Why ‘ad-free’ YouTube Red will actually be filled with ads
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‘YouTube Red’ is Google’s master plan to take on rival media subscriptions
After months of speculation, YouTube has announced today that it is indeed launching yet another monthly subscription service called YouTube Red. The service…
YouTube throws indie developers a bone after cutting off Microsoft
YouTube just significantly raised access limits to its API, making it easier to develop apps for the site. Except if you are Microsoft, that is.
YouTube keeps pushing viewers to use channels, takes subscribe button everywhere
YouTube is taking its subscribe button offsite, clearly hoping that more subscribers will equal longer viewing times.
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YouTube users now watch 6 billion hours of videos a month
Boy, people really do like watching YouTube videos: The service now streams more than 6 billion hours of video every month.
YouTube relaunches homepage and watch page with focus on channel guide
YouTube tweaked its homepage as well as its video watch page Thursday, making its channel guide a persistent element across almost the entire site. Similar changes will come to channel pages in the near future, and are designed to further emphasize YouTube’s channels.
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YouTube’s U.S. channels: “Forget Europe, show us the money”
As YouTube plans to expand its premium content initiative into the U.K. and France, some existing channel partners say additional production funding is needed in the U.S. “We’re not really funded enough to win,” said one channel operator.
Thousands of YouTube partners now make six figures a year
Thousands of people are now making six figures on YouTube, the company revealed during its Q2 earnings call Thursday. YouTube had previously put that number in the hundreds. Google’s Chief Business Officer, Nikesh Arora, said that the company has found its model for YouTube.
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Move over, golden record: YouTube launches partner rewards
YouTube is sending golden play buttons to any partner that has surpassed one million subscriber on his YouTube channel. The company is also honoring partners with more than 100,000 subscribers, and released some interesting new stats about these audience magnets.
YouTube: More than just cat videos
YouTube has invested heavily in professionally-produced content, and the platform is available on almost any connected and mobile device, making it a…
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Back To The Future: YouTube Launches Live Comedy Talk Show
With the comedy genre heating up in the online video world, My Damn Channel is turning to an age-old television format: the live daily comed…
YouTube Isn't Just Short-Attention-Span Theater Anymore
YouTube’s initial $100 million investment into original premium content channels has been amply played up as a bold, risky venture into the…
Machinima Is YouTube's Content King
If you’re not into video games, chances are you’ve never heard of Machinima. Maybe it’s time to change that: The L.A.-based content producer…
YouTube Video Extravaganza Continues With Motor Trend Channel
In Hollywood, $100 million will buy you about half of a Jerry Bruckheimer action movie. But YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is spreading that sum out t…
YouTube Fails To Convince Ad Regulator The Web Safeguards Kids Like TV Does
Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently…
YouTube Launches Massive Programming Push
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) confirmed one of the most open content secrets around late Friday: YouTube is partnering with programmers to launch doze…
YouTube Brings Movie Rentals To UK
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has upgraded its fledgling UK Movies rental section with a proper catalogue of over a thousand rental titles.
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MovieClips brings your favorite movie moments to YouTube
Movieclips has partnered with YouTube to launch a channel on the site with tens of thousands of short-form video clips from popular Hollywood movies. It will also provide additional clips on YouTube’s Movies channel to entice users to rent films through the streaming VOD service.
Google Hires P&G’s Digital Marketing Head To Attract Brand Ads To YouTube
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is trying to get brand advertisers to spend more on YouTube’s “masthead” ad units and the company has tapped Procter & G…
YouTube Ponies €500,000 For UK Content Development
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is to invest €500,000 (£441,000) in a scheme to support UK digital talent.
The YouTube NextUp fund will allow up to…
YouTube Will Reportedly Spend $100 Million On Original Programming Push
Some new details on what Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has in store content-wise for YouTube: The WSJ reports that the video site will spend $100 mill…
Vevo UK Launch Just Around The Corner
The world’s leading online music video site is planning to launch in the UK in the next few weeks, in the latest attempt by the industry to…
YouTube U: Colleges Partner With YouTube To Teach Video Skills
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has struck partnerships with two universities to help hone the craft of budding videographers looking to make a career…
YouTube Has No European Movie Rental Plans
A curious NY Post “exclusive” reports: “YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is eager to launch an unlimited subscription service for movies similar to Netf…
Sorry Shut-Ins, YouTube’s New Homepage Is Not For You
YouTube’s made its home page a lot more customizable, thanks to a new design. The new home page still contains a column of promoted and featured videos, but approximately 75 percent of the screen is now devoted to content drawn from the user’s social interactions.
YouTube Revenues More Than Doubled in 2010
While YouTube wasn’t a big topic of discussion during Google’s fourth quarter earnings call, CFO Patrick Pichette let slip that revenues grew at the online video site more than doubled in 2010. There’s still no word on whether or not YouTube is profitable, though.
5 Tips From YouTube on How to Rock YouTube
The gang at YouTube had a busy year when it came to creating new features and improving on new ones — so here’s a quick look at five things you may not have known you could do while using the world’s largest video site.
YouTube Drops $500k on New Gear for Creators
YouTube announced today it was handing out $500,000 worth of B&H Photo credits to its content partners, enabling them to buy better gear to make videos with. But the investment is meager compared to what some other video distributors, like Netflix, pay for their content.
YouTube Trends Surfaces Videos By Location, Demographic
Want to know what kind of videos are popular in Hong Kong, Honolulu or Houston? YouTube’s new Trends site offers direct access to some of its localized data, offering the ability to compare trends globally — and showcasing how Google could surface videos in the future.
YouTube Gets Rid of Upload Limits, If You Behave Well
There goes that saying about 15 minutes of fame: YouTube announced today that it is doing away with limiting video uploads to 15 minutes. However, you’ll only be able to upload longer videos if you behave well and don’t violate any of the site’s rules.
