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YouTube is celebrating its seventh birthday, more specifically, the date the site first went live to the public. It's been a tremendous seven years, but YouTube still has a lot of growing to do. YouTube is celebrating the occasion with some stats, impressive ones at that.
But those stats are becoming less and l... |
21 May 2012
08:24 GMT |
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YouTube's big plan to spend a lot of money and get some high-quality content is moving ahead as scheduled. In fact, it's expanding, the site, well Google, is putting up $200 million, €152 million to help fund projects, specifically the branded channels it's been talking about lately.YouTube is pay... |
3 May 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Google is debuting AdWords for Video, a new extension of its AdWords program which, as you may have guessed, introduces video ads to the mix. Essentially, this enables small and medium businesses to advertise their videos across Google products.
The program has been in testing for a few months, but it is now availab... |
23 April 2012
09:06 GMT |
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Users have had the option of sharing a video that starts straight from the time they wanted to for a while now, but it's not the most user friendly of features. It's not overly complicated, you just have to add a parameter to the video's URL. There's also a way of making sure embedded videos start... |
18 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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YouTube may seem a bit out of focus lately, as it tries to do everything from movie rentals to news reporting, but that's actually the strategy. YouTube wants to be everything to everyone when it comes to online video. It's taking another step towards that with the introduction of more live streaming optio... |
11 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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YouTube is doing its best, and pouring large amounts of money, to get professionally produced content on the site. It's debuting several new "professional" channels each week now. Even so, the heart and soul of YouTube still are all the amateur videos that people keep uploading, by the millions each day.
Some o... |
22 March 2012
06:01 GMT |
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It seems that a lot of people watched less online videos in February, for the second month in a row. 2 million less people watched a video in the US last month, 179 million down from 181 million, but they also watched less, down from almost 40 billion views to 37.8 billion.The drop seems to have affected YouTube in p... |
17 March 2012
12:11 GMT |
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YouTube has revealed a number of features that it's been testing for a while now, thumbnail previews for videos. The feature is rather interesting, it enables you to get a sneak peek at what's ahead, or behind, in a video so you can skip or go back to the precise moment you want to.
"Over the coming weeks,... |
7 March 2012
07:43 GMT |
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YouTube has announced a rather important upgrade to the captions system used by millions of videos. YouTube now supports more formats, enables more customization and is taking greater efforts to support captions initially created for movies or TV.
For one, it's now expanding automatic captions and transcript ... |
28 February 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Online video saw a drop in activity in January in the US, at least in terms of videos watched. Overall, as many people watched at least a video last month as they did in December, though the top sites saw a decline in both visitors and videos watched.Google Sites, aka YouTube, still reigns supreme in the comScore com... |
20 February 2012
14:51 GMT |
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Netflix is backing down once again and is re-introducing a DVD-only subscription service. Until now, the only way to get DVDs was to also subscribe to the standard streaming option. Now, those uninterested in the streaming option can simply subscribe to the DVD-only option and be done with it. While it is a step bac... |
17 February 2012
05:47 GMT |
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YouTube is huge, it's one of the biggest websites in the world and completely dominates online video. The latest stats are a bit mind-boggling, 60 hours of video is uploaded every minute. That's one hour of video every second.
That certainly seems like a lot, but there's nothing really to compare it w... |
24 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Vimeo has just unveiled its first redesign since launch, almost five years ago. It's a major revamp, the site has been rewritten from the ground up and everything about it is new, though there's plenty of the old design being used as inspiration.The new Vimeo isn't yet available to everyone, it's ... |
24 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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To no one's surprise, YouTube keeps on growing. The site has been breaking records since early after being launched and the numbers it sometimes reveals are so large, they're hard to put into context.
The latest official figures coming from YouTube paint a familiar picture. The site is now streaming four b... |
23 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A very interesting videos has been making the rounds lately, put together by one dedicated traveler. The five minute video spans 17 countries and is made up of 6237 photographs.Kien Lam quit his job, hopped on a plane and started his round the wold adventure. Along the way he snapped thousands of photos which he comp... |
14 January 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Netflix hasn't had the best of years. A stockholder darling for the first half of the year, when its share price rose to record heights, it stumbled in the second half of the year, partially because of the price hike, partially because of its fumbled plans to split up the company.But Netflix is here to remind us... |
4 January 2012
11:34 GMT |
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Vevo is a strange beast, part YouTube, part major record label-owned site. Given that YouTube/Google and the creative industry haven't exactly seen eye to eye on too many occasions, the partnership is peculiar.But it's partnership of convenience and nothing more, the labels needed YouTube's infrastruct... |
21 December 2011
14:10 GMT |
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Earlier this fall, YouTube debuted a web-based video editor that empowered the many millions of YouTube users to improve their videos even if they didn't have any knowledge about video editing or the money to buy specialized software.
