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Why Video Discovery Sucks

How do you find a video you don't know about? Imagine this very common scenario.  You are at your computer and want to watch videos to kill some time. You do not have any specific video in mind, but you want something that’s fresh, popular, and...

The 7 Most Offensive Halloween Costumes of 2015

Based on the viral videos that have made this a year to remember, or forget, depending on who you are. Pizza rat will be everywhere It is Halloween season and that means cooler weather, pumpkin spice everything, and lists of the top costumes for 2015 based on...

The Top Viral Videos Of All Time

Video online B.Y. (Before YouTube) The Internet is on the cusp of overtaking television as the preferred video platform for consumers and rightfully so.  Ever since the modern web’s conception in 1990, it was apparent that it would one day be the new home for video. ...

NASA’s Huge Announcement

The "Wet" Red Planet: On Friday NASA made the announcement for an announcement they planed on making about a “Major” scientific discovery on Mars.  This is not atypical, as NASA relishes the opportunity to create a buzz when they have a truly newsworthy discovery.  The night...

The Ultimate Guide to Attending TechCrunch Disrupt

From strategies to hacks, how to make the most of the event. What to expect when your startup does TechCrunch Disrupt. TechCrunch Disrupt has the reputation of being the premier event in the startup universe and that is more then justified.  Alumni of Disrupt include titans of...

Reddit: Unreel’s Crystal Ball

Our Reddit Reel peers into the Internet's future, introducing you to top videos before they go viral: Our mission at Unreel is to bring viewers the most entertaining Internet videos, as they begin to trend with the most talked about moments tagged.  That would not be...

Saying Goodbye to Key and Peele

Relive their top 10 moments: It is always hard to say goodbye. After 5 seasons Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have given us some incredibly LOL worthy moments.  Here are our top 10: 10. Pegasus Sighting: Watch it here:               Key and Peele's best spoof, this video mocks the 2006 real...

Why Apple’s New Announcements Matter.

 Apple delivered huge news.  Now you can keep up to date with it on Unreel's Apple Channel.   1. “The future of TV is Apps.” Watch the reveal for the new Apple TV Tim Cook said it to the collective cringe of traditional video media companies. Apple’s new Apple...

A Request from the Illuminati: Stop Mentioning us in Video Comments

Bumble Bee, Unreel’s AI bot that crawls internet videos, has found over 9,000 comments about Illuminati.  Recently we received this letter from them addressed to the public: Dear Public, We, as an all-powerful subversive organization controlling every facet of society, are coming to you to ask for...

Make Room for the Big Boys on Youtube

How can native YouTubers compete as Network TV clips take over.   Late Night Viral: Fallon takes on Ferrell and Hart in a lip sync battle Unreel’s AI is able to pick up on trends about which videos are going viral.  On a daily basis, if you watch our...

Trending this week: Driving Stereotypes Ft. Dale Jr

Normally the Dude Perfect guys are out attempting to nail insane basketball shots, but this week, they nailed stereotyping drivers.  We had our bot crawl the comments on their video looking for its best moments.  Here are the highlight comments for the best moments in this...

Three Growth Hacks You’re Missing Out On

How Unreel is taking growth hacking to the real world: Remember clicking on banner ads? When websites first started using them the click through rate was huge. They grabbed people’s attention because consumers had not yet learned to block them out.  Now, banner ads are ubiquitous...

The Best Online Video Discovery Experience

Introducing Search on Unreel! There are over three million moments tagged in Unreel’s video catalogue.  It is an impressive number that's growing daily as our AI Bot, Bumblebee, crawls the web for the top viral videos. Trying to find the video moment to fit your mood...

If Cable Dies, What’s Next?

As more people cut the cord and ditch the dish online video has become the alternative of choice: Most things about cable, were it to remain static, indicate that its demise is on the horizon.  Cable is an analog technology in an ever-expanding digital world. ...

Featured Channel of the Week: Daym Drops

Click here to view full screen: It all started with a hamburger: Like foodies everywhere, Big Daym is passionate about food, specifically the kind that can be eaten in your car.  Also, like many, he shouts and reviews the food he is eating in his vehicle.  Unlike...

The Most Entertaining Donald Trump Campaign Moments

Watch them here: Love him or hate him, Donald Trump’s campaign is a sight to behold.  Like a rocket soaring to new heights, or the Hindenburg ablaze, it is impossible to look away.  At any given moment Trump might spew out a viral comment, or his critics,...

The Five Types of Startup Founders

Featuring the characters of HBO's Silicon Valley: We are a startup here at Unreel.  It is an exciting prospect, getting to grow an idea into the next big thing in online video. Startups can have a variety of different founders, we are lucky to have great...

How to Win the Internet Video Revolution

The future of the internet is video, will you capitalize on it? The Internet is not a static place.  If it’s not already here, in a matter of years, videos will be the king of online content.  Cisco has predicted that by 2018, over 80% of...

VidCon 2015

Unreel is at VidCon to kick off our "Unreel Creator" program Give me your video, your YouTube stars, your huddled masses of fans, yearning to meet their online idols.   VidCon Mania: The Unreel Team has been spotted. Every year since 2010 tens of thousands of Internet video fans have...

JustLOL coming to an app store near you!

We are taking back the LOL! There’s nothing like that new app smell! Meet our brand new App, JustLOL, bringing you the funniest online videos directly to your mobile device.  You can discover, tag and share your favorite moments within videos to spread the humor with your friends...

Why Startups are turning to Product Hunt

Product Hunt's active community has rapidly developed it into the hottest platform for launching a product.   Want to have a successful startup?  Now more then ever founders are turning to the site Product Hunt to get their business off the ground. The buzz generated by a...

Could the Moment Happen?

Nothing ruins a movie more then a completely unbelievable scene, especially at a moment that matters. So we ask, how believable are this summer’s blockbuster's top moments, could they happen?   Watch Chris Pratt get pranked by Raptors Jurassic World:  The Jurassic series popularity lies in the science it...

WeWork and its Unreel Offices

Unreel's NYC office, WeWork FiDi, has become a home.   Part of the team: Behind every great team is a great workspace.  Not the kind that is merely a backdrop, providing the minimum requirements to stay out of the way of productivity.  Rather, a place that develops into...

America Celebrates Moments that Matter this 4th

Let Unreel be the soundtrack and inspiration to your moments that matter this 4th of July. Watch our America! reel.  Bringing you sights and sounds to celebrate our Country's birthday. America, like Unreel, is about moments that matter. The signing of the Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the invention of...

Help Us Hack Cancer

Unreal commitment to charity:   Unreel team cleans up reel nice. In Silicon Valley, even the charities are start-ups.  Hack_cancer is a group of philanthropic young professionals who, in 2013, created the organization to hold events and raise money for non-profit cancer research.  Their marquee event is...

1 Million Moments and Counting

Unreel has just tagged one million unique moments in some of the best videos on the web, which begs the question…                                                 ...

Can Watching Viral Cat Videos Improve Your Life?

A university study has found cat videos boost more than just your mood.  We all do it.  For some it’s a guilty pleasure.  One that they privately indulge themselves to inside dark rooms hunched over their illuminated computer screens. Others fully embrace their primal instincts and...

Unreel launches a new way to engage with video by surfacing the real moments that matter!

Unreel Entertainments launched at www.unreel.co!  Full-screen channel surfing experience that automatically surfaces moments that matter. unreel shows specific time-marked scenes overlayed on top of video and allows users to skip to them automatically. Problem: With millions of videos to choose from, it’s challenging for users to remove the fluff in online videos...