Grown Up Thinking

The kids of College Humor became an Internet sensation with the launch of CHTV, the series of original viral videos featured on collegehumor.com, a site which traffics over 4 million unique visitors each month.  CHTV’s releases about 5 videos each week in various formats including sketch comedy, film/video parodies and original content including Hardly Working, Jake and Amir and Bleep Bloop.  A personal fan of College Humor for years, I was ecstatic to hear that the series of witty videos were being picked up by MTV to air as the College Humor Show, premiering on February 8th. 

I see this as a huge step for not only for pure entertainment purposes, but also the plethora of smart user generated videos out there.  YouTuber stars like Liam Kyle Sullivan and Jessica Rose (LG15) have risen above their internet popularity to become legitimate spokespeople of this generation.   Major corporations are taking notice of the view counts on YouTube and realizing how influential series like these are in grabbing the attention of this 2.0 world.

 

Tags: College Humor, Viral Video, You Tube

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