YouTube Makes Leanback Smarter With Custom Channels
Users watching YouTube Leanback spend 30 minutes watching video — twice as much as users of the traditional site — and it’s YouTube’s goal to make that difference even larger. Tonight comes a new initiative in that effort: Personalized channels created around specific topics, accessible through Leanback.
YouTube’s Hurley To Step Down As CEO
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley is stepping down from his position, he revealed during an event in Dublin this evening, according to a TechCrunch re…
YouTube Goes For The Holy Grail of TV
YouTube has finally rolled out its YouTube Leanback user interface, which was designed with Google TV in mind, and provides a way to easily navigate the site while viewing it on a big screen, as well as the non-stop viewing users expect from watching TV.
YouTube Adds New Countries to Partner Program, Other Tech Updates
A post to the official YouTube blog unveiled new international expansion of the partners program to Argentina, Sweden, New Zealand and the Czech Republic, technical updates and general upgrades to the site, including an indicator for when you’ve already visited a video on the site.
In Europe, Google Claims Spanish TV Victory, Czechs Have Street View Worry
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is shouting about one European court victory, and keeping mum on an adverse privacy ruling.
It says a Madrid court on T…
YouTube Live Is Not Ready for Primetime
Don’t expect YouTube to replace your primetime TV viewing anytime soon, based on early results from its live streaming efforts. It’s only Day Two of a test with content partners, but an early look at YouTube’s video quality shows some issues with its live streaming ambitions.
AOL, Google Extend Search Deal To 2015; Add Mobile, YouTube
Ending months of speculation about whether AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can make a new search deal, the companies announced this…
YouTube Adds Movies in the U.K.
YouTube is giving U.K. residents more reason to visit the online video site, with more than 400 movies added to its content library. Its new U.K. Movies section will feature ad-supported and on-demand films through agreements with Sony Pictures, MGM and U.K. video service Blinkbox.
YouTube Revamps Its Most-Popular List With ‘Charts’
YouTube’s most-popular list has always been a good way to discover on which videos and channels were trending, but it was difficult to navigate. Now the video site has simplified that process with “YouTube Charts,” a new listing that can be filtered according to multiple criteria.
Concert Database Songkick Feeds YouTube, Vevo
Songkick, a website that lists music gigs old and new and which lets attendees share their experiences, has struck an arrangement to syndica…
Weekend Poll: What Do You Think About YouTube’s Latest Upgrades?
Last Friday, YouTube (s GOOG) announced a bunch of new features and upgrades to make our video viewing and uploading lives easier. Which of these new features do you think has the most value for YouTube users? And what are you still waiting to see?
YouTube Now Offers Uploaders Full 15 Minutes Of Fame
If you’ve ever tried to upload a video to YouTube and found it rejected for being more than 10 minutes long, you may be pleased to learn You…
YouTube Extends File Limit to 15 Minutes
Attention all blabbermouths — on its blog today, YouTube announced that all of its users can now upload video files that are up to 15 minutes long. That’s 50 percent longer than the site’s previous (and long-running) limit of 10 minutes for non-partner videos.
Wanna Get Super-SEOed? Check Out Google’s Video Sitemaps
Google (s GOOG) has put up a guide and case study regarding video sitemaps, which enable creators to index their content with the search engine via Google’s Webmaster Tools. Case studies have shown that using these sitemaps can more than double a website’s video traffic.
YouTube Tries To Boost Production Budgets With $5 Million Grant Program
YouTube will dole out $5 million in grants to some of its top video uploaders in its latest move to up the quality of clips on its site. The…
YouTube Tries To Be More Like TV With ‘Leanback’
YouTube’s latest attempt to get people to watch more videos is a service called Leanback, which keeps on playing a selection of full-screen…
YouTube Makes The Case For Its Mobile Site — Instead Of The App
YouTube is giving its mobile site an overhaul, which is designed to bring much of the functionality of the YouTube website to the mobile ver…
Bookings Low? Google Ad Takes Over YouTube Homepage
On election morning, the Conservatives paid YouTube £50,000 for the UK homepage’s main ad spot. Today, an even bigger ad takeover has gone…
YouTube Declares Victory In Viacom Case; Faces Appeal
A federal judge has given Google (NSDQ: GOOG) a big win in its long-standing litigation with Viacom (NYSE: VIA). In a decision, embedded aft…
Google Prepping San Francisco Trial for YouTube Direct
Google is reaching out to local bloggers in San Francisco as part of a new trial of its YouTube Direct citizen journalism offering. The initiative would serve as a showcase of how other news organizations could leverage YouTube’s citizen journalists to augment their own coverage.
YouTube Leverages Google Moderator for Discussions
Comments on YouTube can be pretty rowdy at times. Good thing that YouTube publishers now have a new tool at their disposal to surface good contributions, guide the discussion and even get some interesting feedback on their own work, thanks to YouTube’s integration of Google Moderator.
Google Still Trying to Figure Out a Business Model for Video
Google exec Nikesh Arora says video on the web will drive a huge shift in advertising dollars over the next five years, but that the industry still has a long way to go to figure out how best to monetize those video on the web.
YouTube Tops 2B Views a Day, 5 Years After Launch
Just five years after YouTube launched the first beta version of its site, it now streams more than 2 billion videos a day, with a full day’s worth of video uploaded to the site every minute. All that momentum has YouTube on the verge of profitability.
YouTube Claims Two Billion-Plus Daily Views
A new data point about the state of YouTube, which has a fondness for using anniversaries to release them. On the eve of its fifth birthday,…
YouTube Lets Users Unlist Their Videos
With “unlisted videos,” YouTube has finally introduced a way that its users can pass their video links around without limiting availability to 25 viewers or having videos show up on the YouTube front page or in Google’s search index.
