Why I Love The Daily What Channel…

When I was much, much younger I emailed a clip to an aunt. There was nothing special about the clip - if memory serves 2 cats doing cat things … She responded almost immediately ‘seen it. thanks!’ The burning shame I felt that day… There’s nothing worse than sharing a stale clip. I swore, from that day on, if something was going viral I would be on board before the wave broke.

This is why The Daily What Channel is one of the first channels on my tuner. It’s the channel that finds and features video before it breaks 50,000 views. If you saw it first, it’s likely that you saw it here.

Their editors also do a fantastic job of contextualizing their videos as in the case of this one entitled “2012 Dergin Tokmak”Dancing on Crutches”STIX Tanzen auf Kruecken” The title doesn’t give you much to work with…

The video was found by them on reddit with a better but equally WTF title “Aw poor guy, look at his disabili-WHAAAAAT!”  … The Daily What dug a bit deeper and came up with their post “Inspirational Motivational of the Day:: Cirque du Soleil performer Dergin Tokmak, who became paralyzed from the waist down after contracting polio as a child, performs one of his incredible, inspirational solo crutch-dance routines.”

By adding that context they made an amazing clip extraordinary and makes their channel on Frequency a must-have.

Zaidan

- Chief Curator

Why I Love the Body RockTV Channel

From the Toronto Star: “When Zuzana Majorova, a 23-year-old Czech porn star, was flown to an island off the coast of Spain to model for a group of middle-aged, amateur photographers, she expected the usual — to arch her back, tilt her hips, and gaze into the camera, upon command.

But she found love.

Majorva fell for Frederick Light, a 30-year-old amateur filmmaker from Kingston, Ont. Their chance encounter in 2005 would rescue her from an X-rated career and turn her into a fitness star and BodyRockTV into an Empire.

On any given day, half a million people tuned in to watch Zuzana sweating through push-ups, squats and burpies, while her husband coached and joked from behind the camera.”

The empire has since expanded and Zuzana has stepped away from the camera to develop the lifestyle elements of her site.

It’s a rags to riches, (pornstar with a heart of gold) story AND an incredible workout to boot. So what’s not to love.

Zaidan

- Content Team

Linsanity!
For those of you who aren’t sports fans, the unfolding saga of New York Knicks point guard, Jeremy Lin is proving to be the most compelling sports story in decades.  An unknown, un-heralded, Taiwanese-American point guard has come from the bottom of the bench of the worst team in the league, to a all-star caliber point guard leading his team to six straight victories.
This fan-captured footage of his game-winning shot last night, shows him nearly blowing the roof off of the Air Canada Center — thrilling what is supposed to be a hostile crowd.  

Linsanity continues tonight in New York - and you can follow every video that the web devotes to it in the Frequency Jeremy Lin Channel.

Linsanity!

For those of you who aren’t sports fans, the unfolding saga of New York Knicks point guard, Jeremy Lin is proving to be the most compelling sports story in decades.  An unknown, un-heralded, Taiwanese-American point guard has come from the bottom of the bench of the worst team in the league, to a all-star caliber point guard leading his team to six straight victories.

This fan-captured footage of his game-winning shot last night, shows him nearly blowing the roof off of the Air Canada Center — thrilling what is supposed to be a hostile crowd.  

Linsanity continues tonight in New York - and you can follow every video that the web devotes to it in the Frequency Jeremy Lin Channel.

Why I Love the Reddit Video Channel

When  was a kid my favorite dollar purchase at the Depaneur was the ‘surprise bag.’ For those that grew up outside Quebec a Depaneur is a convenience store and a surprise bag was (I haven’t seen them in years)… Well, it was never the same thing twice.

Sometimes it was a great deal for a buck - a matchbox car with jawbreakers and sours… Other times I wound up with nobrand chocolate bars that had turned white with age and tasted like old bread…

As I grew older I realized that it wasn’t so much about what I got as it was about the anticipation of the unknown.  Like life, the surprise bag promised that the only thing that was certain was that nothing was certain.

Which brings us (at last) to the Reddit Video Channel… The clips have been vetted by the Reddit Hivemind so although you never know what you’re going to get there’s a quality control filter built in. Simply put Reddit Video Channel = Win > Derp 

- Zaidan

Content Team

Feb 8

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song… ~ Lou Holtz

One of the fastest growing, most beautiful and compelling classes of online video can be found in Nature Videography.

