As every online video creator knows, it ain't easy getting people to pay attention to your work. Sometimes, you have to go to extreme measures to get people to notice you. For example, new Daily Reel member Mark Berry recently took to the streets of Indianapolis to do a little offline promoting of his online activity. The results are this great video...

The Treo Mobile Comedy Film Festival, the film festival with a funny twist, is looking for submissions. Deadline is September 24th.

Entries will be accepted from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. All entrants must be 18 or over.

Great prizes including $5,000 cash prize, a mobile filmmaking toolkit, plus travel and accommodations for the October 18th Los Angeles gala event.

Select films will also be featured during the festival on MobiTV.

For details, go to http://www.treofilm.com.

After months and months of hard work, our engineering and design teams have finally launched Zannel 2.0 on August 22nd, 2007. The new and improve makeover of the site now has a new fresh and slick look to give users a better experience using Zannel. Zannel new look is not the only thing that have been changed to the site. With the new look, it came with the text conversions support where threads can be started about the videos and pictures on Zannel.

Equipped with tools such as send to friend(s) email or mobile phones and the embed players on the web are by far the easiest way to share videos and pictures.

Zannel are currently working with companies such as Warner Bros, My Damn Channel, Ripe Tv, The Daily Reel and more to get their videos onto the mobile world and featuring them on the homepage.

Check out www.zannel.com and let me know what you think about it. I would love to hear the inputs about Zannel.

New York comedian Chelsea Peretti has been doing some great stuff with SuperDeluxe and her latest creation might be our favorite so far. It's the first in what we assume will be a new series of videos titled "All My Exes" in which Chelsea sits down with one of her ex-boyfriends to conduct and in-depth interview.

Click here to check it out.

Ok, here's the deal. You've come up with a "brilliant" concept for a new web series and you're getting ready to roll it out, but you want to give people a little taste of what they can expect and start to build the "buzz" for your new creation. Time to release a teaser clip. There's a lot of ways to do this, but one of our favorite recent teasers is this one which came out today for comedian Bert Kreischer's upcoming series "White Gorilla." Can't say I'm sure what it's going to be, but I can say this teaser is funny and definitely arouses some curiosity - among other things.

Hey Daily Reel comedy fans, just wanted to invite all of you to tonight's Whip It Out Comedy show at the Hollywood Improv at 8 pm. The show features some amazing standup and comedy videos - click here to check out the lineup which is packed with some great comics who you will recognize from Last Comic Standing, NBC, Comedy Central, etc.

Ok, so once you've finished creating your latest comedic masterpiece the next question is how do you get it seen by the masses? I'm a big proponent of posting your videos anywhere and everywhere, but I've also got to admit it can be a real pain in the ass to upload a video onto 20 different sites. Finally, somebody's taking steps to remedy that hassle.

Tubemogul has just launched a universal uploader which theoretically allows you to upload your video one time and it will magically appear on seven different video sites (like the Youtube, Myspace, and Revvers of the world). Plus, it also gives you one-stop shopping for tracking your views and assorted other statistics that you use to re-assure yourself of your talent.

Haven't tried the uploader yet myself, but it looks promising. If anybody out there has taken it for a spin already, let us know what you thought of it....

The video of Miss Teen South Carolina's amusing attempt to explain the importance of education is taking the Net by storm as we speak, which means one obvious thing -- the parodies are coming soon. Just like any viral web phenomenon, it won't take long for comedy video makers to try to capitalize on the viralness by creating their own spin off videos. Anybody done one yet? Anybody working on one? Feel free to post a comment with any you've seen or have made....

Today I've got a bit of self-promotion and a question for you Daily Reel Comedy fans. First, check out the latest video from Whip It Out Comedy which features Blerds member Nate Craig going to a dog park to find out how dogs are reacting to the Michael Vick dog fighting news.

Second, a question for those of you that make comedy videos. When you release them, do you always post them in the Comedy category on sites like Youtube? We usually do, but this time we posted it in Pets & Animals and it seems to be MUCH easier to crack the top links/top views/etc. lists in that category than it is in comedy - which in turn drive more views. I guess the question is...do you think it's always the best plan to post your comedy videos in the comedy category or are there better results to be had elsewhere?

Curious to hear what you guys think...

For those of you that missed the Daily Reel's meetup/drink fest at Barney's Beanery the other night, you missed a great time - and a great chance to meet tons of content creators, buyers, and freeloading drinkers. One of the people that we finally got the chance to meet in person was the guys behind Doogtoons, whose animated work is often featured on GoPotato.tv. They do great stuff, including this series featuring animated jokes from the one and only Eli the Accountant. Check it out...