Display Ads a Big Hit for YouTube
The number of companies booking display ads on YouTube (s GOOG) grew by a factor of 10 in the last year, according…
First Video Uploaded to YouTube, Five Years Ago Today
YouTube’s (s GOOG) founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen may have bought the site’s domain back on February 14, 2005, but the…
Hitler Virals’ Downfall Sees Film Owner At Odds With Remixers
It’s a mark of how off the planet some web geeks are that they begrudge a content owner the right to do with its creation what it wishes. Bu…
POLL: Do You Love or Hate the New YouTube?
So this week, a YouTube (s GOOG) redesign meant to help clean up the commenting section and improve browsing was rolled out,…
YouTube Down In Wake of Redesign
UPDATED YouTube (s GOOG) was struggling to keep its site up in face of its relaunch this afternoon, with Twitter users complaining…
YouTube To Push Out Big Redesign With ‘Streamlined’ Video Pages — And More
Updated: The mantra for the major redesign YouTube is setting loose this afternoon: People just want to watch videos. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) re…
More Details About YouTube’s Relaunch
YouTube (s GOOG) just shared a few more details about its video page relaunch, which is scheduled to go live this evening.…
YouTube Rolls Out Major Redesign Across Its Site
Updated: YouTube (s GOOG) just informed its partners via email that it’s going to roll out a complete redesign of its video…
YouTube Web Site Down, Embeds Still Broadcasting
Online video fans might be wondering if the world has come to an end — after all YouTube isn’t working this morning. When you try and check out YouTube.com, you get the “service not available” message. The videos embedded in other websites are working.
YouTube Pulls Its ‘Realtime Sharing’ Feature
Less than a year after introducing a feature that let YouTube visitors see in “real-time” which videos their friends were watching and what…
YouTube Tries To Spur Wider Use Of InVideo Ads
While Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues work on reaching its $1 billion in display revenue goal, the latest blip in the search giant’s strategy…
The Reality of A YouTube Front Page Feature
UPDATED: So we were on the front page of YouTube (s GOOG) on Saturday! That was pretty fun, though a bit surprising…
NewTeeVee Curates Web Series Picks for YouTube Today
Hey, so if you’ve been by a little unknown website called YouTube (s GOOG) today, you might have noticed that we were…
YouTube Brings Ads To Its Mobile Site
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) — which has spent much of the last year talking about how it is making more money off of YouTube — is now beginning to…
Citi: YouTube to Top $1B in Revenues in 2011
Due to strong growth and better monetization, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney estimates that YouTube (s GOOG) will make about $945 million this…
YouTube Caption FAIL: jkOnTheRun’s Secret FBI Edition
Don’t you just love it when new Google (s GOOG) services spark all kinds of creativity? YouTube announced yesterday that it started…
Ok No Go: YouTube’s Embedding Restriction Is Bad For New Bands
About three years ago, power pop band Ok Go were catapulted to fame after its independently-produced music video for the song “Here It Goes…
YouTube Gets Violence and Profanity Filter
Google has announced new violence and profanity filters for YouTube, an opt-in series of features it is calling “Safety Mode,” in what…
YouTube Gets Violence and Profanity Filter
YouTube has launched a violence, profanity and porn filter for the video-sharing site that it is calling “Safety Mode.” When the setting is clicked, searches for certain terms will return no results, and comments on videos are hidden by default, and have profanity replaced by asterisks.
Weekend Vid Picks: YouTube Thinks I Want to Watch What?
This weekend’s collection of videos are oddly personal for me. Which is to say that they’re all things that YouTube (s GOOG)…
YouTube Cleans Up Video Pages for Improved Search & Discovery
YouTube (s GOOG) announced that it’s looking to improve its user experience with a new design for video pages that cleans up…
Analyst: YouTube To Help Google’s Bottom Line This Year
Faced with murmurs that YouTube was on track to lose almost $500 million for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), executives went on the offensive last summ…
YouTube Renegotiates Another Music Contract
In its ongoing effort to keep down the cost of showing thousands of music videos, YouTube appears satisfied with having renewed its deal wit…
JK Wedding, Obama and Susan Boyle Rocked YouTube in 2009
YouTube’s 2009 view tallies are in, and we’ve got a winner: Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent clip clocked 120 million views, far…
@ Vevo Launch: Google’s Schmidt: The Music Industry Will Finally Make Money Selling Music Online
The Vevo launch party has been going on for an hour and executives and stars are ready to take the stage. I spoke briefly with Google (NSDQ:…
YouTube Ends Video Downloads Program
We received word this morning that YouTube has decided to end its short-lived video downloads beta program. David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted…
Vevo Signs Up CBS Interactive Music Group
It’s not another big music label, but Vevo, the highly anticipated music video site, has signed up CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) Music Group a…
YouTube Tests Ad-Skipping Feature As A New Form Of Engagement
YouTube is testing “skippable” pre-roll ads on a select group of its content partners’ videos, as it tries to determine what sort of spots a…
YouTube Praises Itself On Its Google Birthday
Google’s attempts to turn around negative perceptions of its $1.6 billion purchase of YouTube continue: In a post marking the three year ann…
Google Paid $1 Billion More For YouTube Than It Thought The Site Was Worth
So, how much of a premium was Google (NSDQ: GOOG) willing to pay for YouTube back in 2006 to make sure that none of its competitors got cont…
YouTube Grows to Embrace (and Maybe Apply) User Research
As is the case with any sort of product or service that develops power users, YouTube (s GOOG) discovered recently that different…
YouTube Now Hawking Click-to-Buy Ringtones
Along with overlaid affiliate links to buy MP3s on iTunes (s AAPL) and Amazon (s AMZN), YouTube (s GOOG) will now feature…
YouTube Movie Rentals: An Intriguing But Dubious Idea
Last week it came out that YouTube is in talks with Lionsgate, Sony (NYSE: SNE), MGM and Warner Bros. about launching streaming movie rental…
YouTube/PRS Details: Advance Payment, Three-Year Deal, Figures Secret
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is putting up another wadge of advance cash for the revised terms of its renewed license for YouTube to use music in the…
YouTube Resolves UK Music Royalties Dispute, Will Start Paying Again
Eight months after letting its PRS For Music license expire in protest at “ridiculous” rates, YouTube has agreed new terms with the UK music…
Google Expands Ad Revenue Sharing On YouTube
A year-and-a-half after first giving select users a cut of the revenue generated by ads that run near their clips, YouTube is greatly expand…
YouTube Tests New Recommendation Systems To Get Visitors To Watch More Clips
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to strike deals to up the amount of professional and long-form content on YouTube, but it’s simultaneously pur…
YouTube's Hurley Bankrolling US F1; Plans Video Content, Social Media
His video site may not yet be as profitable as hoped, but YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley’s a wealthy young man in need of an outlet.…
Shareholders Sue To Stop Google's Purchase Of On2
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is offering a 57 percent premium to purchase video firm On2 Technologies — but that’s not enough to satisfy a cadre of…
34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business
YouTube’s not just for posting silly videos of sleepwalking dogs and other embarrassing moments — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. You can use it to show off your expertise, share knowledge, market your products and connect with customers, colleagues and prospects.
