Great news….We were just notified that the video we produced for the Captain Morgan for President 2008 campaign was showcased on FoxNews!

Currently, Jambo Media delivers more than 2 million daily video plays and supports video on more than 120 web sites and growing on a weekly basis.  Diligent, has partnered with Jambo to produce event content for the distributor.

Kid Fails Driving Test 5 times in a day has gone viral.. at over 1 million views between youtube and break.com !

We received a nice mention from TVWeek in a Daisy Whitney’s column this week also in an article entitled: Real or Fake? Do We Even Care?

In other news.. we’re now listed in the ProductionHub.com in Production Companies – Video in Los Angeles, California

For those of you keeping score at home, here’s a quick numbers update on one of the Parrot viral videos we launched on You Tube earlier this week. The video follows our favorite student driver Johnny as he learns how to drive with five different instructors. Here’s the video.

It’s titled “Kid fails driving test 5 times in a day” featuring Johnny.Here are the stats the video has racked up this week: #6 Top Favorited Entertainment Video, #15 Most Viewed Entertainment Video, #19 Top Rated Entertainment Video. Keep sending the video to your all friends and help us move all the way to number one! Click HERE for the official Parrot web site.

After three weeks of production, our favorite Parrot Bluetooth Handsfree car kit project is finally complete. So what did we learn about the birds and the bees? 1. Working with birds is easier than we thought. Just don’t talk loudly, flash bright lights, move scaffolding, or redress the set when they’re around because once they lose their cool, it’s all over. Now that we think about, maybe working with birds is harder than we thought. 2. Driving and talking on the phone, while still en vogue, will be no longer be legal in the state of California as of July 1, 2008. So put down your Starbucks, your Ipod, your mascara brush, your blackberry, your Iphone, your other cellphone and concentrate on the road, idiot! You have enough distractions as is! Now can you please change the radio station and hang a U-turn? WATCH OUT!!!!! 3. No, Polly does not want a cracker; in fact, Polly can’t even say that Polly wants a cracker unless Polly has been extensively trained for years and years and years. Birds rarely speak on command; we don’t know what caged bird sings. Can you help us find it? See all our hard work in its glory:
While you’re at it, why don’t you send it to your friends, your mama, your daddy, your baby mama, and your pet bird. After all, sharing is caring! In closing, we ask you to please start abiding by the new California driving law as of July 1 because getting pulled over by a cop is no way to start your summer vacation. Click HERE for the official Parrot web site and stay cool.       

The new Creative Arts Angency (CAA) and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB) online innitiative – weplay.com soft-launched this week featuring content produced by Diligent.

The New York Times ran a story on the launch in the technology section earlier this week:

“The venture, WePlay.com, a social networking site for youth sports — something like Facebook for young athletes — is expected to start in mid-April. The site caters to youth athletes, parents and coaches — a vast audience. About 52 million children a year participate in organized sports leagues, according to the National Council of Youth Sports….

“Two hundred forty million people in America are one degree of separation from youth sports,” said Steve Hansen, the chief executive of WePlay. “Youth sports is held together by e-mails, phone calls and clip boards. We want to change that.””

Link to article in the New York Times

Link to weplay website

We have won the bronze prize for commercials “The Race” and “Sticky” which we produced in conjunction with The Sheppard, LLC for Herbalife. Sticky is an animated piece that won in the health and wellness category and The Race is a live action piece that won in the film and TV category.

We are working with CAA and Major League Baseball Advanced Media to produce content for exciting new sports social network – WePlay. The site is set to launch in April. Meanwhile we will be working with some of the biggest names in sports producing content for the site.

Here is some more info on the venture:

http://www.bizofbaseball.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1880&Itemid=52

and the private beta launch:

http://www.weplay.com/ 

The response to Kosha Boy has been unbelievable…way bigger then any of us could’ve imagined.Viewers have made it #1  favorite video on YouTube’s comedy section,  #3 favorited video of the month (December 2007) and #75 favorite comedy video of ALL TIME!   TV Guide. com’s Editor’s pick of the weekhttp://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Todays-Videos/Crank-Kosha-Boy/800029219     Current.TV has also named Kosha Boy the #1 viral videohttp://current.com/items/88656211_lemur_kosha_boy 

Kosha Boy, the video we produced for Smooth-E, has a total viewership of over 3.5 million!It has also received numerous accolades from You Tube including: #1 – Top Favorites (This Week)#1 – Top Favorites – (This Week) – Comedy #1 – Most Viewed (This Week) – Comedy#1 – Watch on Mobile #3 – Top Favorites (This Month) – Comedy It has also been featured on You Tube’s front page all over the world in countries like…Japan, Germany, Russia, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, U.K., Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Brazil and Hong Kong. Thank you everyone for your support. We truly appreciate it.