Several companies including the likes of Amazon, Yahoo! and Dish Network have put in bids to buy over Hulu. Google is the latest to join the bidding war and rumour has it that Google’s willing to outbid them all. (more…)
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Google Willing To Pay Big Money For Hulu
Thursday, 8th September 2011Tags: amazon, dish network, google, hulu, video, yahoo
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YouTube Settles Deal With Music Publishers
Tuesday, 23rd August 2011YouTube has recently arrived at a deal with songwriters and music publishers to pay them royalty for the songs streamed on the site. (more…)
Tags: google, music, youtube
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First Watch Advertising On YouTube
Thursday, 26th May 2011YouTube has set up a new service to get more users to watch their ads. The service is called ‘First Watch’. (more…)
Tags: advertising, video, youtube
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YouTube Expands Movie Rental Service
Tuesday, 10th May 2011Not too long ago, YouTube had started a service through which users could watch hundreds of free movies. However, the choice was limited and consisted largely of old movies that were no longer in demand. This is about to change now.
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Tags: movie rental, sony, time-warner, tv, video, youtube
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Broadcasting Live On YouTube
Tuesday, 12th April 2011The popularity of the video sharing site YouTube has been growing by leaps and bounds, and they now have over 2 billion views per day. In order to cash in on this growing popularity, Google has decided to start streaming live events on the site, like other regular broadcasting channels. (more…)
Tags: live, video, youtube
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YouTube Trends For Agencies
Monday, 28th March 2011YouTube Trends was launched last year to allow users to find out what the topics of focus have been on YouTube. A new service, YouTube Trends Dashboard has now launched to seemingly help agencies promote brands on the online video platform.
Tags: uk, video, youtube
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Microsoft Is Google’s Biggest Competitor In Online Video
Wednesday, 23rd March 2011A report released by comScore has shown that in the month of February, there have been a lot of changes in the rankings of the top ten of online video sites in the USA. (more…)
Tags: aol, facebook, google, microsoft, video, youtube
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Rise Of The Video CV
Wednesday, 19th January 2011In the past, the standard way of applying for a new job was to have your CV typed out on paper and then to forward it to placement agencies or directly to companies which may have advertised in various publications. Today, technology has made all of these steps redundant, even the traditional CV! (more…)
Tags: pr, twitter, video, youtube
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Could TrueView Ads Be YouTube’s Saviour?
Tuesday, 14th December 2010Google’s struggle to monetise YouTube on the same scale as it has monetised search has been well documented. They recently announced a new ad format, called TrueView Video Ads, which could be the answer they’ve been looking for all along. (more…)
Tags: advertising, mobile advertising, search, video, youtube
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Mobile YouTube Video Viewing Grows
Thursday, 18th November 2010A recent study conducted by m.youtube.com shows that the use of the mobile handsets to access YouTube is growing at a very rapid rate. The most surprising discovery of the study, though, is the number of users who access YouTube exclusively via mobile. (more…)
Tags: mobile, mobile-video, video, youtube
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Lady Gaga First With 1 Billion YouTube Views
Tuesday, 26th October 2010For almost the whole month of October 2010, a sort of competition was on between Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. The goal was to be the first to achieve 1 billion video views on YouTube. (more…)
Tags: lady gaga, video, youtube
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Bored Googlers Create Demo Slam
Friday, 22nd October 2010Google has either run out of cool ideas or is trying very hard to get more and more of their users to watch all their tech demos. (more…)
Tags: demo slam, google, video, youtube
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YouTube Tests Live Video Streams
Monday, 13th September 2010YouTube is conducting a limited time test of live video streams on the 13th and 14th of September. Four channel partners will have the opportunity to broadcast live streaming video content during this test. (more…)
Tags: live, video, youtube
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Google Trials Movie Rental Service
Thursday, 2nd September 2010A recent report in The Financial Times indicates that Google is in talks with some big studios in Hollywood, to show their movies on YouTube on a pay-per-view basis. (more…)
Tags: google, video
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Model Suing Google To Unmask Cyber-Bully
Monday, 23rd August 2010Former model, Carla Franklin, has been called some very unsavoury names in comments posted on a Columbia Business School website and in comments on videos posted by anonymous users on YouTube. She has decided not to take things lying down, and is suing the parent company Google in order to unmask the bully. (more…)
Tags: google, video, youtube
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Black Eyed Peas First To Reach 1 Million Downloads
Thursday, 24th June 2010Over the last year, the song “I Gotta Feeling” by the R&B group, The Black Eyed Peas has been immensely popular. The song has now created a new milestone by being the first ever single to be downloaded over 1 million times in the U.K. (more…)
Tags: black eyed peas, download, i gotta feeling, music, tv, uk, video
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YouTube Launches Extremely Basic Video Editor
Monday, 21st June 2010Editing video can be quite a difficult task for novices, as it requires installing special software, and following often complicated instructions. YouTube has addressed this problem for its users by developing an online video editor that makes basic video editing easier. (more…)
Tags: video, youtube
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Snoop Dogg Launches Album On Mobile
Friday, 23rd April 2010Rapper Snoop Dogg has tied up with the entertainment company Myxer to promote and release his latest album, titled ‘More Malice’, on mobile. (more…)
Tags: facebook, mobile, mobile web, mobile-marketing, music, myxer, radiohead, snoop dogg
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Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?
Thursday, 25th February 2010Three 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…)
Tags: google, italy, politics, youtube
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