Earlier this week, they released a video, "Playtime".
Two frames from the projected video, Playtime, 2013.
Whether you've seen them on MTV (their breakout single "Fancy Footwork" received massive video playtime), watched them scorch festival stages from Coachella to Camp Bisco to this year's Electric Zoo Festival in New York or asked your house-party laptop-DJ what band made that insanely danceable, singable song he just played, chances are that Chromeo has found you.
It wasn't a big deal to them and -- seeing my Jewish friends complaining and missing hours of video game and playtime on Wednesdays and Sundays -- it wasn't a big deal to me either.
The cave, certainly, is an occasion for easy irony: the man who has perhaps done more than any other person to entice generations of children to spend their playtime indoors, in front of a video screen, happened to develop his peculiar talent while playing outdoors, at whatever amusements or mischief he could muster.
Last year, it launched a video ad network called PlayTime that took advantage of all the video viewership data it was collecting, and on the strength of that product it raised $10 million last October.
After Kardashian managed to escape playtime with North, she posted a video working out with Kanye.
It features unprecedented Dolby Mobile surround sound technology for high quality in ringtones, MP3 music files and video with 30 hours of playtime.
The company has been busy putting that money to work building on top of PlayTime to create a soup-to-nuts video ad platform around which it is relaunching the entire company today.
(Scott) Film Series 'PLAYTIME' (Monday) If you've seen Jacques Tati's 1967 conceptual comedy "Playtime" only in 35-millimeter or (shudder) home video, it becomes a much different film when it is seen the way it was shot, in high-resolution 70-millimeter.
