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The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is no... |
21 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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People love online video these days. In some cases, it has even begun to replace old-fashioned TV watching as users connect their PCs or web-enabled set-top boxes to their TV sets and get the best of both worlds. But it's a tough world to make a living in for video sites, not only are they struggling to bring in... |
21 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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YouTube has introduced some pretty interesting technologies which enable users to add automatic text captions to the videos. The feature is only available in several channels for now, as the speech recognition technology it uses isn't exactly perfect but Google says it should improve in time. The video site had... |
20 November 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Online video means YouTube at the moment. There's a huge number of other video sites and Hulu is coming up strong, but the Google site is on a completely different level. And, while no one is going to threaten its dominance any time soon, eventually there may be someone who could and its name shouldn't rea... |
19 November 2009
03:19 GMT |
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There are several big trends in the web space at the moment and one great emphasis has lately been on media content, be it video or music. Online video is hitting the mainstream in a big way and new music services are popping up faster than the unsuccessful ones are closing down. So, it's only natural to combin... |
18 November 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Online video may be thriving when it comes to viewers and there's little doubt that it will get even bigger in the coming years, along with better broadband speeds and availability, but for the time being, video sites aren't doing so great financially. YouTube hasn't reached profitability yet, Hulu is... |
16 November 2009
10:46 GMT |
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A few years ago, when online video really started to take off, users were satisfied with webcam-quality, blurry and pixelated videos. Just the fact that you were watching video on the Web was mind-blowing enough. This changed soon enough and HD videos have become pretty much standard for any proper online video serv... |
13 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has added a total of 19 feed partners to Windows Live, the most prominent of which being Google’s YouTube. As of November 11, 2009, Windows Live users will be able to enjoy an additional 19 online hotspots to the list of existing Microsoft web activity partnerships. The Redmond company has made sure ... |
12 November 2009
09:26 GMT |
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YouTube can't talk money just yet, but it can talk about size and there's plenty to boast about that. The site is the biggest online avenue for video and enjoys a huge lead over any other video site. It can put forward impressive numbers like one billion views per day, but now it's sharing some stats ... |
12 November 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Online video is growing at an increased rate and, despite growing revenue from advertising, video sites are still struggling to become profitable. Even YouTube, which dominates the market, hasn't managed to achieve this, but it's not for lack of trying. Slowly but surely, though, it's getting there and... |
11 November 2009
11:13 GMT |
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Google isn't in the phone-making business, but it's not leaving anything to chance with the latest and greatest handset to sport the brand-new Android 2.0, the Motorola Droid. By all accounts, it's a great phone, and it's clear that Google has put all of its muscles behind the product. A couple of... |
9 November 2009
12:18 GMT |
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One of the great things about an online video is that it isn't locked to a specific place, most of the time anyway, and people can easily share one with friends or embed it on their blogs. But, while we have plenty of stats on how many users visit these video sites, data on the embedded videos is harder to come ... |
5 November 2009
10:39 GMT |
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YouTube is by far the largest video site in the world, dwarfing its competitors with audiences ten times bigger. Still, despite its popularity, revenue hasn't been what many had hoped by now and it is trying a number of things to get ad money pouring in.One thing that it's betting hard on is professional co... |
29 October 2009
12:32 GMT |
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Online video is synonymous with YouTube but there is one other venue that is becoming increasingly popular, at least in the US, despite its traffic being significantly lower than YouTube's. This is of course Hulu, the online video joint venture between three of the four major US broadcasters. The site is attract... |
23 October 2009
08:43 GMT |
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The online music video is about to get a lot more contested. Currently YouTube is the only place to host licensed music videos from all of the major music labels and Vevo looked like the only promise for a dedicated music video site. But things are getting interesting with the launch of MySpace Music Videos, a video ... |
22 October 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Assassin's Creed II received a live-action adaptation from Ubisoft, but it won't be a classic theater release. Assassin's Creed: Lineage will be hosted by YouTube, and it will have three episodes. The first of them will be available exclusively on the mentioned site and it will be available by the end ... |
20 October 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Sites and services are bolting on real-time features left and right eager to not miss out on the hype train. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but the actual results or benefits don't seem to sway them one way or the other. Google as a company ... |