The equipment has gotten better, cheaper, and more lightweight.

Professional and amateur nature videographers are exploding in number and recording never-before-seen footage from some of the worlds most remote locations.

With the launch of our new Nature category we’re bringing the best of this video to you.

We’ve gathered recognized channels like BBC Earth and the World Wildlife Fund and coupled them with incredible channels like World HD and the Vimeo Outdoor Adventures Group.

The result is a video collection like no other on the web. So, if you’re looking for an escape from the daily grind - an opportunity to breathe and remember what life is like outside that cubicle - welcome home.

- Zaidan

Content Team

Feb 6

Superbowl Content for the TV-Less

Let me start this post with an admittance:  I’m a cord-cutter.  I turned in my DVR and cable box for a Roku digital video player and haven’t looked back since.  I soldiered on with a knowledge of the video intrawebs that comes from working inside of the all-encompassing video engine known as Frequency. 

So, returning from a Super Bowl party last night (still buzzing with G-Men inspired euphoria), I couldn’t go to my usual playbook of re-living Super Bowl glory via gazing at ESPN highlights on a constant loop.  So I turned to Roku’s Nowhere TV and found some interviews and recaps on an SNY (a local New York sports network) video feed. 

That took the edge off, but I still needed more.  I wanted to watch Eli’s amazing exploits - and hear the lament of New Englanders over their crushing defeat.


So I picked up my iPad - I opened up my Frequency App, and was treated to a smorgasbord of Super Bowl celebratory clips - even a student riot at UMass.   You can watch those that I frantically favorited on my Frequency channel.  But it did the job - I let our Super Bowl topic channel run for hours, as I drifted into a contented and victory-soaked slumber.  Score one for the cord-cutters.

— Russ

Feb 3

Frequency in the LA Times

Frequency in the LA Times

John Healy, LA Times tech blogger found Frequency smack dab in the middle of his Groundhog’s Day story on the web’s video landscape. 

What Frequency does… is bring order and structure to online video.

(Source: frequencymain)

A Noteworthy Video Review of Frquency’s iPad App

This past weekend Crazy Mike, from Crazy Mike Apps, did a fantastic video review in which he demos the Frequency iPad app.

In the video he walks you through the basics of setting up channels, personalizing video experience and adding your social feeds…

If you haven’t already downloaded it: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frequency/id465034728

- Zaidan

Content Team

Thank you!

Wow!  What an amazing response to  our first ever App release! 

Due to the overwhelming demand triggered by positive reviews of our App (not to mention our hang-time in the App store’s top ten) some users have reported an “unexpected response from server” message.

Thank you for your patience. We’re on it! Frequency is adding servers feverishly to make sure all of you have the greatest experience possible!

Thanks again and please feel free to contact us with any problems or issues you encounter (or simply to gush about how much you love the product).

And if you haven’t download our new iPad App, please do: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frequency/id465034728

- Zaidan

Content Team

A video report on Frequency from a Brazilian blog whose network is the #5 top domain in Brazil...

This is a wonderful video blog about by a Brazilian tech blog that’s the equivalent of the Huffington Post Tech Section.

For those whose Portuguese is a little rusty here’s a translation courtesy of Google Translate:

Frequency: a true center for your video collection online
This site can also be a good help when you need to find some video on the web

Frequency is a site that gathers videos from Youtube, Vimeo, social networks and your own FB profiles. Ideal for searching in all places at once and finding video that most interests you.

To use the service, no registration is required. But if you want to, you can follow friends like Twitter, and even upload their videos. To register, simply click the “Sign in” and then “Sign Up”, or you can attach your account to your Facebook profile. Ready! Now you can see all the videos available on the site. If you’re looking for something specific simply use the ‘search’ feature on www.frequency.com. 


In the channels tab, you find some icons. These icons are the channels. Clicking on each one of them, you see their videos. Another cool thing is that Frequency links the videos of your social network . So to see them, just click the Facebook or Twitter . To add a channel to your list, just click “follow” the desired channel. The same goes for friends and important topics!

The site design is pretty cool too. When watching a video,  other related clips appear nest to the video.  . There are also options to watch later, share, and even to go to the video page on Youtube, Vimeo or other site of origin. It also records your “favorite clips. The clips then appears in your list of favorites, which also has an icon in your main bar.

Well, now you know about this site/App, which can be a good help when you need to find some video on the web. So go, watch several videos, share and enjoy!