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New U2 Songs Leaked Via YouTube
25th August 2008
U2’s first studio album in over 4 years is rumoured to be scheduled for release on November 18, 2008. However, some tracks from the album have already been leaked over the Internet. More »
Google Tests Ads On YouTube Mobile
20th August 2008
After having successfully launched YouTube on mobile phones last January, parent company, Google, has started testing display ads on certain selected pages on YouTube mobile, in the U.S.A. and Japan. More »
IOC Disapproves China Protest Video On YouTube
19th August 2008
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. More »
YouTube Gets Geographical Search
16th July 2008
YouTube the world’s most popular video sharing site, will soon offer its viewers the ability to locate the local videos that they are interested in via a geographical search function. More »
YouTube Continues To Lead Online Video Market
7th July 2008
A survey run by traffic analysts, Hitwise, reveals that YouTube not only continues to lead the online video market, but has actually increased its market share, from 59.95% last May to 75.43% in May 2008. That is about 26% better than their performance last year. More »
YouTube UK Pulls Off The Biggest Ever RickRoll
2nd April 2008
For those who are not aware, RickRolling is a popular prank on social media sites where users post mislabeled links that actually point to a video of Rick Astley’s #1 hit single from 1988, “Never Gonna Give You Up”. More »
YouTube Insight Provides Viewer Analytics
31st March 2008
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. More »
Flickr To Get Video – Soon
19th March 2008
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. More »
China Manipulates Politics On Google News, YouTube And Yahoo!
18th March 2008
On Saturday 16th March 2008, the government of China blocked access to YouTube in order to prevent videos of the unrest in Tibet from being viewed by Internet users in mainland China. YouTube showed several clippings of the pro-Tibetan-sovereignty protests, taking place in Lhasa. More »
Top Social Media Sites In The UK – Jan 2008
13th March 2008
Nielsen Online has ranked the most popular and fastest growing social media websites in the U.K., based on studies conducted between Jan 2007 and Jan 2008. Facebook has overtaken Bebo and MySpace to become the most popular social network, but it is not the fastest growing social media site. More »
Warner Music, YouTube Scramble To Pull Madonna Track
3rd March 2008
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. More »
Pakistan Bans YouTube, Disrupts Service Worldwide
25th February 2008
Popular video-sharing site, YouTube, was officially blocked by all ISPs in Pakistan under direct orders from the government of the country, in order to prevent citizens from seeing footage from an anti-Islamic film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Accidental propagation of the block led to the YouTube site becoming inaccessible to most Internet users worldwide on Sunday. More »
Google Confirms Video Advertising Format Will Be InVideo
22nd February 2008
Google started testing video advertising on YouTube in August 2007 and announce AdSense for video as a pilot in May. The programme has been rolled out gradually and is now officially available to AdSense publishers in the USA that meet certain minimum requirements. More »
Web Enabled TV From Google and Matsushita
8th January 2008
The Panasonic Viera PZ850 line of Internet-connected high-definition plasma television sets was unveiled this week at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CNN Money reports that Google and YouTube have partnered with Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial to bring this new line of plasma TVs to the market. More »
Video Identification For YouTube Launched
16th October 2007
In response to increased pressure and lawsuits filed against them for copyright infringement, Google had announced that they were developing video recognition technology to help content publishers clamp down on illegal upload and use of copyrighted material. More »
InVideo Ads Showing On YouTube
24th August 2007
A post on the YouTube official blog has announced the arrival of in-video advertising, in beta, in the US market. This is something that has been long expected by the SEM and overall marketing community. Initial user reaction has nevertheless been extremely negative. More »
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