After 9 years of research on broadcast video analysis and retrieval, I ‘finally’ made my debut on national TV. Yesterday, VARA Nieuwslicht had an item on using human cycles, in the form of computer games and social tagged content, for helping machines understand multimedia. Indeed, the topic of my granted VENI proposal. It was funny to see that the crew spent 2 hours in my office last week, but in the end only 1 minute remained. Unfortunately the demo of our video search engine for the Dutch television archive Beeld en Geluid was not broadcasted, maybe next time?