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• CRAZY STATS: 700 YouTube Videos Shared Every Minute on Twitter
• Did Machinima Turn Down an Acquisition Offer from Yahoo!?

  Google is reportedly in talks to invest in new media studio Machinima.com. But is Yahoo trying to acquire the company, too?

  
• Digital Upfronts: The Musical!

  DBG's Digital Content NewFront was emceed by and featured performances from a local NYC improv group. Here's what an advertiser thought.

  
• Rooster Teeth Hits One Billion Views on YouTube

  Rooster Teeth is the latest member of the One Billion Views Club on YouTube. The production company based out of Austin, Texas most famous for its machinima-created, Halo-inspired, sci-fi-themed and comically-oriented original web series Red vs. Blue (which the live-action and animation shop has been making since way back in June 2003) watched its channel cross over the 10-figure view count threshold on the world’s largest video sharing site sometime last week. To commemorate the occasion, the crew at Rooster Teeth made a self-deprecating, NSFW, thank you video directed towards the viewers (as well as the moms of those viewers) that made such an occasion possible. The individuals behind RvB and a handful of other online video programs (like the fantastic Immersion, which is like a Mythbusters for video game aficionados) also sent their love (or like) to all their fans. Check it out: Rooster Teeth joins YouTube’s One Billion Views Club along with recent new media studio and online original inductees including, but not limited to The Annoying Orange, Clevver Media, and Mondo Media. All 1.3 million or so registered members of the Rooster Teeth forums and avid watchers of any of Rooster Teeth's original programming are surely excited by this news, but they're also anxiously anticipating the possibility of seeing the Rooster Teeth team in person.

  
• ‘Leap Year’ Season 2 Trailer Drops at Mashable Connect
• YouTube to Spend $200 Million to Market Original Channels
• Robet De Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises Partners with Maker Studios on YouTube Channel
• VIDEO: Do You Remember YouTube’s First Digital Upfront?
• Julia Stiles, Jennifer Garner Among Featured In YouTube Brandcast
• YouTube, Mitu, IAWTV, MediaLink Host Events at NewFronts Today
• The Return of ‘You Suck at Photoshop’
• TUBEFILTER MEETUP: Sh*t People Say—Formula For Success (Sign Up Here)