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Photos: YouTubers spoof and mock tech brands
Photo Earlier this year Microsoft and YouTube.com had a highly publicised run-in over the appearance on the site of videos which Microsoft made for internal purposes only, starring Ricky Gervais. YouTube has ridden a wave of popularity to become the web... [24 Nov 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Tuning in to YouTube
Comment Microsoft recently had to act quickly to get leaked videos taken down from the site, featuring Ricky Gervais in a training video for the software giant. The URL pointed to YouTube.com. I'd not heard of it before then and thought nothing of it... [04 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06
Round-Up Meanwhile, another video sadly pulled from YouTube and other sites this week due to a cultural clash between some clever people trying to push the boat and 'The Man' was a spoof training video produced by Microsoft featuring Ricky Gervais in his... [01 Sep 2006]
Redmond red-faced over Gervais video leak
News Microsoft is investigating how two internal training videos created by UK comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have surfaced on the internet. Although some sites appear to have removed them after encountering pressure from Microsoft or... [23 Aug 2006]
Office star hopes to kick-start 'podcosts'
News The Ricky Gervais Show, one of the most popular podcasts on Apple's iTunes Music Store, is moving to a paid-only format to be sold by audio book specialist Audible. The move is the first major example of a free podcast attempting to go paid, said... [21 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Podcasting
Cheat Sheet The BBC and Virgin Radio are already on board, while London station XFM is planning to podcast DJ Ricky Gervais' shows. Podcasting, then. All sounds a bit A Space Odyssey to me. Can't argue with you there. [17 Jun 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.04
Round-Up And so it (possibly) was that Microsoft came to recruit comedian Ricky Gervais to resurrect his character of David Brent to make a series of training videos entitled 'I'm back, and this time it's personal.development'. [23 Jan 2004]
David Brent brought in to train Microsoft staff
News Although the character's creator Ricky Gervais has previously shunned such work, it appears the opportunity to work with Microsoft was too much to turn down and the comedy star has put together a video entitled I'm back - and this time it's... [20 Jan 2004]
