We here at the TubeBear factory have come out with our very own commercial ad. It's cute, simple, and stars my incredibly handsome and huggable partner Roger (gallery - profile). Click the video below or you can see it here from our YouTube page BearGhetti (make sure to subscribe).

Our ad is part of our Google campaign. We're really been working quite hard in getting TubeBear to becoming the #1 Bear site. And the whole point of this ad is to make you cute guys aware of our incredible features, such as RIMs (Recorded Instant Messages) - instead of typing messages like you do with all the other Bear sites, here you can use your webcam and you can send a video message... which is, I would say, 10 to the power of 'n' more fun than an old typed message (to learn how to RIM, visit my profile page - Forrest - and from my list of videos, check out 'How to RIM').

Our next commercial will be able LiveStreaming. We are having our first LiveStreaming party on Monday August 25th (article) so make sure to be here armed with your webcam. We are hoping to see as many people login as possible. It should be a lot of fun.

Some news from Funfur.tv (website - articles - profile): "3 brand new films for your viewing pleasure... the Bear Olympics! Check out the trailer here on YouTube (channel). You can also download the full 21 minutes in hi-res from their FunFur site for simply $3.

As well - new in the forum: '...He was standing in front of me with his hairy body all exposed. I dropped to my knees and kissed his hairy belly as I removed his belt. He was so hairy that hair hung over his belt. I looked up at him and watched his face as I slowly unzipped his pants'...  Read the full story in the 'Bear Sex' section".

Russian artist Alexei Biryukoff (website - articles - profile) has a new out album to add to his incredible list of music that he's created. It's actually the soundtrack to 'Tamara and Demon' (cover) ~ a 20 minute 3D cartoon by Nikolai Aladinskiy and Petr Bobryshev of St. Petersburg, Russia. The album is available for free to download here from his site (and, all is music is available for download right here). The cartoon will be available on YouTube soon.

There's a few news updates from FunFur.tv (articles - profile).

Firstly, there's their latest Bear chap - Tattooed Bear J. Go watch it from their site (you need to register - it's free) and if you enjoy it, download the hi-res version that's 24 minute for just $3. Secondly, more from the Bear Inspectors. You can see this from their YouTube page - this time they are hunting down some straight Bears. See it here. Third and lastly, they are looking for guys who classify themselves as Bears, Cubs, Daddies, or part of the Bear scene, and who can film a video project on August 9th and 10th as well as November 7th to the 9th, all in Manchester, UK. The end result could be a cash prize of £500. Email them if you interested for more details of what it involves.

Some news to share concerning, Bear Crusader, composed of Steve (TubeBear profile) and Sylvain (TubeBear profile) and , the Montreal based band. 1st they have a new webpage design. They have new videos for you to check out on their YouTube page, and there's new MP3s for you to check out on their MySpace site. They have some upcoming shows such as the Ottawa Bears BBQ on July 19th and they will be in Montreal on August 31st.

I was checking out the featured flicks on YouTube and today they had one called ToyBoize. It's a mockumentary about a boy band that had a #2 album back in 1988 and most of gang gets back together 20 years later so as to whether they've still 'got it'. It's really well done with fine British humour, and one of the characters Tim is a Chub Bear who's a bit sick and twisted in very subtle ways.

Check out their series they've done. So far there's 3 episodes with a handful of short clips of them making video diaries. They actually make you feel embarrassed for them. Visit their site as well.

ps - after seeing this, I immediately thought of the NKOTB (New Kids on the Block), and how my sister used to love these guys when she was 7 (I was 22 at the time). So I check out NKOTB on Wiki (I check out everything on Wiki) and lo and behold, they are getting back together and are coming out with a new album. There's even a new video out. Oye...

If you haven't seen Doctor Woof, it's high time that you do since Doctor Woof 2 is just out. This is another fine production by Jonathan Robinson (website - YouTube profile) of FunFur.tv (TubeBear profile - articles), in collaboration with the ManBears cuties of Manchester UK. Doctor Woof is a spoof of Doctor Who. Check out these great write-ups about the show by Bearotic (article #1 - article #2).

There's a lot of news and updates to mention concerning the excellent FunFur.tv (articles). FunFur is a British-based website that posts some of the best Bear videos on the net. They have erotica as well as comedy... watch them for free or download the hi-res versions for only a dollar (that's a half a pound... I think).

1st off, they have a video of some Bears and Cubs wrestling in the nude after oiling themselves up. All this in front of a huge crowd. 2ndly, they have added pics from the Great British Bear Bash... check out their Forum section. Also in the Forum section, there's new stories for you to peruse. And every original story posted in the Forum over 300 words gets you $5 of free video clips.

3rd - new content. There's 'Bear Inspectors' - "hairy fellas in the streets get probed!". Also, there's a new music video 'Fever' starring Doctor Woof. Make sure to check out Jonathan Robinson's YouTube page (Jonathan is the director and master mind behind FunFur - check out his professional site). Soon you will see BSI #3 (Bear Scene Investigation) and Jonathan has just finished filming the Bear Bash 11 so expect to see some clips online as well as a DVD available for that as well.