Here are 35 ways to use YouTube (and other video services) for business.
Music Labels Playing More YouTube ‘Whack-a-Mole’, Calvin Caught In The Net
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) says it’s apologised to Calvin Harris after mistakenly deleting one of his own videos in what appe…
YouTube Engages in Some Myth-Spinning: We’re Doing Great; Testing 3-D Videos
Updated below: YouTube is finally getting some love from within the company, which means it is talking publicly about its revenues seriously…
Google: YouTube Will Soon Be “Very Profitable”
YouTube (s GOOG) will be “very profitable” in the “not too distant future,” Google CFO Patrick Pichette said on the company’s quarterly…
Pixelpipe Makes iPhone Video Uploads (Somewhat) Easier
It’s great that the iPhone finally has the ability to record video, right? But once you’ve captured your video, the iPhone doesn’t…
Updated: Google Wants Newspapers To Post Their Videos To YouTube
Never mind that many newspapers may be upset about how their content is treated on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News. Now Google is lobbying publishe…
YouTube Doubles Upload Size Limit
YouTube (s GOOG) has doubled the size of standard uploads for regular-Joe account holders to 2 GB from 1 GB. The company…
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YouTube Sees 400 Percent Jump In Mobile Video Uploads Since New iPhone Launch
Give them easier access and they will upload and watch. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) said today that since the iPhone 3G S has come out, YouTube uplo…
iPhone 3G S Video Recording: Better Than Expected
It’s no secret that the iPhone was late to the video recording party. But Apple (s AAPL) finally has added video recording…
Microsoft To Scale Back Its YouTube-Rival Soapbox
Two years after making a strategic decision to launch a user-generated video upload service of its own rather than buy another site, Microso…
YouTube Tests Choose-Your-Own Ads
Adding more fuel to the notion that there’s no one “sweet spot” for ad formats on YouTube, comes news that the video site is testing a “choo…
YouTube To Premiere Movie Simultaneous To Theater Release
YouTube is taking another stop in its transition from a purely user-generated site to one that also broadcasts premium content like TV shows…
PRS To YouTube: Baby, Come Back (But Give A Little Respect)
As if halving its royalties for music streaming last week wasn’t a big enough plea to YouTube, PRS For Music is really making sure the video…
Could Google’s New ‘Web Elements’ Help Newspapers?
Earlier this week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) introduced “Google Web Elements” an easy way for people to embed Google products — like Google News…
Analyst: YouTube Will Steal Some Ad Dollars From Search
YouTube for years has been dogged by skepticism about its ability to turn its 6 billion-plus videos viewed each month into advertising riche…
A Break For Music Sites: UK Royalty Body Slashes Streaming Rates
British royalty collector PRS For Music has bowed to websites’ pleas for lower fees, more than halving its on-demand streaming music rate fr…
Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Don’t have To Buy Everyone To Work With Them’
Is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) close to agreeing to some kind of deal with Twitter? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking at the company’s annual Zeit…
YouTube Ordered to Pay $1.6M to ASCAP
A district judge has ordered YouTube (s GOOG) to pay $1.61 million in royalties to U.S. songwriters, and $70,000 per month going…
Updated: Another Google Fail: YouTube Search Goes Down
[qi:_newteevee] Googlers (s GOOG) probably can’t wait for this week to end. After a rash of problems with search, GMail and Blogger…
Updated: #youtubefail: Search Goes Down on the Video Site
UPDATE 2: Looks like YouTube search is up and working again. Updated with comment from YouTube: There appear to be some problems…
Industry Moves: UMG Veteran Caraeff Expected To Lead Vevo
Universal Music Group executive Rio Caraeff will head Vevo, the UMG-YouTube online music joint venture set to launch later this year, accord…
Google Expected To Walk Away From ‘Unfavorable’ AdSense Deals With AOL, MySpace
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been battered by the recession along with everyone else, but an analyst note from Bernstein Research’s Jeff Lindsay…
No More YouTube Without Google (Accounts)
YouTube announced last night that all new signups on the site will require a Google account. The move comes as part of…
YouTube Cracks Down On Sneaky Brand Integrations
YouTube has a warning for its top content partners: don’t include any branded integration without getting our permission first. Mediaweek ha…
Hulu Now Almost Even With Yahoo For Video Audience
Hulu’s audience grew 20 percent in March over the previous month
YouTube Still Talking With UK, Germany Royalty Societies
Consider this a holding statement. Seven weeks after it began blocking premium music to its users in Britain and Germany, YouTube is apparen…
YouTube Joins The Real-Time Bandwagon
Twitter. Facebook. And now YouTube, with a new feature that lets visitors see in real time which YouTube videos their friends are watching…
First Look: YouTube TV, Movies: A Starter House — Not A Mansion
If your current idea of online video is slickster Hulu, prepare to be whelmed during your first visits to YouTube’s new showcases for movies…
Google TV Ads’ New Feature Includes Online Video
Piggybacking on YouTube’s new showcase for TV programming, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its cable and satellite ad targeting program, Go…
Schmidt: Google Would Be ‘Happy’ To Work With Twitter
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt cautioned during the company’s earnings call Thursday that despite the company’s solid quarterly result…