The YouTube video editor was designed to be easy to use so it is rather limit... |
28 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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If you've used the web at any time in the past couple of years, which is rather likely if you're reading this, it has been pretty much impossible to avoid one very popular YouTube video, "Charlie bit my finger."For a variety of reasons, it has cute babies, everyone is talking about it and so on, it has beco... |
15 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Online video is big, no big secret there, and it's getting bigger. What's interesting though is that people are moving away from the desktop to enjoy online video, in fact, those who watch longer videos typically prefer anything else except desktops or laptops.When it comes to online video, and anything onl... |
14 November 2011
09:44 GMT |
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If the WebM project is to ever succeed, and yes, Google is still working on it even though you may not have heard much about it recently, it is going to need to have hardware support in mobile devices. So the fact that Google has released a new version of the Hantro H-Series 1 VP8 Hardware Encoder should be encouragi... |
11 November 2011
19:51 GMT |
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There's not much in terms of competition or diversity in the online video world. There's is YouTube, there is Netflix, there is maybe Hulu and Amazon's download and rental service. And that's pretty much it.The only one standing out a bit is Vimeo, which, despite the fact that it's a generali... |
8 November 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Netflix has revealed the extent of the damage from its price hike, announced last summer but which came into effect last month, it lost 800,000 subscribers in Q3 2011, after gaining 1.8 million in the previous quarter.It ended up with 23.8 million subscribers in the US at the end of the quarter, down from 24.6 millio... |
25 October 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Nielsen, the tracking firm well known for offering information on consumer products and how they are used, has released a new Cross-Platform report which shows that the overall time spent with game consoles by the public has increased by 14 percent during the last year.The firm also says that game console penetration... |
24 October 2011
09:22 GMT |
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YouTube and Viacom are headed back to the courts. Google and the media company have been held up in a legal battle over copyright infringement on YouTube, for many years now.Last year, Google won a rather clear victory with the court siding with YouTube and absolving it of any responsibility over what its users uploa... |
18 October 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Music is a big draw for YouTube. Music videos from big artists or just people with a webcam and a guitar generate quite a lot of traffic for the site and, since so many people come to YouTube to listen and discover music, a lot of artists have set up shop on the site. Now, YouTube is giving them the possibility to qu... |
17 October 2011
04:24 GMT |
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BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol but also the very popular uTorrent client, is looking at ways to make money from its technology but also to expand its use.
BitTorrent, in essence, is a distribution method and, with a built-in audience of over 100 million people, it could be a great... |
15 October 2011
06:11 GMT |
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YouTube is continuing to expand worldwide. The site is available everywhere, of course, unless it's blocked by the local government, in China, for example, and plenty of other places.
But the main site is designed to serve a global audience, albeit with a big tendency to focus on US content.
This is why Y... |
15 October 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Vimeo has announced that it is now accepting PayPal as a payments provider, for any purchases made on the site, including for the premium accounts. This may not seem like much of a big deal, but it's been the number one requested feature for the past three years.
While Vimeo won't go into the details, it... |
6 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Vimeo has always been a hub for creative artists to show of their stuff. While it is often compared to YouTube, Vimeo is a lot more focused on the artistic endeavour than Google's giant video site. Which is why the new Music Store Vimeo is debuting makes so much sense.
Before you ask why in the world Vimeo, a... |
22 September 2011
08:11 GMT |
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YouTube is the largest video website around. Everyone has heard of it, everyone is watching it. Direct competitors to the site are few and much, much smaller, Dailymotion comes to mind. Most people would probably think of Vimeo as a YouTube competitor, but the site is considerably smaller and caters more to the '... |
16 September 2011
10:41 GMT |
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YouTube aims to make it easy for people to upload and share videos. With cameras packed even into the cheapest phone and publishing requiring only a YouTube account, the hardest part in creating a video is the editing.
Now, YouTube aims to help with that as well, it's debuting a brand new video editor that en... |
15 September 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Hulu, the popular TV and movie streaming site, is up for sale and several big companies have been interested, including web giants Google, Amazon and Yahoo. But as the initial talks led to the first bids, many dropped out, leaving only four serious contenders.
