As you may know, Transportation Alternatives put on a red carpet premiere Tuesday night for the "Biking Rules" PSA competition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The contest pitted video entries against each other in two main categories: "Why Biking Rules" and "Street Code." Videos in the Street Code category encourage people to use lights, [...]
Today brings a double-barreled whammy of great Streetfilms news to report.
First in Seattle, bike-riding campaigner Mike McGinn has pulled off a big upset to become the new Mayor-elect. Though he brings a pro-transit, more livable city message into office, we are particularly proud that on the front page of his campaign website he featured our [...]
It's been a long time coming, but Streetfilms finally has a new look that we hope will help visitors find more of their favorite films (check out fun rotating categories like, "Ciclovia Explosion!") and ultimately watch more movies and spread the love amongst your fellow advocates.
The first change you'll probably notice: our home page now [...]
Hey Streetfilms Fans! After Brian Leher became a victim of bicycle theft earlier this week, he invited Hal Ruzel into the studio for some lessons in bike locking. You may remember Hal from such Streetfilms as Hal Grades Your Bike Locking 3: The Final Warning and Hal (and Kerri) Grade Your Bike Locking.
Brian mentions some [...]
We are proud to report that the official number of plays of all Streetfilms has now reached 2 million! That's it, end of news item.
Just a few quick items...
1 - April brings us another record breaking month. Nearly 50K visitors to the site. Hooray!
2 - We also shattered our number for unique visitors checking out Streetfilms for ze month.
3 - Thanks to two extremely well performing Streetfilms posting simultaneously, Thursday, April 30th was the most traffic we have ever had [...]
Just catching up here with a few news items. Firstly, we won our Category against 16 other competitors in Treehugger's First Annual "Best of Green" awards. Our nomination: Best Green Advocacy. Thanks for everyone who voted for us!
As you begin to watch our newest posts, you'll see we are using new spanky animated supers. We [...]
Published a little over two years ago, our Streefilm The Case for Physically Separated bike lanes has become our first with 100,000 plays. The film basically got birthed one day when our Executive Director Mark Gorton was out with me shooting on the streets near our West Village Office and he said he wanted to [...]
Wow! We are honored. Treehugger daily blogs dozens of green-goings-on throughout the U.S. and the world everyday (so many some say it is hard to read them all!) We get regularly featured with some of our films and we are very thankful. But even more exciting is the fact that Streetfilms, [...]