Youtube News
YouTube Revenue Estimated $1 Billion
8th March 2010
Google’s studied secrecy about the revenue generated by their video site, YouTube, only fuels further curiosity and speculation on the subject. The latest to offer an opinion and some estimated figures on the topic is Mark Mahaney of the Citigroup. More »
Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?
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 »
Social Networks More Popular Than Search In Australia
28th January 2010
Data released by Hitwise has shown that over the last few weeks, social networking sites have become more popular than search engines in Australia. More »
(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube
24th November 2009
YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. More »
YouTube Explores Movie Rental Market
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 »
Chris Brown Video Makes YouTube Profit
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 »
YouTube Testing Pre-Roll Ads
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 »
RealTime Notifications And New Channel Layouts On YouTube
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 »
Google Discontinues AdSense Video Ads
7th April 2009
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. More »
China Bans YouTube, Again
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 »
Google TV Ads Online
31st March 2009
After having decided to discontinue print and radio ads earlier this year, Google is now considering the possibility of connecting its TV ads to their video site YouTube, in the hope of enticing advertisers to both these platforms. More »
YouTube Blocks Music Videos In The UK
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 »
Top Information Sources For Bloggers
10th March 2009
Bloggers often link to the sources where they get their information. A study carried out by Technorati found that chief among the non-blog sources linked to by bloggers are the websites of mainstream media companies. More »
Are Employees Responsible For Content On Their Websites?
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 »
YouTube Wooing Big Media Companies
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 »
YouTube Allows Video Downloads
21st January 2009
For the first time since its inception, YouTube has decided to allow users to download content from their site. More »
Sponsored Videos On YouTube
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 »
YouTube Trying To Monitor Youth Violence
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 »
Social Media Activity Costing Businesses
30th October 2008
Studies conducted over the last four years have shown that the usage of social media sites at the workplace has been steadily increasing. Unfortunately the use of these applications has been causing a lot of avoidable expenditure to companies. More »
Content Owners Make Money On YouTube With Video ID
2nd September 2008
Towards the end of 2007, Google had launched a new means for content owners to track unauthorized videos on YouTube. This new product called Video ID, puts content owners in a position to control the use of their content, by means of the latest technology now available. More »
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