Tech Wired Australia
Host: Ben Grubb
Guest: Comedian, Dan Ilic
Topics discussed:
Freeview spoof ad, Broadcast TV and its future (or lake of), The way forward for Media companies and we talk about the infamous Beached as bru video on YouTube that has made over $1,000,000
UPDATE: Tech Wired has interviewed one of the creators, Dan Ilic.
UPDATE 2: Youtube has pulled the main spoof ad!
UPDATE 3: Dan Ilic has put up a copy of the video available here.
UPDATE 4: Margaret Simons of Crikey questions the creators to see if they took part in reporting the video.
UPDATE 5: Asher Moses of The Sydney Morning Herald believes Freeview lodged a copyright claim against the video.
Australian marketing website AdNews was reporting late last week that Freeview would be taking legal action against the creators of a viral video making fun of it. There has since been an edit to the article removing such comment of legal action though no retraction of the statement.
The viral video was created as part of a Melbourne Comedy Festival Show “Massage My Medium”, a show all about the death of TV networks. Read more
