Rogue and Brittani Taylor Bring You 'Tube Top'

Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:38 Written by  Jordan DeSaulnier
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Rogue and Brittani Taylor Bring You 'Tube Top'

Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re a hilarious, gorgeous YouTube sensation with a smile that could very well launch a thousand ships. What do you do? Well, if you’re Brittani Louise Taylor, who I’m pretty sure is the only person who actually matches the above description, then you join forces with RogueTV to produce a singularly perfect fusion of internet forces: Tube Top, a weekly summation of the very best that YouTube has to offer.

Think The Soup, only instead of Joel McHale, you have the endlessly amusing Taylor, and instead of snarky jabs at Desperate Housewives or The View, you have funny, revelatory picks from the cream of the creative YouTube crop.That’s right, Brittani Louise Taylor is hosting a weekly web series and every Monday you can see her top picks on the iamROUGE's YouTube channel and on iamROGUE's website. Every episode of Tube Top highlights some of the most popular videos and personalities on YouTube, with the annotation system allowing you to jump immediately to any clip you like. It also features clever takes on videos you might be familiar with.

If you’re already a fan of Taylor, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find that the format suits her signature wacky, digressive style. Taylor says, “What is great about Rogue is that they take chances and they pay off."


Nick Turner, Relativity Media’s SVP of Digital Media, is equally spirited about Taylor and Tube Top. He explains, “we’ve been impressed with Brittani’s enthusiasm and work ethic and it became obvious that she would be the perfect person to shine a light on some of creative and innovative programming being done on YouTube today.”

Turner also pointed out that innovative engagement with YouTube is not new at Rogue, saying, “Recently in the marketing of our movies, we created a number of incredibly successful online marketing campaigns with multiple YouTube video stars.” These campaigns, for the alien-invasion extravaganza Skyline and the engrossing, perceptive documentary Catfish, were produced with YouTube staples Phillip DeFranco, JoeNationTV, OglaKay, iJustine, and TotallySketch and garnered much public interest in both films.

As for Tube Top, Taylor is looking to the future, as she hopes to add the occasional guest star and a Test Tube feature drawing attention to “up and coming YouTuber videos.” Check out the first episode right here, and head over to the videos section to catch Tube Top every week.

So, what’s your favorite clip featured in the first episode? Is it “The Awkward Date”? Or maybe “Symphony of Violence”?

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