London buses are to be fitted with GPS advertising, as Yell.com in parnership with AKQA are set to launch a campaign to raise awareness of its local search facility.

Leading the campaign from the bus lane is a fleet of intelligent buses, which have been fitted with digital LED panels that display messages highlighting local businesses based on the bus’s geographical position.

The campaign also includes interactive bus shelters, online ads, posters, TV sponsorship and cinema, read more here.

‘A Glasgow tower block is set for worldwide fame as the colourful star of a new TV advert.’

The cat is out of the bag, Glasgow, Scotland is the chosen location for Sony to follow up the bouncy balls of San Francisco. A blog has been launched to document the development and the ever growing interest in this forthcoming campaign.

Further docmentation can be consumed at Flickr and Youtube.

Farfar have quite literally produced an all singing, all dancing campaign to promote Sweden’s capital, Stockholm. The main event being a video personalisation module that allows you’re name to be sung from great heights and at varying pitches, as you become part of Stockholm the Musical, a slick site it is too.

‘The Art of Destruction’ is another portion of idiot internet added to the promo site for ‘Milwaukee’s Best Light’.

Think Scrap heap challenge meets Jack ass as beer can’s (filled with sand unfortunately) are fired from a cannon into TV’s, Watermelon’s etc.

From the guys at Barbarian Group.

We’ve just launched a set of football audibles to support the FIFA World Cup on Yahoo! (Audibles are animated characters that can be used to taunt, flirt or simply enhance chat in Yahoo! Messenger). Get in!

Poke + Zoo Magazine + You Tube = ZOO TUBE of course!

In support of the forthcoming marketing campaign, a blog has been launched so we can follow the adventures of Steve and Richard, with cheeky previews of their activity via You Tube.

‘The Zoo marketing team have blagged a pile of cash to go and do cool stuff. Basically instead of spunking cash on a load of flashy tv ads thought it’d be more fun to take the money and use it to do something properly good instead.’

Round One, Strip Crazy Golf

Nice noughts!

The naming and shaming of those who dare…

‘Ave a word’is the latest campaign for Mini from Glue.

Well executed, video personalization to promote the Mini.

‘The Vines’ have exclusively debuted their promo for their latest single on You Tube.

‘…marking the first time a major act has premiered its content on the destination. The video, “Anysound,” fits well into the anything-goes, viral nature of YouTube…’

Read the full article here

So we are gonna see an ever increasing corporate interest in the web video community - no surprise there then. An interest which for the time being will neither harm or prevent us getting our fair share of shits and giggles out of ‘Youtube’ for the next few months I’m sure…

For those looking to start playing with something else, I have recently come across Jumpcut and Vimeo, both offering a similar experience model of explore, upload, edit, remix etc.

…is the message from this website by greatworks.

‘Absolut Cut, The Absolut Premix’ is the sophisticated alcopop and the site gives you a bunch of funny ish video’s and postcards to share with your nearest and dearest.

I’ve seen a similar treatment for the video stories somewhere else before though?