CNET NEWS -- Jan 5 -- Internet
users in the U.S. watched 12.7 billion online videos in Nov, an
increase of 34% versus a year ago, according to ComScore. YouTube is the top U.S.
video property with nearly 5.1 billion videos viewed. FULL ARTICLE @ CNET NEWS
WEBWARE -- Dec 12 -- YouTube has unveiled a holiday feature that lets
users create hosted video cards. Users
can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page
that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips. FULL ARTICLE @ CNET NEWS
READ WRITE WEB -- Dec 12 -- According
Comscore, U.S.
Internet users watched close to 13.5 billion videos online in October,
which represents an increase of 45% compared to last year.
Google's YouTube alone served almost 5.4 billion videos to 99.5 million
viewers. However, according to a report by AdAge, the site's overall market
share dropped almost 10% since July, as Hulu and other services are
getting more attention from users than ever before. FULL ARTICLE @ READ WRITE WEB
SEARCH ENGINE WATCH -- Dec 9 -- According to comScore Video Metrix,
more than 147m U.S. Internet users watched an average of 92 videos per
viewer in October. Google Sites attracted a record 100m online video
viewers. Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property
with nearly 5.4 billion videos viewed, with YouTube.com accounting for
more than 98% of all videos viewed at the property. FULL ARTICLE @ SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
TECH CRUNCH -- Dec 5 -- Facebook is making some improvements to its video-sharing service. The quality will be bumped up to 720p, which is technically the low end of HD. Coincidentally, YouTube turned on an HD-quality option on Friday. The key change, though, is that the videos will now be embeddable on other sites. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
TECH CRUNCH -- Dec 2 -- YouTube
is trying to clean up its act by cracking down on sexually explicit
videos that are just short of porn and spam videos with misleading
titles and descriptions. Also build-your-own social network Ning will no longer allow "adult
social networks" starting in January, even if they are legal. Ning CEO Gina Bianchini
explains in a blog post: Adult social networks don't pull their own weight.
Specifically, they require other social networks to work harder because
they don't generate enough advertising or premium service revenue to
cover their costs. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
AFP -- Nov 19 -- Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet
sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social. With about 21m users, the Internet is widely popular in
Iran, which ranks among the top 20
user countries. The ban has also targeted Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites. FULL ARTICLE @ AFP
COMPUTER WORLD -- Nov 12 -- The U.S. military has launched
TroopTube, a new site to upload and share videos, more than a year
after the U.S. Department of Defense banned YouTube from military
networks for being a bandwidth hog. TroopTube is run by Military OneSource, which provides online
information and assistance to current and former military personnel and
their families. FULL ARTICLE @ COMPUTER WORLD
SILLICON ALLEY INSIDER -- Nov 17 -- Screen Digest estimates that YouTube will make $100m in US
revenue this year compared to Hulu's $70m. Next year, the firm
estimates, both will make about $180m. Hulu passes a far larger percentage of revenue
through to its content providers (70%-80%) than YouTube does, so with
$70m of gross revenue, Hulu's net revenue would be a paltry
$14-$21m. YouTube also shares some revenue with some content
providers, but a far smaller percentage, which is why News Corp and NBC
built Hulu in the first place. FULL ARTICLE @ SILLICON ALLEY INSIDER
MASHABLE -- Nov 12 -- YouTube will sell sponsored video spots for certain
search terms. It's similar to how advertising works on Google itself. An
advertiser buys a position for certain keywords. Whenever someone types those search terms into YouTube, an
advertiser's sponsored video will pop up above all other videos. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
MASHABLE -- Nov 6 -- YouTube
is set to begin offering full length feature films within "30 to 90
days". Google is said to be discussing
a deal with at least one of the major movie studios that would bring
ad-supported movies to the Web's most popular video sharing site, which
recently started testing full-length TV shows as well. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
PR NEWSWIRE -- Oct 31 -- Among the top operators in the United States, AT&T claimed the most mobile video viewers, with 4.4% of subscribers accessing either programmed or on-demand mobile video. With 1.3M viewers, amateur videos, such as those on YouTube, represent the most popular type of content, followed by music videos and comedy videos. FULL ARTICLE @ CNN MONEY
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TECH CRUNCH -- Oct 16 -- YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the
MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday. In the talk Hurley
compares the
current state of online video to the nascent years of television. Key
soundbites from the speech:
- YouTube wants to partner with content owners to help them "gain unprecedented reach and scope to touch new audiences"
- "The days of the centralized distribution hub are ending"
- Around 10 billion videos are viewed monthly online in the U.S. alone
- On YouTube 13 hours of content are uploaded every minute
- In France over 120m hours of video content is watched per
month while over 3m mobile phone subscribers use their phone to
view a video
FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Mark Brooks: I've been in the USA since 1998 and never had cable TV. Nowadays I use iTunes for movies, YouTube for fun videos, Audible for books, Rhapsody/Sonos for music and BlackMarketFunk.com is my latest favorite online radio.
