Posted on Friday 31 July 2009
The JK Wedding video has been a huge success, and not only in terms of affording the couple a great deal of publicity. It has also made money for YouTube and Sony due to the use of the Chris Brown track Forever. Unfortunately, the actual video creators won’t see a penny.
The JK Wedding Dance
The JK Wedding Entrance Dance video has been a phenomenon in the same way the Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent clips were. Literally overnight, fame has been foisted on previously unknown, ordinary members of the public, with millions of people around the world watching them strut their stuff on YouTube.
I’ve already spoken about the JK Wedding video once because I see it as a blatant attempt at gaining fame. I don’t believe for a second that Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz just did this to entertain their friends. They staged it, videoed it, and uploaded it to YouTube because they knew there was a chance it could go viral. Which it then did.






With the collapse of Project Kangaroo, I assumed online TV in the U.K. would be limited to the BBC iPlayer for a long while to come. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case, with the competition hotting up. The latest contender is Microsoft, which today launched its MSN Video Player.