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"NationalBanana  is a video site that has recently received $1 million in funding from US Venture Partners.\nThe video site is for professionally produced clips of a comedy series as well as Rockin' Cat, a music video series from Sunset Strip.  The videos are produced by Jerry Zucker, the man behind \"Airplane\" and \"Naked Gun\" indicating the type of humor you'll find with content on NationalBanana.  With the success of video-sharing sites as well as the creatives behind viral videos, the ongoing integration of new and traditional media is seeing a great deal of funding go into the promotion of sites such as NationalBanana that are dedicated to a professional production studio, but geared towards the user-generated crowd.\nOthers that are in this space include Prom Queen, Afterworld, Will Ferrell's own Funny or Die, Rocketboom, LG15, Black20, and RoofTop Comedy.  Several of these independent video sites have found great ways to leverage existing video-sharing communities for the promotion of their content. \n[via]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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