20 October 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Online video isn't exactly the most lucrative business yet and it isn't one that's particularly easy to become successful in. YouTube dominates the landscape but even the Google-owned site isn't profitable yet. Still, professional content sites like Hulu proved that online video can generate decen... |
19 October 2009
10:06 GMT |
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YouTube has established itself as the number one online video site with a big lead in most parts of the world but it's still struggling to generate more revenue in order to become profitable. One way of achieving this is with professional content, which attracts more advertising money. It has been taking some bi... |
15 October 2009
10:48 GMT |
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YouTube may have the online video market pretty much cornered, but there are a few online video sites out there that have had some success by going for a slightly different market. Vimeo is one such site and, while its traffic numbers are nowhere near YouTube's, the overall quality of the content available is le... |
10 October 2009
07:03 GMT |
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There's little doubt that YouTube is a huge success when it comes to user numbers as the video site handily dominates the market in all aspects. But, on the day that YouTube celebrates its third year under Google, a little boasting perhaps is appropriate. And when you've got more than one billion views ever... |
9 October 2009
11:33 GMT |
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YouTube and Warner Music Group recently announced a new partnership that will bring back the music label's videos to YouTube but also provide Warner with customized pages for its artists complete with the right to sell its own advertising on them. The problem was, Warner didn't have a sales team so it partn... |
9 October 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Google's acquisition of YouTube is one of the company's best-known transactions and the most controversial. The deal made waves at the moment for the price tag it carried, which many believed to be significantly over-inflated, and later on for all of the copyright infringement troubles it carried. To this d... |
6 October 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Google is launching an interesting new ad unit that will incorporate promoted videos from YouTube. The fresh AdSense ad units will run along text and display ads and will compete with them in the automated ad auctions. Google already offers a form of video ads through its AdSense program but the new product won'... |
3 October 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The new deal between Warner Music Group and YouTube rumored for the past days has been officially confirmed and the details seem to be spot on with everything predicted. Warner's entire catalogue will become available again on YouTube but the music label will also get its own highly customized pages for the arti... |
30 September 2009
06:52 GMT |
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YouTube has announced that it will expand its Content ID program to integrate with YouTube Insight, a tool used to monitor all sorts of viewing stats for the videos uploaded to the site. Content ID was originally created to check uploaded videos for infringing content but increasingly it's turning from a policin... |
29 September 2009
10:19 GMT |
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Over the weekend it was reported that Warner Music and YouTube were close to signing a new licensing deal. The music label removed its content from the video site last December after it failed to get more money from Google. The two parties have apparently made up and now a few more details on the upcoming deal have s... |
29 September 2009
09:52 GMT |
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YouTube may still be in the red, though not for long if you take Google's word for it, but it's dominating the video market so clearly that the company could run the site just for the sheer joy of watching Microsoft and the rest of the contenders look like tiny ants from the top of its tower. August tuned o... |
29 September 2009
04:21 GMT |
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YouTube is by far the largest online video site in the world and one of the most popular destinations online. Still, even with Google's might behind it, it hasn't managed to become profitable just yet. Google says it's on the right track and revenue is increasing steadily and a new reported deal with W... |
26 September 2009
06:56 GMT |
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YouTube is by far the biggest video website in the world but Google is not known for slowing down or taking things for granted and the company is always looking for new ways to improve the product to bring in more users and revenue. Following on the trend launched with the reporting oriented channel earlier this year... |
24 September 2009
11:57 GMT |
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Online video is huge and it's going to get even bigger. And, despite the success of Hulu and the likes, which feature no user-generated content, YouTube still pretty much dominates in the market. And, again, despite the move towards professional content on the Google-owned site, it is still pretty much about use... |
23 September 2009
07:10 GMT |
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Google is not one for big releases and all of its services and products get updated gradually without much fanfare. This means that it's constantly improving, but it also means that it's hard to keep up with the changes. Thankfully, YouTube has decided to make a round-up of the recent changes and new featur... |
21 September 2009
05:20 GMT |
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As contract renegotiation halted at the end of 2008, Warner Music and YouTube seem to finally have reached an agreement that will please both parts, CNET reports. This agreement will lift the ban imposed by YouTube over its users for any content submission containing any piece of audio from Warner-Music artists. In... |
19 September 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Mark Glaser from MediaShift has recently posted a tweet in which he disclosed a future deal between Google and Brightcove, the Internet video platform provider. From his sources Mr. Glaser valuates the deal around $500 - $700 million. Even if not yet confirmed by official sources, the acquisition has already spurred ... |
