Improv Everywhere is about to pass 100 million total views on YouTube! We joined the site in April of 2006, about five months after YouTube started. While it feels like we’ve *always* been on YouTube, Improv Everywhere existed for four and half years before we had a YouTube channel (and for about four years since.) Without YouTube, we’d still be documenting our missions with just text and tiny photos. YouTube has enabled Improv Everywhere to reach an international audience without needing a green-light from anyone but ourselves. So, hooray for YouTube!
We’re also on the cusp of reaching 300,000 subscribers on YouTube. To celebrate, we’d like to give away something special to the 300,000th subscriber. The first person who posts a link in the comments below to a screen shoot of Improv Everywhere’s channel after we’ve passed the 300k mark will win the last remaining Improv Everywhere Best Buy Blue Polo shirt. Yup, the shirt that is so illegal to sell we got a cease and desist letter about it! Only 24 of them were ever made. 12 were sold and 11 were given out as gifts to senior agents. One adult size small remains!
Be the first to post a screen shot of our YouTube channel displaying over 300k subscribers and the shirt is yours.
And if you’re not a subscriber to our channel, speed this contest up and subscribe now!
UPDATE: We passed 300k and have a winner. See comments below. Thanks to everyone who tried to win! And thanks to everyone who subscribes to Improv Everywhere on YouTube!!!
I don’t understand :S lol
i love to watch you guys!
Damnit! YouTube is blocked at work! Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! =(
Well, congrats anyways IE!
Do you have to live in America?
No, I’ll ship it overseas if I have to. Though it might take several weeks.
I hope not!
Germany is really a good place to live.
http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_01_nopants1.jpg
I LOVED this one!
Woops… did not read the instructions carefully.
how do you post a screen shot?
Congratulations!!!
here’s the screenshot
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1139766&l=a6fa433a93&id=1286303799
or if you prefer a better shot
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1139793&l=8249469173&id=1286303799
it’s not even at 300k yet!
oh…you haven’t hit 300,000 YET.
got it now.
silly bear….
LOL. I was improvising. :)
how do u make/capture a screen shot?
CONGRATS, do you have a size large?
Here’s the screenshot
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2053592&id=1042868913&saved#!/photo.php?pid=31136201&id=1042868913
Nope.
still not at 300k…..
Just 154 away!
now 158 away, what?1
I’ll try.
So, by “passed the 300k mark”… would a screenshot of 300,000 and/or 300,001+ etc. be acceptable?
Isn’t it a little too easy to fake a screenshot? >.>
http://imgur.com/NqbsA.jpg
Haha – nice fake. I’m watching though. I’ll know whether it’s actually crossed 300k or not.
can the screenshot be hosted anywhere? are we simply to let you know of the url of the screenshot?
Hosted wherever, sure.
To take a screen shot on a Mac:
Shift and command and 3 takes the whole screen. Shift and command and 4 lets you select the part of the screen that you want. Upload just like any other file.
47 away!
Testing the comment posting for speed.
Also, I keep getting the error that I am posting too quickly, even though this is my first post here.
of course, now I have to go get kids from school… so NOT fair!
Mee too!! : (
Slowly but surely…
testing
Almost!
30 to go!
Make that 14!
Did the legal advice ever help?
I had suggested that you had a case against BestBeast based on the shirt being a parody and the tag shape being used in other ways besides a company logo.
Congratulations to you on the success of IE and thank you for entertaining me. The few missions I’ve been in have been tons of fun.
Thanks Charlie.
I decided just to take the shirts down and not worry about a legal fight. There’s a chance we could have won– I think it’s clearly a parody shirt– but I didn’t have the time or the money to get into a fight with Best Buy’s lawyers. Plus, the C&D letter caused such a huge stir online (especially the one they sent Laughing Squid) that I won in the end. We got tons of traffic from it. We only made 24 shirts anyway.
Thanks again for offering to help out!
so the shirt is an adult small correct?
