'Video' News

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Following another round of product and performance reviews, Google has decided to shut down their video ads feature, just over a year after it was introduced. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Four Google executives are facing criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy due to a video that was displayed on YouTube. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

For the first time since its inception, YouTube has decided to allow users to download content from their site. Read the rest of this entry »

There is some bad news for the IT industry in general, and for Google employees in particular. It looks as though the recession is beginning to catch up with the search giant. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Read the rest of this entry »

With the manifold increase that audio and video have recently gained on the Internet, it is becoming extremely difficult for users to find exactly whatever it is that they are looking for. In order to make the task simpler, Google has launched a speech recognition tool that enables searching within audio and video files. Read the rest of this entry »

Google seems to be capitalising on its results pages real estate by now showing two video listings side-by-side in the space normally occupied by a single search result. Read the rest of this entry »

Tibetans all over the world have been protesting Chinese policies and demanding autonomy for themselves. As part of these protests, a candle light vigil was held in Manhattan, last Thursday night, near the Chinese Consulate, during which images of Chinese atrocities were projected. Amongst these images, was the famous Olympic logo. The Olympic rings were then shown turning into handcuffs. These images, were video recorded and put up on YouTube. Read the rest of this entry »

Google recently announced the availability of a new gadget called the ‘Google Media Server’ or ‘Google Media Player’. The device will enable customers to watch content stored in the computer memory on their television set. Read the rest of this entry »

It is a well known fact that advertisers and publishers are always keen to know details about the performance of their content and the effect it has on viewers. In order to satiate their publishers’ appetites for viewer statistics, YouTube has introduced a new tool called Insight, which is available free of cost to YouTube account holders. Read the rest of this entry »

Last month we reported that Google was testing video ads on the search results pages. Today the campaign has gone live on a wide scale with all US users now being shown video ads within the regular Google search results page. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo!, the parent company of Flickr has been promising for ages that they will add video on Flickr. Now it seems like they are serious about their promise and it could be a matter of just a few weeks before this actually happens. Flickr video could be launched as early as April 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Madonna’s latest single, “4 Minutes (to save the world)”, a duet with Justin Timberlake, was leaked onto the Internet by a French DJ yesterday and has left Warner Music scrambling to arrest the leak in order to prevent millions of fans from hearing the track before it is officially released. Read the rest of this entry »