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Revver is sponsoring the Student Films Across America Los Angeles screening/awards event, taking place this Thursday, August 2nd at 7 p.m. at Cinespace in Hollywood. The event is free and will feature live music and high-quality student shorts. Come out and meet other LA-based independent creators and support student film!

In case you’re not familiar, SFAA is a student-organized traveling film festival that showcases really impressive student short films on big screens across the country. The project is super ambitious and is the meaning of DIY awesomeness - they’ve managed to hit just about everywhere on nothing but a shoestring budget and a lot of hard work. The embedded vid is from their road blog, and you can check out some of the shorts here.

More info on the venue and the selected shorts for that night can be found here. Hope to see everyone there!

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The anti-hero of Future Thought’s new animated series has a few things going against him. Firstly, his name is Shifty. Secondly, his robber mask is permanently stuck to his face. Thirdly, he has no neck. All these add up to a life of bad luck and recidivism for Shifty, but they add up to good fun for us. The one thing Shifty does have going for him is resilience. He may end up as a pile of dust in this episode, but I have a feeling he’ll be back.

We’re excited to be featuring a new episode of Stephen Kasper and Athanossios Vakalis’s Crime Time every Monday for the next couple months. Stay tuned, but don’t plan on any happy endings for Shifty.

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The most unsettling part about The Dirty Bomb Diaries isn’t necessarily the Chernobyl-esque air quality of the setting, or the unnamed and unseen antagonist. It’s the fact that our heroine is totally and utterly alone throughout it all. Where are her neighbors? Where are the police? Where is the CDC? That’s what makes this series more Twilight Zone than 24, and that’s what makes this series so friggin’ creepy.

Catch up on the previous episodes here.

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In a move that underscores the ongoing ascendance of internet video, earlier this year CBS backed new web series Clark and Michael, a sorta-spin-off of Fox’s successful Arrested Development, featuring Michael Cera from that show. The mockumentary-style series sees Clark and Michael living together as a writing team, and like so many young writing pairs here in Hollywood they end up operating as a sort of dysfunctional married couple. Part Curb Your Enthusiasm, part Best in Show, the series is a total hoot. Yeah I said hoot. Sorry for all the unlinked references, but for the few of you that don’t know these shows, Wikipedia is only a click away.

Some of today’s savviest creators leverage multiple video publishing and distribution platforms for different ends. Different sites have different strengths, and it makes perfect sense for creators to act as free agents, uploading their work to the sites that work for them. Along with the benefits of being able to utilize these multiple channels, however, is the problem of management - it can be a real time suck to upload to multiple sites and then have to constantly return to those sites to track stats.

Tubemogul has been a great solution to the stats end of that problem, and today just added cross-platform uploading to complete the package. With “Load & Track,” publishers can upload their video to any of six popular platforms in one shot, Revver included, and then sit back while Tubemogul’s analytics automatically track the video’s performance on each site uploaded to.

Creators can use Tobemogul to save time, increase distribution, and monitor the effectiveness of their marketing accross multiple platforms, freeing them up to do more of what they do best — creating.

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Backstory and summary: 50 Cent fills in as conductor for the American Symphony. Starts beef with the trombonist. Trombonist falls down stairs. 50 denies any wrongdoing. Trombonist agrees after seeing this photo. The two make up. 50 drinks special colored water. Show goes off without a hitch. Coke buys special colored water company. 50 makes a truck load of cash off the deal. The end.

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Fate and coincidence teamed up last week and introduced Sean Revver to Revver.com. To everyone’s benefit, the whole thing was caught on tape. Watch the birth of this relationship take place—a relationship that will bring more thin mustaches, more desk-slamming, and of course, more brilliance. Take a look at this short that is currently located on the internet, and this one that can only be found over on the world wide web.

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Callie and co. mix things up today, featuring four videos from one Rantdog. Rantdog is pretty much awesome - raunchy, funny, left-field animation that would be right at home on Adult Swim. See more Rantdog at Rantdog.com, and send your Top Shelf-worthy videos to callie@topshelfshow.com for next week’s show.

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As sure as we are that the sun will hit its equinox on June 21, we’re even surer that right around that time a bunch of hip-hop stars will get together and film a pool party video. This one comes from Ludacris’s DTP label, and it’s bangin’! Luda, Steph Jones, Small World, and Chingy fly out west, throw on their shorts, put the top down, hand out some fliers, and see what happens. Needless to say, what happens is a bus-load of girls show up to their pool in bikinis and complicated one-pieces. The only thing that could make this party hotter is an aresenal of Super Soakers.

We recently made a small change to the Member Agreement to allow for some new ad products, including pre-roll and post-roll advertisements. We know a lot of you are interested in pre-roll ads for your videos, so by default all users accounts have been enabled for pre-roll. If you don’t want pre-roll ads on your videos, you can disable pre-roll within your account preferences at any time.

Pre-roll and post-roll ads will be sold on a CPM basis (cost per thousand impressions, or ad views), which means you earn according to the number of ad views - no click required. We believe in keeping the ad experience brief and unobtrusive. To that end, we’ll keep pre-roll ads as short as possible, and closely monitor viewer response to make sure they don’t negatively affect the performance of videos on the network.

Limited testing for pre-roll and post-roll will begin in the coming weeks, with wider implementation to follow. Done right, adding CPM-based pre-roll and post-roll ads will ensure that creators earn more for their hard work and great content. If you have any questions or feedback, let us know in the comments.