New Year's Party on YouTube
Posted on December 31, 2006
CNET reports that YouTube is bringing in the year with messages and music from Warner Music Group artists as well as videos from YouTubers from around the globe. The most recent videos can be found on the front of YouTube.com. More New Years videos can be found here on the New Years group which is where people can also upload New Years messages. There are also performances on the concert cam. CNET's article describes some of the artists helping out with the YouTube, Warner Music and Chevrolet event.
The video sharing Web site now owned by Google is teaming up with Warner Music Group to produce the first-ever YouTube New Year's Eve Countdown. The promotion, which is sponsored by Chevrolet, will celebrate New Year's as it happens around the world with new videos featured every hour from New Zealand to Los Angeles.The content on YouTube New Years' special is posts from YouTubers mixed in with content from musicians like Michael Bubble and Kid Rock. If you are looking for something else unique on New Years Day check out the Rose Parade on January 1st which will feature 200 stormtroopers -- George Lucas is the Rose Parade Grand Marshal. If you miss it there will probably be videos later on YouTube.Special video messages from YouTube celebrities, such as Boh3m3, Smosh, Terra Naomi, Renetto, Chad Vadar, and The WineKone, along with artists from WMG labels Atlantic Records, Warner Bros. Records and Warner Music International will be featured on the home page.
In addition to videos from top YouTube personalities, WMG will provide special video content from New Year's celebrations with its artists as well as music videos and concert footage.