past the top comments to get to the most recent comments...

And to answer Google's question, yes, most recent first... that is why I don't use Google+, because posts are put in some random order (at least on mobile devices) with no option to keep it in post order.

To be fair, there is a drop down menu in YouTube comments to put posts with most recent first. If they want, they could, should add another option to include "replies by poster"... and perhaps a search option to search comments... seeing how they are a search company...

I like the nested comments, but I don't like the way comments are overall now.

Look at the ASCII art found on the top comment of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aD5u02qoxQ how is that comment the top comment? Heck it is hard to even thumbs down it as the text goes over the thumbs.

They want to cross promote Google+? Fine, then put the same bar that is on top of GMail and Google Calendar across the top of YouTube.... instant cross promotion of all your products...

EDIT: Where the heck did that bar across the top of GMail and Calendar go? Seems you now have a less intuitive Apps button on the top...

I think a little cross promotion is in order: http://videosift.com/video/No-News-is-Better-than-Fox-News

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Interesting cross promotion

Cross promote to .... http://videosift.com/video/A-Magazine-Is-an-iPad-That-Does-Not-Work

Baby brains. Love 'em.

*promote

Very entertaining... but these sorts of blatant cross promotions in shows are pretty pathetic... "Hey, look, SNL has these AMAZING things you HAVE to watch it, you don't want to be left out... "

additional shameless cross promote.....

http://videosift.com/video/Disappointing-Gay-Best-Friend-rejects-the-hanky

additional shameless cross promote.....

http://videosift.com/video/Disappointing-Gay-Best-Friend-rejects-the-hanky

cross promote....

http://videosift.com/video/Disappointing-Gay-Best-Friend-won-t-Get-Better

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I suppose it would be a little different if you had a flat rate $10 review policy for all apps submitted. But that's different from what the email outlined. They're talking about cross-promotion if the company likes your post. They make it quite clear that the objective is to get people to download the app - a shitty review isn't going to help that, and the implication is that you sure won't get any promotional help if that's the case.

It's just dirty, dirty, dirty.>> ^kymbos:

Well, if you review apps on a blog, and someone pays you $10 to review theirs, and you do so honestly - is that so bad? I guess the reader would begin to question your credibility - is that what you're driving at?