I Love Brookers!!!

[Vin DSL]

Vin's Top 3 Picks:

1. Brookers V- Clog 1
   
2. CRAZED NUMA FAN !!!
   
3. My united states of...WHATEVA !!!

Extra credit:

Insane Assasins (istanbul)

[Spathiphyllum]

Perhaps you could send her a video reply... just don't forget to include a shot of your Adam's apple.

[Connie]

She might not be as turned on by a Adams Apple as Vin is.

[Vin DSL]

Heh! Unfortunately, it isn't as easy as that. Brookers has become wildly popular -- supposedly has over 10 million fans now, because of those goofy videos...

Source: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar...606230329.html

When Brooke Brodack, a 20-year-old receptionist who lives in western Massachusetts with her mom and younger sister, started getting fan mail from Carson Daly's people, she figured it was all a joke, that somehow she'd been punked.

But strange things can happen when you post goofy homemade videos of yourself on YouTube.com, the Web site that the TV industry can't decide whether it should embrace or dread.

Daly, former MTV phenom and current host of NBC's late-night show "Last Call," was noodling around on YouTube one weekend this spring when he told an executive at his production company to check out Brodack's short video parodies. An intense young woman with flyaway hair and a gap-toothed smile, "Brookers" had in eight months become one of the most popular hosts on the video-sharing site, which logs roughly 200 million page views per day and is ranked No. 18 in worldwide Internet traffic. One of Brodack's videos, "Crazed Numa Fan!!!!," a wry takeoff on the Internet lip-syncing craze inspired by the popular dance tune "Dragostea din Tei," has been viewed more than 1.4 million times since October.

"I thought there was something extremely charismatic about this girl," Daly said Friday. "Her directing, her use of music — it was very MTV to me."

You can probably write the next paragraph yourself: Carson Daly Productions signed Brodack to an 18-month overall programming development deal, splashed across the pages of Variety last week. Other terms weren't disclosed, but it's believed to be the first time a recognized Hollywood firm has established formal ties with one of the homegrown (and mostly young) talents on YouTube.

Brodack — who deleted as junk the first couple of exploratory e-mails from Ruth Caruso, a development executive at Daly's company — is still trying to grasp what happened. Daly himself "e-mailed me for the first time about a week ago," Brodack said. "He goes, 'I'm a huge fan of yours,' and I'm thinking, 'Aren't I supposed to be saying that to you?' This is kind of 'Twilight Zone'-ish."

Source: http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...splay=brookers

YouTube has churned out its first crossover viral video star.

Carson Daly has signed Brooke "Brookers" Brodack to a talent/development deal, making the 20-year-old the first talent to emerge, in an official capacity, from the online service.

Via his Carson Daly Prods. banner, Daly will work with Brodack on content for TV, Internet and mobile outlets.

Brodack's portfolio of vids range from comedic shorts and parodies to video diaries. Her video "Zuma," a sendup of the widespread musicvideo for "Dragosteta din Tei," by Romanian boy band O-Zone, has been viewed more than 1 million times.

Daly said he became mesmerized by her videos after recently stumbling upon them online.

"The Internet has become a new platform for identifying emerging artists such as Brookers. I hope to give her the opportunity to expose her talent on a much larger scale," he said. While Brodack isn't the first talent to surface from the Web -- MTV star Andy Milonakis got his start with online video sketches -- hers is one of the first deals struck based on YouTube popularity.

"Several things immediately caught my eye watching her videos," Daly said. "She's got a fresh point of view, considerable directing skills and a great sense of music and how to use it."

Next step for Brodack will be to discuss longformlongform content with Daly and CDP development senior VP Ruth Caruso, in addition to more of the shortform clips she's been producing on her own for the past several years.

"There is potential for Webisodes, mobile series and definitely a great TV show here. She'll be an exciting package to present to networks," Daly said.

[Spathiphyllum]

Twilight Zone-ish indeed. Now, everyone with a desire to get exposed has an avenue to do it. Forget reality TV. It's already on the internet and produced by, potentially, billions.

And you thought you were overwhelmed with the number of cable channels to view content!

The Internet - the greatest democratic tool since, well, Democracy.