It seriously pays to have your stuff mentioned on PlanetBears - which is consequently added on TubeBear. If you have any kind of news that is Bear related - whether you are a Bear yourself or an admirer of the husky hairy mature man, then by all means email us or use our Send News form. Inclusively, we have a newsletter with over 7000 signed and we have added a new section to it - Affiliation News. What we are doing is adding news you guys send in.

Lately both PlanetBears and TubeBear have been getting a lot of traffic. Here are a couple of emails I recently received as living testimony. The 1st is from Jonathan Robinson of FunFur (website - TubeBear profile - YouTube page - articles): "Hi Forrest as always thank you for the support! I got a huge amount of traffic from your link today so it's appreciated! Have a good weekend! Hugs, Jonathan".

Here's another email from Steve and Hugo of DungeonBears (TubeBear profile - articles): "Hi Forrest. I have a question for you.  Did you do something special with your site yesterday. The reason I am asking is TubeBear rang up 4 sales on DungeonBears yesterday.  My site traffic also doubled yesterday. Whatever you did, 'A Big Thank You' - Big Hugs - Steve".

PlanetBears is truly the only Bear news website online. It is not a blog site and I (Forrest - TubeBear profile) have been taking Bear news seriously since it's important that we are represented properly on the internet. It's a mature site, sometimes adult, sometimes porn, sometimes erotic, yet it remains serious, and the increase in traffic has been proving this.

You can thank me later for this website...

I'm betting that 99% of you guys out there don't know about this site... it's all about movies and there are very few people I know who do not like movies. The site is called Vidics.com and it's all about movies... and what is their logo? Movies Shall Be Free...

I'm sure some of you are going to go that site and think "wow, this is completely wrong" because all the movies that are there are available for free to watch. You don't need to download anything, you don't need to sign up to anything... you just click 'watch' and you're watching... and there's quite a few movies to choose from and I'm sure you'll be able to find one you'll like... and you'll be watching and saying at some point "wow... this is kinda cool"... however you might feel guilty because you're watching a movie without paying Blockbuster 6 bucks.

Thing is, Vidics is right... movies will be free... everything will be free with the internet. There's no stopping the machine now, unless there's a universal blackout and all computers shut down. Sure a couple of guys with clout can try and shut down Vidics, and they might even succeed, yet 3 new sites will replace Vidics... and once they close those 3... 9 others will replace them... and so on... and so forth... remember when they closed down Napster? It did absolutely nothing... actually what it did was made people aware they can download music for free, they just had to find different sources in which to do it.

So what will happen? The big wigs with the money will do what Google did with YouTube... they will eventually buy into sites like Vidics, because the big wigs are Yosemite Sam and Vidics is Bugs Bunny, and you might remember the skits in which Sam says in the end "if you can't beat 'em... join 'em"... Either the dumb big wigs will spend their money fighting this... and lose... or the smart big wigs will figure out on how to capitalize on it... and win.

Like I said, you can thank me later after you've watched a movie or 8... actually... you should thank BillyBear (TubeBear profile) who pointed it out to me. He doesn't have much on his profile yet but I'll bug the good looking bugger to add a few pics of his cute mug.

PS... make sure to make some popcorn...

About a month ago, I mentioned that Bigg Nugg (website - MySpace page - TubeBear profile - articles) and his compatriots were gearing up for their upcoming Unity Tour. This show is about to kick off in a couple of weeks.

Now Bigg Nugg is stating that he and his troops are in need for some fuel sponsorship money. They need to raise $500 so they can make their Seattle and San Francisco show a reality. If you would like to promote them, email Bigg Nugg or contact him by calling (877) 497-3762 (extension 1). It's even better if you can make their show. Check out this promo video (and a little PS here - Bigg Nugg signs his emails as Nugget... now that is just too cute... and Bigg Nugg is a truly cute Bear Cub Snuggly Nugget... ok I will now stop with the cutesy stuff).

At FunFur.tv (TubeBear profile), where they believe that the future is big and the future is hairy, there is a new section for you guys to check out and it's their FunFur forum. One of the more popular sections in the forum has been where guys have been posting their stories about their sexual encounters with Bears, Daddies and Chubs.

As a bonus for you guys... Jonathan - the director of the FunFur movies (website - YouTube site - articles), is giving away $5 in free video clips which you can download from their site for anyone who writes a story over 300 words.

It's 'Hair Today' and 'Furgotten Tomorrow'... why do I say that...? Because it's time to tune in to the latest and greatest by my favourite British director Jonathan Robinson as he's just released his newest film entitled - James Bear 007 - Furgotten Tomorrow.

This 15 minute movie is packed with action, intrigue, espionage, revenge and even bondage. James Bear is on a mission with his trusty sidekick as he tries to find out who zipper-face is and to stop his evil plots. James Bear confronts a really big Asian guy (and I think this is the same actor they've used in the real James Bond movies because he sure looks like him), and the big Asian Bear has a a deadly flying hat, a couple of goons and some super cool karate moves... you need to see all this to understand.