Yes. Men’s adult small.
If someone were to post 300,001 and then someone else posted the 300,000 which person would win?
The first person, based on the time stamp on the comment to post a screenshot of 300k or more.
testing :) getting ready!
YESS 300k subscribers!!!
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2215/improveverywhere300k.jpg
WINNER.
Based on the name of the image, it is possible that this was a faked screenshot
I considered that. But the image had the number of total views correct as well. That number doesn’t change with each view, but it had been updated pretty recently before the 300,000th subscriber. So if he made a fake, he made it pretty quickly before and he posted it the second it went to 300k.
And he seems like a nice dude so I’ll trust him!
2 away!!!!
http://gyazo.com/39739640deb29945e4a69c48a71130b5.png
Eeeek *crosses fingers I’m the first* :D
http://tinypic.com/r/2d91w89/5
http://twitpic.com/1ahv8l
http://www.facebook.com/editphoto.php?aid=2040059&success=1&failure=0
http://www.youtube.com/user/ImprovEverywhere#p/u/2/40qHb9uFpRI
http://yfrog.com/5d14300068p
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/dumbpistol/imporv.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30601543&id=1137180617
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5059823&l=1d47bf2a22&id=588654257
Dammit.. it said “ur posting too quickly” http://twitpic.com/1ahva8
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=157003&id=545070255&l=1c1428b737
I dont know how to capture a screen shot but its at 300,007! : (
i got the same thing chris b
poop
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs371.snc3/23861_1360232560036_1058199366_1058757_6083922_n.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11797198&id=713135187
300,002
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5409591&l=2534558399&id=698525026
Posting too quickly my ###!!!
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7199/74179331.jpg
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=164692&id=595363691&l=88f101c7ac
had to post it almost around 20-30 times as I kept getting the error (too quickly!)
ugh that ur posting too quickly made me lose i think. i had it exactly at 300,000 but it took 5 tries to send and by the time i did there was 2 replies for like 300,002 and 1. weaksauce
Darn, I kept getting a “you’re posting too quickly” message!
After reviewing the entries, I’m declaring RollinAbes to be the winner:
http://improveverywhere.com/2010/03/23/100-million-views-and-300k-subscribers/#comment-110337
Congrats! I will email you to get your address (using the email you left the comment under.)
Hooray :) Awesome thanks guys! I think I won by about 5ms, haha.
Thanks to everyone who tried! And thanks to everyone who subscribes to Improv Everywhere on YouTube!!! New videos coming soon!
Damn, it said I was posting comments too quickly also… wonder what that means…
I guess wordpress has something built in to prevent a spammer from posting hundreds of comments over and over…
Here is the 300,000 mark but the system said I was uploading too quickly???????
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5409684&l=b5e458be93&id=698525026
This is unfair! I had the image but the website timed out and then was apparently overloaded with people so i couldnt do it, but theres proof of uploading time to facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3839255&id=737939085
wait thats not right, the winner was one over, my image is exactly 300k.
I made it clear above that it didn’t matter if you were over.
Well there goes an hour I’ll never get back! :)
Congrats on the 300K Charlie & Co!
What’s up for the 1 millionth view?
hmn………….a copy of shiny happy people ;):P
Yes, the exact same copy we played in The Moebius. ON CASSETTE.
haha, same thought here. there goes the last hour refreshing youtube pages :)
Congrats, Rollin
Thank you good sir ^^
Ma’am — and I’m a perfect size S if you can’t use that shirt ;)
Oh I’m sure we can take turns ;)
ooh, 500 subscribers overnight. THats interesting.
Congratulations to the Winner!
Check out the new episode of Real to Reel featuring Charlie Todd!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfyVQfhk3Fw
In this episode, founder Charlie Todd brings the MP3 experiment to campus where students download an MP3 to their iPods and follow commands such as playing thumb war, napping on the ground and high-fiving strangers.