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Disney Celebrates its 1-Billionth Video View on YouTube with Exclusive Programming Event
Disney’s storytelling legacy is expanding online through Disney.com and its growing presence on YouTube, having just surpassed its 1-billionth YouTube video view. The company recently launched a new Disney network on YouTube (www.youtube.com/disney), part of a larger deal with YouTube that was announced in November 2011. The partnership offers complementary family-friendly video destinations for Disney audiences on both YouTube and Disney.com, featuring the best Disney video content along with curated family-friendly videos from across YouTube.
This week, the company is celebrating these milestones with a special 10-day programming event on its YouTube network. New original and exclusive videos will be introduced from across Disney, including Disney Parks, Radio Disney, Games, and Theatrical, and its YouTube content partners.
Disney Interactive Labs introduces Video Portal
Disney Interactive Labs has recently released a new video portal located at video.disney.com. This interactive portal allows you to watch trailers, YouTube videos, and clips — all from your browser on either your desktop machine or mobile device. This sort of site is right up my alley, and my daughter’s also! We are always looking for Disney video information, and now, with this site, we’ve got a lot of it right at our fingertips.
The video quality is phenomenal. For example, take a look at the trailer for the upcoming movie “Brave”
With sections for Movies, Shows, Collections, and YouTube, the amount of video available is quite a lot. Right now, there aren’t any real full episodes available, but I would be surprised if that doesn’t change in the future. It will be interesting to see if they expand on it. One thing I think would be incredible to see would be attraction videos, such as a trip through Splash Mountain, or a video of the World of Color. I don’t think that things like this would detract from people going to see the real deal, instead I think it would whet their whistle so that they make those vacation plans a little sooner then they thought they were going to. It wouldn’t even be a bad idea for them to have a section for the Disney Planning DVD available for watch or download. Time will tell what we see as the site evolves.
For more information, check out the article over at Tech Crunch.
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Win a Vacation of a Lifetime to Aulani Disney Resort & Spa in “John Carter: Journey to Aulani Sweepstakes”
To celebrate the release of Disney’s John Carter, Disney.com is offering guests a chance to discover paradise at Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa in the “John Carter: Journey to Aulani Sweepstakes.”
Inspired by John Carter’s exploration of an amazing new world, the grand prize winner can wake up a world away in Hawai’i with a four night stay at Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, as well as roundtrip airfare and a $500 room credit.
Guests can enter the sweepstakes once per day at Disney.com/JohnCarterSweeps or by texting “JOURNEY” to “347639” (“DISNEY”). The sweepstakes closes on March 23, 2012. Please click here for official rules. For more information about the movie, visit Disney.com/JohnCarter.
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Disney.com Unveils a Brand New Canvas for Create – the Award-Winning Online Artist Community
Disney.com announced today the launch of the new Create on Disney.com (Disney.com/Create), a sleek, feature-rich site to develop original works of art. Guests can share their creations with friends and family online and now via mobile devices, including iPad and smart phones. Create’s powerful creativity tools, called Apps, empower Guests to make digital paintings, comic books, animated pets and now videos. Since Create’sinitial launch in August 2009, more than 10 million pieces of art have been created and saved on the site generating over 100 million views, making it one of the largest collections of art in the world!
“Create on Disney.com has become a thriving, online community. Our Guests are demonstrating incredible imagination and artistic abilities in a fun, safe and supportive environment with other artists. I am blown away by what I see every day on the site,” said Mark Walker, SVP, Disney.com. “There are more than 700,000 active artists on Create and we are very pleased to be able to offer them a significantly upgraded site and exciting new opportunities for creative expression.”
Create on Disney.com offers more than 60 different themed apps to choose from, many that utilize a rich library of Disney character art and graphics, such as the Toy Story Comic Creator, Miss Piggy Digital Painter, Avenger Motion Comic Creator and the Phineas and Ferb Robotinator, among others. Alternatively, Guests can utilize Create as a blank canvas to create their own original art, characters and stories.
New to Disney.com’s Create
New apps and features are available every month on Create, but this is the first major re-design of the site since its initial launch. Exciting new additions to the site include:
- Video Mashup App – By using a combination of video clips, still images and original artwork, Guests can create professional-looking music videos and movie trailers in the matter of minutes!
- Cross-Platform Compatibility — Guests can now view Create’s gallery of art, animations, comics and videos from their iPad or smart phone.
- Personalization: — So that Guests can easily discover favorite art and artists, there is now a recommendation feature alongside the Create Viewer, offering suggestions on artwork Guests might like, based on their favorite subjects, characters and artists.
- Liquid layout – To maximize the canvas size for creating and viewing art, the liquid layout uses responsive design principles to allow pages to fluidly resize and optimize for screen size.
Since its inception, Create on Disney.com has received numerous awards and honors from parenting and technology organizations around the country, including Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice, Webby Award Official Nominee, KAPi (Kids@Play Interactive) Award Finalist, Parent’s Choice and the National Association of Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA).
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Create Your Custom Disney Holiday Cards & Gift Tags on Disney.com
DISNEY.COM/CREATE INVITES GUESTS TO CUSTOMIZE AND SHARE HOLIDAY MAGIC WITH FREE MICKEY MOUSE CARD MAKER
To spice up the season, Disney.com/Create has launched the holiday Mickey Mouse Card Maker. Inspired by classic Disney characters, vintage artwork and holiday traditions, the card maker lets guests create custom artwork to share warm wishes and memories with friends and family for the holiday season.
Guests can use winter backgrounds, classic character stamps, and spirited frames to create festive masterpieces, then can share them on Disney.com or download and print their artwork for an affordable holiday greeting card, personalized gift tag, or custom gift solution.
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