Recent ‘video’ News Stories

Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?

Thursday, 25th February 2010

Three executives of Google have been convicted by a court in Milan, Italy over the screening of a video in 2006. The video in question was of an autistic teenager being bullied. (more…)

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Hulu Launches Video Scene Search

Tuesday, 29th December 2009

Online video service Hulu, which allows viewers to watch TV series and movies online, has recently launched a new feature called Captions Search. (more…)

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(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube

Tuesday, 24th November 2009

YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. (more…)

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Video Ads In Paper Magazines

Monday, 21st September 2009

The latest innovation to hit the marketing industry is the introduction of video ads in traditional paper magazines.

Believe it or not, this is already happening! (more…)

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YouTube Explores Movie Rental Market

Wednesday, 9th September 2009

BusinessWeek has reported that Google’s popular video sharing site, YouTube, is in talks with various Hollywood Studios to rent out movies to their users. (more…)

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Chris Brown Video Makes YouTube Profit

Tuesday, 4th August 2009

YouTube has finally earned a successful case study for monetisation, thanks to a popular musician and an young couple’s wedding video. (more…)

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YouTube Testing Pre-Roll Ads

Tuesday, 2nd June 2009

YouTube has now decided to launch their pre-roll ad service outside the U.S.A. As a first step towards achieving that goal, they have started trialling pre-roll ads on YouTube in the U.K. (more…)

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RealTime Notifications And New Channel Layouts On YouTube

Monday, 27th April 2009

Since sites like Facebook and FriendFeed have already enabled real time interaction for users on their site, YouTube is starting to do the same. A new feature called YouTube RealTime is now being tested on a limited basis. (more…)

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China Bans YouTube, Again

Wednesday, 1st April 2009

YouTube, seems to have run into trouble with the Chinese authorities yet again. The site was blocked in China, again, last week. (more…)

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YouTube Blocks Music Videos In The UK

Wednesday, 11th March 2009

YouTube has failed to reach an agreement, with the Performing Rights Society (PRS) for Music, to renew their license to show music videos in the U.K. As a result of this they have blocked videos in the U.K. (more…)

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Are Employees Responsible For Content On Their Websites?

Thursday, 5th February 2009

Four Google executives are facing criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy due to a video that was displayed on YouTube. (more…)

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YouTube Wooing Big Media Companies

Tuesday, 27th January 2009

In what could be a win-win situation for all concerned, Google is planning to allow big media companies to start selling ads along with their content that appears on YouTube. (more…)

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Facebook And CNN Connect To Deliver Truly Social News

Thursday, 22nd January 2009

Even as people turned out in millions, braving the weather in Washington, to hear the inaugural speech of  President Barack Obama in person, Facebook and CNN came together to allow users all over the world to witness the event live online. (more…)

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YouTube Allows Video Downloads

Wednesday, 21st January 2009

For the first time since its inception, YouTube has decided to allow users to download content from their site. (more…)

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Google Launches Free TV Ad Creator

Monday, 19th January 2009

It just got cheaper and a lot easier to advertise products on television. Google has launched a free television ad creation service for AdWords advertisers. (more…)

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Posted in SEM, Technology, ppc, video | 2 Comments »

It’s Not Web TV, It’s Connected TV

Thursday, 15th January 2009

When Web TV was first introduced in the 1990s, the TV set was connected to a keyboard and a set top box. Back then, it did not succeed quite as well as expected. But now it seems to be making a comeback in a modified form, with the keyboard and set top box built into the TV itself; And it’s now called Connected TV. (more…)

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Sponsored Videos On YouTube

Friday, 14th November 2008

Google is still trying to figure out the best way to monetise YouTube. Their latest attempt towards this end is the launch of a Sponsored Video advertising service on YouTube. (more…)

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Mobile Video Returns To 3 UK

Wednesday, 12th November 2008

Mobile video is certainly not new to mobile operator, 3. They used to offer a mobile video service to their subscribers in partnership with Rhythm New Media. However, with the closure of Rhythm’s UK services earlier in the year, 3 UK had to close this service. (more…)

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Yahoo! Video Jumps In Popularity

Tuesday, 4th November 2008

Finally, the Yahoo! Team has something to smile about. According to the results of the latest survey conducted by Nielsen Online’s Video Census, Yahoo!’s market share of web video has increased substantially, in the month of September 2008. Their viewership has increased by a whopping 56%, and was around 264 million video streams for that month, compared to 169 million in the month of August. (more…)

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YouTube Trying To Monitor Youth Violence

Friday, 31st October 2008

With violence increasing at an alarming rate all over the world in general, and on YouTube in particular, YouTube has decided to do something about it – they are trying to detect and stop videos portraying youth crime being posted on the site. (more…)

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