YouTube Meets Hulu, Sort Of; Shows Premium Pay Potential
YouTube is going live with a new way to look at “thousands of television shows,” a better landing page for movies (expanded from a few dozen…
YouTube Symphony Orchestra: Both “Inspiring” and “Gimmicky”
The predominant way to experience YouTube (s GOOG) is and always will be through a computer screen. But the company’s grab bag…
YouTube’s Soccer Video Takedowns Extend To Match-Goers’ Own Footage
The BBC’s technology correspondent is a serial intellectual property thief. Or, that’s how Rory Cellan-Jones seems to be feeling at the mome…
YouTube Claims Incremental Success On Selling Ads Against Video Views
YouTube may be on track to lose $500 million this year, but the Google-owned video site is at least trying to claim small victories wherever…
Analyst: YouTube Will Lose Almost $500 Million This Year
Google’s YouTube may be dominating the online-video market, but that’s not translating into profits — at least not yet. Just how much it’s…
To Get Bigger Media Buys, Google Will Connect YouTube With Google TV Ads
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is testing a system that would let advertisers easily put their ads on TV and YouTube, according to The Wall Street Jour…
Google Moderator Gets White House Endorsement
The White House has given its stamp of approval to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Moderator, which it will use to pick questions for President Barack O…
China Blocks YouTube (Again)
For the second time in a year, China has blocked Google’s YouTube service, although Chinese authorities won’t give any details as to why. “M…
Digital Studio On The Block? Don't Expect YouTube To Make An Offer
Looks like YouTube’s dabbles in content development haven’t been paying off. Kevin Yen, the video site’s director of strategic partnerships,…
New Google UK Boss Brittin Defends Street View, YouTube
It was in to the lion’s den for new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) UK MD Matt Brittin. Just 24 hours after being promoted to the role, after Dennis…
YouTube Adds Engagement Analytics
Page views, video views — they’re simple measures that make the web go ’round, but they don’t really paint a full picture…
UK Music Biz Labels Google 'Cynical And Exploitative'
Looks like the animosity isn’t subsiding. UK Music, an umbrella representing a smorgasbord of industry bodies, has released a statement call…
Behavioral Targeting By Any Other Name: Google Ads Get 'Interest-Based'
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is starting to test a behavioral targeting system on its partner sites and YouTube. In a Google Blog post that doesn’t e…
YouTube Selling More Ads To Larger Advertisers — But Only On A Fraction Of Videos
YouTube may finally be making some headway in convincing big marketers to get over their phobia of user-generated content. A new report from…
Industry Moves: YouTube Picks From ITV; Specific Media; MTV-Viacom
— YouTube: ITV (LSE: ITV) director of viewer marketing Anna Bateson has joined Google-owned YouTube as European marketing director. She joi…
YouTube Adds Some Downloads — And Possibly Some Revenue With Purchase Option
After a quiet start, YouTube is expanding its roster of downloadable videos — and putting some up for sale in a small test. Viewers have be…
YouTube Goes Offline with Downloads
YouTube (s GOOG) said today it will allow some content partners to start offering video downloads through the site so that viewers…
YouTube Goes Hollywood; Deal With William Morris Agency Appears Near
In the latest sign that web video is fast becoming a respectable domain for even top actors and directors, YouTube and the William Morris Ag…
From YouTube HQ: HQ Video Embeds
YouTube has started enabling high-quality video playback on its embeds. Previously, you could switch to the high-quality stream by hacking the embed…
Gaming Roundup: YouTube/PS3/Wii; VGAs; 1Up Editor Defects To Ignition
— Watch YouTube through PS3, Wii: PS3 and Wii owners can now watch YouTube through their console’s browser. The beta YouTube for Television…
JP Morgan Sees Long-Term Dominance For Performance-based Ads; Online Video Loses Luster
It’s not surprising that during a downturn, the clear metrics and ROI offered by performance based ads are looking more attractive. But in h…
Ad Industry Roundup: Time; YouTube; Publishers Clearing House; Website Brands
— Departing Time exec’s online/offline disappointment: Ed McCarrick, who leaves Time magazine after 35 years this week to go to Omnicom bar…
YouTube’s Plan To Gain The Upper Hand With Music Labels
Record labels like Universal Music Group are using YouTube to rake in millions of dollars from their music videos, and yesterday we raised t…
YouTube: A Money-Maker For Music Labels, But What About Google?
YouTube is driving more than traffic to music labels like Universal Music Group. Rio Caraeff, EVP of UMG’s eLabs, told CNET that YouTube is…
YouTube Bringing Click-To-Buy To Europe, Helps Python Grow DVD Sales
YouTube will its click-to-buy scheme, which links video pages to entertainment retail sites, to its European sites “within the next few mont…
Python Goes Legit On YouTube; Better Than Slap In Face With Wet Fish
There’ll be no Spanish inquisition for Monty Python-loving YouTube users. The comedy brand is eschewing the possibility of suing the site,…
YouTube Live: What Do You Want to See?
This weekend Chris and I will be at YouTube Live, the online video site’s first big in-person event in San Francisco. We…
YouTube’s New Bid To Boost Revenues: Sponsored Videos And A Live Performance
Analysts and investors have been badgering Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to find ways to wring more money out of YouTube … Maybe Google’s listening…
YouTube Working on Adding Full Length Studio Movies?
