You’ve probably seen the video of seven-year-old David Devore all loopy off the good, dentist-issued painkillers while his dad films him in the car after his appointment.

David’s dad (also named David) spoke about the video’s viral success this year, disclosing that his family had made in “the low six figures” off the clip but stopping short of naming a sum. At that time, the clip had been viewed fifty-four million times and came in second for 2009 after Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent appearance. While the video might have, in another time, been shown once on America’s Funniest Home Videos and garnered the Devores a more literal five minutes of fame, YouTube and viral distribution has given the video a bit more staying power.

Gawker reposted a Business Week piece that goes over the ways that the Devore family has profited from their bit of YouTube fame. Now the elder David admits the venture has netted $150K total- $100K coming, roughly, from YouTube and the rest from merchandise sales- and interestingly, it’s said that he’s quit his real estate job in the wake of the video’s success. That may seem premature, but young David’s parents hope David’s dental trip will continue to amuse viewers. And traffic isn’t their only iron in the fire:

The DeVores revealed to us that they just signed a deal to make medical scrubs for dentists, and they’re also looking for deals with other dental products in the future. “We’d love it if Crest or Colgate would sponsor the website,” David tells us.

The family’s YouTube channel still gets 100-125K views a day, so it will be interesting to see how their web careers pan out for them. The venture isn’t without criticism, though- a Chicago Sun-Times writer said David should be turned over to CPS and Bill O’Reilly called Mr. Devore “a little exploitative” on his show. Do you think David’s dad can parlay one viral video into a lucrative career? Does quitting your day job after one YouTube hit seem a bit hasty?

Parents of ‘David After Dentist’ explain how they cashed in is a post from: The Inquisitr

Piracy is killing the movie business – that is the argument that the movie industry is using to try and force draconian copyright laws down our throat on a global level with things like ACTA. For every time a Bit Torrent is used a theater is killed has become a rallying cry for theater owners when in fact this year has seen incredible profits being made.

Record profits with fewer movies being shown according to research film Exhibitor Relations. With three full weekends still left in the year the total domestic revenue already stands at $9.64 billion and ticket sales are pacing ahead of last year by 3.6 percent.

Overall revenue was also enhanced by a 4.2 percent increase in the average ticket price, which came in at $7.48 this year, driven by a flurry of 3D movie releases that commanded premium admission charges.

The record revenue and increased admissions came as total movies released in the marketplace declined 17 percent to 520, according to Exhibitor Relations. It was the second straight year that the total number of films declined. That total had been steadily increasing each year until topping out at 631 in 2007.

According to Paramount distribution general manager Don Harris, this proves more product isn’t necessarily better for the marketplace.

“For us, the number we look at when we deal with groups like agencies is our revenue average per film,” said Harris, noting that his studio’s per-film yield stands at an industry-leading $120 million-plus this year. “Movies aren’t sold and released by the pound.”

Source: The Wrap

Amazing eh … less movies and yet record revenues. So exactly how much damage is all this industry killing piracy doing? Not much by the look of it.

top image courtesy of The Chive

About that piracy is killing the movie business argument is a post from: The Inquisitr

According to Jessica E. Vascellaro at Wall Street Journal we could see the arrival of commercial (Pro) accounts in Twitterland at some point this year. The accounts would offer users more features in exchange for a fee but Twitter hasn’t set a date for them being implemented.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the San Francisco start-up is watching the outside initiatives closely as it prepares to launch its own fee-based services this year, but doesn’t view them as competition. "We want to work with those companies that are already making an effort," he says.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Ms. Vascellaro also says that Twitter will be getting a cut from one of the outside businesses that has sprung up to ride Twitter’s coattails. The first of these cut deals is ExecTweets which was launched by Federated Media, an online advertising network, and is sponsored by Microsoft. Federated Media has said that it plans to share some of the sponsorship revenue with Twitter.

[hat tip to Silicon Alley Insider]

Twitter Pro accounts coming this year is a post from: The Inquisitr

The company pulled in $5.37 billion — a number 39 percent higher than its second quarter in 2007. The vast majority — 66 percent — came from Google-owned sites. Another 31 percent came from AdSense-related income. Just over half of Google’s money came from outside the U.S.

Google says its operating expenses were $1.65 billion for the quarter — 31 percent of its total revenue. That’s down slightly from $1.53 billion this time last year.

Still, Google missed average earnings estimates by about 11 cents a share — the fourth time ever it has not exceeded analyst expectations. Google’s stocks dropped about 7 percent following the news.

Update: Numbers are also now out from Microsoft and IBM, if you’re interested.

Google’s Earnings Up, Expenses Down is a post from: The Inquisitr