Now, one more company is out of the race, DirectTV, th... |
5 September 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Netflix has been riding a very precarious wave so far. Boosted by small prices, big catalog and simple service, it's been adding subscribers at a rapid pace. But its success is beginning to upset movie studios, TV networks and everyone else that licenses its content to the streaming service.
On the one hand, ... |
2 September 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Brightcove, an online video platform that you may have used without even knowing, is filing for an IPO. The company expects to bring in $50 million which will serve to power Brightcove as it continues to expand and seek profitability. While revenues have continued to rise, the company is still not making any money an... |
24 August 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Facebook is just a younger version of Google, in many ways. It too has the size to dabble in just about anything online and it's probably only a matter of time until it does.
Online video is an example, Facebook has done little to promote itself as a video site and the video support on the site is significant... |
23 August 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Full-length movies available for rent on Facebook aren't new, but Miramax is now expanding on the idea with a Facebook app which offers several titles from its catalog. The app is launching with 20 titles in the US and 10 in the UK and Turkey. The movies cost 30 cents, which comes in at $3 per title.The Facebook... |
22 August 2011
11:52 GMT |
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Vimeo has been struggling to generate some meaningful revenue while maintaining its unique community. Now it's launching a whitelabel, pro service for small businesses, offering video hosting at a rather low price. Vimeo Pro starts at $199 per year, for 50 GB of storage and 250,000 video views. The service is ai... |
1 August 2011
04:31 GMT |
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There's a reason why all of your favorite TV shows take a break during the summer, no one watches TV during this time. This seems to be true for online video as well, which is also seeing a slump in viewer numbers in the first month of summer.
According to Nielsen data, while viewership is slightly down, ther... |
21 July 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Netflix, the popular movie and TV show streaming service, has announced a bold international expansion, across the American continent. At a later, unspecified date, users in South America, Central America and the Caribbean will be able to subscribe to Netflix. In total, 43 new countries will be included in the Netfli... |
5 July 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Hulu hasn't had the easiest of times, but it has managed to keep itself afloat and attract quite a large audience, even though its financial side may not be looking so great. Hulu is a joint venture owned by the big TV broadcasters in the US along with venture capital investors, but the latest rumor is that the ... |
22 June 2011
08:01 GMT |
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The latest online video numbers for April show that Germany is leading the way in Europe when it comes to video consumption, followed by Turkey and the UK, out of the seven countries measured. Germany is on top in every metric measured, in terms of number of viewers, hours watched and the number of videos watched."Ge... |
14 June 2011
08:24 GMT |
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Vimeo has announced that it's debuting a central place to showcase all of the ways you can access content from the site without actually visiting it. Everything from the iPhone app to the Chrome extension to the various devices it's available on gets showcased on the new Vimeo Everywhere page.
The web h... |
10 June 2011
07:19 GMT |
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In a move that seems long overdue, YouTube will start offering creative commons licensing options for uploaded videos and will make use of this new opportunity to make it easier to remix videos with the web-based YouTube video editor.YouTube hasn't made the official announcement yet, but the news got leaked when... |
2 June 2011
10:31 GMT |
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YouTube is turning six years old today and it's marking the occasion with a few more updates on just how much bigger it is than the last time it bragged about how big it is. And, again, the stats are impressive if to be expected.Users are uploading more videos than ever, it's now up to two days-worth of vid... |
25 May 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Google is experimenting with an interesting new feature for its Google Video search engine. Searches for a band or an artist will also list albums by that artist, enabling users to restrict the search to videos from one particular album. The feature isn't available to everyone yet, but it's yet another exam... |
24 May 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Google made a big bet when it bought YouTube and many people argued that it had overpaid for the video site. Even Google admitted that it paid more than what the site was worth at the time, but did so knowing that online video will prove crucial in the coming years. Now, it's still not making any money from YouT... |
24 May 2011
09:01 GMT |
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The massive Google I/O 2011 conference is behind us. Google live streamed the two keynotes and some of the sessions and most of the announcements got plenty of coverage. However, since it was impossible to attend all of the sessions taking place or to view them all online at the same time, Google is now making availa... |
14 May 2011
07:40 GMT |
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YouTube is making several efforts to increase the overall quality of its videos and to encourage more to create high-quality content. One direct way it's been doing this is via its YouTube Partners program, which got a big boost with the acquisition of Next New Networks. Now, it's raising the stakes again w... |
2 May 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Netflix, the movie and TV show rental powerhouse, is continuing a string of great quarters with the release of its latest financial results, for the first quarter of the year. Subscriber numbers along with revenue and income grew significantly, though in line with what the company has been seeing in the past year."We... |
26 April 2011
11:51 GMT |
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