So says a report from News.com, and it seems a no brainer on the face of it: YouTube, owned by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), has tried to get full le…
UK Digital Music Royalties Grow; YouTube Becoming A Big Money-Spinner
UK songwriters and music publishers will make another nine percent less money from CD this year, but overall earnings will have grown thanks…
Digital Music Royalties Grow; YouTube Becoming A Big Money-Spinner
UK songwriters and music publishers will make another nine percent less money from CD this year, but overall earnings will have grown thanks…
Queen At Google: Uploading Skateboarding Corgi Vid To YouTube?
Who’s this trying to work a mouse with YouTube CEO Chad Hurley? Why it’s Her Maj, on a press op Thursday afternoon at Google’s London HQ,…
Yahoo Faces Another Seach Ad Challenger: YouTube
While the search ad pact between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been placed on hold until the Department of Justice determin…
Next Big Thing for YouTube: E-Commerce Links
YouTube today announced it has added the option to incorporate e-commerce links from videos on its site to relevant iTunes and Amazon…
YouTube Plays with Theater View for Long-Form Videos
YouTube is experimenting with two new viewing options for long-form content: “Theater View,” which shoves down creator information, pulls a clip into…
YouTube Video Ads Goes Post-Roll; Ad Overlays Are Not Enough
While YouTube and its parent Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have been promoting ad overlays as the best format for supporting online video, the video s…
Broadband Content Bits: Wang’s YouTube Premiere; VBS Surf Series
— Wayne Wang film to premiere on YouTube in October: The Princess of Nebraska Wayne Wang’s new film from Magnolia Pictures will have its wo…
YouTube Offers Subtitles For Non-English-Speakers And Hard-Of-Hearing
YouTube has switched on a new feature that lets content owners offer text subtitles along with their videos. The Captions feature lets pro…
YouTube Tries New Homepage Ad Format
YouTube, in its ongoing attempts to make money and appease Eric Schmidt, today on its homepage is sporting a new sort of…
Govt Wants Power To Remove Videos From YouTube, All UGC Sites
The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according t…
Google Proposes Hosting Bengali Literature And Movies
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to host Bengali movies on YouTube as well as post literary works of renowned novelists on the web. As per th…
YouTube Ads ‘Underperforming’ At $200 Million A Year, Pre-Rolls Coming?: Report
YouTube’s slow march to riches is supposedly going slower than many had hoped. Ad revenue will reach $200 million for the year, short of Goo…
Is YouTube Killing Video Originality?
The Atlantic Monthly recently asked the question “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I can’t answer that (I couldn’t finish reading the article),…
YouTube Adds Some Indie Movie Screenings To Line Up; No Change in Video Deals Strategy
YouTube has added long form videos/movies in the form of deals with indie filmmakers, and launched its YouTube Screening Room. “While the ma…
Feature-length Movies on YouTube?
YouTube, which turned the bite-sized clips of dogs skateboarding into a mainstay of popular culture, is taking steps towards offering longer-form content.…
YouTube Set to Dominate the Boob Tube
Dominance perpetuates itself, and that adage looks like it will hold true for YouTube as the company positions itself to be the…
Ad Industry Roundup: Forbes; P&G; Blog Ad Rev; Digitas; AOL; YouTube; MPA; Ad Nets; Sun; Pepsi
— Forbes readies ad net for female execs: Forbes is prepping an ad net aimed at female execs, the latest in a string of verticals the finan…
YouTube Targets Ads to Vids about to Go Viral
YouTube announced a new advertising product today called “buzz targeting” that makes a ton of sense. Since advertisers (like just about everyone…
YouTube at the Epicenter of Another Crisis
The devastating earthquake in China today is just the latest crisis to showcase YouTube’s role as a primary source of firsthand accounts…
YouTube India Goes Live
I just checked, and Youtube India has gone live today, with a host of Indian content partners – NDTV, UTVi, Bindass, Zoom and Indiaglitz are…
Schmidt Promises New YouTube Monetization Tools
It’s all smoke and mirrors until the products launch, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt promised untold wonders of coming YouTube advertising innovations…
YouTube To Launch India Site On May 7th
ContentSutra has learned from various sources that YouTube is planning to launch an India site on the 7th of May. Apparently, as with all th…
India Most Active Country On Mosh; 50% Of Online Indians Upload On Youtube
— It seems like we are not as UGC lazy as it may seem. Last year we had covered Linardos, Head of Mosh, Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Internet and m…
Google Video Gets a Makeover
Google Video has given itself a redesign, adding some nice search tweaks and a fresh new look. Now when you search for…
Fodder: YouTube Doles Out $1 Million In Ad Rev Share; CPMs Nowhere In Range
The “gotcha mongers” are having a field day with this: a little over four months after opening up its ad revenue sharing “partner program,”…
Google India’s Head Of Content To Join Mobile Co Aryty
ContentSutra had learned that Harbinder Narula, formerly the Head of Content for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India has put in his papers, and will b…
YouTube Insight Tool Provides Existential Answers To A Video’s Life
YouTube says it has a new analytics tool that will answer the existential questions its video creators have always been curious about: Who’s…
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Video Increase, Video Traffic Up
– BBC video: Switching from RealMedia and Windows Media Video to Flash video is giving BBC News a ten-fold increase in the number of times a…
Updated: YouTube Adds White-Label Services; TiVo, EA On Board; No Ads From Publishers
Updated below: YouTube is expanding beyond its role as a destination and distributor of online video … Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) video site ha…
YouTube And T-Series Given Time To Settle Copyright Infringement Dispute
