Urbanworld Film Festival Announces Digital Conference
Cinema connoisseurs rejoice! The Urbanworld 14th Annual Film Festival will be starting on September 15 in New York City. From Sept 15-19, the largest competitive multicultural film festival will showcase the works of up and coming filmmakers, directors and actors. Attendees can also expect to see an enormous amount of black star power with celebs like [...]
Read MoreBET J Virtual Awards
Traditional media meets new media meets users half-way. I think that is the best way to describe the BET J’s inaugural Virtual Awards. Hosted by critically-acclaimed actress Nia Long and comedian Chris Spencer, the “virtual” broadcast will feature red-hot performances from Washington, DC, New York and Atlanta hotspots — all from a stunning, ground-breaking virtual [...]
Read MoreBlack Actresses ranked by Google
There was a great post in Rock Candy ranking Hollywood’s Black Leading Ladies using web metrics. The site did an exhaustive search of popular black actresses, and rated them in A-D listed categories determined by the look of their official web destinations and the number of fan sites dedicated to them. Rock Candy’s approach was a great idea, but it forgot to take into consideration one key component when determining a celebrity’s popularity. Search terms! What better measure of popularity than the number of people searching for you in Google!? We decided to take Rock Candy’s study a step further by using Google Trends to measure each actress’s search popularity. Let’s see if our results jive with theirs.
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