Cheezburger's latest idea: Slow motion egg fights and more |
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Life is just a little funnier in slow motion, especially with the right soundtrack. That's apparently the thought behind a new site from the folks at Cheezburger Network, which recently unveiled a new YouTube channel called SuperSweetSlowMo.
There you can see a human egg fight; dogs jumping in air; and a hammer smashing groceries -- all in slow motion video.
Above is a video of plastic army men set on fire, via New Tee Vee which first reported on the site.
SuperSweetSlowMo is the latest offering from Cheezburger, a collection of more than 40 Web sites such as GraphJam, Poorly Dressed, There I Fixed It and -- of course -- the well known I Can Has Cheezburger and Fail Blog.
Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh tells New Tee Vee's Liz Shannon Miller that “slow-motion technology is just now coming into consumer capability.” At this point, the site only has four uploads, created by the team at Cheezburger. But the company is hoping that users will start submitting their own productions.
So far, the site has attracted 47,100 views, and more than 23,000 subscribers. That's not quite up to the level of the Fail Blog channel, which has recorded more than 30 million views and over 700,000 subscribers since it started a couple years ago.
In fact, Cheezburger's YouTube strategy is growing in importance. Huh tells New Tee Vee that the company's collection of channels on the Google-owned video platform now tops more than 100 million every month. Meanwhile, the company's own network of Web sites is attracting more than 200 million page views per month.
UPDATE: I just got some new monthly stats for Cheezburger Network. The company is now attracting 15 million visitors, and 320 million page views a month. Meanwhile, it is receiving 18,000 photo and video submissions every day.
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