17 September 2009
05:18 GMT |
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The US District Court for Central California has reached an interesting decision in a case involving online video sharing site Veoh and Universal Music Group. The judge ruled that the site was protected from claims of copyright infringement under the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyr... |
15 September 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Google is continuing its, mostly half-hearted, quest to add some sort of social components to its products. While YouTube can be considered a social network of sorts, at least in some of its initial intents and features, it's unlikely many users consider it a replacement or even an alternative to Facebook. Still... |
10 September 2009
08:40 GMT |
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There was a time when consoles were only used to play videogames. But now all the big console manufacturers seem pretty determined to eliminate the PC from the life of players by bringing as much functionality as possible to their devices.The most recent move comes from Nintendo, which has announced that the Wii Inte... |
4 September 2009
03:47 GMT |
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YouTube's future and financial viability may be looking up, but it still has a lot of snags to take care of along the way. One issue that was causing UK users a great deal of irritation, while also costing YouTube a pretty penny in potential advertising revenue, was the licensing deal with UK's PRS for Musi... |
3 September 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Google has big plans for YouTube as it moves further away from webcam videos to professional content. YouTube will start offering full-length streaming movies for rental, putting it in direct competition with the likes of Netflix or Amazon and even Microsoft's Xbox Live. The company is in talks with several big ... |
3 September 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Music video site Vevo, the joint venture between two of the four big music labels, Universal Music and Sony Music, backed by YouTube, was first announced in April this year, with a launch date set for late 2009, but has since stayed mostly quiet. Paid Content now reports that the venture's CEO Rio Caraeff has be... |
1 September 2009
12:09 GMT |
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Online video is going from strength to strength and, after a record month in June, it broke all previous records in the US in July as well. According to new numbers from comScore, more than half of the US population, 158 million people, watched a video online last month. The rise from the previous month isn't sp... |
29 August 2009
03:57 GMT |
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Online videos are a huge success, with viewer numbers and content growing month after month. Their biggest drawback, in fact, is precisely their success as, with the millions of new videos created and uploaded every month and roughly 15,000 hours’ worth of video added to YouTube every day, it's almost impo... |
26 August 2009
05:30 GMT |
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YouTube is on its way towards becoming a money-making machine for Google or at least putting some money back into its accounts instead of draining them like it has done so far. Even Google is saying that the site will soon be profitable. There are several reasons behind its increased confidence, like the fact that it... |
26 August 2009
03:26 GMT |
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YouTube is growing up from the mischievous little kid filled with webcam dramas and, truth be told, pirated videos to a young adult looking to build a future. Professional content has always been a weak spot for the site but that is beginning to change with several deals with content owners. The latest such deal is w... |
20 August 2009
04:00 GMT |
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The online video market saw quite a shakeup in June, spurred by major events like Michael Jackson's death and the Iranian protests. Along with the new standings the market also saw an all-time record with 157 million users in the US having watched a video online in the same month. Google sites still reign suprem... |
15 August 2009
06:47 GMT |
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YouTube may be the biggest video site in the world but its mostly associated with the user-generated content that helped it become the giant it is today. The site has been trying to shed off that label for a while now but without too much success. This week it's having another go at it by streaming the full-leng... |
14 August 2009
08:37 GMT |
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The acquisition of the On2 video technology company that Google announced last week may not go as smoothly as first hoped, as many On2 shareholders are dissatisfied with the terms of the deal. Despite Google having offered a 57 percent premium on the closing price of the shares the day before it was announced, some s... |
13 August 2009
06:47 GMT |
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While most of the focus has been on the financial side of YouTube lately, the site is still churning up new features at a steady pace and has just now revealed a redesigned landing page. The changes focus on the top section, the masthead, cleaning up the overall look and better separating the different feature groups... |
13 August 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Security company Symantec has released an interesting top of the 100 most popular searches kids do online. The top three results are YouTube, Google and Facebook, some of the largest sites online. While many of the entries aren't that surprising, several trends emerge from the list, like the fact that searching ... |
12 August 2009
11:24 GMT |
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YouTube has introduced new ways for individuals or companies to advertise through its video platform. From now on, people looking to promote products or services through videos on YouTube have an extra option to feature their product in the “Related Videos” category.Slowly, but surely, Google is reshaping... |
7 August 2009
08:22 GMT |
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