The Delhi High Court has given YouTube and T-Series time to settle their copyright infringement dispute, and the case will be heard next in…
Broadband Content Bits: MySpace; UFC-Yahoo; WB-HP; Akamai; Ripe; HBO-YouTube; YouTube Outage
— MySpace launches original series: MySpace today launched its new hidden-camera reality show Special Delivery, its second original web ser…
Google Launching Beta Of Adsense For Video; To Use YouTube-Like Overlays
Following a pilot program that began last May, Google has announced the beta launch of its Adsense for video offering. The company will use…
YouTube Contributor Rev Share Now Open In UK
Skateboarding dogs, happy slappers and karaoke queens can, from today, start earning a slice of the ad revenue YouTube makes from their esca…
IITs Upload Engineering Lectures On YouTube
The National Programme for Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) has uploaded video lectures from professors from the Indian Institutes of Te…
Industry Moves: Microsoft's Di Cesare To Head YouTube's Marketing
YouTube has named Chris Di Cesare head of marketing and programming, ClickZ reported. A YouTube rep told me that Di Cesare, who is defecting…
YouTube Acquires India, NZ Domains For Around Rs. 2.44 Lakhs
Reader Ravi Venkatraman directs us in the comments to this post, to a notification (Pdf) from India’s official domain registry, which states…
New Web TV Entrant WorldTV Republishes Online Video As Playlists With Ads
WorldTV, an online TV startup letting users mix clips from video sharing sites as well as from their webcam, launches next Wednesday, aiming…
Broadband Content Bits: ITN On iTunes; YouTube NZ
– ITN: The multi-tentacled, multi-platform assault from the multi-media ITN On division continues. The news agency is making news bulletins…
Last.fm Adds Music Videos Mashed From YouTube
Last.fm is adding music videos from YouTube to pages corresponding to individual tracks. A couple of Last.fm-inspired mashups had already be…
Online Video Provider ManiaTV Relaunches Without User-Gen
When online video site ManiaTV started out three years ago, it positioned itself as an aggregator of professional content. Then, with the r…
Broadband Content Bits: ITN/YouTube, Archers Podcast, Kewego/Truveo
– ITN: The TV news agency’s ITN On interactive division has done yet another online distribution partnership; this time, it’s a further deal…
YouTube To Launch India Site: Report
I’m not sure of what to make of this story in the Hindustan Times, which quotes Shashi Seth, Head of Monetization at YouTube as saying that…
YouTube+Overlay Ads+AdSense Network: Synergy Heaven
So here goes Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) brilliant think-tank thinking: we own this thing called YouTube, and we tied up with these media companie…
Google Growing EU Engineer Count; Countering Negative US Reputation
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wants to get a better reputation in Europe – and give the rub to those who think all its innovations come out of Califor…
YouTube Reaches Deal With UK Music Society on Royalties
YouTube (Nsdq: GOOG) has done an agreement with MCPS-PRS Alliance, the music collection society in UK, under which the society licenses 10 m…
YouTube Ad Overlays Response – Some Users, Rivals Complain; Others Cautiously Optimistic
After YouTube officially introduced InVideo advertising overlays yesterday (example), come the predictable user complaints and threats to qu…
YouTube Starts Overlaying Ads On Some Professional and User-Generated Video
Looking for more ways to make some revenue from its $1.65 billion purchase, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has begun inserting ads within YouTube vid…
Incredible India On YouTube; The Risk For YouTube
The Ministry of Tourism has tied up with YouTube to host 18 promotional films, reports DNA. The Incredible India channel is hosted here. Str…
Google Video Will No Longer Offer Play For Pay; Ad-Supported Video Takes Precedence
That’s why they call it beta … 19 months after a flashy debut for the Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Video Store at CES, Google Video is dropping p…
Music Publishers Join British Soccer League Class Action Suit Against YouTube
Despite a number of agreements with content owners and the promise to put a new copyright filtering system in place next month, YouTube’s le…
Viacom-Google Copyright Case Underway; YouTube To Add Video Fingerprinting This Fall
YouTube will add software to automatically detect copyrighted videos this fall, possibly September, according to a lawyer defending the vide…
Earnings: Google Execs Blame Disappointing Profits On Hiring And Seasonality
While Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) posted a 28.3 percent increase of net income of $925.1 million in Q2, as we reported earlier, the company failed…
Hearst-Argyle in Local TV Rev-Share Deal With YouTube
In YouTube’s first revenues sharing deal with a local TV station group, Hearst-Argyle Television, one of the largest local station groups, w…
@ D: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Comes Out Swinging Against Viacom
Schmidt: The Viacom lawsuit was probably just a mistake, because the issue is DMCA and whether it applies here and whether we have joint res…
@ D: Chad Hurley And Steve Chen
The YouTube twosome on stage:
— YouTube service on AppleTV: Hurley: They reached out to us and see what we could do together. We want to br…
EMI, YouTube Agree Music Use Arrangement, Mash-Ups Covered
EMI has struck a licensing deal with Google covering use of its artists’ music on YouTube. The deal, which makes EMI the last of the majors…
‘YouTube Is Not Yet TV’, EC Says, Clarifying New Rules
The European Commission has clarified new media regulations, passed last week, that pertain to some new media but not all. The Audio-Visual…
iTunes Beaten On McCartney Releases, YouTube Debuts Singer’s Latest
Paul McCartney’s music is still coming to iTunes – but not as quickly as it is to Apple’s rivals. Following a decision by EMI and the songwr…
YouTube, Blackplanet Seek Reversal Of Military’s Web Ban
YouTube wants to meet with Pentagon officials to try to convince them to reconsider its decision to block its site by troops using the Defen…
Online Video No Threat To TV, YouTube Tells Congress; Cuban Stresses Need For Net Neutrality
Updated 2: An easier way to watch the full hearing, over three hours long, is here on the committee website, as a Windows Media stream or do…
