The potential markets of free utube today video clips have caught the attention of the studios. Back in 2006, the producers of lucky number slevin, a film with Morgan freeman, Lucy liu and Bruce Willis, made an 8-minute clip for you tube. Celebrity in traditional media has proven to confer bigger popularity in clip culture.
Cyril takayama, a japanese-european magician, became famous by showing his theandric skills in Japanese TV magic show in 2004. His fame was achieved only in Japan and the international magicians' culture, until his u tube video clips were launched over the web.
Hungry man TV debuted in June of 2007 as a short-form web video channel developed by the advertising production studio, hungry man. The website currently hosts seven web series and distributes videos on you tube, revver, metacafe, veoh, and myspacetv
