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Mobile YouTube Video Viewing Grows
18th November 2010
A 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 »
Video Ads On Android
27th October 2010
Admob, Google’s mobile advertising unit, has just announced the availability of interactive video ads on Google’s Android mobile operating system. More »
Lady Gaga First With 1 Billion YouTube Views
26th October 2010
For 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 »
Bored Googlers Create Demo Slam
22nd October 2010
Google 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 »
Google TV Ready To Go Live
7th October 2010
Google announced plans for Google TV about five months ago. The service is now ready to go live. Google has announced that products featuring Google TV will be hitting retail shelves soon. More »
YouTube Tests Live Video Streams
13th September 2010
YouTube 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 »
YouTube Allows Channel Exclusion
3rd September 2010
Last month, YouTube added a feature that allowed advertisers to age-restrict videos. Now, they have added a new feature that allows advertisers to restrict their ads from appearing on individual videos or channels. More »
Google Trials Movie Rental Service
2nd September 2010
A 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 »
Model Suing Google To Unmask Cyber-Bully
23rd August 2010
Former 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 »
Microsoft, Yahoo! Allow Users To Choose Ads
16th August 2010
Internet users often have to wait through pre-roll ads or look past overlay ads when they want to watch online video. This can be quite irritating to some users. Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly thinking of ways to make this less of an irritation. More »
YouTube Creates A ‘StumbleUpon’ For Videos
16th July 2010
Selecting and watching a video on the internet can be quite a taxing task, according to the folks at YouTube, because users have to browse and click with the mouse several times to get the video they want in the definition and screen they like. More »
YouTube Mobile Improves Functionality
15th July 2010
The mobile Internet has been growing at an exponential rate and YouTube mobile is no exception. The YouTube mobile site, which was launched on mobile devices as recently as 2007, has grown quickly and in 2009 it grew almost 160% over the previous year. More »
Black Eyed Peas First To Reach 1 Million Downloads
24th June 2010
Over 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 »
YouTube Launches Extremely Basic Video Editor
21st June 2010
Editing 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 »
Google TV, Chrome Web Store, Storage Announced At I/O
24th May 2010
Google’s annual developer conference was held last week, from the 19th to 20th of May. Google used the event to brief developers about upcoming product and feature launches, and as expected, the event featured some exciting new services. More »
Google Testing TV Search
11th March 2010
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network. More »
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 »
Hulu Launches Video Scene Search
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 »
(Funny) Automatic Captions On YouTube
24th November 2009
YouTube has just introduced the ability to provide automatic captions on all user videos. More »
Video Ads In Paper Magazines
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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