Jonathan Robinson has been making some excellent 'Bear' movies. You can check them all out over at his FunFur.tv site - and you can download the high resolution versions of these clips for only a dollar. You can also check out his YouTube page (and click here and here to see a few videos of him). He also has a professional site and a TubeBear profile. Lastly, click here to see a couple of snapshots from the movie.

Here's a commercial for an energy drink that was seen during the super bowl.

I've never tried energy drinks... they actually scare me.

Push it... Push it real good...

Back in December I caught word of a new site called Cubby Talk - a site which involved 2 cute guys chit chatting about everything Bear (article here). Their show sometimes leans towards controversy and sometimes it's just about Joe making fun of Matt and vice versa. Well on Valentine's Day they put out their latest episode (#6) which is all about the Do's and Don'ts on how to act, behave and look like at a Bear run. They also chat about IBR and Bear Pride.

Make sure to also check out their YouTube page.

There's a new section on PlanetBears - it is the Bear Videos section, and it's for PlanetBears members. There's 40 short videos that we made during the 'bear-pics' days (bear-pics was the site I used to run before PlanetBears from '01 to '06 until we said bye-bye to it).

What's great about this section is that the videos can be played from your browser, just like you see the videos on YouTube... so what's even better about this is that soon we will be implementing this video-browser device to your TubeBear profile, which means that you guys will be able to add your own videos to your profile. It's all so very cool. We'll keep you informed about when we have this feature installed and ready for use on TubeBear (to see an example, go to Forrest's profile - you will see his video message - it's about halfway on the page) but for now, get all nostalgic by viewing some bear-pics videos done a few years back (and as a sidenote... with your membership you also get to see all the galleries which has something like 13,000-14,000 high resolution pics).

I just got a nice little surprise in my snail mail box. It was a mini DVD from the uber cute band known as Ing (website). The following is from their website: "For those of you who like watching your videos on a bigger screen than YouTube, we have a new three-inch mini-DVD available over here at CDBaby. The disc features full resolution, 48-khz/24-bit fidelity PCM audio (so it sounds real good!) and includes videos for 'Dove' and 'Not Dead, Not Dying'".

In other news, looks like Ing are working on some new tracks, and Mark is working on a side project with singer John Ashfield (website) and something is due out in a few weeks.

[Members click here] Hope you are having a good weekend. This is the 3rd installment of the 'lost Frank video files'. I've explained already how these video clips were lost and then found in article #1 and article #2 so there's no need to explain all that again.

In today's update, Frank grabs deeper into his bag of goodies to produce even more interesting things that we attach to his body. You also get to see Frank in his black leather boots and harness. Frank has a really cute Bearish body and such a cute face to go with it. So members visit the Video Clips section and grab the latest video (you need a membership which also gives you access to thousands of pictures in the Gallery section). I will be adding another new video in the middle of next week - somewhere between Tuesday and Thursday, and click here to see some pics from the video clips (not the best resolution but do remember that these clips are a bit old).

[Members click here] This is the 2nd installment to 'Frank - The Lost Videos'... altho in the title it says #3. Well last week (article here), I added video #1. Today I added #3, and on Friday, February 15th (in a couple of days), I will add #4 (I will #2 at a later date). There's around 10 videos or so, however it all depends since some of the qualities of some of them is a little... well... dark which is unfortunate. I've been editing the best I can without trying to lose any of the resolution.

In the next following updates, Frank is going through his bag of goodies, pulling out some of his toys he brought with him. He also slowly gets dressed into some leather, cowboy boots, dress shoes, harness. Frank is hot, plain and simple (gallery - TubeBear profile).

Now as I was editing this video, I decided to omit the audio track. Why? Because essentially the whole time Frank and I are having a conversation which takes away from the whole erotic part of watching Frank. It was the 1st time for both of us - 1st time I was filming a very hot Bear and his 1st time being filmed, so we did a lot of rambling, cracking some dumb jokes, etc. I was listening to it and going - this is just silly - and when I watched it without the voices, it was much much cooler. Now if I get a lot of email requests asking me to keep the conversation in, I guess I will, but for now, I like the video as is - without voices, without cheesy porn music - just Frank, his hot body and his super cute smile.

It's the dead of winter here in Canada, there's literally 5 feet of snow outside my window and all I think about all day is some hot Australian beach with even hotter looking Bearish men wearing really tight Spank swimsuits... this is true, there's not one word of a lie that I've written.

If you dig Bears in snug fitting swimwear, then head on over to JOHNcc's website (TubeBear profile) where he and his partner Peter make some of the finest swimsuits in the universe. They now offer them in white. You need to go to the Shop section to see all the hot colours they offer, and to see some examples of some Bears wearing their Spanks, click here.

As an aside, my partner Roger has a pair and he wears them every time we go off to the gym for our swim. I really need to get a photo shoot of Roger in (and out) of his Spanks (Roger's gallery ~ TubeBear profile). However you can see Roger with his Spanks (either at Youtube here or from our newsletter here) from one of the little trailers for our upcoming show. I also need to accredit JOHNcc and Peter for having his trunks show up in the preview like that.