English Premier League, Bourne Try Class Action Suit Against YouTube, Google
Updated to include Google response. Two law firms are trying to set up a class action suit representing copyright owners, large and small, w…
YouTube To Start Rev Share With Some of Its Top Users/Creators; Still Restricted
A small step in the right direction from YouTube: it has added some of its top user-gen stars such as LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, and othe…
NAB: GoogleTube Close To Its “Claim Your Content” Filtering System
Yes, we’re not at NAB, or MipTV, or Web 2.0 Expo, all going on at the same time…our own EconSM conference is less than 10 days away, and t…
BBC Cannot Expand YouTube Partnership Without Trust Approval
The BBC will need to consult its regulatory Trust if it chooses to widen its content partnership with YouTube. The BBC launched a trailers c…
Google: Thai YouTube Ban; Shareholder Proposal Opposed;
In some respects, Viacom is the least of Google’s YouTube problems. The site was banned for periods of time in Turkey and Brazil recently an…
YouTube Announces First Video Award Winners
The virtual envelope please…YouTube named its first ever Video Award winners Monday and the top honors went to the Chicago band OK Go for…
It’s Back: Talk Of FOX-NBC Video JV Heats Up Again
It’s the JV proposal that will not die, kind of like those marsh fires that look like they’re out and flame up again unexpectedly. The idea…
YouTube Tries Its Own Video Awards
YouTube’s Video Awards was kicked off Monday, as the site’s registered users were invited to start voting for the best user-generated clips…
New Eisner Internet Video Venture: Web Studio Vuguru
Proof that the well of cute and oddly irritating names for new internet video companies has yet to run dry … the latest is Vuguru from for…
Magnolia Pictures Subpoenas Google For Identities Of Copyright Violators
On the surface, the demand by Magnolia Pictures, a film company co-owned by Mark Cuban, to know who uploaded copyright material on Google an…
Bear Stearns: Google CEO Schmidt On dMarc, YouTube, Rivals, Arrogance & More
Unlike some people who head for the antacids, Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt actually may thrive on criticism. Yes, according to AP, h…
Microsoft Tries To Establish Bona Fides As Publishers’ Friend — At Google’s Expense
Microsoft is launching (yet another) PR offensive against Google, this time with book publishers as the foil. When Tom Rubin, associate gene…
BBC In Clips Deal With YouTube; Ad Rev Share; UK Blackout On News Clips
In a deal likely to raise some eyebrows in UK, BBC has done a more-than-trivial clips licensing deal with YouTube. Three YouTube channels -…
Academy Takes Oscars Off YouTube
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has asked YouTube to take down clips of its Oscarcast and the user-gen video giant has complied, r…
@ MPA: Google’s Eun Offers Lessons In Moore’s Law, Kryder’s Law And Respecting Copyrights
The three trends most affecting content providers for the past decade
Google To Offer Anti-Piracy Tools To All, Eventually; Doing Damage Control After Non-Deals
Google is doing some damage control today, after a spate of stories on how it failed to close deals with media companies (or, if you’re so i…
YouTube Roundup: Mafia Shakedown; YouTube Rivals; Chelsea Deal
YouTube news and controversies, what else:
— YouTube anti-piracy software policy draws fire: YouTube’s blackmailing tactics highlighted: i…
Viacom Circumvents YouTube, Making MTV Networks’ Video Available To All Others
It’s round two in Viacom’s war against YouTube, as the media conglomerate will make videos from all MTV-owned sites available for download t…
YouTube Gets Legit Access To Classic TV Shows; Promises Filtering As Part Of Deal
Some more grist for the mill being operated by those who point to YouTube’s willingness to id misused copyrighted content for partners but n…
YouTube Founders Got $650 Million in Shares; Sequoia Got $442 Million; Nothing For Music Labels?
Updated below: This is based on the $470.01 closing share price of Google on Wednesday. Google did an SEC filing today which detailed the sh…
Earnings Call: Google CEO On YouTube Pay Plan; Nothing Formal Yet; Sometime This Year
We covered the earlier earnings announcement here.
From the call: Echoing YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley’s comments at Davos last week, Goog…
@ AO Media: Did Google Overpay For YouTube?
In answer to the question, “How Much is The New Dotcom Worth?” AO Media panelists noted that it depends, but in unique cases the sky is lite…
Indie Music Labels Worried Over YouTube's Policies
So says a story on Billboard.biz, which says that some key players in the indie music community are preparing for a legal skirmish with YouT…
YouTube's Vaporware About Vaporshare
This generated a lot of links and stories since Thursday….Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, speaking at Davos, flippantly mentioned the…
It's Official: Google Decides To String Google Video Along, Separate From YouTube
This has been debated internally for a while, and Google still couldn’t bring itself to kill Google Video: it announced today that the video…
Fox Subpoenas YouTube, LiveDigital For Identity Of Users Posting Episodes Of '24' & 'Simpsons'
Frustrated by uploads to YouTube of episodes of two of its most popular shows, News Corp.’s 20th Century Fox has turned to subpoenas. Steve…
Ads On YouTube Subject To Truth-In-Advertising Standards, Watchdog Group Says
Marketers of baldness cures and miracle weight-loss remedies, take note: if you advertise on YouTube, you are subject to the same standards…
YouTube's Suzie Reider on Google, Episodic Ads, and Why Marketers Had Better Start Tagging
Oldtimers on the Net sometimes argue that a platform is all over when the marketers show up. At Google-owned YouTube, it’s CMO Suzie Reider’…
Local TV News Leaps to YouTube
KZSW, a local TV station in Temecula, Calif., has begun posting news and sports coverage to YouTube. The station started last month, and whe…
User-Generated Video: Where
User-generated video might be all the rage, but it doesn
The European Video Sharing Sites: Waiting For YouTube?
An interesting overview of the online video sharing sites and scene in Europe, and the big question whether biggies such as YouTube would ru…