READ WRITE WEB -- Oct 7 -- Google just announced the company's latest attempt to monetize YouTube - "click to buy" links that will appear below music videos. Music rights holders can also use YouTube's song-detection technology to, get this, put a link to buy a song under a video that uses that song without permission. Eventually Google says it hopes to roll out e-commerce to support all kinds of industries, from music to movies to print to TV. FULL ARTICLE @ READ WRITE WEB
NEWTEEVEE -- Oct 1 -- YouTube is adding post-roll advertisements. If you don't click on an overlay ad when it shows up in a clip you're watching, the video ad would have played rolls automatically at the end of your video. Previously a post-roll video wouldn't play without being initiated by the user. This type of ad started rolling out over the last few weeks. FULL ARTICLE@ NEWTEEVEE
READWRITE WEB -- Sep 30 -- YouTube
has announced an interesting addition to its Insights analytics
dashboard. Called "Hot Spots," the feature displays the "bounce rate"
of viewers in any publisher's video on a second-by-second scale. The Insights analytics tool launched in May and offers free
demographic data about viewers. The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays the video alongside a graph
that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within
the video. FULL ARTICLE @ READWRITE WEB
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD -- Sep 26 -- The vast majority of mixi's roughly
15m users don't reveal anything about themselves. It's not just mixi.
It's Japan. Fewer than half of Match's members in Japan are willing to
post their photos, compared with nearly
all members in the U.S. Google, which operates YouTube, has tried to
convince the
Japanese to loosen up, running events in Tokyo in which girls in
miniskirts roam the streets with giant picture frames and video
cameras, soliciting pedestrians to frame themselves and record a clip
for the site. "When we did research in Japan, we found that the No.
1 reason for not using online dating is that they don't know if people
are real or not," says Match.com's Japan president, Katsu Kuwano. The
company hopes to make more people show themselves online by defining
itself in a less Web-centric way. Match has also held offline events at
Tokyo restaurants. FULL ARTICLE @ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
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TECH CRUNCH -- Sep 25 -- YouTube is going to do its part to fight global
poverty by launching "In My Name", a global effort to raise awareness
around eight time-bound, measurable goals that the United Nations set
back in 2000 to combat global poverty. YouTube is teaming up with will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, and nonprofit organizations Oxfam, GCAP, Save
the Children, and Comic Relief to get the word out that poverty
throughout the world needs to be eradicated. For its part, YouTube has launched a new channel on its site where
users can upload a video stating their name, home country, and simple
message to their respective government about the need to meet the
poverty goals. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
WASHINGTON POST -- Sep 12 -- YouTube is banning submissions that involve
"inciting others to violence", following criticism from Sen. Joseph I.
Lieberman that the site was too open to terrorist groups
disseminating militant propaganda. "YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to
recruit and train followers via the Internet and to incite terrorist
attacks around the world, including right here in the United States,"
Lieberman said in a statement. "I expect these stronger community
guidelines to decrease the number of videos on YouTube produced by
al-Qaeda and affiliated Islamist terrorist organizations." FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
TECH CRUNCH -- Sep 1 -- YouTube commands 34% of all Web
videos streamed in the U.S., while MySpaceTV only controls 6.4%, and
Hulu brings up the rear with
0.7% (comScore, May '08). Hulu
served about 88m videos compared to YouTube's 4.2 billion videos
– but it can monetize the vast majority of its videos
instead of 3% that YouTube can sell ads against. Hulu could enjoy $90m
in revenue in its first year. It equals a Bear Stearns estimate for
YouTube's domestic
2008 revenue of $90m. Considering that Hulu mainly caters to
an American audience, both YouTube and Hulu could see roughly the same
revenues in the U.S. this year. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
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